Industrial revolutions – at the Museum of Making in Derby
The spirit of innovation and manufacture lives on in the Midlands city – as a redeveloped museum on the site of the old silk mill makes clear
Indian and Islamic art takes centre stage at Asian Art in London
From Mughal manuscripts to contemporary Sri Lankan painting – Emma Crichton-Miller selects her highlights from this year’s event
The week in art news – Germany and Nigeria sign draft agreement for return of Benin Bronzes
Plus: Atta Kwami (1956–2001) and Biden restores federal protections for Utah national monuments
Vienna flaunts its assets on OnlyFans
Nudes by Titian, Rubens and Schiele are now available to viewers on the adults-only subscription service
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Damascene conversion – the knotty religious history of the Umayyad Mosque
Built to rival the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the great mosque in Damascus has always been claimed by rival faiths
The airborne art of Eugenio Dittborn
The Chilean artist’s practice of folding up his work and posting it to galleries began as a means of evading the censors
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The king of collage – an interview with Peter Blake
The artist talks to Martin Gayford about a life spent pushing the possibilities of collage, from his Sgt. Pepper cover to recent digital experiments
Surface tension – an interview with Mamma Andersson
They may look like tranquil scenes, but stick with Andersson’s paintings and their sense of encroaching menace is bound to creep up on you
October 2021
• The silhouette films of Lotte Reiniger
• Poussin and the art of the dance
• Minerals, gems and museums
• An interview with Richard Estes
Plus: a day at the Carnavalet in Paris, the romance of Scotch Baronial houses, at the Frank Gehry-designed Luma Arles – and a preview of Frieze Masters
In the studio with… Tschabalala Self
The artist has a strict curfew when it comes to working late in her studio in New Haven – her absolute cut-off is 7pm
At home with the Stuarts – Palaces of Revolution by Simon Thurley, reviewed
A new study reminds us that royal palaces were places to live in as well as impressive displays of power
How Francis Bacon got by – with a lot of help from his friends
A new biography of the painter gives full credit to the cast of characters who supported him before he found success
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The streetwise ways of the Museum of Homelessness
From street actions to art exhibitions, the organisation empowers homeless people to tell their own stories
Why Squid Game looks so strangely familiar
The hit series takes many of its visual cues from M.C. Escher – and a host of other films that have been inspired by the Dutch artist
The adventures of Reinhard Behrens and his rusty toy submarine
The painter has created a fictitious world called Naboland which he explores with the help of a rusty submersible
My cultural city – the contemporary buzz of Geneva, with Aviel Cahn
The general director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève picks out his highlights from a city that increasingly embraces contemporary culture
In praise of Grinling Gibbons, the wizard of woodcarving
The sculptor took Restoration England by storm with his virtuosic woodwork
Pulling power – the murky magic of magnet fishing
It’s the aquatic cousin to metal detecting – and an increasing number of devotees are casting off into rivers and canals in search of trash and treasure
Keys to success: how typewriters transformed the world of work
Typewriters may be museum pieces now, but they created office jobs for women and by doing so changed the 20th century
The Candyman is back – and this time he’s haunting the art world
The Chicago art scene turns out to be a suitably chilling setting for Nia DaCosta’s sequel to the cult horror film
Petrit Halilaj: Very volcanic over this green feather
In Cornwall, the artist’s first UK solo show revisits the drawings he created as a teenager after being displaced by the Kosovo War
Women in Abstraction
Works by more than 100 artists at the Guggenheim Bilbao offer an expanded version of the story of abstract art
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
This transatlantic survey of the Surrealist’s work begins in Bern – the city where she spent her last 30 years
Denver Art Museum
Gio Ponti’s fortress-like building reopens after renovations, with more room for the museum’s encyclopaedic collections
Britain’s oldest synagogue is safe for now – but developers still threaten its future
Bevis Marks has seen off the latest threat to its existence, but such a significant site deserves much better