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A lifelong dedication to Gothic architecture: Peter Howell on A.W.N. Pugin

The final instalment in the collected letters of a revivalist pioneer

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It's alive: Philippe Parreno lights up Gladstone Gallery

The artist's latest show includes an active bioreactor

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Empire is a dirty word but Tate Britain is not afraid of it

A show at the London museum tackles the artistic legacy of 400 years of British colonialism

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Full of prim euphemism: Brian Dillon on Dave Hickey’s 25 Women

The book’s finest points are overshadowed by dispiriting foolishness

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Time was of the essence: on Impressionism versus Realism

In the battle with tradition, Impressionism’s “triumph” was not a foregone conclusion

The many facets of Isaac Mizrahi: Victoria Stapley-Brown on the designer's Jewish Museum survey

"I can hardly believe it, I’m floating on this cloud," the artist says of the exhibition

'You don't need a gallery to show ideas': Orit Gat on Seth Siegelaub at the Stedelijk

An exhibition in Amsterdam devoted to the dealer's work explores his curatorial ideas

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Impossible figures, strings and fractals: where art meets math

A consideration of the interconnections between disciplines

Stories of progress and property: on the European galleries at the V&A

The new installation raises important historical questions and brings much joy

Escape from New York: on Greater New York at MoMA PS1

Claims of nostalgia have a complicated relationship to a new generation of artists

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Cool doesn’t cut it: Andrew Lambirth on painting today

The presentation of painting all too often undermines the nature of true invention

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How British silver seduced 17th-century imperial Russia

It was a case of international economics and politics in kettles and coolers

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The Hessian Minerva: on the collector Karoline Luise of Baden

Two appreciations of the remarkable 18th-century artist and collector

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The Reich’s romance with the Renaissance

How Germany fashioned its identity through 15th- and 16th-century Italian art

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Pots are for plebs: why vases were cheap in Ancient Greece

A mistaken attempt to raise the status of vase painting

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A brilliant impersonator of himself: Terry Eagleton on Oscar Wilde

Eagleton looks at a critic who was 'piously dedicated to his own pleasure'

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The most beautiful palette in France: on Eugène Delacroix

The extraordinary influence of Delacroix is tackled in a new exhibition and accompanying catalogue

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A world away from the rest: David D'Arcy on Paula-Modersohn Becker at Galerie St. Etienne

A show of the artist's work reveals her proximity to and distance from both modernism and academicism

Not illustrious: Matthew Collings on Spanish Masters at the Hermitage Amsterdam

Museums officials have failed to bring anything new to the work on display

Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame southern China’s transformation

Lisa Movius on the Guangzhou Triennial, Asia Biennial and Shenzhen Urban Biennale