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A closer look at Ingres’ impossible ideals
Oddities and masterpieces abound in Spain’s first exhibition devoted to the French artist
London has served up the diet version of Delacroix
Has the National Gallery made Delacroix a bit…dull? Can a B-movie really be classed as art? And why is Barry Flanagan only famous for his hares?
Contemporary wounds at the heart of TEFAF
The curator of ‘Show your Wound’ discusses his thorny choice of subject and changing ideas
Creative Scotland’s journey to the undertaker
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
What’s the point of rebuilding Germany’s palaces?
The construction of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum on the site of the former Stadtschloss raises challenging questions
What to see in Maastricht and beyond
The best events and exhibitions staged to coincide with the fair
Smart art that will make you reconsider your smartphone
Art inspired by science can be hit and miss. But here’s an artist who really gets its beauty and complexity
The Rotterdam museum that collects collectors
The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is to store private collections – which is just the sort of collaboration the museum has always thrived on
Sir Anish Kapoor toys with the dark arts
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
Thomas Heatherwick himself turned up wearing a jacket embroidered with leaves and foliage
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
The modern mysteries of Michaël Borremans
The Belgian painter reveres the Old Masters but is ‘ashamed’ by the state of figurative painting today
The brightly painted books that outshine Botticelli
An exhibition at the Courtauld proves few things are more tantalising than a beautiful manuscript under glass
Do we need a museum dedicated to the Olsen twins? Er, no.
A Kickstarter campaign to launch an Olsen twins museum has Rakewell reaching for his absinthe bottle
Listen up, Chancellor: we must not allow the Gillows collection to be mothballed
The Judges’ Lodgings Museum in Lancaster is threatened with imminent closure. It should be a source of not only civic but national pride
It makes perfect sense for Iggy Pop to be the subject of a life class...his body has witnessed much and should be documented
A lust for life drawing (or, Iggy Pop takes his clothes off, again)
Iggy Pop has been getting his kit off (again), in the name of art
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Museums must engage in the Brexit debate – whether they like it or not
There is more than you might think at stake for arts and culture in this referendum