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Everything must glow – Nicky Wire is having his first solo show

The Manic Street Preachers bassist is showing mixed media works in Pembrokeshire – and he’s not the first bass-player to have a sideline in art

Chair of GSA board promises Mackintosh building will be a working art school again

The Glasgow School of Art on 22nd June, photo: © Robert Perry/Getty Images

Art news daily: 17 September

Alice Kettle’s textiles stitch together the stories of refugees

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Ground – Thread Bearing Witness (detail) (2018), Alice Kettle.

An exhibition of the artist’s new large-scale textiles in Manchester bears witness to the migrant crisis

David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s

Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978–79, courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney

Van Gogh in the shopping mall

Replicas of Van Gogh’s paintings are on a tour of major retail centres in the US. Plus: art on the loose in Toledo and Kanye goes back to school

Is it time to call an end to biennials?

Biennials are a mainstay of the contemporary art world, but their purpose seems increasingly unclear

National Portrait Gallery announces partial closure in London Fashion Week

The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.

Art news daily: 14 September

How the V&A Dundee is rewriting the history of Scotland

The country’s first design museum is taking a cosmopolitan approach to presenting the national story

Highlights of LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2018

The works not to miss at the 10th edition of LAPADA’s annual fair

‘It is a strange little science-fiction period in the history of photography’ – Wim Wenders on his Polaroids

Portrait of Wim Wenders taken in 2015 by Peter Lindbergh, image courtesy Wim Wenders

The film-maker discusses the unique quality of Polaroids – and why in the future no one will see the digital photographs being taken today

Suspected poisoning of Pussy Riot member

Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov in Moscow on 31 July 2018.

Art news daily: 13 September

Emotional intelligence at the London Design Biennale

Installation view of Sensorial Estates by WE-Designs, LAByrinth PROJECT (Hong Kong) at the London Design Biennale

Projects from over 40 countries and cities examine the links between design and emotion

AI art is on the rise – but how do we measure its success?

Closed Loop (2017), Jake Elwes

Artworks produced using artificial intelligence have long confounded viewers

Souls Grown Deep Foundation creates internship scheme for students of colour

Photo courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art

Art news daily: 12 September

The drawings that capture Ireland’s crumbling castles

Eyrecourt, Co. Galway (n.d.), John Nankivell.

John Nankivell has specialised in recording decaying historic buildings, but his work also provides some reasons for hope

The Design Museum Zurich gets a stylish makeover

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, main building at Ausstellungsstrasse, 2017.

The refurbished museum is filled with fascinating objects from New Wave typography to a Swiss railway clock

Four Nazi-looted works identified by Gurlitt Provenance Research project

Self-portrait (n.d.), Anne Vallayer-Coster.

Art news daily: 11 September

The virtuosic tortoiseshell workers of 18th-century Naples

Oval lobed dish with chinoiserie motifs (c. 1735–45), Giuseppe Sarao.

Objets d’art crafted from tortoiseshell inlaid with gold and mother-of-pearl are rare examples of the technique known as piqué

Tristram Hunt floats idea of hotel tax for overseas tourists to fund UK museums

Tristram Hunt,

Art news daily: 10 September

How Liberty looked to the past to imagine the future of fashion

The Liberty of London department store on Regent Street, London, in c. 1925, Regent Street, London.

More than a century’s worth of Liberty fabrics and designs make for an enjoyable survey of the brand’s history

William Hogarth as you’ve never seen him before (played by Keith Allen)

The Shallow Grave actor is to play Hogarth in a new play in London. Plus Lucian Freud on Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Iggy Pop eats Andy Warhol’s hamburger

How a Scottish chemist was immortalised in St Petersburg – by mistake

The city of St Petersburg seems to have commissioned a statue of the wrong man

Gutenberg’s printed Bible is a landmark in European culture

A facsimile edition of the Gutenberg Bible represents a huge scholarly achievement

Moritz Wesseler appointed as director of Fridericianum in Kassel

BEINGSAFEISSCARY (2017), Banu Cennetoğlu. ​Fridericianum, Kassel

Art news daily: 7 September