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Gilt complex – ‘Gold in America’ at Yale University Art Gallery, reviewed

Coffee service for Alice Belin du Pont (designed 1910–11), Tiffany and Company. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

The gold objects in this show may glitter, but some of their previous owners are cast in a far from flattering light

The thoroughly modern scenes of Florine Stettheimer

Nude Self Portrait (c. 1915; detail), Florine Stettheimer. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

The painter who was at the heart of the New York avant-garde captured the many excitements of the modern age

The Venetian painter whose still lifes look good enough to eat

Natura morta con aragosta e rapanelli (1938), Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Private collection.

Cagnaccio di San Pietro grew up in a Venetian fishing village – so it’s no surprise seafood stars in his still lifes

Is the art world’s talk of going green just a load of hot air?

Olafur Eliasson ice watch

Museums and galleries are keener than ever to display their environmental credentials – but words and deeds don’t always seem to match up

Has art writing made us forget how to think visually?

Lubaina Himid

Lengthy exhibition texts, catalogues and essays are everywhere nowadays – but do they help us to see the art for what it really is?

Why the art market is finally taking note of British Surrealism

(detail; 1936), Paul Nash.

It isn’t easy to define a made-in-Britain equivalent to the Paris Surrealists, but collectors are increasingly drawn to the uncanny side of British modernism

Bastion House – the passing of a London landmark

Photo: CAMimage/Alamy Stock Photo

140 London Wall is an imperious piece of 1970s architecture – so why is it being replaced by a generic office block, at great environmental cost?

Sterling efforts – what to make of the London art market’s resurgence?

Recent auction results suggest a return to pre-pandemic levels – but with turmoil engulfing Europe, this raises some difficult questions

The fine art of winemaking

Untitled (2019), David Shrigley.

Making wine is an exacting activity that has much in common with the artistic process

Around the galleries – a tour of Geneva’s Old Town, plus other highlights

Vertumne et Pomone 1620 Abraham Govaerts

The convivial event offers visitors the chance to roam the medieval streets of the Swiss capital in search of art ancient and modern

Walter Sickert may have tackled some taboos – but that doesn’t make him a serial killer

The rue Notre-Dame des Champs, Paris the Entrance to Sargent’s Studio (1907), Walter Sickert. The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Modern critics (and conspiracy theorists) have focused on the painter’s decadent side, but his subjects reflect the society of his day

The Musée de Cluny brings the Middle Ages bang up to date

Golden rose (second quarter of the 14th century), Minucchio Da Siena.

The museum has sensitively reimagined all its displays to breathe new life into its medieval masterpieces

Is Los Angeles being spoiled for artists?

Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

As the city ‘arrives’ as a global art capital, how do the artists and curators who have been there for decades feel about the hype?

US Supreme Court to rule on dispute over Warhol’s use of Prince photograph

Andy Warhol photographed in 1973.

Plus: The Met has returned two statues to Libya and Qatar is to build three new museums in Doha

The art historian who became a Viking

Rakewell applauds Ghislaine Wood, deputy of director of the Sainsbury Centre and now the proud Godmother of a Viking longship

Full frontal flatness – Marlene Dumas in Venice, reviewed

Einder (Horizon) Marlene Dumas

The South African artist’s exposing paintings are not merely portraits of bare flesh – they are revelations of humanity’s darker, more painful depths

Lord of the wings – how Audubon’s career got off to a flying start

Detail of a print depicting a raven by John James Audubon.

James John Audubon’s illustrations of birds endure to this day, even if many of the species he depicted didn’t make it

Golden boy – the timeless appeal of Tutankhamun

Howard Carter photographed with the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in 1922 by Harry Burton (colourised version).

A century after the discovery of his tomb, our interest in the teenage pharaoh says more about the present than the past

Raphael

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist (The Garvagh Madonna)

The National Gallery explores the painter’s influence on architecture, archaeology and poetry

Georg Eisler

Straßenbahn (detail; 1972) Georg Eisler. Photo: © Johannes Stoll

The artist’s bustling crowd scenes are on display at the Belvedere, Vienna

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept

(detail; 2020), Andrew Roberts. Courtesy of Mauricio Galguera. Photo: © Sergio López

America’s most provocative survey of contemporary art returns

Sheila Hicks: Off Grid

Saffron Sentinel (c. 2017) Sheila Hicks. Photo: © Noam Preisman

The pioneering textile artist gets her first UK survey at the Hepworth Wakefield

Hands off the best Herzog & de Meuron building in London

The Laban Dance Centre in Deptford, London, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

The Laban Dance Centre is being encroached upon by unsightly developments and it needs to be protected now

Collecting with purpose – how Nish McCree is advancing the cause of African art

Nish McCree

The Ghana-based collector is known for discovering talented artists – but there is a more important mission behind her collecting instincts