Art news daily: 15 May
Norman Rosenthal, Rebecca Salter, Nick Goss and Sarah Turner share their views on what sets the RA apart
Drawings and daguerreotypes on view at the Ducal Palace reveal the variety of Ruskin’s engagement with Venice
Chris Ofili’s notorious ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’ goes to MoMA and the Baltimore Museum of Art updates its contemporary art collection
Despite setting a host of new auction records, the first Rockefeller Collection sale was an underwhelming event
How artists over the past century have tried to preserve, renew and reinvent the English countryside
Please stop calling celebrities performance artists – they really aren’t
It’s time to stop using the art form to justify the attention-seeking antics of figures such as Shia LaBeouf and Kanye West