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Chapel of the Holy Shroud reopens in Turin

Art news daily: 27 September

UK culture secretary abandons his projection

Jeremy Wright MP.

Plus: a cannabis museum opens in Las Vegas, and Martin Parr on how Robert Mugabe informs his dress sense

Reading the dreams of Robert Crumb

The great cartoonist is publishing 40-years’ worth of dreams and nightmares – and they’re every bit as crude as you’d image

The weird and whimsical worlds of Mika Rottenberg

Installation view of ‘Mika Rottenberg’ at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, 2018.

The artist brings the contradictions and absurdities of global capitalism out into the open

Major refurbishment for Scottish National Gallery revealed

Art news daily: 26 September

‘I’m working with and against painting’ – an interview with Amy Sillman

The American painter discusses the comic impulse, landline phones, and her love/hate relationship with painting

Model for Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde identified

Art news daily: 25 September

The oldest drawing in the world has been discovered – but is it art?

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The drawing found in Blombos Cave, South Africa.

A 73,000-year-old fragment of stone marked with red lines raises questions about the nature of aesthetic experience

Frick Collection looks set to move into the Breuer building

The Met Breuer, New York, photographed in 2016.

Art news daily: 24 September

The museums of Belgrade are well worth a visit – now that they’ve finally reopened

MoCAB, Belgrade.

After years of closure, the National Museum in Belgrade and MoCAB are both open again

Will Macron’s culture pass have much impact?

Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

In a new pilot scheme, every 18 year old in France will get €500 to spend on culture next year

The treasures of Horace Walpole come home to Strawberry Hill

Portrait of Horace Walpole, Joshue Reynolds

Much of Walpole’s extensive collection is about to return to its original neo-gothic surroundings

Will blockchain transform the art market?

Numerous art-focused start-ups are offering services that use blockchain technology. Do they have what it takes to disrupt the art market?

The collector who says he’s sending artists to the moon

Yusaku Maezawa has booked up Elon Musk’s first space flight for an art adventure

New centre for technology and digital preservation of culture in Venice is launched

Art news daily: 21 September

The hidden gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Gold and agate brooch (1865), made by the Phillips Brothers.

The museum is showing off its collection of jewels and metalwork, from neo-gothic to art nouveau

Book competition

Your chance to win Miraculous Encounters: Pontormo from Drawing to Painting (Getty Publications)

Robert Venturi (1925–2018)

Robert Venturi in Las Vegas in 1968.

Art news daily: 20 September

Emmanuel Macron gets taken for a mug

Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe

‘No story of painting in St Ives is complete without W.S. Graham’

Drawings by W.S. Graham over the pages of Artificial Limbs: For Use After Amputation and Congenital Deficiencies by F.G. Ernst (1923).

An exhibition on the art of the Scottish poet reveals the impact that his friendship with the St Ives artists had on his own work

Geta Brătescu (1926–2018)

Geta Brătescu, photographed in 2015.

Art news daily: 18 September

Haute couture and holy robes at the Met

High fashion turns out to be no match for some lavish loans from the Vatican

Elliot Bostwick Davis named director of Norton Museum of Art

Elliot Bostwick Davis, newly appointed director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art.

Art news daily: 18 September