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The private collector who made the British Museum
A new biography of physician-collector Hans Sloane portrays a flawed yet fascinating man
The addictive art of Ragnar Kjartansson
How a seven-hour performance of only ten lyrical lines entranced its audience at the London Contemporary Music Festival
Medardo Rosso: the first modern sculptor
A convincing case is made for the Italian artist’s ambitions, and the need to bring a wider audience to his work
Reading the riddles of Giorgio de Chirico
Considering the artist’s writing gives us invaluable new ways in which to see his painting
The power and personality of Prince
An exhibition at the O2 in London is as carefully stage managed as anything Prince put on during his lifetime
Florine Stettheimer’s dreamy Jazz Age scenes
The stylish New York salonnière makes her Canadian debut in this enjoyable survey of her paintings
Divine mysteries at Asia House
On its 700th anniversary, Sufi treatise ‘The Garden of Mystery’ continues to inspire today’s Iranian artists
The art of slowing down
An exhibition in Glasgow turns our attention towards the ways in which we interact with objects
The defiant jokes of Jimmie Durham
The artist continues to confound expectations in this display of wit at the Whitney
The many moods of Edward Lear
Jenny Uglow’s biography brings the writer and artist’s love of contradictions to the fore
The rich repetitions of Jasper Johns
The Royal Academy’s Jasper Johns show captures the complexities of his deceptively simple art
Reconstructing Monet’s private collection
Monet’s hidden art collection goes public in an ambitious exhibition at the Musée Marmottan
The unnerving brilliance of Alina Szapocznikow
The Polish artist’s powerful work is finally being accorded the attention it deserves. Don’t miss the chance to see it in the UK
There’s more to say about art since 9/11
The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Age of Terror’ exhibition is important, but fails to ask some key questions
The Danish collector with a passion for French painting
Wilhelm Hansen amassed his impressive collection, now showing at the Musée Jacquemart-André, in only two years
‘An age riven with contradictory impulses’
The Palazzo Strozzi makes the most of the tensions that fuelled the cinquecento’s creative energy
Rediscovering a priceless collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
A century after it was left to the city of Philadelphia, John G. Johnson’s art collection continues to surprise
A moving medley of manifestos
Julian Rosefeldt’s new film looks again at the emotionally charged, political, performative texts that have shaped the course of culture
The medieval marvels in Durham Cathedral’s kitchen
Among the treasures of St Cuthbert in Durham are several of the most remarkable medieval objects to be seen anywhere
Face to face with Murillo at the Frick
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s rare and inventive portraits are on display in New York after a major research and conservation project
The artists who gave up colour
Artists throughout the ages have painted in black and white or monochrome. What is the appeal of art without colour?
Keith Vaughan’s private drawings are full of hidden longing
These erotic fantasies reveal how painfully separate the artist kept his private and public lives
The art of war at the Met
This exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tries to register the gap between pre-war assumptions and the First World War’s brutal reality
Why Andy Holden flew back to the nest
Artist Andy Holden has collaborated with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, on an Artangel project exploring our fascination with ‘home’
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