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Major art exhibition in Alba de Tormes aims to break cultural stranglehold of Madrid and Barcelona

Anselm Kiefer received The Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award

The prime minister had only to look back a few years to see he was making a huge mistake, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

‘I have been so proud to be his daughter all my life’ she wrote

The Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British Museum that British diplomat Lord Elgin was given permission from Ottoman authorities to remove the marbles from the Acropolis in Athens in the early years of the 19th century.

A retrospective of South African artist Gavin Jantjes, new works by Zanele Muholi and Charles Lutyens’ insights as an art therapist

These drawings make us think again about Moore the sculptor, while the gallery also has a fine show of Vanessa Bell’s works that is worth visiting

At the opening of her new Madrid show a new world, the Mexican artist tells Will Hosie that space is the final frontier, but she won’t go.

In awarding this year’s Archibald Prize to Laura Jones’ portrait of the writer Tim Winton, the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales are doing what they do best: catapulting a relatively unknown artist to instant fame and possible fortune.