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Those Passions by TJ Clark review – a timely study of the connection between art and politics

The British art historian’s essays demonstrate a wide erudition but suffer from his relentless scrutinising

The Guardian - UK

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence

The Independent UK

Treasures on tour, outsized orchids and liberated bottoms – the week in art

Monet’s masterpiece flees the National Gallery, Marc Quinn plants himself in Kew and the Tate honours female artists – all in your weekly dispatch

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Insight! Sensitivity! Genius! Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery

It started from scratch – and became one of the world’s greatest collections. As the National Gallery celebrates its 200th birthday, we pick five sublime works – from a serene statesman to Van Gogh’s blazing blooms

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Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat

Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and new

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Threatening to dissolve masterpieces in acid is a pathetically banal stunt for our shallow times

Russian artist Andrei Molodkin will destroy works by Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol if Julian Assange dies in prison. It’s an unoriginal idea born of art-historical ignorance

The Guardian - UK

Spanish queen portrait expected to smash Velázquez auction record

Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain valued in region of $35m, more than double the record for a Velázquez

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In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner

Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again?

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil attack the Rokeby Venus: how the group is using the suffragettes' disruptive tactics to shape public opinion

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London. This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists.

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Just Stop Oil protesters smash glass on painting at National Gallery

Two activists arrested after Rokeby Venus artwork targeted, as dozens of others held after blocking Whitehall

The Guardian - UK

Climate activists smash glass protecting Velazquez's Venus painting in London's National Gallery

The group Just Stop Oil says two climate change protesters have smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery

The Independent UK

Juan de Pareja: how Velázquez’s slave became a renowned artist in his own right

Juan de Pareja’s story sheds light on the role of slavery in creating the great works of Spain’s golden age

The Guardian - UK

The challenge of rehangs: galleries wrestle with changing politics of art

A reshuffle of Tate Britain’s collections has led to it being accused of reducing art to social history

The Guardian - UK

Madrid’s new museum is a modern mecca for old-world art lovers

Five centuries of royal collections will go on display in the Spanish capital next month in ambitious £146m project

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Spain and the Hispanic World review – royals, chinchillas, bullfights and blood

A beautiful Velázquez, fascinating maps, glazed pottery from Muslim craftsmen … US collector Archer Huntington amassed stupendous works – but is there more to this show than the spoils of one man’s grand tour?

Evening Standard

Spain and the Hispanic World at the RA review: a stunning selection from 4,000 years of art

From Bell Beaker bowls dating to 2000 BC to Goya and Velazquez and more contemporary work, this exhibition conjures the soul of the Hispanic world

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

Evening Standard

Eco-warriors attack Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with Heinz soup – here are the other famous acts of art vandalism

What is it about art that activists (love to) hate so much?

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Damage limitation: how sculptor Ali Cherri is reworking vandalised art

From the slashed Rokeby Venus to a bullet-scarred Leonardo – artworks famously changed by violence provide inspiration for the Lebanon-born artist

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Sir John Elliott obituary

Historian of imperial Spain known for his vivid biography of a 17th-century statesman, the count-duke of Olivares

Evening Standard

Ali Cherri: If you prick us, do we not bleed? at the National Gallery review - vandalism made good

The Beirut-born artist has explored the histories of vandalised art and in doing so reveals them afresh

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