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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’
The other side of Surrealism
As male Surrealists depicted women as muses, sphinxes, and goddesses, women Surrealists sought to turn this imagery on its head
Mass resignation of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Art news daily: 21 August
A potted history of studio ceramics
Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain
Per Kirkeby’s triumph of form over substance
The Danish artist clearly takes great delight in the physical properties of paint (and bronze, too)
Studying art history can make you famous – honest!
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Gainsborough: A Portrait’ by James Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
Staring at the zeitgeist
August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany
A nosey parker’s paradise in London
Pore over Matisse’s prized possessions and get a glimpse into Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s home at these fascinating exhibitions
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
Narrating the past, collecting for the future
For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from
An art rogue at Vogue
John Currin seems to have come over all coy in his portrait of Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue
Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term
A sci-fi spectacular at the Barbican
This is an exhibition targeted at the senses more than the brain, more Star Wars than Stalker
The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini
Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London
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