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A new exhibition shows how she explored architecture through abstract painting and drawing

Before he was a filmmaker he was a photographer. His pictures show the creation of his cinematic eye

Over a hundred years ago, he began commissioning eye-catching posters to sell the London Underground to wary commuters

Photographs by Man Ray and Irving Penn are among the modernist masterpieces that the singer has lent to an exhibition at Tate Modern

His landscape paintings were rooted in English tradition but inspired by international modernism

Before the world had been fully explored, cartographers often made educated but incorrect guesses. They also just made things up

The west-African country became independent from France in 1960. Malick Sidibé, “the Eye of Bamako”, captured the youthful optimism of the times

The Nigerian-born artist’s densely layered scenes of domestic life are surprisingly intimate for such large works

With their skilful mix of symbolism and information, maps were effective propaganda tools during the first and second world wars

Caught between the first world war and the Great Depression, the jazz age was a period of social transformation. A new exhibition shows how women’s clothes captured the mood