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BFI abandons plans for £130m film and television centre

Art news daily: 3 January

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Justin Bieber takes up painting, an art-breaking first date, and Hans-Ulrich on the beach

Myths, music, and medieval Celtic

She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene (2009), Danh Vo. Collection Chantal Crousel. Photo: Jean-Daniel Pellen, Paris

Looking forward to a year of monographic exhibitions, from Joan Jonas in London to Danh Vō in New York

Richard Long knighted in New Year’s Honours

Richard Long

Art news daily: 2 January

Old worlds and new horizons

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm–The Oxbow, (1836), Thomas Cole, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Highlights of 2018 include Thomas Cole’s paintings at the Met and Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s mural at MoCA

Do we still need UNESCO?

Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

The US is withdrawing from UNESCO (again) at the end of 2018. Has this international body outlived its usefulness?

‘The most substantial Kunsthalle in London’

The Hayward Gallery, London, 2017, photo: Morley von Sternberg

Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery, explains what the revamped brutalist building has to offer artists and audiences

Does the Louvre Abu Dhabi live up to its aims?

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View from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and completed in 2017, photo: Mohamed Somji; © Louvre Abu Dhabi

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is undeniably impressive, but can it succeed in becoming the universal museum it wants to be?

A trip along the East Coast of the United States

He Kills Me (1987), Donald Moffett

From post-war German art at Harvard to Leonardo at the Worcester Art Museum, here are some gems beyond the blockbuster exhibitions

Early photography, ancient Egypt, and postmodern architecture

Kinshasa la Belle, (detail), (1991), Bodys Isek Kingelez, CAAC – The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva, Photo: Maurice Aeschimann; © Bodys Isek Kingelez

Highlights of 2018 include Victorian photographers, Egyptian influences, and models from Kinshasa

Video games and the many gardens of Manifesta

Teatro Garibaladi in Palermo, which in July 2017 opened its doors for the pre-biennial programme ‘Waiting for Manifesta 12’. © Manifesta 12, 2017. Photo by CAVE Studio

European highlights for 2018 include three promising young artists and Palermo’s eco-focused edition of Manifesta

Avant-garde legends and art to change the world

Prominent exhibitions in 2018 will explore how art challenges power and how far it can transform the world

Studio ceramics and Charles I’s reunited treasures

Masterpieces by Titian, Dürer, and Van Dyck return to London from their far-flung homes, and pottery comes to Cambridge

Pain, precision and poetry

Apollo and Marsyas (1637), Jusepe de Ribera

Highlights of 2018 include violent visions in Dulwich, Bruegel in Vienna, and T.S. Eliot at Turner Contemporary

Turning the spotlight on Sir Richard Wallace

The Wallace Collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of its founder’s birth

Sexing up the cherry

Detail from folio 196v of the Luttrell Psalter, (c. 1325–40), unknown artist; patron: Geoffrey Luttrell, British Library, London, photo: © British Library Board

The cherry has come a long way over the centuries – as medieval badges, Renaissance paintings, and a video by Beyoncé reveal

At home with the Ceaușescus

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The dictator and his wife lived in luxury at their Spring Palace – with a golden bathroom and the only colour TV in Romania

Deck the halls with festive follies!

The wacky Christmas decorations installed in London’s leading museums

The Apollo podcast: Ralph Taylor

Thomas Marks talks to the head of post-war and contemporary art at Bonhams about how the market is shaping up for 2018

Lambeth Council votes to demolish landmark London bus station

Art news daily: 21 December

Britain’s most important 20th-century housing is under threat

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Allbrook House and the library, with maisonette blocks over shops to the left. Every building in this photo is proposed for demolition, Photo: James O. Davis/Historic England

The Alton Estate in London is at risk from proposals that will ruin the architecture and destroy social housing

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Leonard Rosoman’ by Tanya Harrod (Royal Academy of Arts)

A fishy new uniform for V&A staff

The V&A has launched a new uniform – but twitter users reckon the swag would look better at a garden centre

The enduring appeal of ancient glass

Round bowl, mid 1st century AD, Ennion, Roman, eastern Mediterranean, possibly Syrian, Yale University Art Gallery

Many of the methods invented by Roman glassmakers are still in use today