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With his cryptic clusters of images, Aby Warburg remapped the art of the past
Warburg brought together Greek gods and golfers, antiquities and airships – and in reconstruction, his puzzling arrangements of images are as suggestive as ever
Acquisitions of the month: January 2021
One of Mary Cassatt’s sensitive portraits of childhood is among this month’s highlights – along with the Trump Baby blimp
Are Goya’s Black Paintings really the work of a madman?
A new biography of Goya puts paid to the romantic fiction that the Spanish master ended his days isolated and insane
The week in art news – far-right French mayor reopens museums in defiance of Covid shutdown
Plus: Getty Trust launches $38.5m LA arts recovery fund | Neal Benezra to depart as head of SFMoMA | Mayor of London names members of diversity commission | CEO of Royal British Columbia Museum resigns after racism inquiry
Will this Renaissance boy be the next big thing at auction?
After the Botticelli, another great Florentine portrait looks set to fetch millions – but it hasn’t always been so highly valued
From the Apollo archives – Gavin Stamp on the sorry saga of Edinburgh’s Royal High School
As the future of one of Edinburgh’s greatest buildings hangs in the balance, we republish Gavin Stamp’s call from 2015 to preserve its architectural integrity
The fantastically fishy business of the Raphael Cartoons
Did Raphael know a bream from a sardine? Tessa Murdoch consults her fishmonger
What happens when you hang a painting upside down?
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
From Serena Williams to John McEnroe, the tennis stars with ace collections
Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world
Why is the Louvre auctioning off its hedges?
It’s your chance to own part of the Louvre – and spruce up your backyard with plants of impeccable provenance
The best of Keith Floyd, dished up on canvas
The colourful TV chef Keith Floyd makes an unlikely subject for fine art – but for the painter Lydia Blakeley, he has all the right ingredients
The unruly life of museum postcards
We’re all building miniature museums at home, and postcards of paintings have taken on a life of their own
The British artists who saw a world on their doorsteps
Landscape painting went local in 19th-century Britain, writes Susan Owens, as artists celebrated the miniature marvels they found close to home
Antony Gormley gets crafty
The sculptor is urging us to get creative in lockdown – and even better, he’s been channelling the late, great Tony Hart on live TV
The week in art news – US Supreme Court rules for Germany in Guelph Treasure case
Plus: Germany announces a second €1bn bailout for culture | Dutch government agrees to return all stolen objects to former colonies | and French museums press for reopening
How to gain access to the Beatles (sort of)
The original foyer doors of Abbey Road Studios are up for auction – which isn’t quite the same as owning the zebra crossing, but still
Seven fiendish art jigsaws that will see you through lockdown
Thousands of paintings have been snipped up into jigsaws – but some are infinitely more puzzling than others
A famously private Roman collection finally gets a public outing
The Torlonia marbles make for the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in existence – and they’re finally on view to the public
The British government thinks archaeology doesn’t matter. It couldn’t be more wrong
Funding for archaeology has been slashed by the UK government – and it’s a moronic mistake
Has a piece of Henry VIII’s lost crown been buried in the Midlands for 400 years?
Late medieval gold is vanishingly rare, so a metal detectorist’s discovery may be a truly spectacular find
Meet the artists who were built by a bot factory
Andrei Taraschuk wants to inundate the internet with art – and has made hundreds of bots posing as famous artists
Tigray’s people and their heritage urgently need protecting
Reports of atrocities in the Ethiopian region include the targeting of Tigray’s unparallelled cultural treasures
With no limit to his curiosity, David Medalla brought a truly global outlook to 1960s London
From his sitting room in west London, the Manila-born artist created a vital space for avant-garde artists and writers
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