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The woven wonders of Sheila Hicks
The artist’s textile works reveal the versatility and power of a medium that has been widely overlooked
A history of conflict at the Institut du Monde Arabe
These responses to the tumultuous history of the Arab world contain a surprising amount of hope
MoMA’s collection highlights fail to shine in Paris
MoMA’s ‘greatest hits’ are superb, of course – but are they a little too familiar?
Kim Yong-Ik steps back into the spotlight
The Korean painter sabotaged his promising career in 1981, but things seem to be looking up for him again
Royal pets and Russian revolutionaries
Two exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich demonstrate the gulf between royal and popular culture in the build-up to and aftermath of the 1917 revolution
Why are artists obsessed with death?
To devote an entire show and a book exclusively to artists’ images of death – and nothing else – seems profoundly odd
A moving picture of Vincent van Gogh
The new film ‘Loving Vincent’ has its mawkish moments, but its oil-painted imagery sets it apart
Taking notes with Alec Soth
Soth’s photographs in ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi’ are beautiful and intriguing, but the stories behind them bring them to life
The art market in the Forum
A new exhibition at the Bucerius Art Forum in Hamburg looks at how the market for art changed in 17th-century Holland
How the French Rothschilds turned their private passions into public gifts
A monumental new study argues that ‘the patronage of the French Rothschild family is a European history of taste’
The international mission of Tate’s Cornish outpost
Tate St Ives reopens to the public this autumn following the completion of a major expansion
Norway’s top art prize brings the focus back home
The four artists shortlisted for this year’s Lorck Schive Kunstpris all find ways of challenging local artistic traditions
The Foundling Museum brings Joseph Highmore out of the shadows
Joseph Highmore’s morality tales are just as engaging as those of his contemporary William Hogarth
Debates in America had a powerful impact on black British artists
‘Soul of a Nation’ is the most significant contribution to debates around black art to date
Thomas Gainsborough, the good-time guy
James Hamilton’s biography of Thomas Gainsborough presents the painter as a lad about town
Ever seen an eyeball card? How about a UFO?
A new book series explores the strange subcultures of post-war Britain, from CB radio enthusiasts to alien investigators
Oswald Birley’s society portraits should have a wider public
The portraitist was highly sought after in his heyday, but his reputation has languished in recent years
The stuff of art: objects from Matisse’s studio
The objects in Matisse’s collection shaped his revolutionary aesthetic, and inspired him to push beyond the boundaries of the European tradition
Space exploration with Lucio Fontana
Eleven of Lucio Fontana’s ‘Spatial Environments’ have been meticulously recreated in Milan – and the effects are extraordinary
The new Chapman brothers show is delightful and disturbing – and you need to see it
Featuring Goya, teddy bears and suicide vests, ‘The Disasters of Everyday Life’ is puerile, provocative, and superb
A quiet but powerful Turner Prize
The four artists shortlisted this year tackle ideas about rootlessness and belonging in a series of understated works
Cataloguing the Ashmolean’s baroque paintings is no mean feat
The Oxford museum’s lavish new publication is a triumph of scholarship
Urs Fischer’s bonfire of the vanities in Florence
Two wax sculptures of art impresarios were ceremonially lit today in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria
How the Pre-Raphaelites reflected on the past
What did the Pre-Raphaelite painters see when they looked at the Old Masters – and how did they use what they saw?
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