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For the real Tokyo story, look beyond kooky stereotypes of the city
An ambitious show at the Ashmolean Museum looks past the familiar clichés to the real city and its artists
All aboard – the transporting art of Jack B. Yeats
Although grounded in actual places and actual people, the artist’s subjects were always utterly transformed by his imagination, writes Tom Walker
The week in art news – Spanish government finally approves funds for Prado expansion
Plus: Danish museum and artist in dispute over two blank canvases; and more stories
Spinning yarns with Sheila Hicks
The acclaimed textile artist, a maestro of colour and master manipulator of thread, explains why it’s more interesting to make mistakes
This year’s Turner Prize nominees are all doing valuable work – but why compare them?
The shortlisted collectives are more interested in what takes place outside the museum – so considering them for an art prize seems besides the point
Britain’s oldest botanical garden goes back to its roots
Oxford Botanic Garden has played a vital role in the evolution of plant science since it was founded 400 years ago
In the studio with… Michael Craig-Martin
The conceptual artist is careful about who he invites to the studio, but counts George Michael as one of his most interesting visitors
Has a long-lost Artemisia finally come to light?
Painted in around 1625, the Penitent Mary Magdalene inspired a host of copies before disappearing. Now, it has resurfaced in a private collection
Sole survivors – how to draw your way out of heartbreak
Some unusual relationship advice has recently caught Rakewell’s eye. Next time you’re nursing a broken heart, why not try drawing your shoe?
The uncanny universe of Leiko Ikemura
The Japanese-Swiss artist’s first exhibition in the UK introduces her eerie, fantastical world to a new audience
Paris Hilton takes a leaf out of Jane Austen’s recipe book
The venerable tradition of copying out recipes in household books lives on in the most unexpected places
‘A kind of high-minded amusement park’ – at Frank Gehry’s Luma Arles
Will the glittering new arts complex bring about a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the southern French city?
When Miriam Margolyes met Augustus John
The actor offered her services as a life model to the painter when she was 19. One can only wonder that she got away so lightly
The week in art news – Firstsite wins Artfund Museum of the Year award
Plus: John Booth appointed chair of the National Gallery in London and more stories
A sentimental education – the sisters who learnt to paint with the Pre-Raphaelites
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown studied with their father and had close connections to the Pre-Raphaelites – but their achievements have been overlooked until now
Art Basel is back in town – here’s what not to miss at the fair
Say it quietly, but this year’s edition of the contemporary art fair is shaping up to look refreshingly normal
The Candyman is back – and this time he’s haunting the art world
The Chicago art scene turns out to be a suitably chilling setting for Nia DaCosta’s sequel to the cult horror film
‘Jazz to me is like oxygen’ – an interview with Sam Nhlengethwa
The South African painter and collage artist discusses his enduring passion for jazz music
In the studio with… Elizabeth Neel
The painter can’t listen to music when she works because she can’t get the songs out of her head – so it’s baseball on the radio instead
The artist searching for traces of the Tunisian revolution
Frustrated that memories of more hopeful times are fading, the artist Intissar Belaid is determined to preserve what she can
Wong Kar-Wai gets nostalgic
The director’s sale of unseen footage from ‘In the Mood for Love’ reminds us that the Hong Kong of his films is fast disappearing
The Romantics who revolutionised how we think about the past
Rosemary Hill’s nimble survey shows how 19th-century antiquarians paved the way for modern historians
The mystery of the real-life Maltese Falcon
The film noir starring Humphrey Bogart is back in cinemas – but the confusion over what happened to the statuettes of the falcon remains to be cleared up
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