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The Week’s Muse: 6 December
The Apollo Award Winners 2014; Jeremy Deller discusses Warhol and William Morris; and the rise (and fall?) of Italian post-war art in London
London’s Italian art invasion
An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What’s behind the rich pickings?
The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?
The Week’s Muse: 29 November
We’ll soon be announcing the winners of the Apollo Awards 2014…
The Week’s Muse: 22 November
The Apollo Awards; Scandinavian art in London; and the mixed fortunes of New Contemporaries
Scandinavian Art in the UK
Scandinavian artists from Peder Balke to Ida Ekblad feature in UK exhibitions this winter. Which should you watch out for?
The Week’s Muse: 15 November
A round-up of news and comment: First World War cartoons; a $500 million gift to LACMA; and the difficulty with digital art
Art Market Maths: the celebrity factor
At a post-war and contemporary auction, why settle for one famous name if you can have two?
Black Comedy: cartoons in the First World War
The black humour of wartime cartoons got closer than most other art-forms to the grim realities of trench warfare
The Week’s Muse: 8 November
Was the Musée Picasso worth the wait? Is the Turner Prize showing its age? News and comment from the Muse Room
Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world
The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…
The Week’s Muse: 1 November
The display of art in Asia; photojournalism from Chechnya; and historic rings in New York
The Week’s Muse: 25 October
Artists on film; Spanish art in Durham; contemporary art in Paris; and auctions online
The British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris
Tim Knox first came across ‘the most splendid British embassy building anywhere’ in a box of photographs on Portobello Road
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Saturday)
Frieze week takes it out of you alright, but there has been some seriously good stuff on show
The Week’s Muse: 18 October
From the frenetic pace of Frieze London, to an artwork that won’t be ready for 100 years
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Friday)
When you’ve been to more than 40 shows in three days you start to feel a little…displaced
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Thursday)
PAD, the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and another clutch of gallery shows: this week is taking its toll
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Wednesday)
‘But it’s so BIG!’ I heard an angry American journalist exclaim. And she spoke the truth – Frieze is big
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Tuesday)
You know you’re beaten when you come within inches of mistaking a Justin Adian painting for a coat hanger
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary
So here we are: Frieze week is finally upon us. I will be attending as many events as humanly possible
The Week’s Muse: 11 October
Gavin Turk on Duchamp’s legacy; William Morris the anarchist; and Peckham’s hidden galleries
The Week’s Muse: 4 October
Art law and attribution; the Balfron Tower and Brutalism; and an end to love locks in Paris?
The Week’s Muse: 13 December
Attention-seeking museums; Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering multi-sensory art; the Cooper Hewitt; and photography in the Rijksmuseum