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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

National Portrait Gallery appoints Jamie Fobert for £35.5m refurbishment

Detail of the National Portrait Gallery's main entrance mosaic

Art news daily: 1 February

Milan’s modern masters enchant at the Estorick

The Enchanted Room (detail; 1917), Carlo Carrà.

The Pinacoteca di Brera’s overlooked collection of modern Italian art gets a welcome outing in London

Serpentine Pavilion to launch in Beijing

Art news daily: 31 January

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Chris Brown’s rant at artists, Erykah Badu’s assessment of Hitler’s art, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle tattle

Face to face with the Gurlitt hoard

Installation view of 'Gurlitt: Status Report' at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2017

The paintings that Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Third Reich art dealer, kept hidden for decades are now out in the open – so what happens next?

Oslo to launch new art biennial in 2019

Eva González-Sancho and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, who will curate the first edition of the Oslo Biennial, set to launch in 2019.

Art news daily: 30 January

The archival experiments of Ilona Sagar

Correspondence O (still; 2017), Ilona Sagar

The artist’s film installation explores the history of a radical 1930s health centre and its south London home

Michelangelo comes out of his shell at the Met

A cartoon turtle graced the Met’s Michelangelo exhibition last week – and Leonardo suffered a rather greater indignity at the Louvre

Art Jameel centre for contemporary art to launch in Saudi Arabia

Art news daily: 29 January

A mystical Korean mountain comes to the Met

General View of Inner Geumgang, (detail) (mid 19th century) Sin Hakgwon.

The Diamond Mountains have inspired Korean artists for centuries – and some of its best depictions are coming to New York

‘Painting has its own identity’ – an interview with Giorgio Griffa

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The Italian painter discusses music, poetry and the unfinished nature of his art

Should Britain stop building museums?

Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

A recent government report says it should – but with limited public funding available, can Britain’s existing museums grow?

Why there’s absolutely nothing to see at an exhibition in LA

A show at Human Resources gallery leaves a lot to the imagination – because there’s nothing in it

‘There is an element of optimism in my work’

Rasheed Araeen.

Rasheed Araeen talks to Apollo about six-decades of making visually arresting and politically engaged art

African American history museum wins top Design Museum prize

Art news daily: 26 January

‘A visceral assault on the senses’

Measure for Measure 7 (2016), Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley’s monumental abstract paintings are as mysterious as they are mesmerising

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Gustav Klimt at Home’ by Patrick Bade (Frances Lincoln)

Delaware Art Museum to receive $15 million gift

Art news daily: 25 January

The Jesuit masterpieces coming to Connecticut

Painted model for the apse fresco of the Gesù (detail; 1690), Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Church of the Gesù, Rome.

The Society of Jesus commissioned extraordinary works for its mother church in Rome – and they’re about to go on display on the East Coast

A warm welcome for out-of-town guests at Condo 2018

CONDO 2018

The gallery-sharing initiative’s third edition provides a hopeful model for collaboration and creativity

South Korea’s ex-culture minister jailed over artist blacklist

Art news daily: 24 January

Highlights of BRAFA art fair

Intimation (2014), El Anatsui. Axel Vervoordt Gallery (price on application)

From a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite to an array of modern and contemporary art, here’s what not to miss this year

French cultural figures condemn Jeff Koons’ planned Paris memorial

Art news daily: 23 January