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Gun sculpture silenced in trigger-happy Texas
A university museum in Houston has removed a revolver from an artwork critical of Texan gun culture – and Rakewell is baffled by the decision
SFMOMA reopens at the heart of San Francisco’s booming art scene
With 3,000 new works, a major extension, and an ingenious way of working with collectors, SFMOMA is becoming a modern art museum to rival all others
Selfies, sexuality and self-parody: when artists perform for the camera
Artists recognised the power of the staged image long before Instagram came along
Megan Piper and the young gallerists making their mark on London
The contemporary art gallerist’s alliance with an antiques dealer epitomises the changing art world
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The high-school pottery that fooled an antiques expert, Darth Vader hits the museums, and an artist who has removed his nipples in, erm, the name of art
Marisol Escobar: 1930–2016
Marisol’s powerful, Pop-inspired sculptures deserve to be far better known, particularly outside the US
The Endeavour won’t tell us anything new about Cook’s voyage, but that’s not the point
The ship that took Captain Cook around the world ended up as the ‘Lord Sandwich’ at the bottom of Newport Harbour
Howard Hodgkin’s paintings get better and better
How strange that this great British painter claims to ‘hate painting’ when he is so good at it
Women printmakers make a good impression in New York
Was there a distinctly ‘female’ printmaking in this period? Not really – but that’s what’s so interesting
Acquisitions of the Month: April 2016
The National Portrait Gallery and Pallant House both benefit from the acceptance in lieu scheme, while LACMA gets an impressive new haul
‘It is what it is.’ Dan Flavin’s iconic light fittings in the Ikon Gallery
Flavin’s fluorescent light pieces continue to transform the spaces in which they are installed. But time is changing how we see the pieces, too
Manuele Cerutti and the fine art of balancing
The everyday objects in Cerutti’s Turin studio are transformed in his paintings: poised, precarious, and forever in suspense
There’s more to Leicester than football…
What else is going on in the home of the famous Foxes? Culturally, there’s a lot to see
Roman Britain when you least expect it
Who’d have thought that a barn conversion could lead to one of the most important Roman discoveries in Britain?
Why the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s stolen art may never be found
Unfortunately, some stolen works are simply too famous to sell, and too dangerous to keep
FBI conduct raid in connection with Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
Art News Daily : 3 May
We should all get behind the #Unite4Heritage campaign
Heritage groups around the world need to harness social media to spread their message. This campaign makes that much easier