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Cornelia Parker puts the lost and found into Foundling Museum

More than 60 fellow artists add poignant responses to history of children in need

Monster sculptures: Serra, Kapoor and Webster in New York

Three shows offer a roller-coaster study in size

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The stones cry out: on Medieval art in war-torn Syria

The Ayyubid glories of Syria, now mostly in ruins

The touch behind the image: on New Imagery in Italian Art at the Guggenheim Collection

The exhibition reveals how artists imbued pictures with a sense of tactility

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‘Utterly abolished, eradicated and erased out’—but never forgotten

The iconoclasms of the English Reformation may shed light on today’s cultural destructions

The fine line between drawing and photography

Two-venue exhibition in London examines the rarely-explored relationship between the two media

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Damien Hirst’s cracking homage to Jeff Koons

Second show at London’s Newport Street Gallery is a painstaking tribute

The French connection: on Windows on the City at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The show of Modern masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum in New York takes a pick-and-mix approach to art of Paris

A major minor master: Jonathan Brown on Anthony van Dyck at the Frick Collection

The artist had his triumphs, but he never fulfilled his greatest ambitions

Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern: the art of war in our time

Lebanon-born artist tackles world politics but the intimate and the personal shine brightest

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The false Gods of Dada: on Dada Presentism by Maria Stavrinaki

A new book on the movement draws lessons on the dangers of eclecticism

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More royalty required: on the al-Sabah Collection

The non-courtly manuscripts and miniatures of the al-Sabah Collection come together in a new publication

Work of constant change: Orit Gat on Ed Atkins at The Kitchen

The artist's latest work is fragmented and difficult, but also engrossing and rewarding

What your pants say about you

Our underwear reveals a lot about our changing perceptions of sex and gender, according to the V&A's latest show

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The power of the imagination: on Bernini's drawings

His drawings in the collection of the Vatican Library are the subject of a new book

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The Divine Comedy, a German classic: on Dante's German debut

After Schlegel, Dante was loosed from the Romantic moorings and entered the mainstream of German letters

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Deutschland über alles? On the early Renaissance art market

Contrary to popular opinion, the Early Renaissance German art market developed simultaneously with, not later than, those in Italy and the Low Countries

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Vision, virtuosity, versatility: on Hellenistic bronzes

A valuable overview of the current state of scholarship

Pomp in print, pomp at play: princely splendour in two Viennese exhibitions

Two show on Germanic collections from the Early Modern period fulfil all expectations

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What drove Robert Mapplethorpe?

New HBO film shines light on photographer’s ruthless drive and ambition

British Museum’s Sicily show highlights two golden ages

Exhibition demonstrates sophistication and expertise of both the invaders and the conquered

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Maria Sibylla Merian: a fascination for metamorphosis

Artist travelled to Suriname in 17th century to document caterpillars, chrysalises and butterflies

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Only for the rich: Islamic art is overshadowed by morally questionable Gulf labour conditions

Jane Jakeman reviews two very different takes on art in the Middle East