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The Horniman Museum takes on the world

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in Forest Hill, London, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend and constructed in 1898–1901.

The London museum’s outstanding ethnographic collections finally have a fitting home

ICA in London to honour Chelsea Manning

Portrait of Chelsea Manning.

Art news daily: 14 August

Andrea Fraser follows the money

In her new book, the artist uncovers uncomfortable truths about art, money and politics in the US

National Endowment for the Humanities awards $43.1 million in grants

Constitutional Center, the headquarters for the National Endowment of the Humanities. Credit: NEH.gov.

Art news daily: 13 August

Lily Cole’s new film breathes life into the past at the Foundling Museum

Balls (film still; 2018), Lily Cole.

Fiction and history, past and present are interwoven in this tale of two women whose children are taken into care

Now it’s Cate Blanchett’s turn to spoof Marina Abramović 

Cate Blanchett is to play an Abramović-like artist in the mockumentary series Documentary Now!

The work of Rebecca Belmore demands to be heard

State of Grace (detail; 2002), Rebecca Belmore.

The experiences of Indigenous peoples past and present are brought into view in this provocative yet sensitive exhibition

British Museum facilitates return of looted Iraqi antiquities

Art News Daily: 10 August

Book competition

Your chance to win Michaelina Wautier, 1614-1689: Glorifying a Forgotten Talent by Katlijne Van der Stighelen

RIBA appoints new president amid controversy

Alan Jones, the newly appointed president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Art News Daily: 9 August

Colour, controversy and religion in the art of Emil Nolde

Gesellschaft (Party) (1911), Emil Nolde.

From biblical scenes to garden paintings, the paintings of this German Expressionist reveal a complicated soul

Easter Islanders call for British Museum to return Moai statue

The Hoa Hakananai’a at the British Museum in London.

Art News Daily: 8 August

Does the spirit of Charles Dickens live on in his furniture?

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Dickens’s Dream (detail; 1875), Robert William Buss.

A table owned by the author has been export stopped in the UK – a situation that Dickens himself would have relished

Yuko Mohri unwinds at Camden Arts Centre

Installation view of ‘Yuko Mohri: Voluta’, at Camden Arts Centre, 2018, Photo: Damian Griffiths. Courtesy Camden Arts Centre

The artist’s new sound installation involving solenoids, sensors and tropical fish is surprisingly decorative

MoMA employees stage protest ahead of union negotiations

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art news daily: 7 August

The destruction of The List at the Liverpool Biennial is deeply troubling

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'The List', before its defacement. Credit: Liverpool Biennial/Mark McNulty.

The List, which documents the thousands of people who have died trying to reach Europe, was torn down from hoardings in Liverpool

The artist who can’t get enough of the Coen brothers

Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)

The Apollo podcast: Mark Gatiss on John Minton

Mark Gatiss tells Thomas Marks about his new film on John Minton – and his lifelong fascination with the artist

Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei’s studio

Ai Weiwei photographed in May 2018..

Art news daily: 6 August

The eclectic country houses of George Devey

Betteshanger (now Northbourne Park School), Kent, remodelled by George Devey from 1856.

The Victorian architect fused styles past and present, inventing fictive histories for his buildings

Battle of the bargains – Pulp and the Happy Mondays head on the antiques trail

Jarvis Cocker and Bez are to appear with bandmates from Pulp and the Happy Mondays in an episode of Bargain Hunt

‘I paint for my sanity’ – an interview with Mary Corse

Mary Corse (b. 1945) photographed in her studio in Topanga Canyon, California

The painter talks about her formal experiments and the importance of being self-sufficient

Artists remove works from Design Museum in protest over arms-trade event

The Design Museum in Kensington, London.

Art news daily: 3 August

The strangely familiar world of Pia Camil

Installation view of 'Pia Camil: Split Wall', Nottingham Contemporary, 2018.

The artist’s immersive exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary makes us question our public personas