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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: 27 September
National treasures up for sale; art and protest in Latin America; plaster casts and the Classics Cabal
Bantry House sale postponed
It was once nicknamed ‘The Wallace Collection of Ireland’: are efforts being made to save what remains of Bantry’s historic collection?
Art and protest in Latin America
Two exhibitions in Buenos Aires this summer explored how Latin American artists have responded to the region’s social and economic upheavals
The Classics Cabal
Forget PPE…Classics is the humanities subject that rules. Is the subject’s future brighter than people tend to think?
More than just copies: Brussels’ Plaster Cast Workshop
Can a copy ever be more authentic, and more informative, than an original work of art?
The Week’s Muse: 20 September
Fountains, house museums and computer connoisseurs: a round-up of recent comment from the Muse Room
Can artificial intelligence really identify artistic influence?
Scientists have developed an algorithm that identifies visual affinities between paintings. Are we all out of a job?
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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