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  • A dirty white train with the reflection of a woman in a green jacket in the window

    Smart shot
    ‘Within others you can find yourself’: Kimboid’s best phone shot

  • Paul Mescal as Lucius in Gladiator II

    Going out, staying in
    From Gladiator II to Gwen Stefani: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

  • Buckingham Palace

    The crown should consider the restitution of cultural artefacts

    Letters: Unparalleled collections hidden from public view got Mary Evans thinking
  • Timothy Hyman in 2014

    Other lives
    Timothy Hyman obituary

    Other lives: Artist whose paintings reflected his passion for London and a respected writer on Sienese and Indian art
  • Paul Reas, Hand of Pork, Caerphilly, South Wales, 1985 - 1988

    Art Weekly newsletter
    80s a-go-go, hanging with Calder and a Scots stitch-up – the week in art

    Plus: a magical Picasso print, a farewell to Frank Auerbach and polyamorous bohemian Dora Carrington gets her own show – all in your weekly dispatch
  • The Giant Zumurrud Shah flees with his army by flying away on urns sent by sorcerers, Folio from the Hamza-Nama c. 1562-1577. Opaque water colour and gold on cotton backed with paper.

    Creative sparks: how the Mughal empire made opulent art with power

    The V&A’s Great Mughals shines a light on a cultured and enlightened reign over India and south Asia that still wields influence today. Take a close look at some of the remarkable artefacts of that era
  • A bowl-like cup with a picture of a chicken on it, coloured in red and blue.

    British Museum receives record £1bn donation of Chinese ceramics

  • Interieur, an 1872 painting by Berthe Morisot

    ‘Manetsplaining’: author describes impressionist’s ‘agonising’ act of condescension

  • The mother sits with her legs widely sprawled as her baby clings on to her chest. She also has a direct and unsmiling gaze, close -cut hair and a moustache.

    Steph Wilson wins Taylor Wessing photography prize with striking portrait

  • Frank Auerbach in his studio.

    Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

  • Swirling street scene … Camden Theatre Cold Spring 1977.

    ‘He painted with a fury for life’ – how Frank Auerbach put lust and sorrow into every brushstroke

  • Auerbach in his studio, 2001.

    I’ll die with a brush in my hand: Frank Auerbach – a life in pictures

  • A man wearing a blue T-shirt stands in front of a painting of a tattooed man

    Vincent Valdez: the controversial artist tackling racism, violence and America

    Artist rose to prominence for his Ku Klux Klan painting and now his provocative, powerful work is on exhibition
  • A work by Banksy on display in Glasgow. Police in Italy have seized more than 2,100 fake pieces, some purporting to be by the British artist.

    Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy

    Art police and Pisa prosecutor say 38 people being investigated, with about 2,100 fake artworks seized
  • man holding a palette and paintbrush in front of a big painting with a smiling creature

    Artist Kenny Scharf: ‘I’m carrying the torch for friends who couldn’t keep it going’

    He worked alongside Keith Haring and Andy Warhol in 1980s New York and now gets his first major institutional show in the same city
  • Wilhelm von Schadow’s the Artist’s Children which was restituted to the estate of Max Stern, in a still from the film Spoils.

    The Spoils director says film forces art world to confront ‘loaded issue’ of restitution

    Documentary shows the fight to recover paintings that Jewish art dealer was forced to sell by the Nazis
  • A sketch of Henry Page’s fellow soldiers

    Dreaming of a pint and a ‘girl’ back home: first world war soldier’s poignant sketches of life in the trenches

    Newly unearthed studies by young private Henry Page have been published to mark Rememberance Sunday
  • Raphael, Two Male Nudes Seen from Behind, c. 1505-06.

    The week in art: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael; Drawing the Italian Renaissance – review

    A trio of Renaissance masters look over each other’s shoulders in Florence 1504, while a parallel show of drawings gets to the very heart of their art
  • The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist, by Leonardo da Vinci, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

    The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

  • Works by Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael

    Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?

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