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Governor of São Paulo defends deep cuts to Brazil’s budget for culture

The Pinacoteca de São Paulo.

Art news daily: 9 April

Tate and National Galleries of Scotland reinstate ties with Anthony d’Offay

Anthony d’Offay in front of ‘untitled: upturnedhouse 2’ (2012) by Phyllida Barlow, at Tate Modern, London on 14 January 2016. Photo: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 8 April

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2019

The Moon (A Lua) (1928; detail), Tarsila do Amaral.

Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases and Tarsila do Amaral’s moon painting have entered public collections recently

Schip shape – the infectiously bizarre style of the Amsterdam School

The museum of Het Schip ('The Ship') in Amsterdam, designed by Michel de Klerk and built in 1917–20.

Het Schip and other buildings of this early 20th-century movement are both hyper-modern and curiously medieval

Meriem Bennani wins EYE Art & Film Prize

Ingrid van Engelshoven (Minister of Education, Culture and Science) with Meriem Bennani (Winner Art & Film Prize 2019) and Sandra den Hamer (Director Eye) during the Eye Film gala 2019

Art news daily: 5 April

Flooded streets and cars at sea – the watery world of Nick Goss

Lagoon (2015–17), Nick Goss.

Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist

A barnstorming debut for the Shed

View of The Shed, from Hudson Yards.

The new arrival at Hudson Yards unites the performing and visual arts under one $500m roof

Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement goes to Jimmie Durham

Jimmie Durham.

Art news daily: 4 April

Church, mosque and museum – the Hagia Sophia could be all things to all people

Inside the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul.

The status of the Byzantine church turned mosque turned museum shows no sign of being settled – but perhaps it shouldn’t be

City of London gives ‘Tulip’ skyscraper planning permission

Aerial view of the Tulip.

Art news daily: 3 April

Commons indecency, perhaps – but was it art?

The body politic.

A fleshy protest made parliament more farcical than ever this week. Marina Abramović, you have competition…

Channel crossings – Britain’s patchy history of collecting French art

The Four Ages of Man: Youth (detail; by 1735), Nicolas Lancret. National Gallery, London

A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste

Archaeologists discover ancient ceremonial site at Lake Titicaca

Ritual offerings found at Lake Titicaca. Photo: Teddy Seguin

Art news daily: 2 April

Adios to the monoglot museum

The Venice Installation: The Last Room , showing texts from several series (detail; 1990), Jenny Holzer.

For all the limitations of translation, it’s good to see artists and museums trying to cross language barriers

‘Wry humour and a clarity that belied her years’ – remembering Rose Hilton

After the Bath (2006)

The late British painter was influenced by Bonnard and Matisse – and had to hide her work from her artist husband, Roger

Siah Armajani’s language of exile

Seven Rooms of Hospitality: Room for Deportees (2017), Siah Armajani.

The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America

Louvre paper installation destroyed in one day

Jean Rene, aka JR walks in the Cour Napoleon of the Louvre Museum as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Louvre Pyramid, Photo: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 1 April

The best arty April Fools’ pranks of 2019

From the Salvator Mundi in the Oval Office to a sausage museum in Lincolnshire, the best art-related April Fools’ jokes of 2019

The idiosyncratic painter hailed as the Swiss Van Gogh

Stagecoach with horses (c. 1959-60), Antonio Ligabue.

Memories of his life in Switzerland pervade the paintings of Antonio Ligabue, who was expelled from the country in 1919

Can neuroscience really tell us much about why we look at art?

The Pyramidal Neuron of the Cerebral Cortex (1904), Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Cajal Institute (CSIC), Madrid.

The mystery of aesthetic experience is perhaps even greater than that of the human brain

Should the Houses of Parliament be turned into a museum?

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Ed Vaizey and Michael Hall debate whether politicians should relocate for good when the Palace of Westminster closes for repairs

Seeing past the shock value of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs

© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation (detail; 1980), Robert Mapplethorpe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down

Agnès Varda (1928–2019)

Agnes Varda in front of 'La Grand Mer', one of her works on display at the Vitry-sur-Seine museum outside Paris, in 2010, photo: © MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 29 March

That border wall, made out of cheese

Artist Cosimo Cavallaro building his wall of cheese.

The Make America Grate Again project isn’t the first time dairy has been used as an artistic medium