Picture Piece

A graveyard of trees previously submerged has given way to a fantasy of resurrection

How the medieval chess piece reminds us of a time before modern maps

What the shocking image says about our desperate urge to achieve the unthinkable

In pictures: contrasting visions of one of the most clichéd symbols of the nation

A new book documents the relationship between the two 20th-century artist-superstars

A photograph by Berenice Abbott, and its stubborn refusal to be read

The symbolism of a failed property development in Turkey 

A new book surveys buildings in Central Asia and documents their distinctive styles

The collection includes robes made from salmon skin and a deerskin jacket worn by a 19th century fireman

A new book documents the lives of the women who trained at the innovative German art school

How much to read into Samuel Beckett’s flirtation with fashion?

Five iconic buildings designed by the Japanese architect since 1962

25 years after his death, we remember the inimitable performance artist and fashion designer

J.P. Girault de Prangey’s beautiful yet orientalist pictures are on view for the first time at the Met

A new book publishes the prominent feminist artist’s recipes for Sauce Madeira, gazpacho and beef wellington

In a special commission for frieze, the artist envisions Martian colonies informed by techno-feminism

A new book traces the role of the black model in art history from the 19th century to today

A new book catalogues ephemera from Chicago’s Southside and its greatest musical export

After the dissolution of their turbulent relationship, Oskar Kokoschka commissioned an accurately proportioned re-creation of Alma Mahler in 1918

The Triforium – Los Angeles’s weirdest and most reviled public artwork – awakes from a long slumber