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Gerald Laing’s giant girls are making a comeback
The British Pop artist is hot property at auction – and now there’s a welcome exhibition of his work in London, too
Crossing space and time with the Victorians
‘The breadth of the Atlantic, with all its waves, is as nothing’
Is it time for the Turner Prize to break out of the Tate?
It’s a mixed bag this year, with Anthea Hamilton coming out on top. But whatever you make of the work, Tate is no longer the place to show it
Smashing stuff…London’s art world wakes up with a bang
Kicking off the London art season by kicking in an old Saab (for art’s sake)
What are design museums for?
As London’s Design Museum is set to reopen in its new home, the role of design museums is still surprisingly unclear
How Daubigny inspired Impressionism
A modest exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery makes clear the big impact Daubigny had on modern art
Stepping out of Caravaggio’s shadow
Plus: Neo Rauch finally comes to London; John Wesley’s odd eroticism; and Alighiero Boetti’s monumental use of mementoes
Lygia Pape’s fragile threads
Plus: The final painting of Francis West; Yinka Shonibare without his trademark fabric; and Paula Rego’s first tapestry
Smoking with Hockney and Tacita Dean
Plus: lining up the evidence at Michael Hoppen Gallery; Fausto Melotti’s ingenious sculptures; and an unsung branch of the Bauhaus
How Switzerland’s world-class museums are getting even better
Swiss museums are full of remarkable art collections of every kind. Many are now looking to the future with outstanding new buildings as well.
Putin’s man in Chechnya embraces the new chivalry
Ramzan Kadyrov is the latest figure to embrace the 2016 armour revival
A rare chance to see works by Clyfford Still in London
Nine works by the artist have travelled 4,685 miles to be seen in the Royal Academy’s Abstract Expressionism show
‘It’s only in painting that you can do everything you want’
Hurvin Anderson discusses painting, places, and portraiture without the people
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A flutter on the next Tate boss; Bob Dylan’s casino gates; and the strange case of the missing Antony Gormley sculpture
Rachel Whiteread takes to the hills on Governors Island
Bit by bit, the former military site in New York Harbor is being transformed into a cultural destination
The dandy from Van Dyck to Oscar Wilde
In advance of its major Oscar Wilde exhibition, the Petit Palais plays host to an event exploring the dandy through history
London’s art fair season begins – but with a few casualties
A round-up of this week’s top art market stories: LAPADA and START Art Fair return to London, but Multiplied and Art16 are no more
A frightening take on the War on Terror at the IWM
Edmund Clark’s eye-opening exhibition will make you think again about the impact and ethics of counter-terrorism and state control
September art fair highlights
London’s LAPADA has a tempting range of offerings, while Fine Art Asia continues to thrive with impressive Chinese and Tibetan objects
How tea changed the history of the world
Nirmal Sethia talks about the Chitra Collection, one of the world’s finest private collection of historical – and explains the true significance of tea
The unhappy fate of Christopher Wren’s city churches
They rose out of the ashes of the Great Fire of London and transformed the city, but several of Wren’s city churches have met with disaster themselves
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