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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
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
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
Beatriz Milhazes brings a touch of Brazil to Margate
The artist’s colourful paintings have transformed Turner Contemporary inside and out
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
The Jewish footballers who left everything out on the field
An exhibition in Vienna tackles the involvement of Jewish players in some of Europe’s oldest clubs – and how those clubs acknowledge this history
The eye-popping posters that promoted Egyptian films
The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination
Four things to see: The art of exploration
On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation
The return of the retro ice-cream van
The vintage trucks in London’s parks provide soft serve with an outsize dollop of nostalgia – and do it in style
Can Helsinki’s modern architecture grow old gracefully?
Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy
A night to remember at the Eiffel Tower
It has been a monumental week for Paris’s leading tourist attraction. Let us hope recent events have distracted La Dame de Fer from an unhappy matter of the heart
The case for and against Werner Herzog
The Eye Filmmuseum highlights the madness of the director’s methods and how beautiful the finished films are – and leaves us to make up our own minds about it all
Four things to see: The power of the witch
How tales of witchcraft have spellbound artists and makers for centuries
How to manage a museum
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
The gilded pages of Evelyn De Morgan
At Leighton House, intricate gold drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist reveal her great debt to Italian sources
Michael Rakowitz puts down roots on Tyneside
The Iraqi-American artist has been working with migrant communities in the north-east to create a garden and greenhouse at the Baltic Centre
Full of make-believe and making do: the art of Andrew Cranston
The Scottish painter who has long treated book covers as blank canvases is now also working on a much bigger scale
The painters who have made the most of poor visibility
As a book about mist and fog in European painting shows, artists have often taken a very hazy view of the landscape
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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?