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Letter from Belfast
‘Belfast is like East Berlin after the Wall came down’ – William Cook on the changing face of a divided city
Preview: Asian Art In London
Highlights from this year’s city-wide event: from painted scrolls to Chinese jade
Lawrence Weiner adds a note of anxiety at Blenheim Palace
Can contemporary art operate critically within such surroundings?
Making Africa
The world as we know it is in transformation – politically, economically, socially, culturally and technologically. Anyone wanting to know…
Ashmolean proves Venetian art was about more than just colour
Vasari was wrong: the Venetians could draw after all
Design for Eternity
From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from the ancient Americas created…
Curators’ Pick: 7 Highlights from Asia in Amsterdam
Paintings, jewellery, textiles, and a sweetmeats set…highlights from the Rijksmuseum’s latest show
Frieze Bites
Seen and liked in London: star exhibits and media stars, crowds and crowdsourcing at the Frieze Masters preview last night
Surface Tension: Celebrating Alberto Burri’s Centenary
The centenary of the artist’s birth is being marked by exhibitions and events worldwide
London Diary
Cartier-Bresson, Bomberg’s circle and Damien Hirst’s homage to Hoyland: don’t let Frieze week distract you from these London shows
Bouke de Vries
A nuclear bomb seems to have been dropped in this installation by artist Bouke de Vries. The eight-metre table, with…
St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross – better off ruined?
‘This undoubted failure has become a compelling monument’
Obsolescence
Through 2015/16, the School of Fine Art at the RCA will invite collaborating curators and curatorial agencies to present projects…
Don’t want your public sculpture to get copied? Then make better public sculpture
Rachel Whiteread’s ‘House’ would never work as a Chinese knock-off
American Epics
Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood The first major exhibition on Thomas Hart Benton in more than 25 years, American Epics:…
Time is Ripe for a David Jones Revival
His literary and profoundly religious approach to art put Jones out of step with modernism. Can two new exhibitions revive his reputation?
Sickert at the Seaside: how Dieppe shaped the artist’s work
Camden Town, Venice…and Dieppe. Pallant House explores a forgotten influence on Walter Sickert’s art
Simon Schama’s Face of Britain
Historian Simon Schama has joined with the National Portrait Gallery curators to take a fresh look at the Collection and…
Jeff Koons takes on the Old Masters in Florence
Koons is nothing if not fearless to invite comparison with the greatest Renaissance artists.
London Diary
Be won over by Ai Weiwei, blown away by Bridget Riley, and get lost in the National Theatre’s concrete corridors this week
Could the antiquities trade do more to combat looting?
As the destruction of archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq continues, what can dealers of legal antiquities do to end the trade in illegally obtained artefacts, and the looting it encourages?
Kapoor’s moral right to keep hateful graffiti in place: a legal perspective
A look at the legal issues underpinning the story of Anish Kapoor’s vandalised ‘Dirty Corner’