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Who will make a killing from Messi’s contract?
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
Georg Baselitz turns the world on its head
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
The real deal – Jacques Lacan and the art of psychoanalysis
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Licence to Rome – how the Dutch got a taste for the Italian capital
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
‘The work of a lifetime’ – Interwar by Gavin Stamp, reviewed
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
What Liz Truss could learn from the Bank of England
The out-lettuced PM has little time for culture in her memoir-cum-manifesto – unlike her Establishment enemy, the Bank of England
Jef Verheyen’s brush with the infinite
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
The basic instincts of Benjamin Franklin
The founding father who was careful to cultivate his public image is played with gusto by Michael Douglas in a new TV biopic
Why are fathers so absent from art history?
Artists over the centuries have often depicted women as mothers, but where are all the deadbeat dads?
The unstable bodies of Gabriella Boyd
For the Scottish painter, the line between figures and their surroundings can be intriguingly blurry
How Compton Verney stays ahead of the flock
Now 20 years old, the country house museum in Warwickshire has developed a distinctive approach to collecting – and it’s paying off handsomely
Museums should do more to cater for autistic people
Immersive and interactive exhibitions can be uncomfortable for neurodivergent visitors, but if galleries made more of an effort, everyone would benefit
The Royal Academy reframes its past
The institution’s unravelling of its involvement with empire is very welcome, but has ‘Entangled Pasts’ bitten off more than one exhibition can chew?
James Cameron’s titanic bid to save the oceans
Can four high-priced works of art help conserve marine life? The Canadian film-maker certainly thinks so
The week in art news – Marlborough Gallery to close after nearly 80 years
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024
A Poussin Last Supper and a rare oil painting by Remedios Varo are among the most exciting works to have entered public collections over the last month
The dreamlike visions of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman
Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic
A gallerist with an eye for art and the desire to make a scene
Betty Sims-Hilditch explains how a background in set design and a commitment to emerging artists inform her new roaming gallery project, Artground
Who’s afraid of immersive art?
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
How Stanley Kubrick did it his way
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
The problem with Paul Gauguin
There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn’t excuse his behaviour
Richard Serra, man of steel (1938–2024)
The sculptor saw possibilities in steel that no one else had before, creating works that altered viewers’ perception of space
The beautiful but deadly world of Edward Burtynsky
In documenting the damage humans have done to the planet, the photographer has created a disturbingly thrilling record of environmental disaster
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Has the Fitzwilliam still got the hang of things?
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking