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March 2018
• TEFAF preview
• An interview with Joan Jonas
• The Character Heads of Messerschmidt
• Thrones through the ages
• The Caravaggisti at the Centraal Museum
Plus: The politics of national museums, Michelangelo at the Met, Minnette de Silva, and Robert Wilson in Minneapolis
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May 2021
Michael Rakowitz | Narendra Modi | Daniel Spoerri
April 2021
Alice Neel | Charles Baudelaire | Antony Gormley
March 2021
Noël Coward | Gillian Wearing | Francis Bacon
February 2021
Ancient Iran | Lisa Yuskavage | Aby Warburg
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For the women of Venice, the fiddly art of bead-stringing is worth fighting for
Stringing glass beads was once the main work available to Venetian women – but it’s now a protected craft pursued by only a handful of skilled artists
The unruly life of museum postcards
We’re all building miniature museums at home, and postcards of paintings have taken on a life of their own
Matchstick men at the pictures – Mrs Lowry and Son, reviewed
Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave co-star as the artist and his mother in this claustrophobic portrait of domestic dysfunction
What happens when you hang a painting upside down?
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes