Worth a closer look
Longer reads on what has stayed with us: a single place, an artist, a building, or a handful of things that belong together.
A house built to be haunted by objects
The architect kept everything, and an Act of Parliament made sure nothing would ever move.
Marseille, the Surrealists' waiting room
In 1940–41, the Surrealists waited here for visas to escape the war, and left behind a deck of cards.
Five painted rooms still doing their job
A station buffet, a naval dining hall, an office courtyard, a parish chapel and a confraternity's meeting room.
The Mäusebunker: Berlin's beautiful monster
A laboratory for animals that looks like a battleship, and the people who refused to let it be torn down.
Kim Swoo-geun's Seoul
Brick, concrete and a small theatre in a basement: the architect who gave modern Seoul its spaces.
Eva Gonzalès, beyond Manet's shadow
Manet's only pupil, a painter of theatre boxes and waking women, finally has a retrospective.
Athens: antiquity in the present tense
A museum aligned with a temple, and a path made from the city's broken houses.