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INSIDE THE ISSUE

FEATURES | Charles Darwent on the explosive genius of Roy Lichtenstein; in Normandy, Valérie Lapierre pays court to Jacques Garcia, interior designer extraordinaire; Jane Morris remembers London’s art scene in the ’90s as it really was; Fatima Faizi reports on the conservationists operating under Taliban rule in Afghanistan; Brigid von Preussen reminds us of the neoclassical mastery of John Flaxman; Juliet Carey provides an insider’s view of Chequers, the British prime minister’s country retreat; and Don Paterson praises the writerly paintings of Brice Marden

REVIEWS | Ben Street on the adventurous art of Tintoretto; Eve M. Kahn on the women who helped make Vienna modern; Langdon Hammer on the art collection of the great American poet John Ashbery; Michael Prodger on how Anne Vallayer-Coster made her mark in 18th-century France; and Edwin Heathcote asks if design can make a society more democratic

MARKET | Anna Brady digs into the roaring trade for dinosaur skeletons; Emma Crichton-Miller charts the expanding interest in historically significant maps; and Michael Delgado picks highlights of Art Basel Paris and the month’s best gallery shows

PLUS | Hettie Judah on why ‘curate’ is now a dirty word; Will Wiles on how Denys Lasdun made the National Theatre a palace for the people; in Crete, Arjun Sajip encounters the marvels of ancient Greek technology; Michael Delgado finds artistic gossip and ox tongue on the menu at Andrew Edmunds in Soho; Edward Behrens is sceptical about the uses of AI in the art world; and Christina Makris samples the world’s oldest single-malt Scotch

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW ISSUE

End of a century

Jane Morris on how contemporary artists created a sensation in 1990s London

Breadth in Venice

Ben Street on how Tintoretto shows us the possibilities of painting

Premier’s inn

Juliet Carey on the many lives of the British prime minister’s official country residence

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