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The week in art news – Marlborough Gallery to close after nearly 80 years

Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator

The Birth of Department Stores: Fashion, Design, Toys, Advertising, 1852–1925

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs explores Paris’s department store boom and the rise of the bourgeoisie

Jean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is celebrating the artist’s infinite variety through an exhibition of drawings, photographs, films, jewellery and more

Yinka Shonibare: Suspended States

The British-Nigerian artist is exhibiting new and old works at the Serpentine, in his first institutional show in London in two decades

Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer

An unfairly neglected 19th-century innovator gets the exposure he deserves at the Getty Center

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024

A Poussin Last Supper and a rare oil painting by Remedios Varo are among the most exciting works to have entered public collections over the last month

The dreamlike visions of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman

Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic

Faith Ringgold debunks the myth of the American dream

American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding

Faith Ringgold has died at the age of 93. In 2022, Nicole Rudick reviewed her New Museum retrospective, admiring the artist’s lifelong search for better stories to tell about the United States

A gallerist with an eye for art and the desire to make a scene

Betty Sims-Hilditch explains how a background in set design and a commitment to emerging artists inform her new roaming gallery project, Artground

Who’s afraid of immersive art?

Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?

How Stanley Kubrick did it his way

A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him

The problem with Paul Gauguin

There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn’t excuse his behaviour

In the studio with… Tammy Nguyen

The American artist and academic gets up at 5.30am and finds inspiration in moths, dinosaurs and Dante when working in her barn in Connecticut

The restless spirit of Sonia Delaunay

The artist’s irrepressible energy shines out in this survey of her long career at Bard Graduate Center, writes Eve M. Kahn

Richard Serra, man of steel (1938–2024)

The sculptor saw possibilities in steel that no one else had before, creating works that altered viewers’ perception of space

The beautiful but deadly world of Edward Burtynsky

In documenting the damage humans have done to the planet, the photographer has created a disturbingly thrilling record of environmental disaster

Kim Kardashian’s bad table manners

The reality star may think of herself as a ‘furniture person’, but the Donald Judd Foundation disagrees – and is suing her for allegedly buying fake tables

Idris Khan: Repeat After Me

The British artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States includes characteristically layered works that dwell on the themes of memory and emotion

Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

The practice of concealing portraits behind sliding covers or in puzzle-laden boxes is being unpacked in an unusual exhibition at the Met

Camille Claudel

The Getty Center is celebrating one of the most precociously gifted sculptors of the late 19th century

The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Beijing’s Palace Museum explores 200 years of diplomacy through more than 150 artworks and objects

Nicholas Cullinan appointed director of the British Museum

The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer

How to eat beans in the baroque style

A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status

The French collectors prizing provenance over glitz

Books and manuscripts, 18th-century furniture and Old Master drawings are driving a thriving art market in France