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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.
Street artists in the US have more rights than they thought
The 5Pointz case sets a new standard for artists seeking to assert their moral rights
Keeping track of time in the Middle Ages
An exhibition at the Morgan Library examines medieval concepts of past, present and future
‘A total immersion within the landscape’
From Cornish coves to remote towns in Italy, a sense of place is central to the paintings of Peter Lanyon
Sylvia Pankhurst and the art of suffrage
How Sylvia Pankhurst designed the movement that won women the vote
Beyond TEFAF – more to see in Maastricht and the region
A look at some of the impressive satellite shows being staged alongside TEFAF
The crowd-pulling power of the Obama portraits
Form an orderly queue to see Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The critics putting the hatchet into Civilisations and ‘All Too Human’, why Ed Sheeran is going Anglo-Saxon, and more arty tittle-tattle
The BBC’s ‘Civilisation’ reboot is fixed firmly in the present
The update of Kenneth Clark’s landmark series takes a more questioning approach to art history
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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