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Bock and Clark share a sensitive approach to their subjects
At the Ikon Gallery, two very different artists approach their subjects with remarkable empathy
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Correcting Jasper Johns, Tory fossils, artists as cheeses, and, erm, a couple of cats stories
‘Tell me who Kandinsky is’: T.S. Eliot among the artists
Can T.S. Eliot’s poetic experiments be read alongside parallel developments in the visual arts? And how much has he influenced artists?
Milan’s modern masters enchant at the Estorick
The Pinacoteca di Brera’s overlooked collection of modern Italian art gets a welcome outing in London
Face to face with the Gurlitt hoard
The paintings that Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Third Reich art dealer, kept hidden for decades are now out in the open – so what happens next?
‘There is an element of optimism in my work’
Rasheed Araeen talks to Apollo about six-decades of making visually arresting and politically engaged art
‘A visceral assault on the senses’
Bridget Riley’s monumental abstract paintings are as mysterious as they are mesmerising
R.B. Kitaj in his own words
The painter’s posthumously published memoir is a candid record of his obsessions
‘This is a book about a man who painted, not about the paintings he made’
A new biography of Renoir emphasises the role the painter’s domestic life played in his work
How the Bayeux Tapestry had Twitter in stitches
The proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry has made for some, erm, creative threads on social media
The patient precision of Neville Gabie
The South African artist has made a virtue of taking his time to make slow but rewarding films and performance pieces
The art of advertising
A museum retrospective charts James Rosenquist’s journey from billboard painter to Pop art pioneer
Can commercial galleries thrive outside major market centres?
More contemporary galleries than ever are opening regional outposts, or moving out of London altogether
What the end of net neutrality might mean for museums
The vote to repeal net neutrality in the US poses a problem for museums trying to connect with new audiences
Why an art hound is sniffing around the MFA Boston
The latest recruit to the MFA Boston is a three-month-old puppy called Riley
A guide to urban living
In her mid-career survey, Jacqueline Donachie explores the hidden cruelties of the urban environment
The dividing lines of Otobong Nkanga
For her first solo exhibition in Ireland, Otobong Nkanga complicates easy distinctions between the natural and the industrial
Posing for Martin Parr
The photographer’s foundation opens with pop-up portrait sessions and an exhibition of images of the West Midlands
The double lives of outsider artists
Vivian Maier took thousands of photographs, but showed them to no one. Why are some artists so determined to keep their work secret?
The reopening of the Hayward Gallery and a Tacita Dean trilogy
It’s a big year for museums in the UK, with reopenings, expansions, and collaborations in London and Cambridge
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Should Britain stop building museums?
A recent government report says it should – but with limited public funding available, can Britain’s existing museums grow?