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How Renaissance artists captured Portugal’s golden age
Portugal’s period of ascendancy can be charted through the paintings of the times
The week in art news – ICOM agrees on what a museum is
Plus: US Museums must include salaries in job adverts | the interim director of the Orlando Museum resigns after just a month
Will Alexander Pope’s underground grotto finally come to light?
The poet’s bejewelled lair on the banks of the Thames was his pride and joy – and its restoration shines new light into the shadowy depths of his mind
States of play – an interview with Annette Messager
The artist’s wry installations include everything from cuddly toys to supersized versions of everyday objects. But her art is much tougher than it looks
What the art world really thinks about Documenta 15
Six museum directors, curators and gallerists give their take on the controversies surrounding this year’s exhibition in Kassel
Robert Kime (1946–2022)
The collector, dealer and interior decorator, who started trading antiques from his rooms at Oxford as an undergraduate, has died at the age of 76
Is Keanu Reeves about to become the architect of his own destiny?
May the actor’s upcoming role as the successful Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham be more promising than his previous skirmishes with the profession
How Issey Miyake brought art into fashion
The Japanese fashion designer revolutionised womenswear by creating comfortable clothes appreciated for their androgynous elegance and ease
How August Sander faced up to modern times
By turning social types into individuals, the photographer influenced many of his contemporaries and shaped how we see the 20th-century
Who will stand up for Antony Gormley’s art?
The students at Imperial College London are objecting to the sculptor’s ‘phallic’ new sculpture, proving that an outsize reputation isn’t everything
The photographers who are obsessed with the passing of time in Turkey
Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys use 19th-century processes to bring a very modern sensibility to archaeological sites in Anatolia
How Vernon Lee kept her finger on the pulse of gallery-goers
Long before the invention of the visitor-response survey, the writer was curious about how works of art affected their viewers
As Long as the Sun Lasts
Alex Da Corte’s whimsical construction takes up residence on the Louisiana’s terrace
Beyoncé remixes the Renaissance
The pop star’s latest album contains fewer treats for art-history buffs than its title promises – but Rakewell is too busy dancing to care
The contemporary artists who are paying their respects to Piranesi
Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences
In the studio with… Nikita Gale
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
The week in art news – Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022)
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
What photographs can and can’t tell us about buildings
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
Think pink with Madame Pompadour!
An extremely close look at François Boucher’s portrait of the marquise in the Fogg Museum at Harvard homes in on the painter’s use of his signature colour
The blingy side of Botticelli
The painter’s use of gold in his works suggests a debt to earlier artists – and reveals a more antiquarian side of 15th-century Florence
A summer of madness on the Spanish Steps
First a man in a Maserati, then the hurling of a scooter – and now a spat between fashion houses. What on earth has got into everyone?
Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
Works by the collective of Black photographers that started out in Harlem go on display at the Getty Center
In the studio with… Christopher Le Brun
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
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What the UK’s updated anti-money laundering rules mean for the art market
The new guidance provides some welcome clarity for art businesses, but a few grey areas remain