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Berthe Morisot comes into her own

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Young Girl with a Vase (detail; 1889), Berthe Morisot. Private collection.

A landmark exhibition puts the painter back where she belongs – at the heart of the Impressionist movement

Guggenheim to return Kirchner painting to heirs of Alfred Flechtheim

Artillerymen (1915), Ernest Ludwig Kirchner

Art news daily: 5 October

Fujiko Nakaya fills Boston’s parks with fog and shadows

Fog x Hill (2018), Fujiko Nakaya. Installation view at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston.

Boston’s Emerald Necklace is an ideal setting for the Japanese artist’s enchanting fog sculptures

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘The Islamic World: A History in Objects’ (British Museum/Thames & Hudson)

V&A announces plans for £13.5m redevelopment of Museum of Childhood

The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in 2005.

Art news daily: 4 October

Concrete sheep and sleeping clowns at the South London Gallery

Flock of sheep (2017), Judith Hopf. Installation view of ‘Knock Knock’ at the South London Gallery, 2018.

The theme of humour in contemporary art yields as many unnerving moments as laughs in a show across the gallery’s two sites

Dmitry Rybolovlev sues Sotheby’s for $380m

Dmitry Rybolovlev photographed in 2016.

Art news daily: 3 October

What not to miss at 1–54 in London

Night of the Long Knives I, Athi-OPatra Ruga

Ibrahim El-Salahi’s public sculpture and the multimedia dreamworld of Athi-Patra Ruga stand out at this year’s fair

Acquisitions of the month: August/September 2018

A Cubist collage and a portrait of Dylan Thomas are among the top works acquired by public collections recently

Valerie Hillings to direct North Carolina Museum of Art

Valerie Hillings, named as the next director of the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Art news daily: 2 October

Tania Bruguera on transforming Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Tania Bruguera and guests at the unveiling of her Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, 2018.

The Cuban artist wants people to mingle in the museum – and still believes in the power of political art

Matilda at 30 – still top of the class and now standing up to Donald Trump

Matilda Wormwood as an astrophysicist, as imagined by Quentin Blake

Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture

A welcome reappraisal of Peter Hujar

Gary Indiana Veiled (1981), Peter Hujar.

An exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum makes clear the radical vision of Peter Hujar’s intimate photographs

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Andria Zafirakou

Andria Zafirakou

Art and textiles teacher Andria Zafirakou talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about her plans to widen access to the arts

Lots of bother… as Bez rigs Bargain Hunt

Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop

Bronx Museum of the Arts to open new space in downtown New York

Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art news daily: 1 October

Frieze Week highlights: protest, painting and dwarf planets

Le Générale Canson, Préfète Duffaut

What not to miss in London – including an overview of Haiti’s modern art movement and new works by Kemang Wa Lehulere

Frieze week highlights: snow, video art and suspended sculpture

Janet with Ermine (2018), Melanie Manchot.

New paintings by Kerry James Marshall and Melanie Manchot’s meditation on snow and ice are among the events not to miss

Frieze week highlights: latex, terracotta and a Camden catwalk

Untitled (mid 1960s), Hannah Wilke.

An evening of performances and three shows of 20th-century women artists are among the events not to miss

Frieze week highlights: Japanese photography and Oceanic encounters

Subway, Tokyo 1969, Shomei Tomatsu, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery

‘Oceania’ at the Royal Academy and an exploration of post-war Japanese photography are among the shows to see at the moment

What the art of Armenia can tell us about a place and its people

Bible Keghi (1586), copied and illuminated by Hakob of Julfa (Hakob Jughayets‘i). Private collection.

The Met’s exhibition helps us understand a region that has always been hard to define, but there are many other stories to be told

Nicholas Grimshaw awarded Royal Gold Medal for architecture

Nicholas Grimshaw, winner of the 2019 Royal Gold Medal for architecture.

Art news daily: 28 September

The utopian visions of Geta Brătescu

Geta Brătescu in 2012.

An exhibition in Berlin has turned into a fitting tribute to the late artist and her inspiring attitude towards the world

Women artists take the limelight at Frieze Masters 2018

River Form (BH 568), Barbara Hepworth

Highlights from the seventh edition of Frieze Masters