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London Assembly questions Boris Johnson about Garden Bridge scheme

Art News Daily: 2 March

A nude causes a fuss on Facebook (again) – but clothes are making mischief at the Met

You can’t show the Venus of Willendorf on Facebook, it seems, but neither can you wear period dress to the Met

The monuments that made Mexico

The central courtyard at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Daniele Falletta/Alamy Stock Photo

The Museo Nacional de Antropologia presents a thrilling sequence of Mexican civilisations from the second millennium BC to the present day

Museums Taskforce publishes report on museum sector in UK

Art News Daily: 1 March

Light, fire and smoke – an interview with Anthony McCall

Meeting You Halfway II (2009), Anthony McCall. Installation view, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2009.

Anthony McCall talks about sculpting with materials such as light and fire – on view in Wakefield and London

The epic battles of Leon Golub

Gigantomachy II (detail; 1966), Leon Golub. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Leon Golub’s paintings harness classical myth to criticise atrocities and abuses of power

Centre Pompidou Málaga will stay open until 2025

Centre Pompidou Málaga

Art News Daily: 28 February

The Catholic chapel that cost Eton one pound

Our Lady of Sorrows, view of the interior looking towards the main altar, with the painting of Christ taken down from the Cross now attributed to Pietra Testa above, Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College

An early 20th-century copy of a baroque chapel has been restored to its former glory

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle

Kuwaiti artists win inaugural Art Jameel commission in Dubai

Visualisation for ‘Contrary Life: A Botanical Light Garden Devoted to Trees’ (2018), by Alia Farid and Aseel AlYaqoub, commissioned by Art Jameel, courtesy the artists

Art news daily: 27 February

Reconstructing ancient Rome

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Plan of Ancient Rome, 16th century, Pirro Ligorio, Metropolitan Museum of Art

An extraordinarily ambitious attempt to map the city will set off as many arguments as it solves

Jack Kerouac’s art reminds us that his real talent was for words

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Fernanda Pivano and Jack Kerouac per Segnalibro, Milano (1966), Ettore Sottsass.

An exhibition of Kerouac’s art in Milan gives some sense of his restless creativity

Church of the Holy Sepulchre closes indefinitely

Church of Holy Sepulchre; Basilica of Holy Sepulchre; Holy Land; Jerusalem

Art news daily: 26 February

What national museums tell us about national identities

Sculpture at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, photo: © Robert Harding/Alamy Stock Photos

Museums of national history put the stories countries like to tell about themselves into physical form

Robert Wilson creates a feast for the senses

Installation view, ‘Power and Beauty in China's Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson’ at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2018, Courtesy the Minneapolis Institute of Art

The celebrated theatre director and artist explains his approach to creating exhibitions

Speaking up about art

Hylas and the Nymphs (detail; 1896), J.W. Waterhouse. Manchester Art Gallery

Conversation can be a important and enjoyable way of paying attention to artworks

‘We can’t talk about the war because we are still in the middle of it’

I am Not An Artist, (2016), Thaer Maarouf, courtesy the artist

What kind of art are Syrian artists making, if they are able to make art at all?

Hammer Museum launches $180m capital campaign

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Hammer campaign

Art news daily: 23 February

Jeremy Bentham hops across the pond

Jeremy Bentham at University College London.

Jeremy Bentham leaves University College London to take part in a show at the Met Breuer

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Blue: the History of a Color’ by Michel Pastoureau (Princeton University Press)

Towner Art Gallery faces major funding cut

Towner Art Gallery

Art News Daily: 22 February

‘There are no spectators, only participants’

Installation view of Mark Dion's 'The Library for the Birds of London' (2018) at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018, Photo: © Jeff Spicer/PA Wire

Mark Dion’s playful installations at the Whitechapel Gallery turn viewers into voyeurs

Group dynamics in polite society

Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin, (c. 1745), William Hogarth. National Maritime Museums, Greenwich

How ‘conversation piece’ paintings summed up the social aspirations of a new social class

New contemporary art space to open in Madrid

The Tabacalera building in Madrid

Art news daily: 21 February