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The Nigel Farage commemorative plate
An artist has depicted Nigel Farage’s plane crash on a plate. UKIP says ‘Meh’.
‘Everything I know comes from painting’
The possibilities of paint are inexhaustible, says the German artist Markus Lüpertz
Gilded glass from the world’s most glamorous ship
The legendary S.S. Normandie was lost to fire in the 1940s, but relics from its luxury interior survive – including these verre églomisé panels
Mass nudity and a decoy magician
How Spencer Tunick turned public nakedness into art – while avoiding the police
Emery Walker’s house is an Arts and Crafts utopia
This remarkable house in Hammersmith is a vivid museum of late Victorian cultural life
The record-breaking rise of the Düsseldorf School
Prices are rocketing for photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Cedric Price’s mission to make architecture amusing
Cedric Price believed that architecture should be mobile, lightweight, and temporary. Above all, he thought it should be fun
The Voynich Manuscript is a book you’re not meant to read
Despite Yale’s new facsimile edition, this 15th-century manuscript happily remains as indecipherable as ever
Do UK museums take photography seriously?
The transfer of the Royal Photographic Society’s collection from Bradford to London raises questions about the past, present and future of photography in museums
The Rake’s Progress: the Venice Biennale in gossip
A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle
TEFAF makes its mark on New York
Plus: Dreweatts and Mallett sold, and dealers on the move in London
The genius of Camille Claudel
With the opening of a dedicated museum, the artist’s achievements can finally be seen outside her relationship with Rodin
Eight of the wackiest biennale titles (so far)
Eight of the stranger biennial concepts of recent years
The literary lineage of Philip Guston
Philip Guston’s engagement with literature cemented his place in the history of art
The man on a mission to re-energise Murano glass
‘Letting Murano glass die is like allowing the Colosseum to collapse’
What’s coming up at the Venice Biennale?
Witches, trolls, and a version of Pinocchio are among the characters you can expect to see at this year’s event
Ed Sheeran has a Van Gogh moment
A portrait of the singer-songwriter has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London
Fifty years of The Velvet Underground
It tanked in 1967, but the band’s debut album, produced by Andy Warhol, was still the best pop cultural achievement of its decade
This month’s unmissable international art events
Antiques in Hong Kong, tribal art in France, and London’s first quattrocento maiolica show in 100 years
‘A good business, like a family, needs a myth’
For 300 years, the Plantin-Moretus family in Antwerp ran one of Europe’s most important printing presses
The productive failures of Vito Acconci
Remembering the pioneering performance artist Vito Acconci, who died in April aged 77