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Liverpool Biennial
The 12th edition of the event tackles the city’s complicated colonial histories
Capturing the Moment
The Tate Modern considers how photography and painting have spurred each other to new heights
Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and Understanding
The Louisiana traces the evolution of the Icelandic artist’s career
Tinder for Tudors, and other Renaissance mating rituals
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
Acquisitions of the Month: May 2023
The most expensive manuscript to ever be sold at auction and an impressive collection of Dutch Mannerist prints are among this month’s highlights
Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth
The painter of fear and loathing was also a keen observer of the natural world
Four things to see: minimalism
From Keith Sonnier in Florida to Richard Serra in London, we have put together a list of minimalist masterpieces to see this week
How the wild things are
The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history
Do craft objects need a purpose?
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
‘Every prince in Europe would have coveted a goblet like this’
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
When Marilyn Monroe met Richard Avedon
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
Berthe Morisot, always in the moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
Hug a Henry Moore!
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
The golden age of English furniture
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
Ripe histories – winemaking in Lebanon
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
Who really wants to buy video art?
Video art makes the running in the art world – but commercially, it has some catching up to do
The early modern artists who tried to study abroad
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
Show trial – James Ensor’s macabre courtroom drama
The novelist Louise Welsh is spooked by the Belgian artist’s menacing ‘Great Judge’
How to rebuild a Central European city
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
The week in art news – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to retire
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Moki Cherry: Here and Now
The Swedish artist’s wide-ranging practice included tapestry, costume design, painting, film and sculpture
Gods, Heroes and Traitors: The History Image around 1800
The Albertina Museum considers how painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Henry Fuseli sought to measure themselves against the ancient past
Naples in Paris
The Louvre makes room for 60 Italian masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte
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