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Lagoon (2015–17), Nick Goss.

Flooded streets and cars at sea – the watery world of Nick Goss

Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist

5 Apr 2019
View of The Shed, from Hudson Yards.

A barnstorming debut for the Shed

The new arrival at Hudson Yards unites the performing and visual arts under one $500m roof

5 Apr 2019
Inside the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul.

Church, mosque and museum – the Hagia Sophia could be all things to all people

The status of the Byzantine church turned mosque turned museum shows no sign of being settled – but perhaps it shouldn’t be

4 Apr 2019
The Venice Installation: The Last Room , showing texts from several series (detail; 1990), Jenny Holzer.

Adios to the monoglot museum

For all the limitations of translation, it’s good to see artists and museums trying to cross language barriers

2 Apr 2019
After the Bath (2006)

‘Wry humour and a clarity that belied her years’ – remembering Rose Hilton

The late British painter was influenced by Bonnard and Matisse – and had to hide her work from her artist husband, Roger

2 Apr 2019
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation (detail; 1980), Robert Mapplethorpe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Seeing past the shock value of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs

The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down

30 Mar 2019
Artist Cosimo Cavallaro building his wall of cheese.

That border wall, made out of cheese

The Make America Grate Again project isn’t the first time dairy has been used as an artistic medium

29 Mar 2019
Seed Pushing (1961), Krishna Reddy.

A tour of Kolkata’s thriving art scene

An exhibition devoted to Krishna Reddy and awards for emerging Indian artists are among recent highlights in the city

26 Mar 2019
Fruit Harvest (September) (1670), Herman Saftleven. Onno van Seggelen (€55,000)

What not to miss at this year’s Salon du Dessin

A bucolic Dutch scene and a paper cut-out poppy are among the highlights of the fair in Paris

26 Mar 2019
Russell Tovey

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Russell Tovey

The actor talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his ‘addiction’ to collecting art – from Tintin to Tracey Emin

22 Mar 2019
Edmund Capon, pictured with a calligraphy painting from his own collection in 1999.

‘Sydney was perfect for Edmund, and Edmund perfect for Sydney’ – a tribute to Edmund Capon

Remembering the pioneering director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, who led the museum from 1978 to 2011

21 Mar 2019
Panorama of London (1815), Pierre Prévost. Museum of London

Rediscovering a lost view of London

When Prévost painted his panorama from the tower of St Margaret’s Church, he captured a city on the cusp of change

20 Mar 2019
Portrait of Henry Moore with Helmet Head No. 2 (1950) in 1967.

The European armoury that inspired Henry Moore

It was on visits to the Wallace Collection that the sculptor first became fascinated with the form of the helmet

19 Mar 2019
The Archduke Leopold William in his Picture Gallery in Brussels (detail; 1647–51), David Teniers the Younger. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Museums need to move with the times – that’s why deaccessioning isn’t always bad news

In their missions to stay modern, institutions are sometimes right to reevaluate their holdings

14 Mar 2019
Kilham to Langtoft II, 27 July 2005 (2005), David Hockney.

Beyond TEFAF – more to see in and around Maastricht

There’s plenty to see throughout the Low Countries this month – from Van Gogh and Hockney to the Dutch Caravaggisti

13 Mar 2019
Battle of the Nudes (1470s), Antonio Pollaiuolo. The Albertina Museum, Vienna

Voluptuous Venuses and sexy Sebastians – the Renaissance nude at the RA

The rediscovery of classical art in Europe transformed depictions of the naked body

7 Mar 2019
The Musée de la Romanité, completed in 2018, sits on the Boulevard des Arènes, across from the 1st-century amphitheatre.

The best preserved Roman ruins in France now have a museum to match

The new Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes makes the most of the city’s classical past

5 Mar 2019
Robert Ryman in his studio in New York in 1999.

‘Robert Ryman gave us a lot to look at’

The painter’s commitment to white taught us new things about colour and about painting itself

5 Mar 2019
The Circumcision (c. 1500), Giovanni Bellini. National Gallery, London

Part of the fabric – draped cloth and diaphanous veils in Renaissance art

How Italian painters and sculptors made clothing conceal and reveal the human form

1 Mar 2019
Black Windows (2006), Sargy Mann

In blindness, Sargy Mann found new ways to picture the world

After losing his sight, the British painter drew on touch, memory and imagination to continue his work

28 Feb 2019
New Art, New Markets

Mapping a new art world order

What are the key ingredients for success, and what role do Western traditions play, in emerging art scenes and markets?

27 Feb 2019
The Joyful Mysteries of Junior (video still detail; 2012), Georgina Starr.

Forty years on – the Site Gallery celebrates a significant birthday

The Sheffield gallery’s show of works by Susan Hiller, Georgina Starr and Elizabeth Price takes a reflective turn

26 Feb 2019
Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul (detail; 1661), Rembrandt van Rijn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Year of Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum

The museum’s director, Taco Dibbits, is making the most of the most comprehensive collection of Rembrandts in the world

25 Feb 2019
Study of Spray of Dead Oak Leaves (detail; 1879), John Ruskin.

How relevant is Ruskin today?

The bicentenary of the great Victorian critic’s birth is an occasion to consider how well his ideas have stood the test of time

23 Feb 2019