Art

A life in miniature

‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life

Books
Stars, stripes and dollars

Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag

On Art
The key to the collapse of our cultural self-confidence

Why have our great cultural institutions been among the first to fall?

Columns
Policing art is a slippery slope

The hunger for policing thoughts as well as bodies hasn’t been eradicated, as recent events in New Zealand show

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“A metal barbie on the crest of an £143,000 turd”

Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”

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Tate Modern in a terrible tangle

Tate Modern gets itself in a terrible tangle over a cancelled show

On Art
How not to lose your marbles

Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong

Features
The Mirror of #MeToo

Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy

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An extreme form of criticism

Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger

On Art
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap

Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)

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