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David Goldblatt (1930–2018)

David Goldblatt (1930–2018), photo: courtesy Mikhael Subotzky

Art news daily: 25 June

The best of Masterpiece 2018

Manet, Modigliani and Marina Abramović are among the highlights of this year’s Masterpiece London

How the scientific study of paintings has become accessible to everyone

Sunflowers, (1889) Vincent Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Van Gogh Foundation)

A revolution in chemical-imaging techniques is bringing us closer to the original visions of artists such as Van Gogh

The Palermo pizzeria for those Manifesta munchies

A ‘Renoir’ pizza could be just the thing after perusing some of Manifesta‘s more offbeat installations

Ferdinand Hodler’s symbolic hold on the Swiss imagination

Lake Geneva with symmetrical reflections, Ferdinand Hodler

Geneva’s museums are using the centenary of the artist’s death as an opportunity to rethink how they display their collections

Berlin Museum of Islamic Art receives €9m from Saudi Arabian foundation

The Pergamonmuseum, which houses the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin.

Art news daily: 22 June

The remarkable story of a Nazi-looted Dutch Golden Age painting

The Oyster Meal, Jacob Ochervelt

‘The Oyster Meal’ by Jacob Ochtervelt comes to auction in July after being returned to the heirs of the original owner

This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is a more serious affair than usual

Serpentine Pavilion 2018, designed by Frida Escobedo, Serpentine Gallery, London. Photography © 2018 Iwan Baan; © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura

Frida Escobedo has created a surprisingly sombre structure for this year’s temporary pavilion

Approaching the divine at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum asks visitors to consider what it means to represent divinity in human form

British Museum renames gallery after UAE’s Sheikh Zayed

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Beyonce and Jay-Z take over the Louvre, Kurt Cobain in Co. Kildare, and why Olafur Eliasson is teaming up with Ikea

Fitzwilliam acquisition saves Queen Victoria bust for the nation

Queen Victoria (1887–89), Sir Alfred Gilbert.

Art news daily: 20 June

‘Mounting an exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci is an act of hubris’

The Virgin and Child with Two Angels

In the run-up to the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth, getting other museums to lend you their Leonardo is no mean feat

Interior in Berlin refurbished to plans by Le Corbusier

Unité d’Habitation in Berlin.

Art news daily: 19 June

Why modernism was not the only way of being modern

The view into the Painted Room at Port Lympne, Kent, with murals by Rex Whistler, photographed in 1933.view into the Painted Room at Port Lympne, Kent, with murals by Rex Whistlerinto the Painted Room at Port Lympne (photo 1933), Rex Whistler.

A new study of art and design in the interwar years makes the case for a distinctly baroque take on modernity

Fire blazes through Glasgow School of Art

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

Art news daily : 18 June

Edmund de Waal looks back at his early porcelains

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Installation view of ‘Edmund de Waal: Early work – vessels from the Rosenheimer Collection’ at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, 2018.

An interview with the British ceramicist, who reflects on a formative relationship with a collector of his art

‘The building as it was is gone for good’ – remembering the Glasgow School of Art

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

The devastating fire at the Glasgow School of Art means that incredibly difficult decisions lie ahead

Trump Foundation sued for improper spending, including $10k on a portrait

US president Donald Trump in April 2018.

Art news daily : 15 June

How Cedric Morris fused his twin passions for plants and painting

The British artist was as devoted to cultivating flowers as he was to painting them, as this colourful exhibition reveals

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution’ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Funny business in the world of stamps

American philatelists with a nose for novelty can now get their hands on scratch n’sniff stamps. And is Royal Mail having a laugh with its Dad’s Army set?

Colour and chaos in the work of Albert Oehlen

Installation view of ‘Albert Oehlen: Cows by the Water’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2018.

The self-declared ‘post-non-figurative’ painter proves himself a master colourist in this survey at the Palazzo Grassi

Judge upholds decision in 5Pointz case

5Pointz on 19 November 2013.

Art news daily: 14 June