Paintings suffer from breakouts, too – but what is ‘art acne’?
It’s not just the Old Masters that get spots – small bumps have started to erupt on modern paintings
Elizabeth Price cuts through the muddle of the digital world
The Turner Prize-winning artist explains why she finds digital flotsam and jetsam so fascinating
Have printed auction catalogues had their day?
As auction houses and galleries branch out into magazines, videos and other media, is the traditional catalogue becoming obsolete?
Pontormo pays a visit to the Getty
The Florentine painter’s Visitation is at the centre of this small but spellbinding display
This majestic mosque stands out in the city of a thousand minarets
The ancient mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun deserves to be much better known
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February 2019
• The Ruskin bicentenary
• Monumental statues in India
• The Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes
• An interview with Elizabeth Price
Plus: Alan Hollinghurst on Lucian Freud, the portraits of Lorenzo Lotto, and a preview of Asia Week New York
Painstakingly perfect and utterly peculiar – the drawings of Jean-Jacques Lequeu
The French draughtsman’s fantasies seem as bizarre today as they did 200 years ago
The art of rocks, ruins and ruptured landscapes
John Ruskin, Paul Nash and a host of more recent artists have found geology a rich seam to mine
Edward Allington’s classically inspired approach to modern sculpture
The British sculptor was a great talent in his own right and a dedicated teacher
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A new era at the National Museum of Scotland
The last phase of the museum’s makeover gives its Egyptian, East Asian and ceramic collections a chance to shine
Julie Mehretu makes her mark at Kettle’s Yard
A series of pared-back monotypes and drawings signals a new phase in the artist’s work
Meet the mummies – cultural ambassadors from beyond the grave
There’s more to these sets of human remains than bandages, amulets and curses
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Art to die for? – Velvet Buzzsaw reviewed
Demonic forces make their presence felt in this horror film set in the art world
How political is political art?
Many artists take themes such as migration, climate change, and human rights as their subjects, but what are they actually doing with them?
Is the US trustee system good for museums?
Are volunteer board members a useful source of good will and money, or do they tie museums to the whims of the wealthy?
Where next for virtual reality art?
Some seem beguiled by VR technology but others are using it to confront our faith in digital progress
Dorothea Tanning
Tate Modern, London
Over her long career Tanning’s work ranged from Surrealist paintings to costume designs and installation art
27 Feb - 9 Jun 2019
Pipilotti Rist: Open My Glade
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
The Swiss artist’s immersive multimedia installations invoke themes of space and perception
1 Mar - 23 Jun 2019
Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life
National Gallery, London
The first public outing for this group of paintings spanning the French painter’s long career
28 Feb - 19 May 2019
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Painter as Photographer
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
The German Expressionist also experimented with various photographic genres, from nudes to still lifes
2 Mar - 16 Jun 2019
Lagos is a better home for the Lander stool than London
The rare Yoruba artefact would mean more in a new museum in Lagos than it does in storage at the British Museum