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The hunt for the Loch Ness Monster continues
Rakewell isn’t about to quit the city to stake it all on a monster hunt – but there have been some significant sightings in museum collections
Who’s afraid of video art?
Six leading figures in the art world discuss the challenges of collecting and showing video art
Ragnar Kjartansson’s guide to Reykjavik
The performance artist explains why he loves being from Iceland and takes us on a tour of public sculpture in his hometown
Liverpool Biennial
The 12th edition of the event tackles the city’s complicated colonial histories
Tinder for Tudors, and other Renaissance mating rituals
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
Four things to see: minimalism
From Keith Sonnier in Florida to Richard Serra in London, we have put together a list of minimalist masterpieces to see this week
Don’t blame the culture wars for Tate Britain’s disappointing rehang
The much-debated new displays suffer from weak artworks, tokenism and terrible lighting
Do craft objects need a purpose?
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
‘Every prince in Europe would have coveted a goblet like this’
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
When Marilyn Monroe met Richard Avedon
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
Berthe Morisot, always in the moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
Hug a Henry Moore!
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
The golden age of English furniture
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
Ripe histories – winemaking in Lebanon
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
The early modern artists who tried to study abroad
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
How to rebuild a Central European city
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
The week in art news – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to retire
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
All change at the Venice Architecture Biennale?
With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air
From Bruce Lee to Blobbyland – a guide to London Gallery Weekend
With more than 150 exhibitions staged across the capital, Apollo’s editors pick out the ones they don’t want to miss
London’s most gruesome museum is back – and weirder than ever
The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm
Josephine Baker. Freedom – Equality – Humanity
How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States
The Olivia de Havilland sale deserves to be a soaring success
The actor best known for playing the saintly Melanie Hamilton in ‘Gone with the Wind’ was made of much sterner stuff in real life
Is the UK finally getting serious about Eurovision?
For too long, Britain’s lack of regard for the song contest has been rewarded by poor results. It’s time to make more of an effort.
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The Supreme Court has saved the Andy Warhol Foundation from itself
The foundation should never have pursued the copyright case against Lynn Goldsmith and it should be grateful it lost