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Contemporary art comes to the oldest street in Cairo

Installation view of Bimaristan Qalawoon Gift Shop (2019), Yasmine El Meleegy in in Muhib Al-Din Hall for ‘Reimagined Narratives’, Cairo, 2019.

The latest instalment of Art D’Égypte’s annual exhibition is spread across four venues on the historic El Mu’iz street

Works in progress – the turbulent tales of William Hogarth

The Humours of an Election, 4: Chairing the Member (detail; 1754–55), William Hogarth.

Things rarely turn out well for the characters in the satirist’s so-called ‘progress’ pieces – rather, they capture the chaos of 18th-century life

Art that speaks for itself? – ‘Gothic Sculpture’ by Paul Binski, reviewed

Limestone statue of Mary Magdalen (detail) (c. 1313), from the collegiate church at Écouis (Eure). Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais/Jean-Gilles Berizzi

A thought-provoking study considers what makes medieval European sculpture so memorable

Haus der Kunst names Andrea Lissoni as director

Andrea Lissoni.

Art news daily: 22 October

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Rayyane Tabet

Rayyane Tabet in front of Steel Rings (2013–), from the series The Shortest Distance Between Two Points (2007–).

The Beirut-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his fascination with the lives of objects

Huang Yong Ping (1954–2019)

Huang Yong Ping in 2016.

Art news daily: 21 October

‘All kinds of glorious hijinks’ – a tribute to John Giorno

John Giorno (1936–2019) in New York in 2012.

In all his art, from his poetry hotline to the recent text paintings, Giorno refused to be bored or be boring

Peasant company – Jean-François Millet among the moderns

The Gleaners (1857), Jean-François Millet. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

How the Barbizon painter’s subversive rural scenes inspired artists from Van Gogh to Salvador Dalí

Centre Pompidou to establish ‘art factory’ in Paris suburb

The Pompidou Centre, Paris.

Art news daily: 18 October

The saintly sight of Cardinal Newman

Detail of the portrait unveiled at Birmingham Oratory in 2019.

Rakewell digs out some portraits of John Henry Newman, the first British person to be canonised for nearly 50 years

‘Frustrate the Feminine Fanatics’ – how women overcame their critics at Cambridge University

Photograph from 1904/06 of ‘Steamboat ladies’ – women students from Cambridge who were awarded degrees by Trinity College Dublin in the 1900s. Girton College, Cambridge

It is 150 years since women first arrived at Cambridge – and the fight for equality has taken almost as long

Trevor Paglen trains his sights on the rise of machine vision

Installation view of ‘Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen: Training Humans’ at Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2019. Shown are images from the ImageNet training set.

What are the implications of using object recognition technology to classify human faces and emotions?

Italian court lifts loan ban on Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490, Gallerie dell'Accademia

Art news daily: 17 October

Glass act – inside the Danish museum devoted to studio glass

The Glasmuseet in Ebelhoft

The Glasmuseet in Ebeltoft has a significant collection of works donated by artists from around the world

Venus enlargement? Marlene Dumas takes on Shakespeare’s erotic verse

The embrace (2015–16), Marlene Dumas, in Venus & Adonis (2019; David Zwirner Books).

The artist is one of few to have attempted to illustrate Venus and Adonis

Emilie Gordenker announced as new general director of Van Gogh Museum

Art news daily: 16 October

Mark Bradford descends into the hell of modern America

A five thousand year old laugh (2019), Mark Bradford.

A new series of sprawling canvases by the Los Angeles-based artist takes inspiration from Cerberus, the mythical hound of Hades

Public relations – solidarity posters from Castro’s Cuba

OSPAAAL poster (detail; 1969), Alfredo Rostgaard.

The 1960s and ’70s were a golden age for Cuban artists who designed striking graphics for liberation movements across the world

Éric Baudelaire wins Prix Marcel Duchamp

Éric Baudelaire at Locarno Film Festival.

Art news daily: 15 October

John Giorno (1936–2019)

John Giorno (1936–2019) in New York in 2012.

Art news daily: 14 October

A long-lost Cimabue has emerged – and the ‘first light’ of painting now burns brighter than ever

The Mocking of Christ (detail; c. 1280), Cimabue.

The chance discovery in a kitchen in France has major significance for scholarship on the Florentine master

Messier and Messier – at the FC Barcelona Museum

Camp Nou, Barcelona in 2014.

A visit to Camp Nou – where Lionel Messi’s boots can be found alongside works by Miró, Dalí and Tàpies

Open letter calls for MoMA trustee Larry Fink to divest from private prisons

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art news daily: 11 October

‘My art is about overcoming our limitations’ – an interview with Agnes Denes

Agnes Denes walking through her installation Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982) in the Battery Park landfill, New York.

The artist talks about what it meant to plant a wheatfield in Manhattan – and why she wants her work to outlive her