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Going it alone in the modern city

Olivia Laing’s book on the art of loneliness has some excellent insights, but who is it meant for?

23 May 2016
The Narthex and south entry door to the Church os St Simeon Stylites. Much of the structure on the right hand side of the great doorway has been severely damaged by the blast on 12 May 2016.

While the world watches Palmyra, another of Syria’s heritage sites risks destruction

The Church of Saint Simeon near Aleppo is the greatest treasure of the Christian-Byzantine era in Syria – but it’s suffered extensive damage

20 May 2016

The man who gathered the many moods of Venice

Vittorio Cini collected remarkable Venetian paintings, which have never been publicly exhibited together – until now

20 May 2016

Danny Lyon

Message to the Future This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented…

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Russian artist allegedly beaten by police

Art News Daily : 18 May

18 May 2016
Verso 2 (Starry Night)

Vik Muniz: Verso

In the Mauritshuis’ first exhibition of contemporary art in its history, Vik Muniz looks not at the front of several paintings, but their back

Mauritshuis, The Hague
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Around the galleries: what to watch out for this month

Collaboration is the order of the day in Brussels and Paris, where several art fairs are joining forces. Meanwhile, London gears up for Art16

16 May 2016

How do you capture a colour? Interview with Ettore Spalletti

The Italian artist discusses his distinctive palette and what he owes to Yves Klein

14 May 2016
View of SFMOMA from Yerba Buena Gardens

SFMOMA reopens at the heart of San Francisco’s booming art scene

With 3,000 new works, a major extension, and an ingenious way of working with collectors, SFMOMA is becoming a modern art museum to rival all others

12 May 2016
Marker Cones

Selfies, sexuality and self-parody: when artists perform for the camera

Artists recognised the power of the staged image long before Instagram came along

11 May 2016
Piper's new contemporary art space, in the basement of an established Mayfair antiques dealership, epitomises how the city's art world is changing

Megan Piper and the young gallerists making their mark on London

The contemporary art gallerist’s alliance with an antiques dealer epitomises the changing art world

10 May 2016

Marisol Escobar: 1930–2016

Marisol’s powerful, Pop-inspired sculptures deserve to be far better known, particularly outside the US

10 May 2016

Glenn Brown

‘Glenn Brown’ is the first US, one-person, survey exhibition of the London-based painter. Reproductions of canonical paintings culled from art…

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
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Manuele Cerutti and the fine art of balancing

The everyday objects in Cerutti’s Turin studio are transformed in his paintings: poised, precarious, and forever in suspense

5 May 2016

Fashion and Freedom

One of the most radical changes at home during the war was the huge change in women’s lives and work.…

Manchester Art Gallery
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Damien Hirst's Pharmacy 2

Pills, thrills and (musical) bellyaches: lunch, the Damien Hirst way

Rakewell enjoys lunches Damien Hirst’s new Pharmacy 2 restaurant – if only the waiters would provide earplugs to drown out the ’90s soundtrack

4 May 2016

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Art slides and crazy golf in London, and Giacometti’s Jezza phase

3 May 2016
The Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity

The growing craze for American folk art

Collectors love it for its graphic power – and Europe’s growing interest in outsider art could widen the market

Drawing in museums is a form of respect – let’s not ruin it

It’s annoying that we can’t sketch knickers at the V&A, but more annoying that footfall takes precedence over engagement

30 Apr 2016

Cracks, chance and Japanese philosophy: An interview with Bosco Sodi

The Mexican artist on the importance of artistic process and the arts charity he has set up in Mexico

29 Apr 2016
The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, opened in 1935 and successfully restored in 2003–05.

‘Why risk skin cancer when there’s architecture to enjoy?’

Large, long windows and a flat roof for sunbathing: is it any wonder that Britain’s early experiments with modernist architecture were by the sea?

27 Apr 2016

Big Lebowski pad acquired by LACMA

The LA museum has acquired its first home – what does this unusual architectural acquisition mean for the city?

27 Apr 2016

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Italian scientists claim art is a stress buster, while the staff of a London gallery have been told to put their feet up. Rakewell has his doubts…

24 Apr 2016