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The sculptor who saw infinite possibilities in a line
After fleeing Nazi Germany for Venezuela, Gego made intricately-woven works from industrial materials
Under the influence – can social media stars also be market makers?
Cause and effect is hard to pin down, but a certain type of celebrity association does seem to affect the value of a work of art
The art of being Barbra
Barbra Streisand’s doorstopper of a memoir suggests that the real love of the star’s life is the painter Modigliani
The week in art news – entire Documenta selection committee resigns
Plus: Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko jailed for seven years for anti-war protest, Joe Tilson (1928–2023), and B.N. Goswamy (1933–2023)
Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here?
The Scottish painter’s first exhibition in a public gallery brings together 38 new and recent works
The Irreplaceable Human
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art considers the role of the artist in the age of artificial intelligence
Botticelli Drawings
In San Francisco the Legion of Honor pairs the painter’s masterpieces with their preparatory sketches
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
Working on paper allowed artists to capture life on the move and as it was lived
Four things to see: the Elizabethan era
The British monarch was no patron of the arts, but the political upheaval of her reign inspired many writers and artists
How to do things with words – and make art at the same time
At the Henry Moore Institute, artists and poets are hanging on to language for all they’ve got, finding meaning in the spaces between writing and objects
The city of Nantes has really pushed out the boat for culture
Ambitious arts programming has transformed the fortunes of the French city since it experienced tough times in the 1980s
The cosmic fantasies of Remedios Varo
The Spanish-born Surrealist had a strong sense of order and a desire to remake the universe
Hockney gets personal at the National Portrait Gallery
The artist has turned his attention to the same five sitters time and again across his 60-year career, to touching effect
Joe Tilson (1928–2023)
In 2018, the British artist looked back with Martin Gayford on Pop art, politics and leaving London for a life in the country
The week in art news – climate activists attack Velázquez painting at the National Gallery
Plus: director of Hungarian National Museum sacked, Odesa museum damaged by Russian missile strike, and the rest of the week’s top stories
When it comes to culture, the UK has lost the plot – and found Nadine Dorries
Rakewell is delighted to discover that the former culture minister’s memoir contains more than one vague musing about the art of Downing Street
Africa & Byzantium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the artistic achievements of Africa in the Middle Ages through some 200 objects
Horace Vernet
The Palace of Versailles displays its impressive collection of paintings by the French painter
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
The Brooklyn Museum examines the medium’s relationship to subcultures and avant-garde practices
Holbein at the Tudor Court
The German artist enjoyed a privileged position as the King’s Painter to Henry VIII
In the studio with… Es Devlin
The multidisciplinary artist begins her work in bed each morning and spends her afternoons cycling to meetings, equipped with two large saddlebags
Lost in fantasy at the British Library
This impressive exhibition takes us through the very long history of a literary genre, but overlooks the part played by artists and illustrators
Four things to see: the Cold War
Artists of the period found inventive ways of responding to and confronting an atmosphere of fear and oppression
Nicole Eisenman tries to make sense of America
The artist’s smutty and satirical work wittily exposes the harsh realities of the recent past
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