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What not to miss over the Christmas period
Some fascinating exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA are closing in early January. Last chance…
Forum: Has the Heritage Lottery Fund lived up to its promise?
Has the Heritage Lottery Fund been a golden ticket for British heritage over the last two decades, or has it invested unwisely?
Cooper Hewitt Museum reopens in New York
Thanks to a meticulous and inventive renovation project, the US now has a really good national museum of design
The Prado, the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum celebrate the art of tapestry
Now is the time to see some of the most spectacular tapestries around
Mapping the contemporary: Bloomberg New Contemporaries vs. Tomorrow: London
Last week brought two shows to London that claim to present the scope of new contemporary art being made in…
Personality of the Year: Nicholas Penny
Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, London, is Apollo’s Personality of the Year
Museum Opening of the Year
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, is transformed by a new extension and refurbishment
Book of the Year
Jeremy Warren’s catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance sculptures in the Ashmolean Museum is a tour de force of scholarly writing
How men of science wanted to be seen
Portraits of scientific figures such as Isaac Newton and John Harrison reveal their shifting cultural status
Review: ‘Basic Design: A Revolution in Art Education’ at the Hatton Gallery
Art education has come a long way since the 1950s. Is the Basic Design ‘revolution’ a little dated?
From the mass market to the museum: ‘Warhol Mania’ in Montreal
Warhol not only made art about mass consumption, he made art for mass consumption too
Curators pick seven highlights from ‘A Traveler’s Eye’
We asked the curators of the Arthur M. Sackler gallery’s latest show to pick their favourite exhibits
Picking the picture: Magnum Contact Sheets at C/O Berlin
It’s riveting to see the choices and accidents that produced some of history’s most iconic photographs
A Russian Fairytale: The Art and Craft of Elena Polenova
Elena Polenova is not a name many people are likely to have heard of in the UK. But the 19th-century…
Gallery: ‘The Art and Craft of Elena Polenova’ at Watts Gallery
Elena Polenova’s paintings, illustrations and furniture designs are on display in the UK
Koen Vanmechelen on the art of cross-breeding chickens
The Crypt Gallery in St Pancras Church is overrun with cosmopolitan chickens. Is it art?
The Week’s Muse: 8 November
Was the Musée Picasso worth the wait? Is the Turner Prize showing its age? News and comment from the Muse Room
Forum: Is the Turner Prize still relevant at 30?
The Turner Prize turns 30 this year – but does it continue to represent the best of contemporary British art?
The Musée Picasso reopens in Paris
It’s been a long and controversial refurbishment. Has it all been worth it?
Gallery: ‘Odd Volumes: Book Art’ at Yale University Art Gallery
An insight into the world of book art
The Week’s Muse: 1 November
The display of art in Asia; photojournalism from Chechnya; and historic rings in New York
Inquiry: The Asian Biennial Boom
It’s easy to be sceptical about the art biennial boom in Asia. But how have the unconventional spaces of such events shaped artists’ practices in the region?
Review: ‘Pierre Huyghe: In. Border. Deep’ at Hauser & Wirth, London
Huyghe’s notoriously uncategorisable works are both strange and beautiful
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The Week’s Muse: 15 November
A round-up of news and comment: First World War cartoons; a $500 million gift to LACMA; and the difficulty with digital art