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Restoring Turner’s vision for Sandycombe Lodge
Sandycombe Lodge, built by J.M.W. Turner in 1812, offers an intriguing glimpse of the painter’s potential as an architect
How sustainable is the art scene in Dubai?
And does the city really have what it takes to become a global commercial hub?
How Bubbles the Chimp picked up the paintbrush
The chimp that was once Michael Jackson’s pet monkey has taken up painting in its retirement
Smells like art
Many artists have experimented with smell. Now, Somerset House is putting scent at the centre of an exhibition
Anish Kapoor causes a stir in New York
New York’s Public Art Fund celebrates its 40th birthday with commissions by Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Maria Balshaw’s matching socks – and the rest of the week’s art world tittle-tattle
Eight art events to get to this summer
Highlights include a Jean Dubuffet retrospective in Amsterdam and a Mexican Old Master in New York
‘My life has always been about painting’
Frank Bowling has been experimenting with paint for six decades – but it still surprises him
Small but perfectly formed
Examples of Dutch micro-carving on show at the Rijksmuseum are full of astounding detail
What is driving the soaring demand for art storage?
As insurers get more demanding and contemporary art works grow in size, there are more art-storage facilities than ever. So what should a collector look for?
Do the prices at auction muddy our interpretation of art?
In May, a painting by Basquiat sold at auction for $110.5m. But when does money overtake other judgements?
In search of the Rose+Croix artists
The Guggenheim explores French mystical symbolism – and looks beyond the famous figure of Joséphin Péladan
Public sculpture in the UK is about to become more visible
Art UK, which last year launched a digital catalogue of every oil painting in public ownership, has embarked on an equivalent project for sculpture
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
From Brian Sewell to Justin Bieber, the best of last week’s tittle-tattle from the art world
Bill Viola breathes fresh life into the Renaissance
A thrilling opportunity to see Bill Viola’s work alongside the Renaissance art that inspired it
MoMA puts on a model exhibition about Frank Lloyd Wright
This revelatory show matches Frank Lloyd Wright’s work to his personality and his designs to his ambitions
What has Kassel’s Documenta learned from Athens?
The Kassel leg of Documenta 14 has just opened, but will it fare batter than its much-criticised Athens counterpart?
A new home for post-war Italian art
Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu talk about sharing their collection at their new art space, Magazzino
Why your sports shoes could be worth a fortune
A pair of self-lacing trainers has sold at auction for more than $50,000 dollars. Could you be standing on a fortune?
Gathering dust at the Whitechapel Gallery
With its abstract qualities and unsettling symbolic significance, dust emerged as a key theme in 20th-century photography
The museum building that expresses the tragedy of Cologne
Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba is a poignant monument for a city devastated by wartime bombing
How David Jones resisted the modern world
A new biography reveals an artist who, falling out of step with contemporary life, created an imaginative world of his own through art
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At last, some welcome relief for regional museums
Arts Council England had some good news for museums this week, but it can’t be the sector’s knight in shining armour