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Full of make-believe and making do: the art of Andrew Cranston

Fig painting by Andrew Cranston

The Scottish painter who has long treated book covers as blank canvases is now also working on a much bigger scale

The painters who have made the most of poor visibility

As a book about mist and fog in European painting shows, artists have often taken a very hazy view of the landscape

The week in art news – Brice Marden (1938–2023)

Plus: Ukrainian government releases online database of artworks in the possession of Russian nationals, and the rest of the week’s top stories

I can’t get no… satisfactory statuary

The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been immortalised in bronze, but it leaves a bad taste in Rakewell’s mouth

Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth

The Austrian artist brings his uncanny wit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Eckbos Legat: Anniversary Exhibition

The Norwegian non-profit organisation celebrates its centenary with a group exhibition at the Vigeland Museum

Genteel flats for genteel people

The mansion block has often reconciled Londoners who can’t afford actual mansions to the realities of apartment-living

Lindsey Mendick: Sh*tfaced

The Margate-based ceramicist’s large-scale installation takes on binge drinking and public shaming

Seasonal highlights at Glenstone Museum

A flowering sculpture by Jeff Koons and an audio installation installed in a forest are among the works not to miss this summer

Restoring the largest tapestries in England has been a massive success

It has taken the National Trust 24 years to restore the Gideon Tapestries at Hardwick Hall to their former glory

Four things to see: Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock drip painting

On the anniversary of Jackson Pollock’s death, we look beyond the legend of the artist to the many other figures whose work defined the movement

How the Buddha became the Buddha

John Guy, curator of an exhibition of early Buddhist art at the Met, tells Apollo how the new religion transformed art in India

Weed, all about it

Todd McEwen leafs through a history of the underground pot-culture press

The self-assured sculptures of Pomona Zipser

With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft

UNESCO to put Venice on endangered heritage list

Plus: the number of daily visitors to the Acropolis is being capped and a Fondation Beyeler employee is on trial for embezzling funds

How Barbie’s Dreamhouse turned into a design nightmare

Before the gal who has everything got into pink, her ideal home was a shrine to midcentury modern living

Doing it in Style – when Harry met Hockney

David Hockney painting Harry Styles

Two national treasures are going tête-à-tête at the National Portrait Gallery, but this isn’t the pop star’s first brush with a museum

The historic naval church that is in shipshape condition again

The former Dockyard Church in Sheerness has been sensitively restored and converted into a community hub

Annette, More Infinitely

Annette and Alberto Giacometti in the studio (1951), Alexander Liberman. Image: © Archives Fondation Giacometti

The Fondation Giacometti presents an homage to the Swiss sculptor’s wife and greatest influence

Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture

A group show at Somerset House reveals how contemporary artists are challenging stereotypical depictions of Black femininity

Lee Krasner: Portrait in Green

A close look at one of the artist’s most famous paintings provides an intimate insight into her practice

Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection

The French photographer created a haunting record of vanishing city

Collective effort – the social sculptures of Simone Leigh

The sculptor is deeply connected to a wider network of artists and thinkers who also get their dues in this large-scale survey

Acquisitions of the Month: July 2023

The only surviving portrait from Henry Raeburn’s trip to Italy and an 18th-century book about cricket are among the most remarkable works to enter public collections