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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Rose Wylie’s high heels, Thaddaeus Ropac shares a beer with Joseph Beuys, and a design collaboration for Kanye West
Ancient civilisations get a modern makeover at the Penn Museum
The museum’s collection of more than a million artefacts is being redisplayed in a major refurbishment
Letter from São Paulo
Charles Saumarez Smith reflects on the art market in Brazil as the 14th edition of SP-Arte takes place
The Brazilian paintings that made a splash in wartime Britain
The recreation of an exhibition of Brazilian modernism during the Second World War is a remarkable feat
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The tiny head of Yuri Gagarin, Richard Rogers gets hit with an umbrella, and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
How contemporary initiatives are reviving historic sites in Rajasthan
A sculpture park in a hill fort and a mansion showing Indian crafts are just two signs of the region’s cultural renaissance
Epistolary exchanges with Edward Bawden
Peyton Skipwith remembers two decades of friendship and correspondence with the British artist
Florentine painting in full colour
This catalogue of Florentine works in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich sets a new standard
The quiet transformation of the Worcester Art Museum
The Massachusetts institution is a small museum with a world-class collection – and it may even have a Leonardo
How Van Gogh imagined Japan
The artist’s collection of Japanese prints gave him a new way of seeing the world
Minnette de Silva was a great architect – and her buildings should not be left to crumble
Kandy should be prouder of the pioneering architect, who instigated the idea of ‘regional modernism’
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
When Henry Moore gave Barbara Hepworth the cold shoulder, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle tattle
‘I don’t call myself a printmaker’ – an interview with Christiane Baumgartner
Christiane Baumgartner uses the very traditional medium of the woodcut to capture the complexity of the modern world
The sculptures that dare to mean nothing at all
Karla Black’s playful new works subtly challenge the viewer to make sense of them
Are undergraduate degrees in curating useful?
Janna Graham and Niru Ratnam weigh in on whether curating is something that can, or should, be taught
William Blake at heaven’s gate
What did William Blake really see when he looked at the Sussex landscape?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Bowie in Buckinghamshire, peeling off in Paris, and Lucian Freud on Prince Charles’s watercolours
Pilgrims and parrots in Jordan’s city of mosaics
Madaba preserves traces of the ancient Greek-Christian culture of the Middle East
A bigger gnash: when Dennis the Menace met David Hockney
Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London
‘It’s a record of my life, translated into art’
An interview with Joan Jonas, on the occasion of the artist’s major retrospective at Tate Modern
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump’s share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe’s divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.
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Can a local authority really get rid of 90 per cent of its art?
Once part of a pioneering schools loan programme, most of Hertfordshire County Council’s art collection looks set to be flogged off