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Lucas Museum is buyer of Berkshire Museum’s Rockwell painting

Rendering of the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will be located in LA’s Exposition Park

Art news daily: 12 April

Acquisitions of the month: March 2018

Sun Tunnels, Nancy Holt

A major work of land art by Nancy Holt and Liotard’s largest extant work on pastel are among this month’s top acquisitions

Max Hollein named next director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art news daily: 11 April

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The tiny head of Yuri Gagarin, Richard Rogers gets hit with an umbrella, and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle

On reading the Rifts of Richard Serra

Installation view of ‘Richard Serra: Rifts’ at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, 2018.

The artist’s monumental drawings challenge the viewer to discover unexpected details in their pitch-black surfaces

How contemporary initiatives are reviving historic sites in Rajasthan

The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, 2017.

A sculpture park in a hill fort and a mansion showing Indian crafts are just two signs of the region’s cultural renaissance

Nick Mitzevich to head National Gallery of Australia

Nick Mitzevich

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Nick Mitzevich named director of National Gallery of Australia | Nick…

France to sign heritage agreement with Saudi Arabia

Art news daily: 9 April

Displays of power in Italian art under Fascism

Installation view of ‘Post Zang Tumb Tuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918–1943’ at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2018.

The relationship between Italian art and politics reconsidered through restaged exhibitions from the Fascist era

The world’s first sausage dog museum – not as mad as it sounds

A museum dedicated to dachshunds has opened in Germany

Epistolary exchanges with Edward Bawden

Edward Bawden (1903–89) photographed in 1989.

Peyton Skipwith remembers two decades of friendship and correspondence with the British artist

US court approves Berkshire Museum sale

Art news daily: 6 April

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery’ by Julia Siemon (ed.)

Frick board approves design for $160m extension

Rendering of the expanded Frick Collection from 70th Street.

Art news daily: 5 April

‘My sculptures don’t exist in a vacuum’

Iceberg Hits (2018), Eva Rothschild.

Eva Rothschild talks about her work and influences – from minimalism to Ireland’s coastal landscapes

Can a local authority really get rid of 90 per cent of its art?

Once part of a pioneering schools loan programme, most of Hertfordshire County Council’s art collection looks set to be flogged off

Christo reveals more details of Serpentine project

Art news daily: 4 April

‘The only name that means anything in furniture’

The Harrington Commode. Thomas Chippendale

On the tercentenary of his birth, Thomas Chippendale still exercises a unique hold on the market for British furniture

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The barbs of Francis Bacon, an auction of VIP hotel doors, and an artistic slanging match between Chicago and Houston

MAC Lyon director Thierry Raspail retires

Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon

Art news daily: 3 April

Light exposure

Kate Flint’s history of flash photography highlights the uses of a technology many practitioners have mixed feelings about

John Baldessari gets the greatest accolade of them all – a guest turn on The Simpsons

Baldessari is the latest star to appear in The Simpsons – in a flashback scene with cub reporter Marge Simpson

Florentine painting in full colour

Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490/95), Sandro Botticelli.

This catalogue of Florentine works in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich sets a new standard

Steve Bannon – the strangest exhibition subject ever?

You read it right – an exhibition on Steve Bannon, that Renaissance man of the Alt-Right, is about to open in Rotterdam