Apollo

Germany returns Nazi-looted Renaissance panels to Jewish heirs

St Clare Rescuing the Shipwrecked (1455), Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia.

Art news daily: 3 September

40 Under 40 Middle East

The most inspirational young people in the Middle Eastern art world

Zeina Arida

Director, Sursock Museum, Beirut

Antonia Carver

Director, Art Jameel, Dubai

Mohammed Afkhami

Collector and patron, Dubai

Britta Färber

Chief Curator and Deputy Global Head of Art, Culture & Sports, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main

William Wells

Executive Director, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

Matchstick men at the pictures – Mrs Lowry and Son, reviewed

Timothy Spall as L.S. Lowry in Mrs Lowry and Son (2019)

Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave co-star as the artist and his mother in this claustrophobic portrait of domestic dysfunction

Palestinian Museum wins 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Main view of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, including its agricultural terraces.

Art news daily: 2 September

Baby Graysons are taking over Britain (sort of)

For the first time, Grayson is one of the 100 most popular names for baby boys in England and Wales…

Roger Fry, Renaissance man

St Sylvester raising the Magi from the Dead (detail), c. 1340, Maso di Banco, fresco. Bardi di Vernio Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence

The polymath’s taste-making had much to do with his intensive study of Italian artists such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca

Science Museum workers go on strike over low pay

Making the Modern World Gallery at Science Museum, London

Art news daily: 30 August

Crafty capers – the art of the heist on screen

The glamour of the art world lends itself perfectly to that most glamourising of movie genres – the heist film

Nan Goldin arrested in New York during anti-opioid protest

Nan Goldin at a P.A.I.N. protest in front of the Louvre in July 2019.

Art news daily: 29 August

Making the case for late Manet

Woman Reading (detail; c. 1880–81), Édouard Manet. Art Institute of Chicago

The painter’s once unfairly dismissed late works are full of possibilities he didn’t live long enough to explore

‘Ravishing essays in light and colour’ – on Turner’s views of Mount Rigi

The Dark Rigi, The Lake of Lucerne (1842), J.M.W. Turner.

The view of Mount Rigi from Lake Lucerne inspired a series of great watercolours – one of which is currently under export bar in the UK

Recently unearthed hoard of Norman coins reveals medieval tax scam, says British Museum

Coins from the 2,528-strong Chew Valley hoard, found in January. Image: British Museum

Art news daily: 28 August

Van Eyck does the best he can in Vienna

Madonna at the Fountain (detail; 1439), Jan van Eyck.

A focused display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum brings the painter’s ingenuity to the fore

Eliseo Mattiacci (1940–2019)

Eliseo Mattiacci with an installation of his Roma sculptures at the Palazzo Mazzancolli, Italy, in 1982.

Art news daily: 27 August

A portrait of the artist as Ben Stokes

The Ashes hero bears an uncanny resemblance to Vincent van Gogh – long live the art of cricket!

Is the writing on the wall for the private funding of museums?

Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

As wealthy donors and corporate sponsors come under increased scrutiny, Maxwell L. Anderson and David Fleming address the future of museum funding

‘The elephant in this gallery is the cultural property seized by British troops in the 19th century’

Air raid damage to the Naval Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London, 31 January 1941. Photo: © IWM

An exhibition about cultural destruction in modern conflicts can’t help but remind us of earlier wars

How have the Italian museum reforms fared?

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt in front of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the reopening of the gallery’s room dedicated to the artist in 2016.

In 2015, Dario Franceschini’s modernising project heralded a newly international outlook for the Italian museum system. Is it sustainable?

Paula Rego pictures a world of pain

War (detail; 2003), Paula Rego.

A survey of the artist takes us to a land of sinister magic not so different to our own