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Benedict Drew’s new film gives form to the anxiety of modern life
Currently on view at the Science Gallery London, The Bad Feel Loops is a nervous, nerve-wracking piece of work
Cornering the maquette – the Swedish museum dedicated to works in progress
Founded in 1934 in Lund, southern Sweden, the Skissernas Museum of sketches, models and preparatory work offers a valuable insight into artistic projects – including those never made
Cairene conversions – the adopted identities of John Frederick Lewis
The Victorian painter certainly had a penchant for play-acting, but his depictions of Egypt remain something of an enigma
A filched finch that never really takes flight – The Goldfinch, reviewed
The film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel is visually enticing but unwieldy
Aux armes, citoyens! The new Musée de la Libération in Paris
A museum charting the dramatic history of the French Resistance and the Liberation of Paris has an elegant and historic new home in Montparnasse
‘I liked the idea of bringing sharp objects into a library’ – an interview with Sean Lynch
The artist discusses the allure of the 19th-century forger Flint Jack – who fooled museums and collectors with his brand-new prehistoric artefacts
The Danish artists who struck gold in the depths of disaster
Denmark was beset by catastrophes in the early 19th century – but its painters flourished
Within a hare’s breadth of Dürer’s masterful drawings at the Albertina
A Dürer show at the Albertina presents a rare opportunity to see some of the German artist’s drawings usually kept caged up in the dark
The East Asian and Nordic artists who found common ground
The West’s borrowings from Japanese modernism are well known – but an exhibition in Helsinki shows that the traffic moved both ways
‘The spectator should disappear into the works’ – an interview with Peter Suschitzky
The cinematographer discusses his lighting design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s upcoming Rembrandt exhibition
What are museums really for?
The perceived role of museums in society has grown enormously in recent years – but how far does that reflect what they actually are?
Luxury in exile – at Napoleon’s country villa on Elba
The Mediterranean island still bears the mark of its most famous one-time resident
How Jean Dubuffet brought outsider artists into the museum
The French artist is still the guiding spirit of the Collection de l’Art Brut, the museum he founded in Lausanne
‘A very Rothschild type of display’ – Waddesdon’s new gallery, reviewed
The new permanent gallery presents all kinds of exquisite pieces with special family associations
‘An important work by Titian has been hiding in plain sight’
A lost portrait of the 16th-century writer Pietro Aretino may have been at the Kunstmuseum Basel for the last hundred years
South Africa’s most established art fair has undergone a rapid rebirth
A sophisticated revamp means that Art Joburg is now a smaller, sleeker affair
The scientific revolution gets the royal treatment
The Science Museum’s new gallery makes subtle links between royal patronage, scientific progress and earthly conquest
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry should be a working factory, not a boutique hotel
Why is Historic England supporting a developer’s plans when there’s a better proposal waiting in the wings?
Polar bare – how climate change is destroying archaeologically rich sites in the Arctic
Thawing permafrost means the near-perfect preservation of ancient material in the Arctic will soon be a thing of the past
Florence’s art and antiques fair returns to its roots
Exceptional Italian artworks should prove a big draw at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence
A tour of Titania’s Palace
The fairy-tale doll’s house, now at Egeskov Castle in Denmark, still has the power to beguile with its miniature marvels and deceptions
Battle lines – the tortured genius of Antoine-Jean Gros
An exhibition of drawings at the Louvre reflects the artist’s struggle between his warring inclinations
The closure of Nerve Visual in Derry is a real loss for the region
The building that once played host to the Turner Prize now stands empty. Where does this news leave Derry?
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