Roni Horn’s attention here is fixed on something more indefinite than ordinary, obvious reflexivity about image-making and artifice, something that slips between images, between moments, between words and their neighbours. Perhaps subtlety is her subject.

Macron rose to power as a champion of opposition to the RN and any rapprochement seems implausible, but French monarchs or surrogate monarchs, from Henri IV to Mitterrand, have accomplished more spectacular political reinventions in the interests of the state.

Prayer in the throat of a non-believeroffered up to the absent hereafter,his two long notes and descending warbleput him at the centre of things.A partial method, he knows, is no method;but when...

Velázquez’s portraits give us a more penetrating understanding of the image that the Spanish monarchy wished to convey than any textual description supplied by accounts or pamphlets. The portraits reveal the paralysing isolation imposed by garments, and why the rituals of dressing and undressing took up so much of the queen’s day. 

The violent culture Trump promoted is now beatifying him as its most famous victim. The iconography of his fist-pump and bloodied face immediately became the image he had waited for all his life, as – on the floor, with mad bravery and media savvy beyond the bounds of reason – he prepared for the photo-op.

The story begins in 324 CE, when the emperor Constantine broke ground for a new city on the Bosphorus, on the site of the ancient polis of Byzantion. Notwithstanding later legend, this was not a Christian capital. It was an imperial residence, a Roman city under the patronage of Apollo, the sun and the emperor himself.