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Emmanuel Macron gets taken for a mug

Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe

20 Sep 2018
Ground – Thread Bearing Witness (detail) (2018), Alice Kettle.

Alice Kettle’s textiles stitch together the stories of refugees

An exhibition of the artist’s new large-scale textiles in Manchester bears witness to the migrant crisis

17 Sep 2018
Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978–79, courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s

The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney

17 Sep 2018

How the V&A Dundee is rewriting the history of Scotland

The country’s first design museum is taking a cosmopolitan approach to presenting the national story

14 Sep 2018
Portrait of Wim Wenders taken in 2015 by Peter Lindbergh, image courtesy Wim Wenders

‘It is a strange little science-fiction period in the history of photography’ – Wim Wenders on his Polaroids

The film-maker discusses the unique quality of Polaroids – and why in the future no one will see the digital photographs being taken today

13 Sep 2018
Closed Loop (2017), Jake Elwes

AI art is on the rise – but how do we measure its success?

Artworks produced using artificial intelligence have long confounded viewers

13 Sep 2018
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, main building at Ausstellungsstrasse, 2017.

The Design Museum Zurich gets a stylish makeover

The refurbished museum is filled with fascinating objects from New Wave typography to a Swiss railway clock

12 Sep 2018

William Hogarth as you’ve never seen him before (played by Keith Allen)

The Shallow Grave actor is to play Hogarth in a new play in London. Plus Lucian Freud on Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Iggy Pop eats Andy Warhol’s hamburger

9 Sep 2018
Lumière (1946–47), Joseph Lacasse. Whitford Fine Art (€100,000–€150,000)

What’s in store at La Biennale Paris this year

Highlights of the 30th edition of the fair include a Roman bust and a display devoted to Napoleon

7 Sep 2018
Bas Kuiper

Bas Kuiper

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

5 Sep 2018
FatoŞ Üstek

Fatoş Üstek

Director and Chief Curator, David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), London, UK

5 Sep 2018
Michael Armitage

Michael Armitage

London, UK

5 Sep 2018
Oscar Graf

Oscar Graf

Founder, Oscar Graf Gallery, Paris, France

5 Sep 2018
Claus Risvig

Claus Busch Risvig

Silkeborg, Denmark

5 Sep 2018

David Beckham picks up the paintbrush

Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City

30 Aug 2018
Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Chester French

The museum pieces that every school kid in the US needs to see

Five leading museum directors pick objects that should be seen by every child in America

29 Aug 2018
Sign indicating where the Venus de Milo was discovered in 1820; photo: Wikimedia Commons

In search of the Venus de Milo – on Milos and in Paris

The statue has been in Paris for nearly two centuries, but does it belong back on the island of Milos?

28 Aug 2018
'Giselle' (1841), performed by the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London, in 2018, in a production using designs from 1985 by John Macfarlane, photo: Helen Maybanks; © ROH 2018

Creating a scene on stage

How set designers and scene painters have beguiled audiences through the centuries

27 Aug 2018

Jiří Kolář’s collages cut up reality to devastating effect

The Czech artist’s unsettling work includes a vivid record of the crushing of the Prague Spring

23 Aug 2018
Chase F. Robinson, who has been named director of the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries.
Sunrise at Stonehenge in June 2018. Photo: GEOFF CADDICK/AFP/Getty Images

A prehistoric DJ makes his debut at a neolithic monument

Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara

22 Aug 2018
The Bridge at Grez, Roderic O'Conor

What Roderic O’Conor learned from Van Gogh

The Irish painter takes his place among the Post-Impressionists in the first major survey of his work in many years

21 Aug 2018
Alberto Falchetti, (1905), John Singer Sargent, private collection

The Italian painter who travelled to the Holy Land with John Singer Sargent

The discovery that Sargent made the journey with Alberto Falchetti sheds new light on both artists

20 Aug 2018
Shah Jahan receives his three eldest sons and Asaf Khan during his accession ceremonies from the Padshahnama manuscript (detail; c. 1630–40), Bichitr and Ramdas, Mughal.

The Royal Collection puts its South Asian art on show

Art from the Indian subcontinent, from Mughal manuscripts to a peacock-shaped inkstand, makes a splash

17 Aug 2018