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Save Carrà’s ‘Leaving the Theatre’: Roberta Cremoncini on the Estorick Collection’s campaign

In December an audience spilling out of a theatre into a cold night is a familiar sight. Carlo Carrà’s Leaving…

12 Days: Highlights of 2015

From Cornelia Parker’s meteorite-laden fireworks, to Peter Lanyon’s gliding paintings, British artists are commanding attention this year

12 Days: Highlights of 2015

An exceptional selection of exhibitions are opening in London this year, and some major museum openings are taking place further afield

12 Days: Highlights of 2015

The Victorians are coming. Or rather, the Victorians are coming back (again)

What not to miss over the Christmas period

Some fascinating exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA are closing in early January. Last chance…

Review: ‘Drawn by Light: The Royal Photographic Society Collection’

The Science Museum’s Media Space hosts another excellent display

Powerful gifts: is there a darker side to ‘Gold’?

The Queen’s Gallery’s latest exhibition brings together some exquisite items, but what of their cultural and political context?

Forum: Should we be cynical about international museum franchises?

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YES: Lee Rosenbaum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s post-Bilbao misadventures in trying to plant its flag on foreign soil demonstrate…

Cézanne goes digital: catalogue raisonné launches online

As data increasingly migrates to the cloud, so art scholarship goes digital

Muse Reviews: 21 December

The Winchester Bible in New York; tapestries at the Getty; and war photography at Tate

The Winchester Bible in New York

The Met’s display of pages from one of the UK’s most extraordinary manuscripts is a small but perfect show

Book Competition

‘Paul Durand-Ruel: Memoirs of the First Impressionist Art Dealer (1831–1922)’, by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel

Art Outlook: 18 December

Nine stolen artworks recovered in LA; India and Pakistan share a pavilion in Venice; and a young-looking ‘Mona Lisa’ in Singapore

The scars of war: ‘Conflict, Time, Photography’ at Tate

Tate’s exhibition aims not to shock, but to contemplate the lasting effects of conflict on the people and places affected

‘Wojciech Fangor. Colour-Light-Space’ curated by de Pury de Pury

One of Poland’s most highly regarded living artists presents mesmerising large canvases of shimmering colour

A Woven Palette: ‘Spectacular Rubens’ at the Getty

Designed by Rubens at the height of his career, these exuberant tapestries are remarkably painterly

Forum: Has the Heritage Lottery Fund lived up to its promise?

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Has the Heritage Lottery Fund been a golden ticket for British heritage over the last two decades, or has it invested unwisely?

Muse Reviews: 14 December

Tapestries in the Prado, the Getty and the Met; Deller’s take on Warhol and Morris; and immersive works by both Pipilotti Rist and Moholy-Nagy

The Week’s Muse: 13 December

Attention-seeking museums; Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering multi-sensory art; the Cooper Hewitt; and photography in the Rijksmuseum

Cooper Hewitt Museum reopens in New York

Thanks to a meticulous and inventive renovation project, the US now has a really good national museum of design

Art Outlook: 11 December

The British Museum lends a Parthenon marble to Russia; the Cooper Hewitt reopens in New York; and another art theft in Italy

Pipilotti Rist’s enveloping videos at Hauser & Wirth

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Rist’s work is overtly sensual, and places the visitor’s own body at its centre

Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering multi-sensory art

Today’s museums work hard to develop interactive, immersive and sensory displays: but Moholy-Nagy got there first

Editor’s Letter: The year in review

The Apollo Awards celebrate the year’s outstanding achievements in the art world