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After the protests of May 1968 failed to generate lasting political change, French artists developed a fierce and funny new language – one based around irony and violence
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Very light-sensitive, seldom-viewed works by Rembrandt, Leonardo, Dürer, Holbein, Rubens in forthcoming exhibition
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Atlanta-based artist and neuroscience PhD student Desirée De León makes little things into miniature worlds
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From great masterpieces by Caravaggio and Picasso to Georgiana Houghton’s hypnotic rediscovered paintings, this was a year full of stunning blockbusters
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The first retrospective since the US artist’s death in 2011 celebrates a man pushing sex and death into a gore-soaked new space for art
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Colossal new Anselm Kiefer works arrive in London, while Juergen Teller curates the work of Robert Mapplethorpe – plus the rest of the week’s art happenings
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Row breaks out as Van Gogh Museum rebuts academic’s claims she has found dozens of sketchbook drawings by artist
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A pink octopus, an albino camel, a bronze slug … a menagerie of curious creatures slyly evoke the mysteries of the animal kingdom
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Cambridge academic Ulinka Rublack’s new book claims the artist best known as a painter of the Tudor hierarchy had earlier used art to criticise the powerful
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Picasso said printmaking was his way of ‘writing fiction’. His beguiling works – of lovers, matadors and monsters – reveal an often overlooked side of his genius
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When Jeremy Deller first asked Iggy Pop to pose nude for a life-drawing session, the rock star said he was too young. Now, at 69, rock’s most famous torso has bared all
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Yves Klein heads to Liverpool, while Manchester hosts the masterful printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi – plus the rest of the week’s art happenings
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London exhibition, planned before architect’s death, will feature drawings that shine a light on how she thought about architectural forms
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Bolshevism, Einstein, a journey to the moon… the South African artist’s new show is a dazzling montage of modern times -
This jumbled exhibition tracking changing attitudes to mental illness could have been a powerful study of Bedlam and psychiatry. Instead it fails to make sense of the real place and the myth
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A new exhibition collects together work made by inmates of mental hospitals – which is often startlingly detailed and fiercely lucid
Dick Bruna obituary