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‘I have always set off in new directions’ – an interview with Leiko Ikemura
The Japanese-Swiss artist talks about her work across drawing, painting and ceramics – currently on view in Basel
Should Notre-Dame be reconstructed faithfully?
Paul Binski and Douglas Murphy weigh in on the debate over how Paris’s great cathedral should be rebuilt post-fire
How Victorian London inspired Vincent Van Gogh
The Tate explores how the painter’s eyes were opened to new influences during his time in the city
‘I think of my sculptures as toys’ – an interview with Enrico David
The London-based artist discusses the darker side of play – and offers insight into his enigmatic sculptures
Unearthing the secrets of the Anglo-Saxon world
Paganism and Christianity are intertwined in the hoard of rare artefacts found in a princely burial site in Essex
Funny and unflinching – Eleanor Antin bares all at LACMA
The now-octogenarian artist has revisited her most famous work – and it only gets better with age
Munch’s prints are obsessive and repetitive – but a revelation all the same
He took to the medium with great speed, producing works that display a rich debt to the Old Masters
Canes, corsets and peacock feathers – ‘Boldini and Fashion’ reviewed
The Ferrarese painter spent his career capturing the whims of fashion – but the results are far from superficial
How Parisian graffiti made its mark on modern art
Brassaï’s eerie photographs of the city’s walls inspired painters including Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tapiès and Cy Twombly
Walter Gropius: the man who built the Bauhaus
Fiona MacCarthy’s biography suggests that the architect’s greatest achievement may have been to assemble so much talent in one place
The painter who made his name on the Western Front
Alfred Munnings was an official war artist who took a curiously pastoral approach to the conflict
The most influential and most detested architect of the modern age
Philip Johnson was not the most talented modern American architect, but he was certainly the most important
Politics, performance and porcelain – at the Venice Biennale and beyond
Themes of exile and migration thread their way through the works in the main exhibition, national pavilions, and elsewhere
Lavish tapestries and pious paintings – Bernard van Orley weaves his magic in Brussels
The Flemish master, whose workshop was one of the busiest in 16th-century Brussels, gets his first major survey in the city of his birth
Flowers, hyenas and haunted hotels – the surreal world of Dorothea Tanning
The Tate’s survey of Tanning’s long career testifies to her lifelong commitment to Surrealism
Acquisitions of the month: April 2019
Paintings, prints and a vast video panorama – the best works of art to enter public collections recently
Behind the curtain – it’s time William Larkin finally got his due
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the great English court painter, long known only as the ‘Curtain Master’
The legacy of Alberto Burri burns bright – at home in Umbria, and in Venice
Some 50 works by the enigmatic artist have travelled from his hometown to Venice this summer
David Salle puts a new spin on history painting
The painter’s witty and deceptively effortless works combine high and low culture to enjoyable effect
Venice in furs – an Inuit collective at the Biennale
The Isuma collective’s new film draws on the history of coerced relocation of Inuit communities in Canada
Stepping back in time at Palazzo Grimani in Venice
Returning the Grimani sculpture collection to its dramatic 16th-century setting feels like a dream, says Toto Bergamo Rossi
Bowled over – the painted pots of the ancient Mimbres people
Around a thousand years ago in the American Southwest, a highly sophisticated ceramic tradition emerged
What not to miss at the 58th Venice Biennale
From Ralph Rugoff’s main exhibition to the 35 national pavilions, there’s lots to see – so here are the expected highlights
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