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Disciplinary action – ‘A History of Art History’ by Christopher S. Wood, reviewed

This wide-ranging and original study gives art historians much to think and argue about

Too close to the bone? Coldplay spends a night at the Natural History Museum

Coldplay Perform At The Natural History Museum

The band performed underneath a skeleton in the museum’s great hall last weekend

State of Saxony returns indigenous remains to Australia

The Grassi Museum in Leipzig.

Art news daily: 29 November

Women looking at men looking at them – at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle

Susanna and the Elders (detail; 1866), Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

Paintings from the museum’s founding collection show the unsettling ways in which men have often represented women

Geffrye Museum to reopen as Museum of the Home

The Geffrye Museum.

Art news daily: 28 November

What not to miss at the winter edition of London Art Week

Highlights of the artworks and exhibitions on show in Mayfair and St James’s this year

Pattern and Decoration – the movement that made a leitmotif of light motif

Heartland (1985), Miriam Schapiro. Orlando Museum of Art.

Embracing polka dot, patchwork and plenty of colour, P&D artists set out to challenge the norms of good taste

Russian and Syrian officials agree plans to restore Palmyra

The ancient city of Palmyra, photographed in 2017.

Art news daily: 27 November

Going concerns? The Victorian market halls of Horace Jones

Leadenhall Market in the City of London, designed by Horace Jones (1819–87) and opened in 1881 (photo: 2011).

Once feted for infrastructure projects in London, the architect is now better known for designing Tower Bridge and Leadenhall and Smithfield markets

Belgian police intervene in ownership dispute over religious sculptures

Art news daily: 26 November

‘He kicked open the doors of Society just as Sixties London began to swing’ – a tribute to Terry O’Neill

Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 29th March 1977 (detail).

The late photographer shot some of the most iconic figures of the 20th century, from Winston Churchill to David Bowie

Thieves raid historic treasury at royal palace in Dresden

Police outside the Residenzschloss in Dresden on 25 November 2019.

Art news daily: 25 November

‘His writing was always alive to the deep pleasures of great buildings’

Charles Jencks outside the Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital, designed by Rogers Stirk + Harbour.

Remembering the critical insights and generous instincts of the writer and architect Charles Jencks (1939–2019)

Could national museums in the UK do more to be truly national?

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Illustration: David Biskup

Are the largely London-based institutions funded by central government doing enough to share their collections and expertise with the rest of the country?

‘Sugar paste is very fine, finer than porcelain’ – the art of historical banquets

Recreation of a baroque feasting table in c. 1650, conceived and made by Ivan Day with taxidermy by David Astley and seafood and fruit models by Tony Barton.

The food historian Ivan Day talks about the historical table settings he has recreated for an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

The finer points of art appreciation – and some blunt speaking – in ‘The Crown’

The Queen and Prince Philip get some art advice from Anthony Blunt in season three of the lavish drama

The Peabody Essex Museum makes a bigger splash in Salem

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The Peabody Essex Museum in 2019 with its new wing designed by Ennead Architects on the right

Thanks to the town’s seafaring merchants, the museum has one of the world’s best collections of maritime and Asian art – and a whole new wing for its display

British metal detectorists sentenced for stealing Saxon and Viking hoard worth £3m

Art news daily: 22 November

Sister act – Plautilla Nelli and the painter nuns of 16th-century Florence

Last Supper (detail; c. 1560s), Plautilla Nelli.

The Dominican nun led a flourishing workshop in the convent of Santa Caterina – as her recently restored Last Supper shows

Labour Party general election manifesto pledges £1bn culture boost

Jeremy Corbyn at the launch of the Labour party election manifesto in Birmingham on 21 November 2019.

Art news daily: 21 November

London calling – Orazio Gentileschi’s The Finding of Moses at the court of Charles I

The Finding of Moses (early 1630s), Orazio Gentileschi

The National Gallery is raising funds to purchase Orazio Gentileschi’s biblical scene – once a prized possession of Queen Henrietta Maria

Personality of the Year

Nan Goldin photographed at the Palace of Versailles in May 2019.

Nan Goldin

Museum Opening of the Year

Africa Museum, Tervuren

Artist of the Year

Frank Bowling, photographed in his studio in London for Apollo in April 2017. Photo: © Alastair Levy

Frank Bowling