Apollo

The best of the Salon du Dessin 2018

Le phare de l'hospice à Honfleur, Monet

Apollo’s highlights of the fair – including works by Monet, Moore and Constable

Belgian police raid homes in Russian forgery investigation

The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium.

Art news daily: 20 March

William Blake at heaven’s gate

Landscape near Felpham, William Blake

What did William Blake really see when he looked at the Sussex landscape?

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Bowie in Buckinghamshire, peeling off in Paris, and Lucian Freud on Prince Charles’s watercolours

London art teacher wins $1 million award

Andria Zafirakou receives the 'Global Teacher Prize' from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai during an award ceremony in Dubai on 18 March 2018.

Art news daily: 19 March

Pilgrims and parrots in Jordan’s city of mosaics

Madaba preserves traces of the ancient Greek-Christian culture of the Middle East

It’s time to recognise the radicalism of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

The Famous Women Dinner Service (set of 50) (c. 1932–34), Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

A rediscovered set of dinner plates depicting famous women prompts a reassessment of the pair’s artistic collaboration

A bigger gnash: when Dennis the Menace met David Hockney

Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London

How Barbie failed Frida Kahlo

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A Barbie doll depicting late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, is exhibited – alongside other commercial products – at her sister's house in the neighborhood of Coyoacan, Mexico City,on April 19, 2018. Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images

Barbie seems to have missed Frida Kahlo’s independent sense of style in its doll version of the artist

‘It’s a record of my life, translated into art’

An interview with Joan Jonas, on the occasion of the artist’s major retrospective at Tate Modern

Helen Legg appointed director of Tate Liverpool

Helen Legg

Art news daily: 16 March

A confident return for Asia Week New York

Galleries, auction houses and museums come together to celebrate ancient and modern Asian art

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump’s share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe’s divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.

German government considers reducing VAT for art sales

Art news daily: 15 March

Street artists in the US have more rights than they thought

5Pointz on 19 November 2013.

The 5Pointz case sets a new standard for artists seeking to assert their moral rights

A long-lost pastel by Picasso re-emerges

L'Étreinte (detail; 1903), Pablo Picasso.

The work belongs to an important sequence of drawings created in 1903, culminating in the famous Blue Period painting ‘La Vie’

Richard Meier takes leave of absence after sexual harassment allegations

Richard Meier in 2009.

Art news daily: 14 March

The best of BADA 2018

Rebuilding of Rylands, Manchester, L.S. Lowry

Arts and Crafts silver, Toulouse-Lautrec and L.S. Lowry – the works not to miss at BADA in London this year

How Jeff Koons sold out – and why his jumbo tulips don’t belong in Paris

Bouquet of Tulips (rendering; 2017), Jeff Koons.

The artist’s changing relationship to consumer culture can make it difficult to interpret his work

DRAF appoints Fatoş Üstek as director

Fatoş Üstek

Art news daily: 13 March

Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018)

Hubert de Givenchy photographed in September 2012 alongside a figure of Bacchus (c. 1700), attributed to François Girardon.

Hubert de Givenchy, the celebrated couturier and collector of fine and decorative art, has died at at the age of 91

Yto Barrada wrestles with the ghosts of Agadir

Installation view of 'Yto Barrada: Agadir' at The Curve, Barbican Centre, 2018.

An exhibition that takes the Agadir earthquake of 1960 as its starting point is well framed in the brutalist surrounds of the Barbican

Nan Goldin leads protest at the Met’s Sackler Wing

Art news daily: 12 March

At last! Prince Edward has become an artwork

The photographer Natalie Lennard has recreated the home birth of Prince Edward – with some surprising props