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In the studio with… Ranjani Shettar
The Indian sculptor lives and works in a remote rural village where she has to contend with regular power cuts and monsoon downpours
Parcours des Mondes takes a truly global approach
This year’s edition of the event in Paris includes more dealers from more countries and offers an astonishing range of artefacts
‘There’s no denying the power of this museum to move’
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is as powerful as you would expect, but the Hiroshima Museum of Art may catch you unawares
Are museums realising that the best things happen after dark?
Rakewell applauds the ICA London’s revolutionary new opening hours
Mark Jones to be appointed interim director of crisis-hit British Museum
Plus: British Museum appoints new acting deputy director amid scandal; Christie’s cancels further sales from the collection of Heidi Horten, and the rest of the week’s art news
Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome
The 17th-century painter developed a reputation for creating drama on and off the canvas
The most spectacular floor in Italy
With its combination of visual splendour and complex allegory, the marble pavement of Siena Cathedral is one of the most enticing of all Renaissance masterpieces
Will art bring life back to the office?
By brightening up corporate spaces, employers are trying to tempt remote workers back to business as usual
Four things to see: the patrons who transformed the arts
From Scipione Borghese to Peggy Guggenheim, collectors have long supported the careers of the world’s most influential artists
How a leopard stool from Cameroon got its spots
This beaded seat represents the might of a monarch – and his global reach, says Kristen Windmuller-Luna of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
The Fitzwilliam Museum takes a critical eye to its colonial past through a wide-ranging exploration of the slave trade
Acquisitions of the Month: August 2023
The Green Vault in Dresden has received a baroque chess set for its 300th birthday, plus the rest of the most important items to enter public collections
Ed Ruscha / Now Then
The Museum of Modern Art reveals how the all-American painter captured the spirit of the post-war era
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
The Cleveland Museum of Art journeys through the art of the southern province of Jianghan
Beatriz Milhazes brings a touch of Brazil to Margate
The artist’s colourful paintings have transformed Turner Contemporary inside and out
Who do museums want to appeal to?
When institutions try to offer something to everyone do they risk spreading themselves too thin?
Can painting ever bear the weight of grief?
Gwen John and the contemporary artist Matthew Krishanu found comfort in a shared composition
Making great panes for the Gilded Age
When it came to designing stained-glass windows, Henry Holiday was more than a match for his friend Edward Burne-Jones
The drinks are on Theaster Gates at LUMA Arles
A convivial collaboration between the American artist and a saké brewery is refreshing stuff
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs gets more modern
Under its new director Christine Macel, the historic museum full of masterpieces of French design is entering a brand new era
The invention of Frenchness
The national museum of immigration has a new mission – but it’s still housed in a building haunted by France’s colonial ghosts
The Norman conquest of the European imagination
It’s hard to say who, exactly, the Normans were – but even harder to make them out as a model migrants and proto-Europeans as a string of recent exhibitions has tried to do
The painters who made a great play for the stage
An understanding of theatrical culture in the 18th century is vital for understanding the most important painters of the period
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Who should fix the crisis at the British Museum?
The theft of 2,000 items is a scandal that points to wider failures of leadership and oversight. So can the museum right what has gone wrong by itself?