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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A Twitter tussle between two London museums, gallery doppelgangers, and Howard Hodgkin’s taste in television
The exhibitions not to miss in Istanbul
With the Istanbul Biennial comes a host of exciting satellite exhibitions around the city
How the Pre-Raphaelites reflected on the past
What did the Pre-Raphaelite painters see when they looked at the Old Masters – and how did they use what they saw?
Rachel Whiteread’s conspicuous absences
The artist’s ongoing record of what was not there becomes more thought-provoking as time passes
Geometry, pastries and paint: an interview with Wayne Thiebaud
‘I started painting these triangles and turning them into pies. I thought, “My God! I’m done in! Nobody will ever take me seriously!”’
A quick tour of the autumn art fairs
LAPADA returns to London, Brussels gears up for its inaugural Fine Art Fair, and Fine Art Asia opens its doors in Hong Kong
Jorge Coll
Co-founder, Coll & Cortés, and CEO United Kingdom, Colnaghi, London, UK
The artists buttering up Justin Trudeau
Canada’s prime minister has been immortalised in butter, while a Kiwi artist has chosen a rather less tasteful medium for his political statuary
Dinosaurs, dioramas, and the strange world of natural history
Paleoart and dioramas are designed to depict prehistory and the natural world – but what they really reveal are our own hopes and fears
The best of the new Biennale Paris
The Biennale des Antiquaires returns in its new guise as the Biennale Paris with an impressive showing of French fine and decorative arts
Why it’s time for auction houses to start talking to each other
Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the auction sector
A preview of Parcours des Mondes
This year’s event explores links between traditional African art and contemporary art practice, while galleries around Paris present their best items
How India inspired Howard Hodgkin
‘Painting India’ at the Hepworth Wakefield includes many of the artist’s most engaging and joyful paintings
Sir David Tang (1954–2017)
Tang was well known as an entrepreneur, a socialite, and a columnist; he was also a leading art collector and patron of the arts
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy
‘I think of myself as a producer of ideas’
Pioneering conceptual artist David Lamelas on space, identity, and taking advice from Anthony Caro
The many lives of André Malraux
Collector, dealer, novelist, art historian, culture minister, conservationist – André Malraux’s influence still looms large
Riding the wave: Plymouth’s burgeoning art scene
The city’s cultural ambitions are growing in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage
Leonardo DiCaprio, meet Leonardo da Vinci…
Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him
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Bring back the Met’s art and antiquities squad
The closure of an entire unit, specialising in the policing of a complex but valuable part of our national economy, must be wrong