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Your chance to win ‘The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism’ by Whitney Chadwick (Thames & Hudson)

‘Real Detroiters are tired of their city being a symbol’

How the city’s long-term residents are fostering a thriving arts scene

Guelph Treasure case to be heard by a US federal court

An image from The Gospels of Henry the Lion, one of the most famous items of the Guelph Treasure

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Guelph Treasure case to be heard by a US federal court…

The Apollo podcast: William Kentridge

Thomas Marks talks to William Kentridge about his new performance project, The Head & the Load

Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt

Glasgow School Of Art's Mackintosh building on fire for the second time.

Art news daily: 11 July

‘The space has an otherworldly quality’ – Stuart McKnight on Westminster Abbey

View of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries, located in the triforium at Westminster Abbey, London.

A conversation with Stuart McKnight of MUMA, the architects responsible for the new galleries in the triforium at Westminster Abbey

Tomma Abts’ intriguing paintings contain infinite worlds

Bilte, (2008) Tomma Abts, installation view at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 2018, © 2018 readsreads.info

In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Flag wags, Madonna at the National Portrait Gallery, and why Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat might be heading to the Museum of London

Jeremy Wright appointed UK culture secretary

Jeremy Wright arriving at number 10 Downing Street before accepting the position of Culture Secretary on 9 July 2018.

Art news daily: 10 July

The monstrous bodies of Lee Bul

Sorry for suffering – You think I’m a puppy on a picnic? (1990), Lee Bul. Twelve-day performance at Kimpo Airport, Narita Airport, downtown Tokyo and Dokiwaza Theater.

A survey of the Korean artist’s work reveals a fascination with the fragile boundary between beauty and horror

Stones, scrolls and the mysteries of the universe – an interview with Michelle Stuart

Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns (1979), Michelle Stuart.

The American artist looks back on half of a century of working in and with the landscape

Gainsborough’s House museum awarded £4.5m lottery grant

Art news daily: 9 July

Simeon Solomon gets his time in the spotlight

Habet! In the Coliseum A.D.XC (1865), Simeon Solomon.

In his lifetime Solomon was shunned for defying social norms. But now the talented Victorian artist is getting his due

Elizabeth Price’s gestures of protest

Film still from txtferz (2018) by Elizabeth Price, installed at Morley Gallery (5–14 July).

The artist’s new video piece, installed at the Morley Gallery, draws attention to the current crisis in UK higher education

The modern mysticism of Paul Feiler

January, Yellow and Black (1957), Paul Feiler.

An exhibition in Hastings makes clear the abrupt shift in the St Ives artist’s style of painting

Tate St Ives named Art Fund Museum of the Year

Tate St Ives exterior visualisation. © Jamie Fobert Architects

Art news daily: 6 July

Nick Cave as you’ve never seen him before – cast in bronze and on horseback

The residents of a town in Victoria are hoping that a bronze Nick Cave will become a visitor attraction

The great modern potter who made an art form of buttons

A selection of glazed ceramic buttons (1944–45), Lucie Rie.

A comprehensive look at the career of Lucie Rie places the spotlight on her handcrafted buttons

Jean-Marc Bustamante to leave École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Art news daily: 5 July

The fantastical designs of the Dutch Golden Age

Part of a brass choir screen at De Nieuwe Kerke, Amsterdam, cast by unknown brass-founders in c. 1654, after a design by Johannes Lutma, probably in collaboration with Jacob van Campen

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores the inventive language of the 17th-century auricular style

Acquisitions of the month: June 2018

A major giveaway from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and a Queen Victoria bust are among this month’s top acquisitions

German government steps in to buy Giambologna sculpture

The Dresden Mars (before 1587), Giambologna.

Art news daily: 4 July

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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Ed Vaizey does the floss dance, Germaine Greer takes aim at art in schools and Vincent van Gogh gets his own beer

Bacon and Giacometti remain as elusive as ever at the Fondation Beyeler

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Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, 1965, (1965) Graham Keen, © Graham Keen

The Fondation Beyeler ingeniously pairs Bacon and Giacometti in a way that highlights the individuality of both artists