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Frieze Masters broadens its horizons
A Botticelli portrait and an ancient bronze hedgehog are among the must-see artworks at this year’s event
‘X discovered under X’ – the archaeologist’s dream?
A Roman fort has been discovered under a bus station in Exeter… and it’s the stuff that headlines are made of, says Rakewell
Aux armes, citoyens! The new Musée de la Libération in Paris
A museum charting the dramatic history of the French Resistance and the Liberation of Paris has an elegant and historic new home in Montparnasse
Travels with Thomas Cook – in 1855
The first overseas tour organised by Thomas Cook took in the International Exhibition in Paris
‘I liked the idea of bringing sharp objects into a library’ – an interview with Sean Lynch
The artist discusses the allure of the 19th-century forger Flint Jack – who fooled museums and collectors with his brand-new prehistoric artefacts
The Danish artists who struck gold in the depths of disaster
Denmark was beset by catastrophes in the early 19th century – but its painters flourished
Painting attributed to Cimabue discovered in French woman’s kitchen
Art news daily: 25 September
Within a hare’s breadth of Dürer’s masterful drawings at the Albertina
A Dürer show at the Albertina presents a rare opportunity to see some of the German artist’s drawings usually kept caged up in the dark
The East Asian and Nordic artists who found common ground
The West’s borrowings from Japanese modernism are well known – but an exhibition in Helsinki shows that the traffic moved both ways
Wallace Collection to start lending artworks
Our daily round-up of news from the art world Wallace Collection to start lending artworks | Following a reexamination of…
‘The spectator should disappear into the works’ – an interview with Peter Suschitzky
The cinematographer discusses his lighting design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s upcoming Rembrandt exhibition
Luxury in exile – at Napoleon’s country villa on Elba
The Mediterranean island still bears the mark of its most famous one-time resident
How Jean Dubuffet brought outsider artists into the museum
The French artist is still the guiding spirit of the Collection de l’Art Brut, the museum he founded in Lausanne
‘A very Rothschild type of display’ – Waddesdon’s new gallery, reviewed
The new permanent gallery presents all kinds of exquisite pieces with special family associations
‘An important work by Titian has been hiding in plain sight’
A lost portrait of the 16th-century writer Pietro Aretino may have been at the Kunstmuseum Basel for the last hundred years
South Africa’s most established art fair has undergone a rapid rebirth
A sophisticated revamp means that Art Joburg is now a smaller, sleeker affair
The scientific revolution gets the royal treatment
The Science Museum’s new gallery makes subtle links between royal patronage, scientific progress and earthly conquest
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry should be a working factory, not a boutique hotel
Why is Historic England supporting a developer’s plans when there’s a better proposal waiting in the wings?
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