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Celebrating the diversity of Chicago’s cultural landscape

Exterior of the Stony Island Arts Bank

The Terra Foundation’s year-long cultural programme shines a spotlight on the ‘third coast’ of America

Crown jewels stolen from cathedral in Sweden

Cordoned crime scene at Strängnäs cathedral, west of Stockholm.

Art news daily: 2 August

MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach to head LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art

Art news daily: 01 August

Acquisitions of the month: July 2018

10,000 Miles Along the Yangzi River (detail; 1699), Wang Hui

A 16-metre-long Chinese scroll and some Surrealist masterpieces are among this month’s top acquisitions

Art goes AWOL at the Palace of Westminster

Works go for a wander from the Parliamentary Art Collection, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle

US appeals court upholds ruling on Nazi-looted Cranachs

Adam and Eve (around 1530) by Lucas Cranach

Art news daily: 31 July

How polychrome sculpture revolutionised art in 19th-century France

Petite danseuse de quatorze ans (1881; cast in 1921–31), Edgar Degas. Installation view of ‘In Colour: Polychrome Sculpture in France 1850–1910’ at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Coloured sculpture was a controversial art form that raised wider questions about realism and the role of art

The mastermind behind the modern art market

A collection of short memoirs about the late Sotheby’s chairman Peter Wilson portrays an enigmatic and highly influential figure

Legal battle continues over Picasso painting at the Met

The Met Fifth Avenue, New York.

Art news daily: 30 July

Eight artists’ gardens that are artworks in their own right

Artists have often been inspired by gardens – and some have created outdoor masterpieces of their own

The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

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The Yawner (side view; c. 1770–83), Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics

The museum pieces every school kid in the Netherlands should see

Leading figures pick objects from Dutch collections that should be seen by every schoolchild in the Netherlands

Charles Saumarez Smith to leave the RA and join Blain|Southern

Charles Saumarez Smith

Art news daily: 27 July

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Michael Jackson: On the Wall’ (National Portrait Gallery)

David Bomberg finally gets his due

Last Self-Portrait (1956), David Bomberg

The English painter’s work found early success, but has since been unduly neglected

Jeu de Paume director Marta Gili to step down

Marta Gili, director of the Jeu de Paume.

Art news daily: 26 July

Dystopia lands in London’s Docklands

Nøtel (still; 2015–ongoing), Lawrence Lek and Kode9.

Lawrence Lek and Kode9 explore sound, architecture and the changing city in their installation at arebyte gallery

Design Museum criticised for hosting event linked to arms industry

The Design Museum in Kensington, London.

Art news daily: 25 July

How a not-so-rude Rubens fazed Facebook

The Descent from the Cross (1611–14; detail), Peter Paul Rubens.

The Facebook flesh police took umbrage at a painting by Rubens that features the crucified Christ in a loincloth

Ecstasy and ethnography in Geneva

Biyema Byeri reliquary figure (late 19th or early 20th century), Fang Betsi, Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon. Musée d’ethnographie de Genève

An exhibition at the MEG urges us to see African religious objects afresh by placing them in contemporary sacred contexts

US judge orders return of Persian bas-relief to Iran

Relief of a Persian soldier (5th century B.C), Photo: © Office of the New York district attorney

Art news daily: 24 July

The mysteries and marvels of Sir Richard Wallace

Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Bt (1888), John Thomson.

This summer the Wallace Collection turns the spotlight on its enigmatic namesake

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Shiny Tim: Chalamet with a fruit basket

Timothée Chalamet becomes an art-world icon and Theaster Gates reveals he’s a fan of Harry Styles

The remarkable career of Artemisia Gentileschi

Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615–17; detail), Artemisia Gentileschi.

The National Gallery’s acquisition of a work by the painter is welcome – not least because baroque women artists were long neglected