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How India inspired Howard Hodgkin
‘Painting India’ at the Hepworth Wakefield includes many of the artist’s most engaging and joyful paintings
Sir David Tang (1954–2017)
Tang was well known as an entrepreneur, a socialite, and a columnist; he was also a leading art collector and patron of the arts
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy
‘I think of myself as a producer of ideas’
Pioneering conceptual artist David Lamelas on space, identity, and taking advice from Anthony Caro
The many lives of André Malraux
Collector, dealer, novelist, art historian, culture minister, conservationist – André Malraux’s influence still looms large
Riding the wave: Plymouth’s burgeoning art scene
The city’s cultural ambitions are growing in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage
Leonardo DiCaprio, meet Leonardo da Vinci…
Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’
A potted history of studio ceramics
Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain
Per Kirkeby’s triumph of form over substance
The Danish artist clearly takes great delight in the physical properties of paint (and bronze, too)
Studying art history can make you famous – honest!
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
Staring at the zeitgeist
August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
Narrating the past, collecting for the future
For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from
The widening market for Oceanic art
Once championed by the Surrealists, Oceanic art is now achieving top prices at auction and attracting an increasingly diverse collector base
Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term
The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini
Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London
Münster turns its public spaces over to sculpture
This year’s Skulptur Projekte Münster shows that digital technology has transformed the public realm – but some artists are resisting
D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans
Is D.H. Lawrence’s account of the archaeological sites of Etruria still relevant today?
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A tribute to Martin Roth (1955–2017)
The former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum has died at the age of 62