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Why are there mass protests about Moscow’s mass-produced housing?
Moscow’s Khrushchev-era apartment blocks are hardly good housing, but their residents are unlikely to get a better replacement
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art world responds to the UK election; Michel Houellebecq discusses his ‘French Bashing’ exhibition; and is Kate Middleton a skater girl now?
The Louvre goes to the movies (again)
Wonder Woman now works at the Louvre… but will her curatorial credentials spare her bad reviews?
How Canaletto constructed a better view of Venice
The artist would move churches around, erase rooftops, and even bend the Grand Canal straight if it allowed for a more harmonious scene
The street artists getting bashed by bishops and bureaucrats
Invader and Bansky have stirred up authorities in Spain and the UK this week
Acquisitions of the month: May 2017
A Delacroix heads for Munich, and a number of major museums have significantly expanded their photography holdings
Paper plants and wax peaches at the Manchester Museum
The scientific teaching models in George Loudon’s collection are as beautiful as they are fascinating
In London’s salerooms, bigger is no longer better
Auction highlights this month include a dramatic plaster relief in Paris, and a diminutive but vibrant Van Gogh in London
Ten art events to get to in June
This month’s top exhibitions, from Wyndham Lewis at IWM North to Cézanne’s portraits in Paris
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite painter; a night in the Rijksmuseum; a Varsity match for trainspotters
A dazzling new attraction at the Musée Condé at Chantilly
Visitors can finally enjoy the exceptional drawing collection, and explore previously-unseen rooms, in the elegant new Cabinet d’Arts Graphiques
As visceral a painting as you will ever encounter…
Max Beckmann’s ‘Bird’s Hell’, a terrifying vision of cruelty painted after he fled Nazi Germany, is to be sold at auction for the first time
Fear not! Museums are on hand to decipher Trump’s tweets
What is the President talking about when he invokes ‘Covfefe’?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Tracey Emin gets bored of her peers; artists and salad; and Pamela Anderson’s favourite museum
‘The Cloaca are machines, they’re animals, they’re us’
Wim Delvoye discusses merde-making machines, mass production, pig tattoos and Europe’s messy future
Is LA’s art scene growing too quickly?
In the last few years LA’s art scene has grown immeasurably. But as rents rise and experimental spaces get priced out, is LA’s arrival on the international art stage worth it?
A radical new look at the greatest of Elizabethan artists
Two portraits newly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard will transform our understanding of the artist
The contemporary art market regains its swagger
Plus: major lots announced for the London modern art sales
The failing architect who dreamt up modern America
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered America’s greatest architect – but his career was dominated by failure
Do artists’ lives get in the way of their work?
An exhibition of Eric Gill’s art in Ditchling raises questions about how far we can separate art from life. Should biography shape our understanding of an artist’s work?
Hatra’s embattled history, from the Romans to ISIS
It’s been besieged, abandoned, and used as a training ground for terrorists – but the ancient city of Hatra still stands in the Iraqi desert
Gilded glass from the world’s most glamorous ship
The legendary S.S. Normandie was lost to fire in the 1940s, but relics from its luxury interior survive – including these verre églomisé panels
How did ‘Viva Arte Viva’ go so wrong?
Wasn’t this year’s Venice Biennale exhibition supposed to do away with grand curatorial conceits?
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