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Feb 11, 2012
Slideshow: Specimens of humanity
Lucian Freud’s portraits have the ability to ‘astonish, disturb, seduce and convince’
Feb 10, 2012
Specimens of humanity
Lucian Freud’s portraits have the ability to ‘astonish, disturb, seduce and convince’ Jackie Wullschlager, as the artist intended
Feb 10, 2012
Interview with Rachel Whiteread
The English sculptor tells Rachel Spence about her first permanent public artwork in the UK, a frieze for the Whitechapel Gallery
Feb 7, 2012
Weegee/Leonard Freed, New York
Ariella Budick reports on two hard-hitting photography shows that highlight the city’s gritty, grisly past
Feb 7, 2012
The Shadow and Truth, CaixaForum, Barcelona
Anxiety around modernity and globalisation flows through this thought-provoking display of Turkish art, writes Julius Purcell
Feb 7, 2012
Ai Weiwei and Herzog to design London pavilion
Serpentine attracts Beijing ‘Bird’s Nest’ partnership
- Notebook In a certain state of undress
- Edwin Heathcote Starchitects risk losing their lustre
Feb 6, 2012
Yayoi Kusama, Tate Modern, London
A retrospective reveals the enduring power of this strange chameleon artist, writes Jackie Wullschlager
Feb 5, 2012
Cy Twombly: Works from the Sonnabend Collection, Eykyn Maclean, London
Jackie Wullschlager on a show that traces a master painter’s long apprenticeship
- Migrations at Tate
- Jackie Wullschlager Twombly and Poussin at Dulwich
Feb 3, 2012
Displacement activity
Jackie Wullschlager on an exhibition devoted to émigré artists in Britain
Feb 3, 2012
Snapshots of Israel
What happened when leading photographers including Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall and Josef Koudelka came together to discuss art, Israel and bear costumes? By Michael Hodges
Feb 1, 2012
Museum finds ‘stunning’ Mona Lisa copy
Prado discovers earliest known facsimile of Da Vinci’s painting
Jan 27, 2012
The scramble for India
Gallerists and artists are rushing to be part of the increasingly successful India Art Fair
Peter Aspden
Jan 27, 2012
Pilgrims’ progress
The British Museum’s ambitious new exhibition about the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca shows that modernity and secularism do not always go hand in hand, writes Peter Aspden
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MANAGEMENT
Jan 27, 2012
Art for art’s sake?
Schools believe that art can give students a more rounded business school experience
Emma Jacobs
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MANAGEMENT
Jan 26, 2012
Portrait of the curator as a bank employee
Friedhelm Hütte, global head of Deutsche Bank’s art collection, does not like talking money
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COLLECTING
Jan 22, 2012
India’s buying game
Rachel Spence on a scheme that aims to encourage the growing number of contemporary art collectors in the sub-continent
Jan 20, 2012
A new home for US art
The Metropolitan Museum’s refurbished American Wing boasts a trove of works
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In pursuit of perfectibility
Leonardo da Vinci’s works remind us that we are capable of being transformed by the soul’s quest for beauty and truth