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Mass nudity and a decoy magician
How Spencer Tunick turned public nakedness into art – while avoiding the police
Emery Walker’s house is an Arts and Crafts utopia
This remarkable house in Hammersmith is a vivid museum of late Victorian cultural life
The Voynich Manuscript is a book you’re not meant to read
Despite Yale’s new facsimile edition, this 15th-century manuscript happily remains as indecipherable as ever
Do UK museums take photography seriously?
The transfer of the Royal Photographic Society’s collection from Bradford to London raises questions about the past, present and future of photography in museums
The genius of Camille Claudel
With the opening of a dedicated museum, the artist’s achievements can finally be seen outside her relationship with Rodin
The forgotten father of Abstract Expressionism
His ‘white writing’ style helped shape the course of modern painting, so why isn’t Mark Tobey better known?
When artists fall through the cracks of history
Was it concrete or Communism that caused modernist sculptor Peter Laszlo Peri’s slide into obscurity?
Dismantling America’s monuments to white supremacy
Four Confederate monuments are to be removed from the streets of New Orleans, but their painful legacy endures
The ‘living lines’ of Paule Vézelay
She was well known in the surrealist circles of the 20th century, but Vézelay’s work has been all but forgotten since
‘Phyllida Barlow’s work has a spine-tingling force’
Entering the British Pavilion at Venice will feel like an Alice in Wonderland experience
Ed Sheeran has a Van Gogh moment
A portrait of the singer-songwriter has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London
When artists take on the art market
Many artists are uncomfortable about the perceived excesses of the market. But can they actually do anything about it?
Early maiolica has it all – even humour
These supposedly ‘primitive’ ceramics from late medieval and early Renaissance Italy are fresh, inventive and fun
Why this fearless girl should stand her ground
New York’s famous ‘Charging Bull’ statue has company – and despite all the controversy, the new arrival has every right to be there
Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s fraught but fertile friendship
An ambitious exhibition at the National Gallery traces the productive overlaps between these two Renaissance masters
Fifty years of The Velvet Underground
It tanked in 1967, but the band’s debut album, produced by Andy Warhol, was still the best pop cultural achievement of its decade
More can be less when it comes to Eduardo Paolozzi
Paolozzi’s 1950s work is astonishing, but a full retrospective draws too much attention to his duller later work
‘A good business, like a family, needs a myth’
For 300 years, the Plantin-Moretus family in Antwerp ran one of Europe’s most important printing presses
What the Minotaur can tell us about Picasso
An exhibition documenting Picasso’s obsession with minotaurs and matadors is a curatorial triumph
French culture: a presidential battleground
Where do the two remaining French presidential candidates stand on culture?
Eric Gill’s fall from grace
Revelations about the artist’s personal life have encouraged a reassessment of his work
Collecting historic firearms in the 21st century
Where is the line between antique firearms suitable for inclusion in historic collections, and weapons requiring a licence?
How UK institutions are benefitting from a quiet tax break
Many acquisitions at UK museums are made possible by a tax break that benefits both buyer and seller
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