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The cosmic visions of Richard Pousette-Dart

After an early involvement with Abstract Expressionism the painter set out on a more spiritual path

Harold Stevenson (1929-2018)

Harold Stevenson, Photo by Augusto Meneses/Pix Inc./The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

Art news daily: 29 October

Rethinking Islamic art at the British Museum

Stone inscription of early kufic script

Two curators at the British Museum, Ladan Akbarnia and Venetia Porter, discuss the displays at the new Gallery of the Islamic World

Are the principles set out for identifying Nazi-looted art fit for purpose?

Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

On the 20th anniversary of the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, their effectiveness is up for debate

The satirical world of contemporary art – from Banksy to broadcasting

Love is in the Bin (2018), Banksy.

Artists and auction houses alike contribute to the comic excesses of their world – but are they in on the joke?

The sophisticated side of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Peasant Dance, Pieter Bruegel

Bruegel may have painted many peasants, but he was one of the most complex – and urbane – artists of his day

Man arrested after trying to steal the Magna Carta

Salisbury Cathedral.

Art news daily: 26 October

John Rothenstein’s turbulent time at the Tate

John Rothenstein book jacket

The museum’s fifth director presided over a difficult period of its history, but left it in a better state than he found it

A lot of love making, Your Honour

A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover once owned by the judge who presided over the novel’s obscenity trial is up for auction

William Morris’s country home to receive £4.3m lottery grant

Art news daily: 25 October

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Jasmina Cibic

Jasmina Cibic

Artist Jasmina Cibic talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about her work exploring the role of culture in politics

‘There’s something suspicious about painting’ – an interview with Joe Bradley

Black Peter (detail), Joe Bradley

The painter talks about his attachment to black and the three-dimensional quality of his canvases

Lil Wayne’s birthday present saves an art student’s bacon

Lil Wayne performs during the 2018 Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on October 13, 2018 in Austin, Texas, Photo: © SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP/Getty Images

A commission to make a necklace for the rapper comes in the nick of time. Plus: David Byrne’s sceptical reaction to a sculpture by Carsten Höller

The Foundling Museum puts women in their rightful place

Isabella, Duchess of Manchester, 1738, Andrea Soldi, Whitfield Fine Art

Portraits of men have been replaced with those of the women who first petitioned George II to set up the Foundling Hospital

Ancient shipwreck discovered intact at bottom of Black Sea

Art news daily: 24 October

What’s in store at TEFAF New York Fall

Kutenai Duck Hunter, Edward S. Curtis

Your guide to the best of the leading art and antiques fair, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory this week

‘I find myself making growling noises while I’m painting’ – an interview with Walton Ford

The artist’s new body of work reimagines the life and times of the Barbary lion

Major collection of contemporary art donated to the Albertina

The Albertina Museum, Vienna.

Art news daily: 23 October

The novelty and nostalgia of the Victorian seaside pier

in the 1980s after its partial collapse in 1970 (photo: 2017)

The great iron structures of 19th-century Britain are important parts of the island’s cultural memory

Nigeria presents plans for new Benin Royal Museum

The Benin Bronzes, installed in the British Museum, London.

Art news daily: 22 October

Maeve Brennan puts out a bat-signal for the planet

Listening in the Dark (film still; 2018), Maeve Brennan.

The artists flags the unforeseen environmental effects of wind turbines in this award-winning film project

Anni Albers weaves her magic at Tate Modern

Anni Albers photographed at her weaving studio at Black Mountain College in 1937 by Helen M. Post. Courtesy the Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina

A major exhibition devoted to the artist restores her – and the craft of weaving – to the heart of the modern movement

Sophie Calle has persuaded some of the biggest names in music to pay tribute to her dead cat

The National, Jarvis Cocker, Pharrell and Bono are among the musicians the artist has corralled

The Met and the Brooklyn Museum turn down Saudi funds for upcoming projects

The Met Fifth Avenue, New York.

Art news daily: 19 October