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How the Versailles of Yorkshire has been saved
The future of Wentworth Woodhouse, a preposterous yet beautiful country house near Sheffield, has been secured after decades of uncertainty
A short history of (pretty dreadful) football statuary
The Cristiano Ronaldo bust is the latest in a tradition of bad football sculptures
Activists round on artists in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights
Tensions have flared in recent months as residents accuse new galleries of ‘art-washing’ and gentrifying the neighbourhood
The peculiar prints of a singular Dutch artist
Hercules Segers combined printmaking and painting to create works that are in a category of their own
An ambitious plan to put Montpellier on the map
The city of Montpellier’s cultural plans include a new contemporary art museum headed up by Nicolas Bourriaud
Recollections of Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin’s great artistic struggle – and achievement – was to find a way of visualising memories
‘When I start bidding it’s very hard to stop’
Kiran Nadar on the ‘exhilaration’ of art collecting, the museum she set up in Delhi, and her commitment to showing Indian artists on the global stage
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Rachel Whiteread on her publicity-hungry peers, plus the rest of the week’s art world tittle-tattle
Paula Rego shares her secrets with her son
The artist discusses love, depression, abortion and infidelity in a new documentary directed by her son
Glasgow must not forget its greatest architect
In his bicentenary year, the Scottish architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson should be getting more attention
Meret Oppenheim – an outsider interested in the outsides of things
Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim’s objects – she referred to them as ‘things’ – are still deeply unsettling, drawing you into their worlds and their logic
In the kitchen with Leonora Carrington
What it was like to meet the Surrealist artist in Mexico
The art world must do more to support experts
Now is the moment for those who lament the passing of connoisseurship to work together to encourage its revival
Culture wars in Bosnia
The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina is a powerful symbol of the tensions that persist in Bosnia more than 20 years after the end of the war
Is Documenta exploiting the economic crisis in Athens?
This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?
Mondrian gets his moment
The Gemeentemuseum has the largest collection of Mondrian’s works in the world – no wonder that it’s at the centre of the centenary celebrations of De Stijl this year
Picasso’s printmakers step into the spotlight
The Crommelynck brothers worked with the greatest artists of the 20th century to produce extraordinary prints, some of which will soon come to auction
Shia LaBeouf waves the white flag (again)
The actor relocated his anti-Trump installation to Liverpool this week only to be hoisted by hooligans once more
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Jesus’s tomb has been restored in Jerusalem
One of the holiest sites in Christianity has reopened in time for Easter