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Cultural engineering in Norman Sicily
The island’s Norman rulers encouraged the use of Islamic, Byzantine, and Romanesque elements in art and architecture as a deliberate display of their power
Art Basel takes a historical turn
Why artists’ estates were the talk of the fair. Plus collector selfies, the cheapest piece at Basel and medieval books in a contemporary world
A university with a playground attached: Frances Morris’s vision for Tate Modern
The gallery’s new director on the Switch House extension, promoting women artists, and finally having the final say over the collection
Inspirational drawings from Delacroix to Auerbach go on display in London
Admiring a drawing is ‘like looking over the artist’s shoulder’, says Stephen Ongpin
The museum that keeps Bath buzzing
The Holburne Museum is a place of serious pleasure, says director Jennifer Scott, and that’s how it stays true to its roots
A special relationship? US attitudes to British art are changing
The old cocktail of countesses and Chippendale won’t cut it anymore, so the Met and the Yale Center for British Art are rethinking their displays
Pompeo Batoni didn’t just paint aristocrats abroad
The most prestigious portrait painter in 18th-century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects
The fall and rise of the second school of Paris
This loose group of European artists lost out to the American Abstract Expressionists in the 1960s. But are we seeing a revival of interest?
Five photography shows to see in New York this week
There are some great, focused shows open at the moment, from office-block abstraction to a difficult look at the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls
Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.
Committed to memory: the art of Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo makes monuments to the victims of political violence – out of chairs, sewing needles, and rose petals.
Edward Barber’s preventative photography
Edward Barber’s photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum
Bruce Conner: It’s All True
MoMA reveals how this American artist addresses a range of postwar themes in his work, including a rising consumer culture and the dread of nuclear apocalypse
Van Dyck would have relished seeing his work on show at the Frick
The ambitious portraitist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Frick Collection earlier this year
How Tate Modern transformed London – and beyond
As the new Tate Modern opens, leading museum directors and critics assess the impact the museum has had since it opened in 2000
‘800 years of oppression!’ Ireland’s contemporary art biennial
The latest edition of EVA International tackles issues of postcolonialism at home and abroad
Would Brexit destabilise the art market?
Would a ‘leave’ vote spell disaster for the UK’s thriving art trade, or open up new opportunities to it? Two experts debate the question
Acquisitions of the Month: May 2016
May’s acquisitions include rare signed etchings by Picasso and photography by the Victorian pioneer Oscar Gustav Rejlander
The musical forms of Fausto Melotti
Fausto Melotti’s sculptures ingeniously blur the line between figurative and abstract forms and his work deserves to be better known
‘Conservative in art, radical in politics’: James Boswell and the Artists’ International Association
Boswell’s acutely observed satires sum up the social and political issues of the 1930s
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