The Cold War power of the Kennedy Center

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Will Wiles on the uncertain future of the Kennedy Center

It probably won't endear it to Trump but the Kennedy Center is an anti-Communist building that is also of a type the Communists understood well. It is, in a way, an American Palast der Republik, and it may now be facing the same fate as that unhappy East Berlin landmark, which was torn down and replaced with a baroque pastiche in an act of historical vengeance. History, including architectural history, sometimes rhymes.

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Anna Brady on a stellar month for the sale of Old Master drawings

Drawings are so often overshadowed by paintings. But not last week in New York, where two bijoux drawings were the main talking points of the annual winter Old Master sales. At Christie's on 5 February, a tiny red chalk study only recently attributed to Michelangelo became the most expensive foot ever sold.

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Charles Saumarez Smith on the plan to wreck Liverpool Street station

Acme has proposed a vast tower block, which it plans to mount on what looks like an entirely bogus entrance to a cathedral. The glass blocks are topped by little grass tufts like hairy eyebrows. There is something nauseatingly slick about the whole proposal, as if all the objections to the previous scheme have been fed into a computer which has spewed out an AI-generated new building.

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Jonathan Wateridge talks to Apollo about finding freedom in Norfolk

'The fear of moving away from London is that you will be cut off, wither on the vine or lose that urban edge, but I found it liberating. I thought that if no one's looking, who cares? Do what you want and take more risks.'

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Emilie Bickerton on Frederick Wiseman's studies of human behaviour

Last October, in the days after the heist at the Louvre, I couldn't help wishing that the film-maker Frederick Wiseman had made a documentary about the world's most visited museum. As its president, Laurence des Cars, defended the security system – while admitting the museum had failed in its responsibilities to protect its collection – one did wonder what on earth went on behind closed doors.

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Thomas Jones on Luca Signorelli and a matter of life or death

When Luca Signorelli's 'much beloved son, who was extremely handsome in face and figure, was killed in Cortona', according to Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, 'even as he grieved, Luca had the body stripped, and with the greatest constancy of heart, without crying or shedding a tear, he drew his portrait so that he could always see whenever he desired, through the work of his own hands, what Nature had given him and inimical Fortune had taken away.'

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