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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

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

Have you heard of Surrealist photographer Lee Miller? Or the highly political Dada photo-montagist Hannah Höch? 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis achieved fame and recognition in her lifetime, as did 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but none of these women artists have achieved “household name” status, akin to Dali or Duchamp or…

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