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Hatra’s embattled history, from the Romans to ISIS
It’s been besieged, abandoned, and used as a training ground for terrorists – but the ancient city of Hatra still stands in the Iraqi desert
Emery Walker’s house is an Arts and Crafts utopia
This remarkable house in Hammersmith is a vivid museum of late Victorian cultural life
A tribute to A.R. Penck
The artist’s relentless and bloody-minded pursuit of freedom, in art as in life, was a lesson to us all
The genius of Camille Claudel
With the opening of a dedicated museum, the artist’s achievements can finally be seen outside her relationship with Rodin
‘Phyllida Barlow’s work has a spine-tingling force’
Entering the British Pavilion at Venice will feel like an Alice in Wonderland experience
The literary lineage of Philip Guston
Philip Guston’s engagement with literature cemented his place in the history of art
Acquisitions of the month: April 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from the final portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington, to a rare Modigliani sculpture
What’s coming up at the Venice Biennale?
Witches, trolls, and a version of Pinocchio are among the characters you can expect to see at this year’s event
Eleven art events to get to in May
The month’s top exhibitions, from Giacometti at Tate Modern to the 57th Venice Biennale
Eric Gill’s fall from grace
Revelations about the artist’s personal life have encouraged a reassessment of his work
A new way of looking at Raphael’s drawings
The artist used drawing as a way of brainstorming how his art related to the world
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the ultimate sourcebook for artists
Ovid’s epic mythological poem has fired the imaginations of artists since the Renaissance
Does contemporary art have a home in Copenhagen?
Several of the city’s avant-garde spaces are suburban. Now it looks like a major central gallery will move out, too
Is youth culture a thing of the past?
London may soon have a museum of youth culture. Does this mean it’s over?
The fake feud between Picasso and Matisse
Shortly after Matisse’s death, Clive Bell called time on the artist’s rivalry with Picasso – and rightly so
The man in charge of modernising the Uffizi
Reforming Italy’s most famous museum is a huge and sensitive task for new director Eike Schmidt
How Kansas City got its magnificent museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art built its collection from scratch in the 1930s, and is still going strong today
Acquisitions of the month: March 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from rare Fabergé animals in London to Canadian masterpieces in Ottawa
Eight art events to get to in April
Highlights include shows devoted to Botticelli, Balla, and Walker Evans, and Tate’s ‘Queer British Art’ exhibition
Damien Hirst reveals plans to pickle fellow YBAs
Tracey Emin and other YBAs will be suspended in formaldehyde during Frieze Week 2068
Activists round on artists in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights
Tensions have flared in recent months as residents accuse new galleries of ‘art-washing’ and gentrifying the neighbourhood
An ambitious plan to put Montpellier on the map
The city of Montpellier’s cultural plans include a new contemporary art museum headed up by Nicolas Bourriaud
Recollections of Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin’s great artistic struggle – and achievement – was to find a way of visualising memories
‘When I start bidding it’s very hard to stop’
Kiran Nadar on the ‘exhilaration’ of art collecting, the museum she set up in Delhi, and her commitment to showing Indian artists on the global stage
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