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In the studio with… Paulo Nimer Pjota

Paulo Nimer Pjota

The Brazilian artist works with materials he retrieves from the streets – but his studio space must be kept clean as a shrine

How to make a queer museum

Helmut Berger in drag

The charity Queer Britain is opening the country’s first space dedicated to LGBTQ+ culture, but will its programme entertain as well as educate?

The week in art news – Mariupol art school bombed with civilians sheltering inside

destroyed buildings in Mariupol city

Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London 

Boldini: Pleasures and Days

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait de Miss Bell, (c. 1903) Oil on canvas. Courtesy Villa Grimaldi Fassio, Civica Raccolta Luigi Frugone, Musei di Nervi, Italy. Photo: © Musei di Nervi, Raccolte Frugone

The Petit Palais celebrates the Italian ‘Master of Swish’ and his depictions of Parisian high society

The Language of Beauty in African Art

Head, possibly of a king)(12th–15th century), Yoruba people, Ife.

This exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum focuses on African art through the eyes of the cultures that made it

Althea McNish: Colour is Mine

Painted Desert, (c. 1959), Photo: © the Whitworth, The University of Manchester

The William Morris Gallery looks at the legacy of this key player in the Caribbean Arts Movement

Iron Men: Fashion in Steel

Costume Helmet Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach (detail; c. 1526) Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo © KHM-Museumsverband

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna shines a light on the artistry of Renaissance armour

Fear and loathing at Chatsworth House

Wings of Glory

Rakewell wonders what to make of the artists of Burning Man festival taking over Capability Brown’s idyllic landscape in Derbyshire

In the studio with… Bosco Sodi

Bosco Sodi. Courtesy the artist

The Mexican artist offers a glimpse of his makeshift studio in a Venetian palazzo

‘A six-gun salute to the bespectacled one’ – Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, reviewed

Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress (Autumn-Winter 1965), displayed next to Piet Mondrian’s Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc (1937).

The designer’s infatuation with the fine arts ran deep, as a series of exhibitions throughout the city’s museums makes clear

Something to savour – at the new Food Museum in Suffolk

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An East Anglian museum is turning its attention from the field to the table with provocative results

Will the new Burrell Collection give Glasgow global reach?

Four stained-glass panels from a group of eight depicting scenes from the life of John the Baptist, made in Rouen in c. 1510 and installed in the south wall of the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.

After six years of work, the city’s most singular museum is reopening. But while it is once again filled with wonders, there are also questions to be answered

The vivacity of Van Dyck’s portraits

Sir John Mennes

Combining subtlety with swagger, Van Dyck’s portraits of courtiers offer a mischievous rival to the official written histories of his day

Is Anna Sorokin bringing prison art back in vogue?

The real thing: Anna Sorokin being led away after being sentenced in May 2019 following a conviction for multiple counts of grand larceny and theft of services.

The scammer of the art world has now joined its ranks – but how does the work she has made in jail measure up to the great prison art of the past?

The week in art news – France launches emergency fund for Ukrainian artists

Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)

Plus: MoMA to review security protocols after recent stabbings and Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize

Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection

A Beauty in Front of King Enma's Mirror (1871–89), Kawanabe Kyosai.

The Royal Academy revels in the drunken, improvised paintings of this 19th-century Japanese virtuoso

Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility

Untitled (1979), Juliana Seraphim.

The Gropius Bau looks at the glamour – and precariousness – of what is regarded by some as the city’s golden age

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

This sartorial spectacle at the V&A looks at men’s fashion through history

Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–71

Three female impersonators, N.Y.C (detail; 1962), Diane Arbus.

The photographer’s unsettling, off-kilter portraits get their first major Scandinavian showing at the Louisiana

Meet Magritte – the man behind the apple

(1942), René Magritte.

Bowler hats off to a new biography of the painter that chips away at the Belgian’s bourgeois veneer

The mountain stronghold that has kept Georgia’s medieval art safe for centuries

The rebuilt Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography in Mestia, Georgia, which reopened in 2014. Photo: Georgian National Museum/Fernando Javier Urquijo

The Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography is a testament to the local people’s long-standing determination to preserve their cultural heritage

In the studio with… Hulda Guzmán

The painter of fantastical jungle scenes can actually see the forest from her studio in the Dominican Republic – but she’s not afraid to use her imagination

The bawdy world of kabuki theatre

Half-length portrait of kabuki actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro as Ono no Yorikaze (detail; 1863), Utagawa Kunisada. Photo: © Trustees of the British Museum

This elegant Japanese tradition with earthy origins has long provided Japanese printmakers with rewardingly risqué material

A full house of Tudors at the Holburne Museum

Robert Dudley (detail; c. 1575), unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist. Photo: © National Portrait Gallery, London

Seeing the National Portrait Gallery’s treasures in a new setting allows us to appreciate the larger-life-than personalities behind the paintings in new ways