Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
A new V&A exhibition makes the case for Schiaparelli as an artist, but its muted staging doesn't quite capture her enchanting oddness.
Nolan's Odyssey was always going to be a spectacle, but it has little that is Homeric, and nothing at all Hellenic in spirit.
A superlative Berlin exhibition gathers over 300 photographs by the overlooked women of the Bauhaus.
After decades of accomplished painting, a retrospective provides overdue recognition of Hurvin Anderson's place among Britain’s greatest living artists.
Britain's Cold War propagandists fought Moscow with lies and forgeries. The adversaries and the technology have changed; the same threats remain.
Fiona Sampson reclaims one of the 19th century's most influential French novelists 150 years after her death.
The spy fiction written by Soviet intelligence officers was far more than propaganda.
The French emperor was a highly skilled politician whose audacity and breadth of imagination allowed him to perceive trends of great historical significance.
In the early modern period, thinking about slavery had little interest in racial categories.
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