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The Colombian sculptor finds inspiration in grief and channels it into new inventions
An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute is a road map for the artist’s psychological journey
Joshua Decter’s book of essays raises questions it refuses to answer
This year’s edition of Momentum explores the anxiety of contemporary life
Diane Arbus and her brother, the poet Howard Nemerov, are the subject of a new memoir-cum-history
Guidelines, warnings and instructions are everywhere in Höller’s latest show
The artist’s show is a smart corrective to the standard narrative
The American sculptor is at his best when his work leaves problems to be resolved
There was room for improvement in the first UK retrospective of the American artist
Matthew Collings reviews BBC profile of US artist
Essays on the critic and curator Lawrence Alloway give a minor figure too much credit
An intimate portrait of 95-year-old Brutalist architect Gottfried Böhm and his remarkable family
Bearded and berobed figures inspired artists including Schiele and Beuys
Donald Lee recommends the Luther exhibition in Torgau about the Reformer’s relationships with the German princes
How the new contemporary art spaces in Paris and Milan measure up
Painting lives on, but the critical terms stagnate and slacken, the art historian says
Joanna Robotham takes a look at MoMA’s survey of art made during the Great Migration
The central exhibition at the Venice Biennale is searing but splendid, even if it raises moral concerns
Artists and architects talk at length about their work
Across two books, the master's work is interpreted in divergent, not diverse, ways
Where Ossian Ward provides a handy guide, Charles Saatchi fails to impress
From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since
Two very different books speak to a worrying trend in the critique of art
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture promoted “diversity of manners” rather than stylistic unity
Art-world luminaries, from Eli Broad and Marina Warner to Tim Marlow and Xu Bing, pick the best art books they read in 2013
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
An indispensable book on Morris’s revolutionary cloth designs and techniques—and the political views that inspired them
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
