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Your chance to win ‘Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe’ by Peter Björn Kerber (Getty Publications)
Collaboration and conversation in Ljubljana
A shared belief in the democratic possibilities of print makes for an optimistic biennial
Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)
Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted
Joseph Beuys’s boxing career
Waddington Custot celebrates Beuys’s boxing skills, while a mysterious British artist steals the show at Bagshawe Fine Art
New York non-profit to set up affordable studio space in disused army base
Art news daily: 19 July
The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art
The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context
The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete
Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Daniel Hannan gets furious about a statue of Engels, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
Scared of the modern?
The British realists of the 1920s and ’30s scrupulously recorded the modern era – but in doing so, they were also avoiding it
The London museum having a whale of a time
The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus
The unsolved mysteries of Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti’s art seems as enigmatic as ever in this survey of the sculptor’s work at Tate Modern
The rogue art of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector
Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again
The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked
The architects who designed their own homes
The houses that architects designed for themselves can tell us much about their attitudes to their work
How men dress up for art
From 17th-century cavaliers to today’s celebrities and athletes, artists have always had an eye on men’s fashion
Restoring Turner’s vision for Sandycombe Lodge
Sandycombe Lodge, built by J.M.W. Turner in 1812, offers an intriguing glimpse of the painter’s potential as an architect
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Brooklyn Beckham’s photo nasties and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
Sitting pretty: the world’s best museum benches