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Beneath the surface of Photorealism
The genre has often been dismissed as a kind of copying – but at their best, these paintings make us look again at the act of looking
Andy Warhol’s textiles are finally back in fashion
Painstaking sleuthing has tracked down the artist’s colourful commercial designs for garment manufacturers
Live like Kendall Roy, if you have $29m to spare (or like Roman for $38m)
Succession fans with millions to spend can now live like the Roy brother of their choice (as ever, that doesn’t include Connor)
Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me
The film-maker’s lyrical explorations of race and cultural history go on show at Tate Britain
How Sarah Bernhardt stole the heart of Paris
Nobody embodied the glitz and glamour of the fin-de-siècle quite like ‘La Divine’, as a lavish show at the Petit Palais proves
Just Stop Oil’s big break
The climate protestors have copped a lot of flak for taking on the snooker – but at least it makes a change from museums
Dosso Dossi’s scenes from the Aeneid are a Roman triumph
Reuniting the surviving works from the painter’s ‘Frieze of Aeneas’ series allows us to imagine one of the great Renaissance ensembles more clearly
Newcastle’s Side Gallery is too important to stay closed
The gallery founded by the Amber Collective is a champion of documentary photography, strongly rooted in the local area, and deserves all the support it can get
4 things to see: the sinking of the Titanic
A telegram sent from the ship and a tobacco pipe owned by a junior engineer are among our pick of objects not to miss this week
Welcome to Van Gogh World!
Plans to create a climate-themed biennale in the region of the painter’s birth could be a rollercoaster ride for everyone concerned
4 things to see: the birth of the Internet
From a portrait of Ada Lovelace to digital paintings and installations, we take a look at 4 of the most searching artworks related to the Internet age
The week in art news – Australian museums to receive major funding boost
Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories
How three art students built London’s best bao restaurants
After meeting at the Slade, Erchen Chang, Shing Tat Chung and Wai Ting have taken the creation of the soft, steamy buns to new heights
Auction highlights – an all-American medley at Sotheby’s
The Wolf family’s extraordinary collection of American art and crafts is up for sale later this month
4 things to see: April Fool’s Day
Our pick of art about folly that it would be unwise to overlook
Undercover work – the unsettling art of Pilvi Takala
By working in offices or trying to play Snow White at Euro Disney, the Finnish artist takes aim at the monotony of modern life
In Lausanne, a lively new museum district has finally arrived
The Plateforme 10 project has brought the city’s fine arts, design and photo museums together on the site of a former train yard
James Joyce walks into a bar in Zurich
At the Kronenhalle in Zurich, the writer was most likely to ask for Fendant de Sion, a wine that deserves to be much better known abroad
Fine carpets from Asia are definitely back in fashion
After a spell in the doldrums, prices for magnificent carpets from across the continent are starting to soar again
The cosmic visions of Hilma af Klint
The Swedish artist is now fêted as a pioneer of abstract art, but her spiritual inclinations are what really resonate today
The Tower of Babel now owes more to Bruegel than the Bible
When we think of the biblical folly, it’s Pieter Breugel the Elder’s painting that first comes to mind – but artists and writers are still reimagining it today
Smooth operator – the seductive sculptures of Antonio Canova
The sculptor was regarded as too sensual by classicists and too cold by Romantics, but a more superficial look at his work suggests what he was really up to
Around the galleries in Geneva’s Old Town
At the intimate, dealer-led event known as Art en Vieille-Ville, everything from Old Masters to surreal photographs is on offer
Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid
The Met explores the British artist’s ongoing interest in still lifes, mortality and mirroring
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