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Gilded glass from the world’s most glamorous ship
The legendary S.S. Normandie was lost to fire in the 1940s, but relics from its luxury interior survive – including these verre églomisé panels
How did ‘Viva Arte Viva’ go so wrong?
Wasn’t this year’s Venice Biennale exhibition supposed to do away with grand curatorial conceits?
Mass nudity and a decoy magician
How Spencer Tunick turned public nakedness into art – while avoiding the police
A flawed introduction to the women of post-war abstraction
MoMA’s attempt to ‘make space’ for women artists has backfired, but does at least highlight some unexpected affinities between artists
The fine art of losing elections
Hillary Clinton’s hubristic confetti and Ed Milliband’s garden sculpture
Emery Walker’s house is an Arts and Crafts utopia
This remarkable house in Hammersmith is a vivid museum of late Victorian cultural life
The record-breaking rise of the Düsseldorf School
Prices are rocketing for photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Cedric Price’s mission to make architecture amusing
Cedric Price believed that architecture should be mobile, lightweight, and temporary. Above all, he thought it should be fun
The Voynich Manuscript is a book you’re not meant to read
Despite Yale’s new facsimile edition, this 15th-century manuscript happily remains as indecipherable as ever
The successes and failures of Documenta in Athens
The decision to stage part of the 14th Documenta in Athens has been widely debated. Now that it’s open, what are the highlights of the programme?
Do UK museums take photography seriously?
The transfer of the Royal Photographic Society’s collection from Bradford to London raises questions about the past, present and future of photography in museums
The Rake’s Progress: the Venice Biennale in gossip
A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle
A tribute to A.R. Penck
The artist’s relentless and bloody-minded pursuit of freedom, in art as in life, was a lesson to us all
TEFAF makes its mark on New York
Plus: Dreweatts and Mallett sold, and dealers on the move in London
Why North Korea is mad about monuments
The North Korean regime has banned foreigners from visiting monuments to the Kim dynasty
The genius of Camille Claudel
With the opening of a dedicated museum, the artist’s achievements can finally be seen outside her relationship with Rodin
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