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The streetwise ways of the Museum of Homelessness
From street actions to art exhibitions, the organisation empowers homeless people to tell their own stories
Frieze week highlights: Sickert’s portraits and Hampstead Garden Suburb in the 1970s
The painter’s brooding portraits and Wangari Mathenge’s colourful interiors are among the shows to see this year
Beyond Frieze – London’s galleries put their best foot forward and 1-54 returns
Somerset House hosts the London edition of 1-54 and galleries across the capital make the most of the limelight
Galleries are thinking bigger at Frieze Masters this year
With fewer but larger stands at the fair, prepare for more in-depth and showstopping presentations in Regent’s Park
All aboard – the transporting art of Jack B. Yeats
Although grounded in actual places and actual people, the artist’s subjects were always utterly transformed by his imagination, writes Tom Walker
Spinning yarns with Sheila Hicks
The acclaimed textile artist, a maestro of colour and master manipulator of thread, explains why it’s more interesting to make mistakes
This year’s Turner Prize nominees are all doing valuable work – but why compare them?
The shortlisted collectives are more interested in what takes place outside the museum – so considering them for an art prize seems besides the point
Britain’s oldest botanical garden goes back to its roots
Oxford Botanic Garden has played a vital role in the evolution of plant science since it was founded 400 years ago
The uncanny universe of Leiko Ikemura
The Japanese-Swiss artist’s first exhibition in the UK introduces her eerie, fantastical world to a new audience
‘A kind of high-minded amusement park’ – at Frank Gehry’s Luma Arles
Will the glittering new arts complex bring about a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the southern French city?
A sentimental education – the sisters who learnt to paint with the Pre-Raphaelites
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown studied with their father and had close connections to the Pre-Raphaelites – but their achievements have been overlooked until now
Wong Kar-Wai gets nostalgic
The director’s sale of unseen footage from ‘In the Mood for Love’ reminds us that the Hong Kong of his films is fast disappearing
Introducing the Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech
This year’s list of the most talented young people working with tech in the art world
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech in focus: Salome Asega
The recently appointed director of New Inc discusses her plans for the cultural incubator and outlines why we need to think more about the ethics of tech
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech in focus: Nimrod Vardi
The founding director of Arebyte has turned the gallery and online platform into a magnet for new media art in the UK
The mystery of the real-life Maltese Falcon
The film noir starring Humphrey Bogart is back in cinemas – but the confusion over what happened to the statuettes of the falcon remains to be cleared up
‘For the full Indiana Jones experience, it is best approached on horseback’
The spectacular cave monastery of Sabereebi in Georgia is full of frescoes as stunning as their rocky setting
My Little Pony rides again – at the National Gallery
Masterpieces of equestrian art are about to get some rainbow-coloured companions, thanks to an augmented-reality makeover
Supporting cast – Andrew Lloyd Webber does up Drury Lane with a few of his favourite things
The musical impresario has found a role for his collection of beloved Pre-Raphaelites at the newly restored Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Hazardous dukes – Medici portraits at the Met, reviewed
An entrancing exhibition shows how Cosimo I de’ Medici harnessed art to consolidate his family’s grip on power
Street smart – how to own a piece of London’s West End
A set of Misha Black’s famous street signs is going under the hammer – and it’s the closest most of us will get to owning some prime London property
The man who got Lucian Freud to pose as a Henry Moore
The legendary picture editor Bruce Bernard was famously modest about his own photography, but his portraits of Lucian Freud are peerless
The failed Italian revolutionary who dedicated himself to Asian art
After his failure in politics, Henri Cernuschi succeeded in finance – and left an outstanding collection of Asian art to his adoptive city of Paris
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Georgina Adam and Andrew Russeth wonder if changing circumstances might not suit bricks-and-mortar galleries down to the ground