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All change at the Venice Architecture Biennale?

With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air

Mining meaning in Middlesbrough

Locals and celebrities have banded together to offer a compelling range of perspectives on the industrial history of the Yorkshire town

The week in art news – Supreme Court rules against Warhol Foundation in copyright lawsuit

Plus: five men sentenced for Dresden jewellery heist, Lisa Schiff reportedly shuts up shop after lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Tacita Dean

The Wreck of Hope (detail; 2022), Tacita Dean. Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery (New York/Paris/Los Angeles) and Frith Street Gallery, London; photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

The artist reflects on the fragility of the planet at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

The Casablanca Art School

The Tate St Ives reveals how the experimental institution reimagined Moroccan art in the years after independence

Baroque – Out of Darkness

The Statens Museum for Kunst considers 17th-century developments in science and philosophy inspired new styles of painting

How to live like Courtney Love

The grunge goddess seems very comfortable in her celebrity skin these days, if a recent interview is anything to go by

From Bruce Lee to Blobbyland – a guide to London Gallery Weekend

With more than 150 exhibitions staged across the capital, Apollo’s editors pick out the ones they don’t want to miss

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings

Flat Top (2008), Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery; photo: Hugh Kelly; © Hurvin Anderson

The artist has been painting the same Birmingham barbershop for 15 years – and the results are now on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

London’s most gruesome museum is back – and weirder than ever

The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm

A short guide to Carlo Scarpa’s Venice

Christina Makris goes in search of the work of the architect renowned for marrying traditional craftsmanship to modernist details

Eriko Inazaki wins the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

black and white photograph of a Japanese woman standing against a textured wall

The Japanese ceramicist was awarded the top prize for her ingenious work at a ceremony in New York

Punishment for gluttons: La Grande Bouffe at 50

La Grande Bouffe film still

Marco Ferreri’s ode to eating may be one of the most disgusting films about food ever made

American Watercolours, 1880–1990: Into the Light

The Harvard Art Museums shows that the medium is considerably less wishy-washy – and more modern – than it sometimes seems

China’s Hidden Century

The British Museum represents a century and more of imperial decline, civil uprisings and the birth of the modern republic in objects

Josephine Baker. Freedom – Equality – Humanity

How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States

Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder

The British-Ghanaian artist’s work tackles histories of travel, migration and displacement

Auction highlights – Basquiat is still very much in fashion

Sotheby’s and Christie’s are both hoping to capitalise on the artist’s luxury status next week

The Olivia de Havilland sale deserves to be a soaring success

Actress Olivia de Havilland lying on a bed

The actor best known for playing the saintly Melanie Hamilton in ‘Gone with the Wind’ was made of much sterner stuff in real life

After a series of scandals, the Met hires an in-house provenance team

painted terracotta pots

Plus: the Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years, from 2025–2030, and Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Is the UK finally getting serious about Eurovision?

For too long, Britain’s lack of regard for the song contest has been rewarded by poor results. It’s time to make more of an effort.

The unheimlich manoeuvres of Joanna Pietrowska

Joanna Piotrowska

These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling

The week in art news – UNESCO calls for greater protections for artists

Plus: boycott at Kiasma in Helsinki comes to an end, and the rest of the week’s top stories

The coronation, reviewed

Amid all the pomp and the circumstance, the crowning of Charles III has much to tell us about the state of the nation