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Is Denmark Street really London’s Tin Pan Alley?

Once famous as the home of music publishers and recording studios, Denmark Street has adapted to a changing city but never lost its soul

Crowning glories – a new home for the Spanish royal collection

After 17 years of construction, the Gallery of the Royal Collections in Madrid is open at last – and ready to tell a triumphalist tale

What Renoir saw by the sea in Guernsey

Nearly a century and a half after the painter’s trip to the Channel Islands, his paintings of Guernsey can now be compared to the actual views

The modern-day collectors who want to build their own cabinets of curiosities

Wonders that were once prized by Renaissance princes still inspire plenty of awe

The week in art news – Swiss museum asked to cancel Cézanne sale

Plus: France and German set up a joint fund to research colonial provenance and hoard of coins with links to the Glencoe massacre discovered in Scotland

Flower power – is Damien Hirst blooming again at Frieze?

While the artist led collectors down the garden path at Gagosian’s sell-out booth, more pleasing floral arrangements can be found at Frieze Masters

La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th Century Venice

The Courtauld takes a tour of the famously serene city through artworks from its collection

The Brazilian artists who believed in leisure – and wanted to change the world

The film-maker Neville d’Almeida recalls his friendship with Hélio Oiticica and how they broke down the barriers between work and play and between film and art

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain and the Origins of Fauvism

The Met museum shows how summer spent in a fishing village in France changed the course of French painting

The Treasury of Notre Dame: From its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc

Illuminated medieval manuscripts, relics and paintings tell the history of the cathedral through to its renovation in the 19th century

Gabriele Münter: Retrospective

The Leopold Museum in Vienna examines the life and work of the great German Expressionist who was at the heart of the European avant-garde

Fired up – Daniel Katz on his passion for Islamic pottery

The dealer has made his name through antiquities, Old Master sculptures and modern British art – but when it comes to his own collection, it’s the Islamic world that sets his heart alight

Rebuilding Baghdad – in the new instalment of Assassin’s Creed

Dr Glaire Anderson of Edinburgh University explains how she helped bring Islamic art and architecture to life for the latest version of the video game

Frieze week highlights: breast-feeding goddesses and poetry in performance

Paintings of women by Rubens at Dulwich Picture Gallery and an installation by Julianknxx at the Barbican are among the shows not to miss this year

Frieze week highlights: calligraphic paintings and serene still lifes

More than 100 works by the painter Frank Walter are on show at the Garden Museum while the Foundling Museum pairs contemporary works with its historic holdings

Frieze week highlights: fast fashion and Georgian light displays

Shopping bag installations by the Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury and an illuminated display at the Soane Museum are among the shows not to miss this year

Frieze week highlights: West African masks and New York bohemia

Sculptures and textiles by Yinka Shonibare are paired with works by artists from across the African diaspora at Stephen Friedman’s new Cork Street gallery

How healthy is London’s contemporary art market?

The first Frieze Art Fair in 2003 made the capital cool again – but how much does it matter now, 20 years on?

UK government publishes ‘retain and explain’ policy for controversial statues

Plus: Carnegie Museum of Natural History will no longer show humans remains and US tourist smashes Roman statues in the Israel Museum

Christie’s is getting into the ghostbusting business

Rakewell is delighted to hear that director Ivan Reitman’s art collection is heading to auction this November, but wonders whether his tastes might have been haunted by his blockbuster hit

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

The French-American painter takes a humorous approach to tackling socio-political issues

Fashioned by Sargent

Portraits by the painter are paired with original garments worn by his sitters

Judy Chicago: Herstory

From early experiments in Minimalism to recent activism – the New Museum presents a wide-ranging survey of the artist’s work

How Frans Hals made up for his slow start

The painter was no prodigy but, as Bart Cornelis of the National Gallery in London tells Apollo, he was soon making up for lost time with his bold brushwork