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The Musée de Cluny brings the Middle Ages bang up to date
The museum has sensitively reimagined all its displays to breathe new life into its medieval masterpieces
Is Los Angeles being spoiled for artists?
As the city ‘arrives’ as a global art capital, how do the artists and curators who have been there for decades feel about the hype?
US Supreme Court to rule on dispute over Warhol’s use of Prince photograph
Plus: The Met has returned two statues to Libya and Qatar is to build three new museums in Doha
The art historian who became a Viking
Rakewell applauds Ghislaine Wood, deputy of director of the Sainsbury Centre and now the proud Godmother of a Viking longship
Full frontal flatness – Marlene Dumas in Venice, reviewed
The South African artist’s exposing paintings are not merely portraits of bare flesh – they are revelations of humanity’s darker, more painful depths
Lord of the wings – how Audubon’s career got off to a flying start
James John Audubon’s illustrations of birds endure to this day, even if many of the species he depicted didn’t make it
Golden boy – the timeless appeal of Tutankhamun
A century after the discovery of his tomb, our interest in the teenage pharaoh says more about the present than the past
Hands off the best Herzog & de Meuron building in London
The Laban Dance Centre is being encroached upon by unsightly developments and it needs to be protected now
Collecting with purpose – how Nish McCree is advancing the cause of African art
The Ghana-based collector is known for discovering talented artists – but there is a more important mission behind her collecting instincts
In the studio with… Paulo Nimer Pjota
The Brazilian artist works with materials he retrieves from the streets – but his studio space must be kept clean as a shrine
How to make a queer museum
The charity Queer Britain is opening the country’s first space dedicated to LGBTQ+ culture, but will its programme entertain as well as educate?
The week in art news – Mariupol art school bombed with civilians sheltering inside
Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London
Fear and loathing at Chatsworth House
Rakewell wonders what to make of the artists of Burning Man festival taking over Capability Brown’s idyllic landscape in Derbyshire
In the studio with… Bosco Sodi
The Mexican artist offers a glimpse of his makeshift studio in a Venetian palazzo
‘A six-gun salute to the bespectacled one’ – Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, reviewed
The designer’s infatuation with the fine arts ran deep, as a series of exhibitions throughout the city’s museums makes clear
Something to savour – at the new Food Museum in Suffolk
An East Anglian museum is turning its attention from the field to the table with provocative results
Will the new Burrell Collection give Glasgow global reach?
After six years of work, the city’s most singular museum is reopening. But while it is once again filled with wonders, there are also questions to be answered
The vivacity of Van Dyck’s portraits
Combining subtlety with swagger, Van Dyck’s portraits of courtiers offer a mischievous rival to the official written histories of his day
Is Anna Sorokin bringing prison art back in vogue?
The scammer of the art world has now joined its ranks – but how does the work she has made in jail measure up to the great prison art of the past?
The week in art news – France launches emergency fund for Ukrainian artists
Plus: MoMA to review security protocols after recent stabbings and Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
Meet Magritte – the man behind the apple
Bowler hats off to a new biography of the painter that chips away at the Belgian’s bourgeois veneer
The mountain stronghold that has kept Georgia’s medieval art safe for centuries
The Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography is a testament to the local people’s long-standing determination to preserve their cultural heritage
In the studio with… Hulda Guzmán
The painter of fantastical jungle scenes can actually see the forest from her studio in the Dominican Republic – but she’s not afraid to use her imagination
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