Artists in Sudan; the Marquis de Sade in Barcelona; Gwen John

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Cezanne in Paris, Taryn Simon in New York, Magritte in London

At the Grand Palais in Paris a new exhibition explores Paul Cezanne’s influence on artists from his own time to now. In Paris, Ben Luke speaks to Xavier Rey, the director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, who is one of four curators of the exhibition, Ce ...  Show more

Giotto restored in Florence, Biennale de Lyon, Remedios Varo

After a four-year restoration, the Bardi Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, in which Giotto depicted scenes from the life of St Francis of Assisi in the early 14th century, has reopened. Ben Luke talks to Emanuela Daffra, superintendent of the Opficio delle Pietre ...  Show more

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