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Russian billionaire art collector Dmitry Rybolovlev detained

Dmitry Rybolovlev. Photo: Xavier Laine/Getty Images

Art news daily: 7 November

The enigmatic igloos of Mario Merz

Mario Merz in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

An unreal city of the the artist’s spherical structures has sprouted at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan

A monumental mishandling of Mo Salah

Plus: selfie sabotage at a museum in Russia and Jim Carrey takes on Ted Cruz… with a painting

Tom Inns resigns as director of Glasgow School of Art

Tom Inns, who has resigned as director of the Glasgow School, at an inspection of the damage done to the Mackintosh Building in June 2018.)

Art news daily: 6 November

How high-resolution photography is changing the way we look at art

The Replica scanner developed by Factum Arte, currently digitising the photographic library of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. Photo: Matteo De Fina; courtesy Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Advances in digital imaging are revolutionising the study of art history

Kerry James Marshall mural withdrawn from Christie’s auction

Knowledge and Wonder (1995) (detail) by Kerry James Marshall.

Art news daily: 5 November 2018

The lustre and allure of Japanese lacquer

Panel depicting lobsters (1888), signed Shibata Zeshin. Christie’s, £662,500.

In the last decade some exceptional pieces have sold for six-figure sums, but lacquerware is still good value for money

Dignity and divinity in the portraits of Charles White

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General Moses (Harriet Tubman) (1965), Charles White.

Throughout his career White devoted his talent to celebrating the lives of other black Americans

Oliver Cromwell as you’ve never seen him before… in his romper suit

Oliver Cromwell (detail; 1656), Samuel Cooper

The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon is displaying Cromwell artefacts that have never been shown in public before – including his baby clothes

‘Now I can steal from myself as much as from other artists’ – an interview with Cecily Brown

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Cecily Brown photographed in her studio in New York in July 2018.

The painter discusses her many influences and sources of inspiration, from the Old Masters to the YBAs

President Trump has nominated Mary Anne Carter to chair the NEA

Mary Anne Carter

Art news daily: 2 November 2018

Nalini Malani turns to a Greek myth to retell Indian tragedies

Installation view of ‘The Tables Have Turned’ (2008) by Nalini Malini at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino in 2018.

The artist takes the story of Cassandra and turns the doomed Trojan seer into a figure for our times

The Asian Art in London Art Awards 2018: The Winners

Apollo presents the winners of this year’s Asian Art in London Art Awards

Pots, pans and pondering in Chardin’s domestic scenes

The Scullery Maid (detail; c. 1738), Jean-Siméon Chardin. Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow

The 18th-century painter’s depictions of servants paused at work raise questions about the nature of attention

Knight Foundation to invest $20m in Detroit arts organisations

The Detroit Institute Of Arts.

Art news daily: 1 November

Cashing in on Brexit with a new 50p coin

Fifty pence. But not the Brexit one.

Plus: the poison pen of Alex Katz and the dangling doodles of Keith Richards

Book competition

Your chance to win Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods by Christine Burgin (ed.)

Cross-cultural connections at Flashback 2018

Uragano (Hurricane; 1938), Arturo Martini.

Preview highlights from the sixth edition of the fair in Turin, which takes its premise from a sci-fi novel by Chad Oliver

What not to miss at Asian Art in London this year

Highlights from this year’s event prove that London remains a leading centre for Asian art worldwide

Thomas P. Campbell to direct Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Thomas P. Campbell, Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

Art news daily: 31 October

How Whistler tamed nature in his landscape scenes

The Bathing Posts, Brittany (1893), James McNeill Whistler.

With the man-made world a strong presence in his Nocturnes, beach scenes and gardens, Whistler was no pure nature boy

Seven Halloween horror films for art historians

Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (still; 1922), dir. F. W. Murnau.

From Nosferatu to the Scream franchise – Apollo’s editors select some arty horror movies

The modern Arab artists who have turned to words

Toward Damascus at the Foot of Mount Qassioun, Muhajreen Quarter, c. 1933, Mustafa Farroukh, Collection Hani Farroukh

A century of writing by and about artists from the Arab world is full of debates that still resonate today

Ben Uri Gallery announces plans to reinvent itself and sell part of its collection

Ben Uri Gallery, St. John's Wood

Art news daily: 30 October