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Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind the celebrated filmmaker’s first stop-motion animation film
Money really talks at Art Basel Miami Beach
Art-fair visitors who aren’t afraid to declare their worth can take advantage of MSCHF’s very public ATM machine
The green light to acquisition – how collector-focused technology keeps art deals moving
Arcarta reveals how the right tools could create a smoother and safer system for art galleries to sell work and for collectors looking to buy
Exhibition of the Year
‘Donatello: the Renaissance’ at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
Can NFTs make a comeback?
Five leading figures in the digital art world offer their insights into how the NFT market will evolve following the crypto crash
The Edwardian architects who built the British Empire
When it came to projecting British power abroad, Christopher Wren proved a handy source of inspiration in the creation of an ‘English Renaissance’ style
Surveillance tactics – the art of spying on screen
The Cinémathèque française’s unsettling show about film-making and espionage reveals how much the two activities have in common
NFTs after the crypto crash – what happens now?
Are NFTs a revolutionary approach to new media art or simply a fleeting trend? Jane Morris explores the role of non-fungible tokens today
Uncommon grounds – the market for paintings on gold
When it comes to gold-ground paintings from Italy, condition is everything and the older the work, the better
Can stones unlock the secrets of our existence?
Contemporary artists are looking to geological forms less for aesthetic cues than for perspective on time, place and human agency
The triumph of the Tudors
Other European dynasties of the period had equally thriving court cultures, but none has had such a hold on the popular imagination
How Henry Fuseli turned poems into paintings
Few 18th-century painters were more enthusiastic about embracing English literature than the Swiss-born artist
The Belvedere. 300 Years a Place of Art
A display in Vienna charts the history of one of the world’s first public museums
Paris takes a revolutionary approach to its Olympic mascot
Phrygian cap or pussy hat? The mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics seems to be making a bid for freedom
Book of the Year
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty…
Inside track – the artists who really know how to portray their subjects
The curator Andrew Bonacina explains why Gwen John’s obsessive approach to portraiture became the starting point for a group show at Michael Werner gallery in London
Rose Wylie: picky people notice…
The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent
The curse of Tutankhamun strikes again – but it’s nothing that can’t be fixed with glue
The breaking of a plaque to commemorate Howard Carter in Luxor isn’t a wholly inappropriate way to mark the centenary of his great discovery
The medieval Palazzo Davanzati in Florence is full of hidden wonders
Newly restored, this museum is both an architectural treasure and home to works by Masaccio’s unfairly overlooked younger brother
The British painter who was bullied into obscurity
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong
In the studio with… Lucia Laguna
The Brazilian artist draws influence from the views of Rio de Janeiro’s suburbs she can see through her studio windows
‘I think I’ll have to keep tearing bodies apart’ – an interview with Vanessa Baird
The Oslo-based artist has never shied away from explicit – or controversial – material, but it’s not just about creating a shocking scene
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Can contemporary art really make us laugh?
Funny peculiar or funny haha? Perhaps some of the artists who seem a bit obscure are actually trying to make us laugh