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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

When Henry Moore gave Barbara Hepworth the cold shoulder, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle tattle

27 Mar 2018
Hailstones, natural size (1897), F. Pollard. Courtesy Archive of Modern Conflict, London

A tantalising peek into the Archive of Modern Conflict

Despite its name, the London-based photography collection is far from being all about war

27 Mar 2018

Congress increases funding to NEA and NEH

Art news daily: 26 March

26 Mar 2018

‘I don’t call myself a printmaker’ – an interview with Christiane Baumgartner

Christiane Baumgartner uses the very traditional medium of the woodcut to capture the complexity of the modern world

26 Mar 2018
The Temperate House at Kew Gardens, designed by Decimus Burton and Richard Turner and built between 1859 and 1898, © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The contradictory career of Decimus Burton

The architect was once best known for his neoclassical buildings, but his reputation now rests on the glasshouses at Kew Gardens

26 Mar 2018

Have museums been too generous with naming rights?

With the culture sector increasingly relying on philanthropic giving, the role of the donor may merit greater scrutiny

26 Mar 2018
Prisoner Pair (2008), Tacita Dean.

Tacita Dean’s meditations on a medium

Two shows in London reaffirm the artist’s intense dedication to film and the moving image

24 Mar 2018
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Take the second exit to Narnia…

A rascal artist has doctored road signs in Oxfordshire to give directions to Narnia and Neverland

23 Mar 2018
‘Karla Black’, installation view at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2018.

The sculptures that dare to mean nothing at all

Karla Black’s playful new works subtly challenge the viewer to make sense of them

23 Mar 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ (Paul Holberton)

23 Mar 2018

Shortlist for Hepworth Prize for Sculpture announced

Art news daily: 22 March

22 Mar 2018
Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

Are undergraduate degrees in curating useful?

Janna Graham and Niru Ratnam weigh in on whether curating is something that can, or should, be taught

22 Mar 2018
'Mike Nelson: Lionheart', installation view, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2018.

Mike Nelson sets up camp in Walsall

At the New Art Gallery the artist remakes an old installation exploring migration and belonging in Europe

22 Mar 2018
View of the Berlin Palace, future home of the Humboldt Forum, taken in spring 2017.

New director for Berlin’s Humboldt Forum

Art news daily: 21 March

21 Mar 2018
Le parfum de l'abîme, René Magritte, Private Collection. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018

What Magritte found out in Paris

The artist’s time in the French capital was not a success, but it formed his thinking about words and pictures

21 Mar 2018
Le phare de l'hospice à Honfleur, Monet

The best of the Salon du Dessin 2018

Apollo’s highlights of the fair – including works by Monet, Moore and Constable

21 Mar 2018
The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium.
Landscape near Felpham, William Blake

William Blake at heaven’s gate

What did William Blake really see when he looked at the Sussex landscape?

20 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Bowie in Buckinghamshire, peeling off in Paris, and Lucian Freud on Prince Charles’s watercolours

20 Mar 2018
Andria Zafirakou receives the 'Global Teacher Prize' from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai during an award ceremony in Dubai on 18 March 2018.

London art teacher wins $1 million award

Art news daily: 19 March

19 Mar 2018

Pilgrims and parrots in Jordan’s city of mosaics

Madaba preserves traces of the ancient Greek-Christian culture of the Middle East

19 Mar 2018
The Famous Women Dinner Service (set of 50) (c. 1932–34), Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

It’s time to recognise the radicalism of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

A rediscovered set of dinner plates depicting famous women prompts a reassessment of the pair’s artistic collaboration

19 Mar 2018

A bigger gnash: when Dennis the Menace met David Hockney

Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London

18 Mar 2018