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The fake feud between Picasso and Matisse
Shortly after Matisse’s death, Clive Bell called time on the artist’s rivalry with Picasso – and rightly so
The man in charge of modernising the Uffizi
Reforming Italy’s most famous museum is a huge and sensitive task for new director Eike Schmidt
How street art became a hobby for posh kids
Instagram promotion, protests daubed in Latin… graffiti is starting to look like a genteel pastime
The painful practice of cashing in on the Crucifixion
The clergy in Manchester have condemned a wheeze to sell crucifixion experiences
How Kansas City got its magnificent museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art built its collection from scratch in the 1930s, and is still going strong today
Acquisitions of the month: March 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from rare Fabergé animals in London to Canadian masterpieces in Ottawa
Contemporary British ceramics in a country barn
This is no country jumble of brown pots. The latest show at Messum’s Wiltshire is a reminder of a great, evolving national tradition
A show of pacifism at the Imperial War Museum
‘People Power: Fighting for Peace’ at the IWM London is a bold exhibition that uses individual stories to humanise major global issues
‘You can get real fireworks with pastels’
Why Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pastels are becoming increasingly attractive to art collectors of all sorts
The peculiar prints of a singular Dutch artist
Hercules Segers combined printmaking and painting to create works that are in a category of their own
Recollections of Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin’s great artistic struggle – and achievement – was to find a way of visualising memories
‘When I start bidding it’s very hard to stop’
Kiran Nadar on the ‘exhilaration’ of art collecting, the museum she set up in Delhi, and her commitment to showing Indian artists on the global stage
Paula Rego shares her secrets with her son
The artist discusses love, depression, abortion and infidelity in a new documentary directed by her son
Meret Oppenheim – an outsider interested in the outsides of things
Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim’s objects – she referred to them as ‘things’ – are still deeply unsettling, drawing you into their worlds and their logic
Culture wars in Bosnia
The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina is a powerful symbol of the tensions that persist in Bosnia more than 20 years after the end of the war
Mondrian gets his moment
The Gemeentemuseum has the largest collection of Mondrian’s works in the world – no wonder that it’s at the centre of the centenary celebrations of De Stijl this year
Refugees: German Contribution to 20th Century British Art
Two exhibitions look at the German artists who arrived in London in the first half of the 20th century attempting to re-establish their careers and identity
‘This human act of paying attention’
Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat delved into the storerooms of Sheffield’s museums and discovered the joy of curating (also, a platypus)
The menacing charm of Marisa Merz
The playful sculptures and paintings of the only woman in the Arte Povera movement have a distinctly steely edge
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Gilbert & George RA; Giles Coren, art historian; and Mary Beard takes aim at the Vatican Museums
Can a long-lost Egyptian colossus save ancient Heliopolis?
A huge Egyptian statue has been unearthed in a Cairo suburb. Will the global attention it has received lead to further discoveries at the neglected site?
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Is Documenta exploiting the economic crisis in Athens?
This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?