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How printmaking made a lasting impression
How printmaking made a lasting impressionPrinting is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
The tangled history of the London Tube map
A play about Harry Beck, creator of London Underground map we still use today, shows just how tricky it was to land on the perfect design
Frieze week highlights: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum gets theatrical at the Barbican
Plus: the light sculptures of Anthony McCall, paintings by Frank Auerbach and his teacher David Bomberg, and Nordic nature scenes
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Arte Povera masterpiece is a case of rags and endless riches
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
Four things to see: Women poets
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
Where are all the young collectors?
The art world is changing fast, but fostering a new generation of young collectors remains a challenge for the market to overcome
Baroque painting from Naples still provides plenty of thrills
Amid a narrowing market for Old Masters, paintings from 17th-century Naples are still holding their own
The Warburg Institute makes its mysteries more public
The learned institution has always been important to art historians, but a major new refurbishment will give it a higher profile
The dealer who launched Picasso
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs
Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her when she was a teenager
Is Labour’s arts policy a case of warm words, no cold hard cash?
The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, spoke of the importance of the arts at Labour Party Conference, but the sector needs more than good vibes
Italian art is the star of the show in Florence this month
Modern Italian artists rub shoulders with Old Masters including Titian and Bronzino at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence (BIAF)
Four things to see: Tourism
On World Tourism Day, it seems a perfect time to revisit the ways in which artists have depicted global travel over the last two centuries
How Van Gogh invented the art of the future
The National Gallery has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat – to allow us to experience the intensity of the artist’s vision as if for the first time
Scotland the brave – an interview with the director of Studio Voltaire
As the cutting-edge arts organisation in south London turns 30, Joe Scotland talks to Apollo about class, community and contemporary art
This year, the Turner Prize gets personal
The four nominees for the prize in its 40th year all fold forms of biography into their art – with mixed success
Top drawers – a brief history of sketching through the ages
Spanning several continents and 13,000 years of graphic art, Susan Owens’s new book outlines the many reasons why artists have always been drawn to drawing
The society painter who wanted to reshape Irish art
Sarah Purser’s reputation faded after her death, but an exhibition at the Hugh Lane in Dublin is putting her back in the frame
Silk Roads
More than 300 objects from the first millennium AD demonstrate the importance of cultural and material exchange across Asia, Africa and Europe
The Andalusian winery that pairs sherry with Spanish paintings
The veteran sherry-makers at Bodegas Tradición in Cádiz may have perfected their craft, but the winery’s collection of paintings by great Spanish artists is no less impressive
The endlessly debatable virtues of Dosso Dossi
The mystery surrounding the meaning of an allegorical painting by Dosso Dossi may be precisely its point, explains the curator Pierre Curie
Master of art – the towering legacy of David Sylvester
Born 100 years ago this month, the critic exerted an outsize influence on artists and tastemakers alike – and he still has much to teach us
What lies in store for the French art market?
Despite what is widely regarded as a lucky escape in July’s elections, further challenges may well lie on the horizon
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