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Beyond TEFAF – more to see in and around Maastricht this year

Girl in a red kimono (detail; c. 1893), George Hendrik Breitner. Kunstmuseum Den Haag

As the art world makes for Maastricht, it’s worth casting an eye further abroad to the full range of events and shows across the region

The best of TEFAF Maastricht 2020 – part two

St Michael the Archangel fighting Lucifer (1626–27), Giuseppe Cesari, Cavaliere d’Arpino. Hazlitt, price on application.

From a monumental mannerist canvas to a silver-and-coconut cup – more works not to miss at the fair this year

The best of TEFAF Maastricht 2020 – part one

Sammelband (detail; 1525–28), Albrecht Dürer.

Rare books by Dürer, a bowl owned by William Beckford and a pioneering Pop sculpture – what not to miss at this year’s fair

‘His work was his life, and vice versa’ – a tribute to Ulay (1943–2020)

Mudras (detail; 1974), Ulay.

The German-born artist never stopped reinventing himself – from his gender-bending self-portraits to a film about living with cancer

Grafton Architects win Pritzker Prize

Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell in 2009.

Art news daily: 4 March

Art Dubai postponed indefinitely due to coronavirus

Art news daily: 3 March

‘A real hit parade of work from almost every country in the Arab world’

City II (1968) Huguette Caland

An important survey of abstract Arab art throws up questions about the influences swirling around in the post-war period

Ulay (1943–2020)

Mudras (detail; 1974), Ulay.

Art news daily: 2 March

In sharp focus – Steve McQueen at Tate Modern, reviewed

7th Nov. (still; 2001), Steve McQueen.

A series of understated yet powerful works make clear that McQueen is as effective in the gallery as in the cinema

Baroque stars – the birth of a style in 17th-century Rome

(1638–40), Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Musei Capitolini, Rome.

Caravaggio and Bernini are the headliners – but the Rijksmuseum’s show reveals the range of artists who adopted the baroque style

Why is the Egyptian government moving ancient monuments around the country?

Sandstone ram-headed sphinxes (reign of Ramesses II; c. 1250 BC), from the first court in the Temple of Karnak in modern Luxor. Four of these sphinxes have now been taken to Cairo (photo: January 2020). Photo: © Ivar Sviestins

The transfer of obelixes and sphinxes to Cairo is the latest episode in a long history of rulers using the ancient past for their own ends

Has the tomb of Romulus really been found – or is someone crying wolf?

Sculpture of Romulus and Remus suckling at a she-wolf in the Musei Capitolini. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Claims that the resting place of the legendary founder of Rome has been discovered cause Rakewell to raise an eyebrow

Norwegian government authorises demolition of building bearing murals by Picasso

Photo: Helge Høifødt/Wikimedia Commons

Art news daily: 28 February

‘It’s an artistic overview of one of the most productive moments in the city of Leuven’

View of The Last Supper (1464–68) by Dieric Bouts (c. 1415–75) in St Peter's Church, Leuven. Photo: Ⓒ Rudi Van Beek; courtesy M Leuven

Curator Peter Carpreau talks about the masterpieces of Flemish art housed in the recently restored St Peter’s Church in Leuven

The triumphant – but temporary – return of Raphael’s tapestries to the Sistine Chapel

The Raphael tapestries hanging in the Sistine Chapel, Rome.

For just one week the full set of surviving tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X could be seen in their original setting

Grayson Perry wins €150,000 Erasmus Prize

Art news daily: 27 February

What is Pyotr Pavlensky playing at?

Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky during a press interview in Paris on February 22, 2020. Photo by MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images

There is no shortage of theories about why the Russian artist leaked a sex tape that made a French politician drop out of the mayoral race in Paris

Burning desires – Céline Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, reviewed

Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

The French director’s film about an 18th-century painter and her muse is a visual feast

Major LACMA donor suspends long-term gift programme

Michael Sweerts’ Plague in an Ancient City (1618), one of the many artworks donated by the Ahmanson Foundation to Los Angeles County Museum of Art over the past five decades

Art news daily: 26 February

The Armory Show and beyond – around the galleries in New York

The Tourist(detai; 2019), Amir H. Fallah.

Highlights of the upcoming modern and contemporary fairs and gallery shows in the Big Apple

More than 600 artists endorse Bernie Sanders in open letter

Bernie Sanders.

Art news daily: 25 February

African-American artists from the South put on a show of defiance

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Documentation of the yard and porch of the artist Emmer Sewell.

A survey of black artists from the American South reveals how oppression and inequality couldn’t crush their creativity

Personality cult – Alfred Jarry makes an impression at the Morgan Library

Illustration from César-antechrist (detail; 1895), Alfred Jarry.

The creator of King Ubu and inventor of pataphysics was deeply attached to the art of the book

Spread of coronavirus causes museums across northern Italy to close

A tourist in Venice on 24 February 2020, wearing a protective face-mask and a Carnival mask.

Art news daily: 24 February