The week in art
What's happening this week in the world of art
Surrealism goes global, artists open their studios and Damien Hirst shows a macabre master – the week in art
The Tate’s ambitious surrealism survey opens its doors and the Whitechapel Art Gallery opens up 100 years of artists’ studios – all in your weekly dispatch
Cosmic Stonehenge secrets, Ai Weiwei looks back, and gay sex 11,000 years ago – the week in art
The British Museum introduces Europe’s earliest ancestors, the activist artist sits his work next to Chinese antiquities and LGBT+ history month begins with the deep human past – all in your weekly dispatch
Venice Biennale begins with a bang – the week in art
Sarah Lucas’s smoking vaginas descend on Venice, as Peter Kennard’s subversive pacifist art takes over the Imperial War Museum and Frida Kahlo’s lost wardrobe gets opened up. Plus Grayson Perry’s Taj Mahal in Essex and Cornelia Parker remakes the Magna Carta
This week: Richard Avedon earns his first major retrospective, Giacometti fakes are seized in Germany and the Jarman Award shortlist is announced
The British Museum heads to Abu Dhabi and Antony Gormley's terracotta army, catch up with the week's biggest art stories
From the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square to totalitarian art in Bulgaria, catch up on the week's big art stories
This week, St Paul's Cathedral goes digital, a classic Tokyo tower faces demolition and Sarah Jessica Parker joins the art world
Gainsborough goes cheap on eBay, Damien Hirst plays hard to get, and Peter Doig's on the up – catch up on the week's big art stories
Hong Kong holds its international art fair, Tony Curtis wheels his work into Harrods, Norman Foster is honoured in Spain and stuffed animals go on show in Germany
From Anthony Hopkins' exhibiting in Canada, to Lithuania's first international contemporary art fair – catch up on the week's art news
Silvio Berlusconi is caught in the nude, Belfast peace walls get a makeover and there's an art spat brewing between Tehran and Washington
From Ron Arad's mirrored maps of the US to a first glimpse of Rem Koolhaas's shape-shifting Prada pavilion, catch up on the week's big art stories
This week: Plans for a Leonardo Da Vinci theme park are underway in France, a Russian artist spreads anarchist art across London and madness reigns at the Wellcome Collection
This week: Hitler's art goes under the hammer, a nude sketch of Cherie Blair sells for £4,000 and a giant fire-breathing robot stuns Tokyo crowds
In pictures: Damien Hirst is the subject of a major retrospective in Scotland, and Russian artist Andrei Molodkin wants to make art with corpses
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