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Berkshire Museum strikes agreement over proposed sale

Art news daily: 12 February

The art of scrap metal and expanding foam

Expansion n°14 (1970), César. MNAM/Centre Pompidou, Paris.

The Centre Pompidou’s career survey of the French sculptor César reveals a body of work governed by the logic of its materials

‘Tell me who Kandinsky is’: T.S. Eliot among the artists

Can T.S. Eliot’s poetic experiments be read alongside parallel developments in the visual arts? And how much has he influenced artists?

Inés Katzenstein to be first director of Cisneros Institute at MoMA

Ines Katzenstein

Art news daily: 9 February

Picasso’s portrait of dying love promises to fetch a high price

Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) Pablo Picasso (1937).

The artist once said that ‘it must be painful for a girl to see in a painting that she is on the way out’

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Zurbarán – Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle’ (Frick Collection)

The Tate puts the boot into Turner

The appearance of Turner paintings on Dr. Martens bovver boots has some of the painter’s fan fulminating

Elizabeth Alexander named president of Mellon Foundation

Elizabeth Alexander, speaking at the White House at an event in 2015.

Art news daily: 8 February

A portrait of the artist’s studio – in virtual reality

I Came And Went As A Ghost Hand (Cycle 2) (2015), Rachel Rossin. Installation view, Zieher Smith & Horton, 2015.

The Zabludowicz Collection’s new virtual reality exhibition space opens with a work that tests the limits and possibilities of the technology

Acquisitions of the month: January 2018

Beach at Portici (detail; 1874), Mariano Fortuny y Marsal. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas

The finest additions to public collections this month include a crop of modern European artworks, from Munch to Mondrian

Wallace Collection to open new exhibition space in June

The Great Gallery at the Wallace Collection, London.

Art news daily: 7 February

A singular collection traces five centuries of European drawings

Moonlit Landscape (detail; before 1808), Caspar David Friedrich. Thaw Collection, Morgan Library & Museum, New York

From Rembrandts to Pollocks, the drawings collected by the late Eugene Thaw tell a remarkable tale

Why bringing the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain is a mammoth task

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A section of the Bayeux Tapestry.

The 1000-year-old embroidery will have to move while its French home undergoes renovations, but should it be coming to the UK?

Berkshire Museum and attorney general take dispute to Supreme Court

Art news daily: 6 February

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Appy days for Matt Hancock, bitcoin art business, and a useful lesson from Maria Balshaw. Plus the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

Modigliani’s powerfully modern portraits get the attention they deserve

Reclining Nude (1919), Amedeo Modigliani. Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Tate’s blockbuster exhibition gives Modigliani’s reputation a welcome boost, prioritising his art over biography

Waterhouse painting back on display in Manchester

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

Art news daily: 5 February

Are copies coming in from the cold?

The Erechtheion caryatid, purchased from the British Museum and displayed in the 12th-century gallery of the Trocadéro, adjacent to the smiling angel from Reims Cathedral. From P. F. J. Marcou, Album du Musée de Sculpture Comparée, vol. 2 (Paris, 1897), courtesy Princeton University Press

Plaster casts of monuments have long been an unfashionable feature in museums – but the art of copying may be coming into its own again

The revolutionary craft of Hannah Ryggen

6 October 1942/ 6. Oktober 1942 (1943), Hannah Ryggen

The artist’s tapestries, made on a remote farm in Norway, remained fiercely engaged with the political events of their time

A new look for Kettle’s Yard

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Mugs (1944), Ben Nicholson.

After a major refurbishment, Kettle’s Yard is reopening – but it remains true to the spirit of its founder, Jim Ede

Ronald Lauder criticises Germany’s restitution efforts

Ronald Lauder at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 2016, MICHAEL BUHOLZER/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 2 February

Why the Louvre needs a Byzantine art section

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The Louvre. Photo: Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons

As the popularity of recent shows proves, Paris is ready for a permanent space devoted to Byzantine art and its influence

A Valentine’s gift to melt your heart – perhaps

Valentine’s Day looks set to bring its usual mad merchandise – which this year, includes an unnervingly realistic chocolate heart

Has Liverpool squandered the legacy of its year as city of culture?

Turning The Place Over (2007), Richard Wilson. The work was built into the condemned Cross Keys House in Moorfields as part of the Capital of Culture for 2008, in June 2007 in Liverpool, England.

Ten years on from its tenure as European Capital of Culture, the city and its heritage face a precarious future