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The Very Best of the Venice Biennale

Visiting Venice? Don’t miss these shows

The Art of Work: Visiting the David Parr House

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Front room, David Parr House

Is this remarkable house Cambridge’s best kept secret?

Dealer’s Choice: the story behind Axel Vervoordt

Boris Vervoordt on living with art and ‘leaping into the void’

Muse Reviews

Yale institutions launch a Critique of Reason; a ‘fake’ in the Dulwich Picture Gallery; and a preview of Spring Masters New York

A Fantastical Feast at the Palazzo Pitti

Sugar, starch and a menagerie of animals: the marriage banquet of Maria de’ Medici and Henri IV of France was a sight to behold

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest’, by Dora Thornton

Yale art institutions come together in the Critique of Reason

Enlightenment and Romantic artists had more in common than you think

Art Outlook

It’s party week in New York and Venice, but there’s angst in Madrid

The public Paolozzi that should stay; especially after the saga at Tottenham Court Road

Head to the Economist Plaza

Big Apple Blossoms: Spring Masters New York

The small but beautifully formed fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory for its second edition

The manipulative imagery of the Bali Nine executions

How art has been used as a pawn in the crisis

Art and the Election

What have politicians promised; how are artists getting involved; and is anything likely to improve for the culture sector?

Made in China: the ‘fake’ Fragonard that fooled Dulwich

Doug Fishbone hid a cheap Chinese replica in the Dulwich Picture Gallery and hardly anybody noticed

The family that set the gold standard for art in Japan

Tigers in a Bamboo Grove (Tigers at Play) (detail), mid 1630s, Kano Tan'yu.

For 400 years, the Kano family dominated Japanese painting through its superior training and mastery of precious materials

Acquisitions of the Month: April 2015

Pop art for Chicago; a Duchamp archive for Stockholm; and a Dreamhouse for the Dia Art Foundation

London Diary: 3 May

Supersymmetry dazzles in the Vinyl Factory; Lawrence Lek empties the Royal Academy; and a horrible vision in Hammersmith

Muse Reviews

Our pick of the Venice Biennale; highlights from the Pompidou pop-up in Málaga; and the Jewish Museum’s celebration of TV

What to see at the Venice Biennale

Some of the best of the national pavilions, collateral events and satellite shows across the city

At the boundary of art and politics: ‘Borderlands’ at GRAD reviewed

Artists in London respond to the situation in Ukraine

Ed Vaizey and museum professionals face off at pre-election hustings

It might have been an entertaining clash were there not so much at stake

Michelle Obama’s challenge to museums

The First Lady called on US museums to widen access at the Whitney’s ribbon-cutting ceremony

Changing of the guard: who will lead the UK’s museums?

Young and international: is a new type of director coming to London?

Art Outlook

Cultural sites severely damaged in Nepal; major fire rips through Clandon Park; Museum of Biblical Art forced to close in New York

Major blaze rips through Clandon Park

The National Trust is launching an international design competition to restore Clandon Park, the 18th century Palladian house that was gutted by fire in 2015

The great Palladian country house in Surrey has been very badly damaged