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The many faces of the Queen

Queen Elizabeth II

From Cecil Beaton to Lucian Freud, some of the greatest names of the late 20th century have captured the Queen’s likeness

Acquisitions of the Month: August 2022

Fernando Gallego

A painting by the late American artist Emma Amos and a devotional triptych by the Spanish painter Fernando Gallego are among this month’s highlights

Lee Bul

Artist, Seoul

Tony Ellwood

Director, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Shihoko Iida

Independent curator, Nagoya

Daehyung Lee

Independent curator, Seoul

Carol Yinghua Lu

Director, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing

Aaron Seeto

Director, Museum MACAN, Nusantara

How Duchamp got himself out of the doldrums

The artist was at something of a standstill before a French critic came along with the idea for a book that gained him a host of new admirers

Why nostalgia is at the heart of Brazil’s bicentenary celebrations

Dom Pedro I heart

The bicentennial of Brazil’s independence falls at a troubling time, so it’s no wonder the commemorations focus on an idealised past

Was Frieze Seoul worth the hype?

Frieze Seoul

The art fair’s first edition in the South Korean capital raises interesting questions for international dealers

Can the British Museum learn from The Lord of the Rings?

Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in ‘The Rings of Power’.

Given J.R.R. Tolkien’s apparent attitude to cultural property, the British Museum made an interesting venue for ‘The Rings of Power’ launch party

US court dismisses Guelph Treasure lawsuit

Photograph from an exhibition of the Guelph Treasure in Berlin in 2015.

Plus: antiquities trafficking investigation extends to Germany and dealer Johann König accused of sexual misconduct

André Devambez: Vertigo of Imagination

The Petit Palais shines a light on the life and works of the French illustrator of the Belle Époque who captured Paris from dizzying heights

Piranesi and the Modern

An exhibition at the National Museum in Oslo examines how the 18th-century Italian artist and architect helped to shape the modern world

Wolfgang Tillmans: To Look Without Fear

MoMA presents the first US survey of the photographer’s intimate portraits of contemporary life

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

The first major survey of the pioneering feminist artist since her death features more than 200 objects and rarely seen archival material

For most artists, there’s no such thing as the ‘wrong’ side of a piece of paper

Though we rarely encounter them, the preparatory sketches and absent-minded doodling on the backs of drawings can reveal much about what an artist really had in mind

There’s no need for the future of Clandon Park to be a restoration drama

Critics of the National Trust’s plan to keep the fire-gutted house as a ruin are ignoring the organisation’s history and that of the building itself

The British nudists who had their minds set on higher things

A Corner of the Restaurant in Spielplatz

Annebella Pollen’s history of nudism in 20th-century Britain takes the movement as seriously as it took itself

In the studio with… Joana Vasconcelos

Joana Vasconcelos

The Lisbon-based artist once invited the fashion designer John Galliano to join the studio’s Bollywood dance rehearsal

‘Nothing like this had been seen in England’ – on Banqueting House at 400

Inside Banqueting House, London, with a view of the series of canvases painted by Rubens in 1635.

Banqueting House is one of the most extraordinary buildings in London – and it’s a huge shame it’s so inaccessible

The South Korean island with something for everyone

The Osulloc Tea Museum on Jeju Island.

Andrew Russeth finds that Jeju Island offers everything from a teddy bear museum to masterpieces of modern Korean art

What should happen to Paris’s abandoned colonial garden?

The pavilion of Indochina in the Garden of Tropical Agronomy René Dumont in Paris

The neglect of the Garden of Tropical Agronomy points to a wider ambivalence about what to do with the city’s colonial sites