The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world – but some say they became pawns of US spies in the Cold War. Alastair Sooke ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the exhibitors at this year’s Tefaf art and antiques fair in Maastricht were invited to propose displays ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...