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The Fab Four get the Rashomon treatment
On hearing that Sam Mendes is set to direct four Beatles biopics – one for each band member – your roving reporter wonders if it’s all too much
The week in art news – Birmingham Council to axe entire arts budget by 2026
Plus: The V&A gets another chance to keep its 12th-century walrus ivory carving
In the studio with… Outi Pieski
The artist works from her home in the wilds of northern Finland, where she sews textile pieces beside a wood-burning stove to the sound of Sami radio
Elon Musk flies Jeff Koons to the Moon
Jeff Koons launched 125 sculptures into orbit on a SpaceX rocket this week. Perhaps they’ll hang out with the Pop art that went on a lunar holiday in 1969
Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Statements
The Dutch design duo known for combining high fashion with pure absurdity are the subject of a full-scale survey in Munich
The bric-a-brac brilliance of Gillian Lowndes
An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in
Valentine’s Day is no feast for food lovers
Why are there no dishes or treats traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day? The answer lies in shifts in farming and changing beliefs about food
Courtney J. Martin to leave Yale for the Rauschenberg Foundation
Plus: a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll has been decoded and the CEO of Bonhams has resigned
All hail Flaco, the owl who rules Manhattan
The Central Park Zoo escapee was born in chains, but everywhere from the Upper West Side to the East Village he is now free
Pleasure-seeking in Edo-period Japan
The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look
States of awareness – experimental art from the Eastern bloc
Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect
The HR crisis hobbling Italian museums
While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem
For Howard Hodgkin, collecting was as important as painting
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
The art museum in Athens that is making a feminist stand
For one year, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens has an all-female display of works from its collection and an all-female programme
The artists who made it in London against the odds
Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
The weird sisters immortalised in an even weirder novel
The weird sisters immortalised in an even weirder novelHerve Guibert’s ‘photographic novel’ of 1980 about his great aunts, Suzanne and Louise, is a masterpiece of love and obsession
Cindy Sherman gets a makeover for Marc Jacobs
Cindy Sherman stars in the fashion designer’s latest ad campaign – and she’s not the first artist who has modelled in this way
The untamed art of Théodore Géricault
Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery
The Belgian Surrealists who are starting to gain on Magritte
When it comes to Belgian Surrealism, Magritte still leads the pack – but collectors’ tastes are begin to broaden
Shore thing – the artists who flourished on the New York waterfront
What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan
Spiderman swings into action at auction
After the sale of the first The Amazing Spider-Man’ comic for $1.4m, Rakewell suggests that when it comes to the big screen, Marvel should tap into its spidey-sense again
Weird Barbies and other unheavenly bodies – Anu Poder at the Muzeum Susch, reviewed
The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures
Boxwood miniatures, in a nutshell
William Theiss takes a close look at the pocket-sized sculptures that 15th-century pilgrims thought perfect for private reverie
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Fifty years on, this biopic of Edvard Munch deserves a new lease of life
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate