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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
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Salvador Dalí’s moustache, Madonna’s hairbrush, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
What not to miss at the world’s leading photography festival
This year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles ranges from Joel Meyerowitz’s street photography to repurposed statues of Lenin in Ukraine
An outbreak of talent in Great Bardfield
Ravilious, Garwood, Bawden, Binyon… Why were so many artists drawn to a village in Essex?
Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)
Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted
The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art
The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context
Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again
The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked
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A tribute to Martin Roth (1955–2017)
The former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum has died at the age of 62