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Whitney Museum director responds to concerns over vice chair’s business ties

The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Art news daily: 4 December

New ways of seeing Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych (1962), Andy Warhol. Tate, London.

As an exhibition at the Whitney proves, there’s far more to the Pop art superstar than Marilyn and soup cans

Highlights from London Art Week’s winter edition

Sports d’Hiver (1933), Erté. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (£18,000)

The exhibitions and events not to miss in Mayfair and St James’s this year

Several Paris museums close amid Yellow Vest protests

A burnt-out truck on the Champs Elysees in Paris, BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 3 December

A rare chance to see Van Dyck’s racy portrait of a radical courtier

Double portrait of George Villiers, Marquess and later 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628) and his wife, Katherine Manners (1603–1649), as Venus and Adonis (detail; 1620–21), Anthony van Dyck. Estimate £2.5m–£3.5m

The marital portrait of George Villiers and Katherine Manners has no parallel in English or Flemish painting

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Zoe Whitley

Zoe Whitley

Gabrielle Schwarz talks to Zoe Whitley, curator of international art at Tate Modern, about different approaches to exhibition-making

Vincent Van Gogh, young and old

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889, Vincent van Gogh

A portrait photograph long thought to show Van Gogh turns out to depict his brother Theo

Delacroix earns his stripes at the Met

Young Tiger Playing with its Mother, (1830–31), Eugène Delacroix. Musée du Louvre.

A major show at the Met presents the Romantic painter in many different modes

Robert Morris (1931–2018)

An untitled work by Robert Morris on display at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2012. Photo: © Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 30 November

Book competition

Win a copy of Hokusai Manga (Thames & Hudson)

Photograph long thought to be of Van Gogh is artist’s brother

Art news daily: 29 November

‘Art X Lagos is more like an arts festival than your average art fair’

Untitled (Igbo Landing) (group of figures from series; 2018), Gerald Chukwuma. Gallery 1957, Accra

The liveliness of the international art fair shows that the Nigerian arts scene is going from strength to strength

David Davis, the accidental Roman emperor

Plus: a street artist with a vendetta in LA and Jerry Saltz dresses up as Frida Kahlo

‘Artistic disciplines are breaking down’ – an interview with Haroon Mirza

Haroon Mirza. Photo: Gaia Fugazza

As he prepares for an exhibition at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, the artist talks about ‘composing’ with light and sound

Should paintings be conserved in public?

Rembrandt’s Night Watch is set to be restored in front of visitors. Should we welcome the growing prevalence of public conservation?

Berkshire Museum completes controversial deaccessioning sales

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Art news daily: 28 November

How can museums make us pay proper attention to moving images?

Tripoli Cancelled (2017), Naeem Mohaiemen. Installation view at the Turner Prize 2018, Tate Britain, London.

As film and video art moves into the mainstream, curators have to find new ways to keep viewers hooked

The comic strip genius of Charles M. Schulz

The man who invented Snoopy and the Peanuts gang revolutionised cartoons – both aesthetically and emotionally

‘Shouldn’t David be in Florence?’ – on the Cast Courts at the V&A

The Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, photographed in the late 19th century.

The museum’s gallery of historic plaster casts – newly restored – has long inspired conflicting responses

Hauser & Wirth opens non-profit institute for artists’ archives

Wanamaker Block (detail; 1955), Franz Kline. Yale University Art Gallery.

Art news daily: 27 November

The Apollo Awards 2018 in pictures

The winners of this year’s Apollo Awards, celebrating great achievements of the art and museum worlds, were announced at a ceremony in London on Monday

Personality of the Year

Charles Saumarez Smith photographed at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, by Clare Hewitt.

Charles Saumarez Smith

Museum Opening of the Year

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Louvre Abu Dhabi

Acquisition of the Year

Post Art No. 5(detail; 1974) Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid.

The Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art