• An interview with Alvaro Barrington
• The National Gallery in London at 200
• The sticky relationship between art and the oil industry
• How the Hirshhorn Museum keeps things fresh
Plus: the delicate art of Meissen, a bronze statue claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia, why art should be a multi-sensory pleasure, and a preview of TEFAF New York, and reviews of 15th-century French art in Paris, Japan’s Arts and Crafts movement in London and Pierre Huyghe in Venice.
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation