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‘Not by fire, but by divine art’: Dantean echoes from the Uffizi Galleries

Dante (detail; c. 1448–49), Andrea del Castagno.

This curated online display considers how the great poet inspired and was inspired by the visual arts

Flores Mexicanas: Women in Modern Mexican Art

Flores Mexicanas (detail; 1914–29), Alfredo Ramos Martinez.

A rediscovered masterpiece by Alfredo Ramos Martínez is at the centre of the Dallas Museum of Art’s virtual display

European globes of the 17th–18th centuries

‘Pocket’ terrestrial globe (1679), Joseph Moxon.

The British Library has digitised its historical globes – take them for a spin on your desktop or phone

Behind the screens – how museums and galleries are going virtual

Courtesy the British Museum

What exactly does it take to create an online exhibition? And will such platforms still be of use after lockdown?

Fire at construction site of Humboldt Forum in Berlin

Smoke at the site of the Humboldt Forum construction site on the morning of 8 April 2020

Art news daily: 8 April

Freedom of expression – Jerry Saltz’s ‘How to be an Artist’, reviewed

Fling, Dribble, and Drip (detail; 1970), Lynda Benglis, frontispiece of Jerry Saltz’s How to be an Artist (2020).

The critic’s guide to creative living is full of joy – but how far can you get by following someone else’s rules?

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2020

Chicken, Game Birds, and Hares (c. 1882), Gustave Caillebotte.

A transformative gift for Cleveland Museum of Art and some metal detectorists’ finds are among this month’s highlights

Opening of Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza postponed until 2021

The interior of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza photographed during construction in September 2019.

Art news daily: 7 April

The inward eye – painting, poetry and the world of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (detail; 1842), Benjamin Robert Haydon. National Portrait Gallery, London

The 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth prompts a reflection on his complicated relationship with the visual arts

Whitney lays off 76 staff members

The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Art news daily: 6 April

Schoolchildren, science and smartphones shine new light on a Florentine masterpiece

‘Ways of Seeing’ app in use before Jacopo del Sellaio’s painting in the Octagon Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

An interdisciplinary project at the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed tantalising possibilities about Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche

The forgotten landscapes of Edward Hopper

Cape Ann Granite (1928), Edward Hopper

The great painter of urban solitude was also a dab hand at empty expanses – from dunes and forests to the open road

Mischief-making mistresses at the court of Charles II

Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland with her son, probably Charles Fitzroy, as the Virgin and Child (c. 1664), Peter Lely. National Portrait Gallery, London

How the women at the heart of the Restoration court ‘weaponised’ portraits that flaunted their influence over the king

Getty Trust creates $10m fund for arts organisations in Los Angeles

The Getty Center.

Art news daily: 3 April

Keeping up with Artemisia

Susanna and the Elders (1652), Artemisia Gentileschi.

The National Gallery’s Artemisia exhibition may be postponed, writes its curator, but there are plenty of ways to explore her work in the meantime

Last-Minute Michelangelo

Study of a Mourning Woman (c. 1500–05), Michelangelo Buonarotti.

A guided tour of the Getty’s now-closed exhibition in a series of videos with curator Julian Brooks

The Staffordshire Hoard

This sumptuous website provides an in-depth look at the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found

Tanoa Sasraku: O’ Pierrot

Still from O‘ Pierrot (detail; 2019), Tanoa Sasraku

Two of the artist’s films exploring race, ruralism and nationhood are now available to watch on the LUX website

Rijksmuseum Masterpieces Up Close

The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn

A virtual tour of the Gallery of Honour brings the cream of Dutch painting to your desktop

National Trust for Scotland appoints Philip Long as chief executive

Philip Long.

Art news daily: 2 April

What now for art businesses? Thoughts from an art lawyer in a time of crisis

What steps can art businesses take to temper the risks they face during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Has André Malraux’s imaginary museum come into its own?

André Malraux, in his role as culture minister, inaugurating an Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1966.

The French writer and politician is widely credited as the inventor of the ‘virtual’ or ‘imaginary’ museum – but what exactly did he have in mind?

Priming up the walls – on colour and confinement

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Wallpaper design, ‘Trellis’ (detail; designed 1862, first produced 1864), William Morris. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Some choose their wallpaper, some have paint schemes thrust upon them… a decorative dérive through the history of colour and interiors

Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage saved for the nation

Derek Jarman’s cottage at Dungeness, Kent.

Art news daily: 1 April