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The plane crash that made it into a museum
Christian Boltanski’s installation at the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica is a stark tribute to the victims of an unsolved tragedy
The contemporary artists who have cracked the market for prints
More and more artists are partnering with online platforms to sell limited editions of their work – and it’s paying off handsomely, for now
In the studio with… Ai-Da
The AI-powered humanoid robot talks Apollo through her studio routine, which involves listening to Chopin and pondering the strangeness of her own existence
When London’s sleepy art trade was jolted wide awake
An insider account by a former head of Sotheby’s in the UK recounts how London’s post-war art market took off in the 1950s and has kept on reinventing itself
Tens of thousands flee Baalbek after Israel issues evacuation order including World Heritage site
Plus: the UK budget announced, with mixed news for the arts; and archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city in Mexico
The artists who have found love with unlikely partners
With the news that an artist is set to tie the knot with an interactive hologram, Rakewell wonders whether romance is dead after all
Käthe Kollwitz – Mensch
The idealistic German artist channelled her considerable political energies into art both before and after the First World War
Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII
The ease of making screenprints after the Second World War stirred the imaginations of artists as varied as Lucio Fontana and Althea McNish
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504
The Royal Academy of Arts offers viewers the chance to compare the three Renaissance rivals and contemporaries
Ancient Thrace and the Classical World: Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece
The Thracians were rarely regional top dogs but, as a show at the Getty Villa proves, their artistry was unparallelled
What makes Christian Marclay really tick?
As his 24-hour film The Clock returns to MoMA, Christian Marclay talks about working with sound and images – and bridging the divide between the two artistic worlds
Four things to see: Diwali
As Diwali continues in full swing, it’s the perfect time to explore four objects that capture several elements of the festival and its mythology
The fall and rise of Paul Rudolph’s reputation
The American modernist’s buildings are often easier to admire than love, but his critical stock is undoubtedly on the up again
The textile artists who cut a rug in Cumbria
The making of rag rugs has never been considered high art, but an exhibition in Middlesborough shows just how intricate and inventive they can be
The city of Linz is all about the future – but that wasn’t always the case
Given Hitler’s unrealised plans for a museum of looted art in Linz, the futuristic Ars Electronica festival is a triumph for the city, but there’s no room for complacence
‘If Jeff Koons directed an ad for Nescafé Gold Blend’ – Rivals, reviewed
From explosions of chintz to thrusting postmodern architecture, the sets for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster leave us in no doubt we’re watching a 1980s period drama
The dreams of the Surrealists have become the stuff of our reality
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life
Why Mies van der Rohe’s designs are here to stay
The architect’s pioneering modernist buildings have outlasted critics and changing trends, as a monumental new biography makes clear
A new chapter for Asian Art in London
For its 27th edition, the fair is setting up shop in the galleries of London’s auction houses and welcoming a number of new exhibitors
How to paint with real freedom
Artists from Helen Frankenthaler to Marlene Dumas have poured and splattered paint on to their canvases with a sense of enviable abandon
The French vineyard turning winemaking into a cottage industry
Château Smith Haut Lafitte is a vineyard sprinkled with the sensibility of an English country garden
Art that makes the heart beat faster
At the Art Gallery of Ontario, visitors fitted with heart monitors have found Otto Dix stimulating and Gerhard Richter soothing. The rest of art history remains to be rated…
Frieze’s parent company considering selling art fairs and magazine
Plus: the Whitney Museum of American Art is making admission free for under-26s after a donation from Julie Mehretu; and Gary Indiana has died at the age of 74
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