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Black Atlantic is a ruffle-the-feathers moment for the Fitzwilliam Museum
This show examines how the transatlantic slave trade intersected with Cambridge's museums – but how brave is the Fitzwilliam really being?
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We love Midsomer Murders because we lie to ourselves about rural England
Americans are lapping it up – but Britons have long been guilty of romanticising a way of life that never really existed
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Claude Picasso, estranged son of the artist who ended up controlling the Picasso estate – obituary
After his mother’s incendiary memoir, Picasso told him ‘I wish you were dead,’ but Claude won out over the battling heirs to run the empire
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The British Museum is an anachronism – here’s how to fix it
The institution’s image has been ruined. We need emergency stock-taking and a seismic policy change, says the Pitt Rivers Museum curator
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The Fringe has infiltrated Edinburgh Art Festival, to exhausting effect
The UK's largest annual celebration of visual art has replaced the simple pleasures of gallery-going with performances, music and film. Why?
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Heatwaves, hurricanes and dread – the terrifying rise of ‘eco grief’
Worried by climate change? You could be suffering from ‘solastalgia’ – but great minds from the past may hold the cure
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Yes, Dürer was self-obsessed – but it made him a peculiar genius
As David Ekserdjian’s new study shows, to grasp the emotions and anxieties of the great German artist, just look hard at his beguiling work
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‘Men want to order their subjects around’ – this photographer captures life in all its imperfection
From Prague to Portobello Road, Markéta Luskačová's pictures shows children – across the decades – ‘simply as they are’
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Pigcasso – a pig who can really paint, or proof of human stupidity?
She saved his bacon from the butcher; now Joanne Lefson works for the gigantic pig-turned-artist. Is their tale enchanting or silly?
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The flashy art fair that’s helping out our ailing public galleries
With public subsidies down, some of our most famous institutions are floundering – that’s why Frieze London is coming to the rescue
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My godmother Lindy Dufferin – David Hockney’s friend and muse
The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava and her art-dealer husband were first to spot Hockney's brilliance
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‘Beauty begets beauty’: the artists who have transformed gardens into living masterpieces
When great artists have been blessed with green fingers, they've created lush oases and floral wonderlands – which you can still visit today
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The artist’s muse has no place in modern culture
From Lizzie Siddal to Jane Birkin, discussions around women inspiring ‘creative geniuses’ now feel old-fashioned and clichéd
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Thomas Heatherwick’s £1.3 billion mission to save London’s white elephant
After his success with Coal Drops Yard, the celebrated designer has a new challenge: overhauling the dilapidated Olympia exhibition hall
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Grayson Perry: ‘It’s fun being a Sir, particularly when you’re walking around in a dress’
The Turner Prize winner leads a visual tour through his life in six artworks – from college days to knighthood
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Naked performances and Woolf in the bath – meet the ‘art monsters’
Lauren Elkin’s study of rule-breaking female artists is admirable in intention – but the execution is contradictory and confused
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A perfect lesson in how to spoil great architecture
Cluttered with dull architectural models, this Royal Academy show fails to capture the emotional impact of the starchitects’ buildings
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Torture, cannibalism and the pits of Hell: why evil inspires the best art
In art and on screen, evil is often portrayed as being sexy – but it would soon get dull
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Chinese translator accuses British Museum of erasing her work in exhibition row
Yilin Wang raises concerns over the allocation of funding to 'white scholars' amidst accusations of plagiarism
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Want a foundation course in architecture? Try this essential guide
From the Palladian to the perverse – Hugh Pearman’s book on the most accessible art form is sure to stimulate further study
