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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’
A potted history of studio ceramics
Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain
Per Kirkeby’s triumph of form over substance
The Danish artist clearly takes great delight in the physical properties of paint (and bronze, too)
Studying art history can make you famous – honest!
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
Staring at the zeitgeist
August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
Narrating the past, collecting for the future
For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from
The widening market for Oceanic art
Once championed by the Surrealists, Oceanic art is now achieving top prices at auction and attracting an increasingly diverse collector base
Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term
The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini
Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London
Münster turns its public spaces over to sculpture
This year’s Skulptur Projekte Münster shows that digital technology has transformed the public realm – but some artists are resisting
D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans
Is D.H. Lawrence’s account of the archaeological sites of Etruria still relevant today?
Hollywood! Brooklyn! Basildon!
Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected
Fed up of the Fringe? Then escape to a museum
Edinburgh’s museums and galleries provide respite from the onslaught of the Fringe
Silence speaks volumes at Chisenhale Gallery
Luke Willis Thompson’s work with Diamond Reynolds is a powerful response to the shooting of Philando Castile
The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors
The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London
Adrián Villar Rojas digs deep in Athens
The Argentinian artist has planted artefacts, sculptures and a fantastical garden in Athens
The curious case of Microsoft Paint
Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos
Plywood: the V&A has nailed it
This thrilling exhibition reveals the glamour of an everyday material
A tribute to Martin Roth (1955–2017)
The former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum has died at the age of 62