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Its works by Moore, Hepworth and Gormley are priceless. But they are at risk – from toxic bird poo, shifting tree roots and 400,000 greasy humans. We spend a day with the team keeping everything safe

A stay in one of the capital’s best hotels is as good as a trip away, says Nancy Durrant

Letters: Ian Skidmore responds to Katy Hessel’s article mentioning Boris Anrep’s mosaics at the National Gallery. Plus letters from Philip Rutnam and John Bailey

From kaleidoscopic mosaics to modernist masterpieces, let’s open our eyes to the art hidden in plain sight

Ancient colleges, leafy spaces and punting on the river abound in this charming English city, but there’s plenty more to it, says Mary Novakovich

When Barbara Hepworth died in 1975, fellow sculptor Henry Moore wrote an obituary in The Sunday Times with the headline, The Shaping of a Sculptor. Not only did it prominently feature their shared birthplace of Yorkshire, but the paper’s clever headline echoed the ways their respective artistic identities had been…

Between Sam Mendes’s love letter to cinema and Al Pacino hunting Hitler, our critics unpack all the culture you need to keep going for the next seven days

Giorgio Morandi gets a startling new show, Marcus Harvey takes on antiheroes and Barbara Hepworth in St Ives – all in your weekly dispatch

All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Almost half a century after her death, the prolific British artist, whose ‘holes’ in sculptures changed modern abstract art, has her first major exhibition in Australia

From a pliosaur skeleton now known to Australian museumgoers as Eric to the basalt that built Robert Smithson’s almighty Spiral Jetty, these are stones that really speak