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Lost in Fathoms: Anaïs Tondeur

Tondeur’s work is rigorously scientific, but that doesn’t blunt its emotional impact

Book Competition

‘Rembrandt’s House: Exploring the World of the Great Master’ by Anthony Bailey

Lust, gin and grime: ‘Hogarth’s London’ at the Cartoon Museum

If Victorian London belongs to Dickens, the Georgian city is Hogarth’s

Art Outlook: 6 November

The J. Paul Getty Museum’s major Manet acquisition; Ronald Lauder’s warning to the Kunstmuseum Bern; and North Korea’s first UK art show

Impossible balance: Richard Serra’s sculptures at Gagosian Gallery

The complexity and integrity of Serra’s monumental work is mind-blowing

First Look: ‘Modern Times’ at the Rijksmuseum

The new wing of the new Rijksmuseum is playing host to a display of new photography

Review: Love, Lust and Longing in the Freud Museum

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Freud’s collection of antiquities is not for the easily abashed

Forum: Is the Turner Prize still relevant at 30?

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The Turner Prize turns 30 this year – but does it continue to represent the best of contemporary British art?

Gallery: ‘FLASHBACK’ Pala Alpitour, Turin (Italy)

FLASHBACK in Turin supports the premise that ‘All Art is contemporary’

The Musée Picasso reopens in Paris

It’s been a long and controversial refurbishment. Has it all been worth it?

A cloud of glass in the Bois de Boulogne: the Louis Vuitton Foundation

Despite Gehry’s dislike of the term, his building is a spectacle, as is the art

Review: Conrad Shawcross ‘The ADA Project’

Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross’s latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?

First Look: ‘Odd Volumes: Book Art’ at Yale University Art Gallery

The art of the book…

Gallery: ‘Odd Volumes: Book Art’ at Yale University Art Gallery

An insight into the world of book art

Acquisitions of the Month: October

The Metropolitan Museum gains a collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts, while Tate takes home some contemporary work from Frieze

Muse Reviews: 2 November

Pierre Huyghe’s stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’; and Schiele’s uneasy nudes

First Look: El Greco in New York

New York’s masterpieces are reunited to mark the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death

Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world

The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…

The Week’s Muse: 1 November

The display of art in Asia; photojournalism from Chechnya; and historic rings in New York

Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum

Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…

Ring Cycles: Benjamin Zucker’s ring collection goes on show in New York

‘Cycles of Life’ presents more than 40 exceptional historic rings

Inquiry: The Asian Biennial Boom

It’s easy to be sceptical about the art biennial boom in Asia. But how have the unconventional spaces of such events shaped artists’ practices in the region?

Art Outlook: 30 October

Some of the stories and discussions we’ve spotted online this week: Could ‘orphan’ artworks be brought in from the cold?…

Review: ‘Pierre Huyghe: In. Border. Deep’ at Hauser & Wirth, London

Huyghe’s notoriously uncategorisable works are both strange and beautiful