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How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre for five years?

The museum is set to close for five years, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction

13 Oct 2024

The warped aesthetics of Lynn Chadwick

The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there

11 Oct 2024

Frieze week highlights: two shamans and a sage of modern art

Plus: the subversive art of Kapwani Kiwanga, Georgie Hopton’s delightful prints and a brief history of drawing on blue paper

7 Oct 2024

Frieze week highlights: a Japanese printmaking dynasty is feted in Dulwich

Plus: the Sikh Empire under Ranjit Singh, the trailblazing art of Lygia Clark and the serene ceramics of Magdalene Odundo

7 Oct 2024

Frieze week highlights: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum gets theatrical at the Barbican

Plus: the light sculptures of Anthony McCall, paintings by Frank Auerbach and his teacher David Bomberg, and Nordic nature scenes

7 Oct 2024

Frieze week highlights: Tracey Emin puts on a visceral display of emotion

Plus: playful sculptures by Nairy Baghramian, revelatory paintings by Van Gogh, and the changing nature of beauty through the ages

7 Oct 2024

Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Arte Povera masterpiece is a case of rags and endless riches

Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement

7 Oct 2024

The Mughal emperors who forged a new artistic tradition

At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings

30 Sep 2024

The Warburg Institute makes its mysteries more public

The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile

30 Sep 2024

The dealer who launched Picasso

Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition

30 Sep 2024

At the world’s northernmost medieval cathedral, religious art takes an agnostic turn

A collage series by Håkon Bleken in Nidaros Cathedral meditates on Christian imagery as well as the traumas of Norwegian history

30 Sep 2024

Plate expectations – a brief history of artist-designed crockery

Picasso, Lichtenstein, Emin and others have all designed plates, but treating them only as art objects ruins the fun

30 Sep 2024

Raising a glass to Campari’s photographic archive

Scenes of rowdy bars and tipsy revellers in the 20th century show a world that is both alien and comfortingly familiar

30 Sep 2024

The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs

Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her when she was a teenager

30 Sep 2024

The Mothercare founder with the Midas touch

As the collection of Renaissance silver Selim Zilkha formed with his wife Mary comes to auction, his children Michael and Nadia recall their father’s dazzling hobby

20 Sep 2024

The Andalusian winery that pairs sherry with Spanish paintings

The veteran sherry-makers at Bodegas Tradición in Cádiz may have perfected their craft, but the winery’s collection of paintings by great Spanish artists is no less impressive

19 Sep 2024

The endlessly debatable virtues of Dosso Dossi

The mystery surrounding the meaning of an allegorical painting by Dosso Dossi may be precisely its point, explains the curator Pierre Curie

19 Sep 2024

‘This bird’s a doofus’ – the unlikely charms of a featherbrained friend

When Jonathan Lethem picked up an innocuous old painting of a cormorant for $50, he didn’t know it would become a companion for life

13 Sep 2024

Will the Glasgow School of Art ever be rebuilt?

Six years after the devastating fire, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece is no closer to being restored. What can possibly explain the delay?

12 Sep 2024

Piecing together ancient Rome, one fragment at a time

At the new museum of the Forma Urbis, slabs of the famous map of the city now lie literally beneath visitors’ feet

11 Sep 2024

Behind the mask – the meaning of masquerade in West Africa

Kevin Dumouchelle of the National Museum of African Art explains what a fearsome 19th-century ceremonial mask meant to its makers in Côte d’Ivoire

10 Sep 2024

Acquisitions of the month: August 2024

A Madonna of the Cherries by Quentin Metsys and a very rare sketchbook by Caspar David Friedrich are among the most important works to have entered public collections in the last month

6 Sep 2024

Bringing Pompeii back to life

Recent conservation efforts have led to new discoveries of stunning interiors and wall paintings that also tell us more about everyday life in the city

4 Sep 2024

The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer

When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals

4 Sep 2024