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Has Jeff Koons earned his place in art history?
With his Gazing Balls, Koons has created a body of work that appeals to the brain as well as the eyes
Painting through the night with Tom Hammick
‘Towards Night’ at the Towner brings together over 60 artists, but the story it tells is Hammick’s alone
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Educating the young ’uns at Frieze; art criticism from Donald Trump; Grayson Perry’s favourite hatchet jobs; and Middlesbrough’s #Squirrelgate
Rethinking Iraq’s past – and its future – at the Basrah Museum
One of Saddam Hussein’s crumbling former palaces has been transformed into a state of the art display space for Iraqi antiquities
‘The biggest single bunch of eccentrics in Europe’. Celebrating a century of SOAS
London’s School of Oriental and African Studies has taught scholars, spies and Hollywood stars
How Georgia O’Keeffe transformed the American landscape
Georgia O’Keeffe’s commitment to what she called ‘the Great American Thing’ inspired her engagement with place
Is it worse in Europe? A look at art and inequality with the Guerrilla Girls
The anonymous activists on sexual and racial discrimination, Donald Trump, and why it’s actually better in Poland
Anthea Hamilton’s journey through Kettle’s Yard
The Turner-prize nominated artist talks to Apollo about Surrealism, what she learned from Jim Ede, and being part of a legacy
Seeing the sea through the eyes of British artists
‘Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting’ at the Yale Center for British Art is a voyage of discovery
The Rake’s progress: Frieze special
Jeff Koons goes shopping, plus other Frieze week art happenings and ironic after-parties
Capability Brown’s landscapes were designed to be a snob’s paradise
‘A major part of the appeal of his landscapes was that they were out of reach of the nouveau riche’
Orlando Furioso’s imaginative universe 500 years later
An exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of Ariosto’s epic Italian poem is as rich as the book itself
London’s new landmark is a triumph of engineering
Conrad Shawcross’s ‘Optic Cloak’ in Greenwich is sympathetic to both its natural and social context. Can the wider redevelopment of the area follow suit?
Acquisitions of the month: September 2016
September sees multiple new additions to museum collections, including the Getty’s record-breaking purchase of a Roman cabinet once owned by a Pope and a King
Virginia Dwan emerges as the star of the NGA’s new galleries
The National Gallery has opened its revamped East Building with a celebration of the woman who put some of the USA’s most influential contemporary artists on the map
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The latest from Snoop Dogg’s painting career; plus Tate’s buttocks are too sensitive for Twitter
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The Great Exhibition of the North is welcome – but let’s not forget the bigger picture
I’m looking forward to a moment when there isn’t the perception of a centre and a margin, of north and south