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Pompeo Batoni didn’t just paint aristocrats abroad
The most prestigious portrait painter in 18th-century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects
The timeless modernity of a forgotten Danish painter
C.W. Eckersberg’s 19th-century paintings are barely known outside Denmark and Germany, but they should be…
The submerged city that turns out to be, erm, a load of guff
Archaeologists inform a Greek hotel owner that he has not in fact discovered an Atlantean wonder off a Greek island
Peggy Guggenheim steals the show in Florence
A show about the Guggenheim’s art collections is really about the battle between Peggy and Solomon
The fall and rise of the second school of Paris
This loose group of European artists lost out to the American Abstract Expressionists in the 1960s. But are we seeing a revival of interest?
The work of Mona Hatoum bristles with a bodily charge
This large exhibition provides an opportunity to engage with the physical effects of Hatoum’s work
Louvre remains closed, while hundreds of works are damaged at the Musée Girodet
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Sonic spheres and ‘phallic variations’ at Art Basel
Who said art fairs prefer ‘safer’ pieces? What to expect from Art Basel…
Dreams caught on camera in New York
‘Dream States’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a thought-provoking exhibition, and a great survey of some of the most influential modern photographers
Five photography shows to see in New York this week
There are some great, focused shows open at the moment, from office-block abstraction to a difficult look at the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
An unsightly selfie statue, Lego gets taken to pieces, and trouble at the Jack the Ripper Museum
A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls
Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.
International auction houses keep faith in Hong Kong
Anna Brady on Hong Kong sales, plus a round-up of the top art market headlines
Committed to memory: the art of Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo makes monuments to the victims of political violence – out of chairs, sewing needles, and rose petals.
Edward Barber’s preventative photography
Edward Barber’s photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum
What not to miss during London’s summer art season
Masterpiece London, Art Antiques London, London Art Week, and the Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia all return to the capital this year
Cavorting amid the ruins with Hubert Robert
The French artist’s obsessive portrayal of antiquity reveals his endless variety
The leading Lot at Christie’s this summer
Rubens’s epic painting of Lot and his Daughters treats a morally ambiguous subject with great artistic subtlety. It’s bound to do well at auction
The Sobey Art Award shortlist has been announced
Five artists are in the running for Canada’s prestigious contemporary art prize
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