Art

Alex Barker on Harlem's cultural heyday.

Ray Boston examines two books on cartoons and caricatures.

Brian Winston casts a critical eye over Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic paean to Nazi aesthetics.

Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.

Philip Mansel looks at interchange and intrigue in the cross-currents of 18th-century culture between East and West.

David Irwin chronicles how the imagery of the natural world entwined itself luxuriantly in the visual arts of the 1890s.

A reflection on the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a one of Scotland’s most innovative architects.

Charles Harvey and Jon Press examine the aesthetic achievements of the multi-talented and pioneering early Socialist.

David Ellwood discusses America's cultural take-over of Europe in a seemingly innocent Italian 1950s comedy called "Un Americano a Roma". The comedy features a hapless hero whose attempts to Americanise himself mirror Italy's struggle to handle a clash of cultures after World War II.

Ann Hills investigates a new online database of all English Heritage historic wall paintings.