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The lasting legacy of Thomas Chippendale

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Three hundred years after the cabinet-maker’s birth, his name is still a byword for excellence

Spain passes decree to remove Franco’s remains from Valley of the Fallen

The Valley of the Fallen in Es Escorial, Spain.

Art news daily: 24 August

In Brussels, where the streets have new names

A view of Brussels' Justice Palace (C). Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images

A competition to name 28 streets has come up with some surprisingly sensible and delightfully silly choices

‘No more pushing around of Mrs Pankhurst’

The statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Victoria Tower Gardens, designed by Arthur George Walker and unveiled in 1930, photo: Wikimedia Commons

The site of Emmeline Pankhurst’s statue in Westminster was chosen by her fellow suffragists – there is no reason for it to change

Book competition

Your chance to win Designers & Jewellery 1850–1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum

Eight bars and restaurants for art lovers

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Pharmacy 2 at Newport Street Gallery, London.

Forget the food … where can you go for a good interior, an artist-run hub, or some art worth looking at on the walls?

Italian government revokes export licence for Frick acquisition

Camillo Borghese (c. 1810), François-Pascal-Simon Gérard. Courtesy of The Frick Collection, New York

Art news daily: 23 August

Jiří Kolář’s collages cut up reality to devastating effect

The Czech artist’s unsettling work includes a vivid record of the crushing of the Prague Spring

Could the art-finance industry offer museums some much-needed options?

The Baltimore Museum of Art, which in May sold five artworks at auction for nearly $8 million to raise funds for new acquisitions. Would capitalising those works have allowed the institution to pursue its acquisition strategy without compromising its existing holdings?

The industry is currently geared to private individuals, but perhaps museums should consider it, too

Chase F. Robinson named director of Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries

Chase F. Robinson, who has been named director of the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries.

Art news daily: 22 August

A prehistoric DJ makes his debut at a neolithic monument

Sunrise at Stonehenge in June 2018. Photo: GEOFF CADDICK/AFP/Getty Images

Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara

Confederate statue toppled at the University of North Carolina

Protests against the statue of ‘Silent Sam’ on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2017.

Art news daily: 21 August

What Roderic O’Conor learned from Van Gogh

The Bridge at Grez, Roderic O'Conor

The Irish painter takes his place among the Post-Impressionists in the first major survey of his work in many years

MoMA agrees new employment contract with union workers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art news daily: 20 August

Martin Puryear may prove the ideal choice to represent the US at Venice

The sculptor has made quietly effective political work in the past. Will he do so again next year?

The Italian painter who travelled to the Holy Land with John Singer Sargent

Alberto Falchetti, (1905), John Singer Sargent, private collection

The discovery that Sargent made the journey with Alberto Falchetti sheds new light on both artists

The Royal Collection puts its South Asian art on show

Shah Jahan receives his three eldest sons and Asaf Khan during his accession ceremonies from the Padshahnama manuscript (detail; c. 1630–40), Bichitr and Ramdas, Mughal.

Art from the Indian subcontinent, from Mughal manuscripts to a peacock-shaped inkstand, makes a splash

Your chance to own Rod Stewart’s sofa!

Rod Stewart is to sell part of his antiques collection. Plus art-shaming Kardashians and the V&A in knickers

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery honours Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin (1942–2018), photo: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

Art news daily: 17 August

Bloomberg Philanthropies names participants in $43m arts initiative

A view of downtown Pittsburgh, one of the US cities whose cultural organisations are the beneficiaries of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts Innovation and Management Training Program.

Art news daily: 16 August

How Campari built its brand

Bitter Campari (1960s), Franz Marangolo.

An exhibition tracing the advertising history of the Italian liqueur reflects the changing tastes of the 20th century

The true worth of Robert Burns’s manuscripts

New research methods will help distinguish Robert Burns’ texts from forgeries – but will it change how we read him?

Soap and glory at the Uri Geller Museum

Uri Geller is to open a museum in Jaffa, Israel, next year – and his psychic powers, or at least an archaeological team, have led to a discovery on site

Martin Puryear to represent US at next Venice Biennale

Martin Puryear receiving a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Medal from then-US President Barack Obama.

Art news daily: 15 August