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Everything we have published in Art, from the first issue to this morning.

ArtSep 4

The Last Hand-Mixed Painter in Lisbon

Inês Falcão grinds her own pigments from stone, resin, and rust. Her studio smells like a pharmacy, her palette changes with the weather, and her paintings may outlast the building they hang in.

Idris Adeyemi · 3 min read

ArtAug 5

The Gallery at Three in the Morning

A new exhibition opens at midnight and closes at dawn. Watching strangers look at paintings after midnight tells you more about attention than any visitor survey ever could.

Idris Adeyemi · 3 min read

ArtJul 30

What the Restorers Saw Under the Varnish

A fifteenth-century panel arrived at the laboratory looking like a brown rectangle. Two years of cotton swabs later, it has become a sky again. Notes from the quietest room in the museum.

Idris Adeyemi · 3 min read