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Charles Ray and the art of keeping body and soul together

Unbaled Truck (2021), Charles Ray.

The sculptor may work with many different materials but the main ingredient in his art, he says, is time

The week in art news – Ukrainian museums try to protect their collections

Plus: a Neolithic site has been discovered in Jordan and the Weltmuseum’s audioguide was hacked by activitists

Uncle Monty, auction darling

Richard Griffiths as Uncle Monty in 'Withnail and I’.

The items that furnished Uncle Monty’s apartment in ‘Withnail and I’ have proved quite the draw at auction

Trajal Harrell

Trajal Harrell. Photo: Diana Pfammatter

The American choreographer presents three projects in his residency at the Kunsthalle Zürich

Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese

Production image for ‘Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese’ (2021). Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery; courtesy the artist

The artist pursues her interest in teeth and the mouths that contain them at the Chisenhale in London

Camille Norment

Camille Norment. Photo: Marto Busco

The artist, who explores sound as a metaphor for social discord, is taking over Dia’s two galleries in Chelsea, New York

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder

Still Life (detail; 1970), Jean-Frédéric Schnyder. © Jean-Frédéric Schnyder

The Kunsthalle Bern pays homage to the Swiss painter best known for his crisp still lifes

Met acquires much-coveted Renaissance roundel for $23m

Roundel (c. 1500) attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing

Dan Graham regarded himself as a rebel – and the art world could do with more of his attitude

Dan Graham photographed by Sebastian Kim in 2017.

The conceptual artist and writer wasn’t afraid to stir things up, but he was also a great spotter and supporter of other people’s talent

Why was Jacques-Louis David so determined to keep his drawings to himself?

The Death of Socrates (detail; c. 1786), Jacques-Louis David. Private collection

The artist rarely showed the drawings that made his revolutionary paintings possible, but the Met is finally putting them centre stage

ARCO Madrid makes the most of having the stage to itself

Now of Now (installation view; 2020), Ines Zenha. Double V Gallery at ARCO Madrid

While most art fairs have been postponed, the Spanish stalwart is celebrating its 40th birthday in style

Did Surrealism really travel all that well?

(detail; 1933), Koga Harue.

The movement begun by André Breton in Paris found followers all over the world, but displaying their efforts all together makes for a muddled show

Belgium hands over full inventory of objects to DRC

The Africa Museum in Tervuren, outside Brussels.

Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) and David Zwirner becomes latest gallery to announce a branch in Los Angeles

Who would take on the Tate’s Rex Whistler mural?

The Rex Whistler mural at Tate Britain

The Tate has announced a new commission to respond to its racist mural but why would any artist accept?

Picasso: Painting the Blue Period

The Blue Room (detail; 1901), Pablo Picasso.

The Phillips Collection shines a light on the artist’s early years in Paris and Barcelona

Swedish Grace

Märtha Gahn(1920), Greta Fahlcrantz-Lindberg.

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm explores how the Roaring Twenties played out in Sweden

Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy

Head of the Apollo Belvedere, Rendered Anatomically (1812), Nikolaj Utkin after Jean-Galbert Salvage. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

A show at the Getty makes it clear that anatomical illustration has always toed a fine line between art and science

Carlo Crivelli: Shadows on the Sky

Saint Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli (detail)

The quattrocento master who delighted in visual trickery finally gets his first solo show in the UK

Only the art world could have been fooled by Anna Sorokin for so long

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Self absorbed, much? Julia Garner as Anna Sorokin in Inventing Anna.

The story of the scammer who passed herself off as an heiress should make for must-see television, but reality far outstrips Shonda Rhimes’s overly safe retelling

The mystery of the lost Maya sculpture

Lintel 1 from Laxtunich (773), Guatemala. Current location unknown.

Andew James Hamilton follows the efforts to find a Maya carving that was first uncovered in 1950, but has since seemingly disappeared from view

It’s time to judge Carmen Herrera’s extraordinary work purely on its own terms

Carmen Herrera in her studio in 2015.

The artist may have been unsung for many years before critics and the market caught up, but her work was a wonder right from the start

In Renaissance Italy, the making of altarpieces was an amazingly exacting affair

Apparition of the Crucifixes of Mount Ararat in the Church of Sant’Antonio di Castello,

In this hugely ambitious survey, David Ekserdjian encourages us to see some of the most remarkable artworks of their time with fresh eyes

Is Francis Bacon really the greatest painter of the 20th century?

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Triptych 1986-7 (detail)

As a triptych comes to auction, Rakewell wonders if we have finally found an artist whose talent is unquestionable

The week in art news – SFMOMA appoints Christopher Bedford as director

The new SFMOMA, view from Yerba Buena Gardens.

Plus: Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge and Jonathan Watkins to step down as director of Ikon