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A university with a playground attached: Frances Morris’s vision for Tate Modern
The gallery’s new director on the Switch House extension, promoting women artists, and finally having the final say over the collection
‘Taste the essence’ of Indian painting
A new book promises to open up the world of Indian art to a wide new audience
This Cindy Sherman exhibition is good – but have we seen it all before?
Sherman’s groundbreaking work paved the way for so many of today’s artists – but her own creations are starting to seem too familiar
What William Merritt Chase learned from Europe
The 19th-century artist who brought modern spirit to American painting
The museum that keeps Bath buzzing
The Holburne Museum is a place of serious pleasure, says director Jennifer Scott, and that’s how it stays true to its roots
Monkey business comes to Art Basel
Guests at the art fair’s private view on Monday are in for a wild night…
A special relationship? US attitudes to British art are changing
The old cocktail of countesses and Chippendale won’t cut it anymore, so the Met and the Yale Center for British Art are rethinking their displays
ISIS destroys Temple of Nabu in Iraq
New footage released this week shows the militants detonating explosives at the site, and concludes with a threat to ‘demolish’ the pyramids at Giza
Inside the UNESCO conference to save Syria’s heritage
Experts gathered in Berlin to share ideas, but coming up with a coordinated strategy is impossible when the situation is so volatile
Pompeo Batoni didn’t just paint aristocrats abroad
The most prestigious portrait painter in 18th-century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects
The timeless modernity of a forgotten Danish painter
C.W. Eckersberg’s 19th-century paintings are barely known outside Denmark and Germany, but they should be…
The submerged city that turns out to be, erm, a load of guff
Archaeologists inform a Greek hotel owner that he has not in fact discovered an Atlantean wonder off a Greek island
Peggy Guggenheim steals the show in Florence
A show about the Guggenheim’s art collections is really about the battle between Peggy and Solomon
The fall and rise of the second school of Paris
This loose group of European artists lost out to the American Abstract Expressionists in the 1960s. But are we seeing a revival of interest?
The work of Mona Hatoum bristles with a bodily charge
This large exhibition provides an opportunity to engage with the physical effects of Hatoum’s work
Sonic spheres and ‘phallic variations’ at Art Basel
Who said art fairs prefer ‘safer’ pieces? What to expect from Art Basel…
Dreams caught on camera in New York
‘Dream States’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a thought-provoking exhibition, and a great survey of some of the most influential modern photographers
Five photography shows to see in New York this week
There are some great, focused shows open at the moment, from office-block abstraction to a difficult look at the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
An unsightly selfie statue, Lego gets taken to pieces, and trouble at the Jack the Ripper Museum
A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls
Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.
Why Manifesta makes sense in Marseille
The roving contemporary art biennial comes to France in 2020, but what does it mean for Marseille?
International auction houses keep faith in Hong Kong
Anna Brady on Hong Kong sales, plus a round-up of the top art market headlines
Committed to memory: the art of Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo makes monuments to the victims of political violence – out of chairs, sewing needles, and rose petals.
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