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Stockhausen, Duchamp, and exit signs – an interview with Cerith Wyn Evans
The artist talks about the wide-ranging references in his neon installations and other works – from modernist music to yoga
Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings
A selection of studies and sketches shows how the definition of drawing has happily ballooned in recent decades
Gustave Courbet’s love of the chase
The painter’s monumental and often melancholy hunting scenes are well worth another look
Raphael and the Pope’s Librarian
A closer look at the painting Isabella Stewart Gardner brought to America in 1898
TEFAF New York makes the most of being in the Park Avenue Armory
From Tiffany vases to Fabergé gold, this year’s stateside edition of the fair is full of connections to the Armory’s rich history
‘I can’t not think of Brexit, in relation to declarations of independence’ – an interview with Kudzanai Chiurai
The Zimbabwean artist discusses his film ‘We Live in Silence’, screened at the opening of Goodman Gallery’s new London premises
‘A fine day for seeing’ – Frank O’Hara at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
A new display in the museum pays tribute to one of its best and most charming ambassadors
‘If you can outlive most men, all of a sudden you can be venerated’ – an interview with Kiki Smith
The versatile artist talks about her love of printmaking – and being in it for the long haul
Art of glass – the many faces of Debbie Harry
The Blondie singer made her mark on the New York art scene, as her memoir reveals
Nicolaes Maes – the Dutch painter who made a virtue of versatility
This pupil of Rembrandt has often been mistaken for other artists, but is there an unity to be found in his many styles?
The Turner Prize has more of a purpose than it has had in years
Tai Shani, Oscar Murillo, Helen Cammock and Lawrence Abu Hamdan can be found in playful, reflective or forensic mode in Margate
‘One of the most fascinating artists in the history of Spanish art’
As the greatest sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance, Alonso Berruguete deserves to be better understood
Bread and Soviet circuses – a letter from Baku
The artist Taus Makhacheva is fascinated by the subversive side of an art form that found great favour in the USSR
Works in progress – the turbulent tales of William Hogarth
Things rarely turn out well for the characters in the satirist’s so-called ‘progress’ pieces – rather, they capture the chaos of 18th-century life
Art that speaks for itself? – ‘Gothic Sculpture’ by Paul Binski, reviewed
A thought-provoking study considers what makes medieval European sculpture so memorable
Peasant company – Jean-François Millet among the moderns
How the Barbizon painter’s subversive rural scenes inspired artists from Van Gogh to Salvador Dalí
The saintly sight of Cardinal Newman
Rakewell digs out some portraits of John Henry Newman, the first British person to be canonised for nearly 50 years
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana
Celebrating the careers of two pioneering Renaissance women
‘Frustrate the Feminine Fanatics’ – how women overcame their critics at Cambridge University
It is 150 years since women first arrived at Cambridge – and the fight for equality has taken almost as long
Mark Bradford descends into the hell of modern America
A new series of sprawling canvases by the Los Angeles-based artist takes inspiration from Cerberus, the mythical hound of Hades
‘My art is about overcoming our limitations’ – an interview with Agnes Denes
The artist talks about what it meant to plant a wheatfield in Manhattan – and why she wants her work to outlive her
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The loss of Shuri castle is a devastating blow for the people of Okinawa
Destroyed during the Pacific War and restored in 1992, the castle was the pride of Okinawa. Now a fire has left it in ruins again