The art world responds to the UK election; Michel Houellebecq discusses his ‘French Bashing’ exhibition; and is Kate Middleton a skater girl now?
Your chance to win ’Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting’ (Yale University Press)
A Delacroix heads for Munich, and a number of major museums have significantly expanded their photography holdings
Wim Delvoye discusses merde-making machines, mass production, pig tattoos and Europe's messy future
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?
Your chance to win ‘Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World’ by Joanna Marschner with David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford (eds.)
Thomas Marks talks to the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy about his new book on East London
Your chance to win ‘Picturing America: the Golden Age of Pictorial Maps’ by Stephen J. Hornsby
The finest new additions to public art collections, from the final portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington, to a rare Modigliani sculpture
'Letting Murano glass die is like allowing the Colosseum to collapse'