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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Jeremy Clarkson’s art fair, Macron’s Picasso, May’s Kahlo, and Renzo Piano’s scooter

‘I wanted to do something I have never done before’

Detail of Nathalie Du Pasquier's 'Other Rooms' installation at Camden Arts Centre, 2017.

Nathalie Du Pasquier talks about trying something different at the Camden Arts Centre, and the difference between art and design

The Foundling Museum brings Joseph Highmore out of the shadows

Pamela and Mr B. in the Summer House, by Joseph Highmore, Joseph Higmore, The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Joseph Highmore’s morality tales are just as engaging as those of his contemporary William Hogarth

‘Anyone who is interested in the Renaissance should be interested in medals’

It may be a small and specialist market, but it is still possible to find exquisite portrait medals at affordable prices

Tristram Hunt calls for Exhibition Road to be pedestrianised

Art news daily: 9 October

Debates in America had a powerful impact on black British artists

Art Is (Girlfriends Times Two) (1983/2009), Lorraine O'Grady. Courtesy the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York; © Lorraine O'Grady

‘Soul of a Nation’ is the most significant contribution to debates around black art to date

Thomas Gainsborough, the good-time guy

James Hamilton’s biography of Thomas Gainsborough presents the painter as a lad about town

The Rubin Museum appoints Jorrit Britschgi as its new director

Jorrit A. M. Britschgi

Art news daily: 6 October

Ever seen an eyeball card? How about a UFO?

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Image courtesy Four Corners Books

A new book series explores the strange subcultures of post-war Britain, from CB radio enthusiasts to alien investigators

Oswald Birley’s society portraits should have a wider public

The Theatre Box, (detail; 1910), Oswald Birley. Private collection

The portraitist was highly sought after in his heyday, but his reputation has languished in recent years

The Rake’s progress: Frieze special

George Osborne’s Mao moment, Peter Blake spices up his life, and more Frieze gossip

Gilbert and George announce details of planned foundation

Art news daily: 5 October

Acquisitions of the month: September 2017

Green Eye of the Pyramid (1993–97), Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová. Gift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson

The Chrysler Museum celebrated its biggest gift in decades last month, while the Met acquired an extremely unusual coffin

The best of October’s international art fairs

Michael Garnette Sittin’. © Hassan Hajjaj. Special Projects, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

A round-up of events, from Frieze London and its many satellite shows to a celebration of flower power in San Francisco

Lincoln Center puts $500m concert hall renovation on ice

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Ambitious renovation plans for Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall shelved |…

The best of the Frieze week satellite events

Looking for Oum Kalthum

From the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, to artists’ films at the BFI London Film Festival, there’s plenty to see outside of Regent’s Park

The stuff of art: objects from Matisse’s studio

Still Life with Seashell on Black Marble (1940), Henri Matisse. Photo © Archives H. Matisse © Succession H. Matisse/DACS 2017

The objects in Matisse’s collection shaped his revolutionary aesthetic, and inspired him to push beyond the boundaries of the European tradition

National Trust receives £1.8m for Sutton Hoo transformation

An artist's impression of Sutton Hoo's planned viewing platform

Art news daily: 3 October

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Cheeky art patronage at Nando’s, Frank Gehry’s Bilbao nerves and how Julia Stiles beefed up her art history for Riviera

Space exploration with Lucio Fontana

Eleven of Lucio Fontana’s ‘Spatial Environments’ have been meticulously recreated in Milan – and the effects are extraordinary

Will the reform of Rome’s ruins be an improvement?

The Colosseum Seen from the Southeast, (c. 1700), Gaspar van Wittel, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Photo: Imaging department; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Photo: Imaging department; © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Will the new Colosseum archaeological park improve the upkeep of Rome’s most important ruins?

London’s major modern and contemporary sales

Camp Forestia (1996), Peter Doig. Christie's London, estimate: £14m–£18m

Auction highlights in October include a dramatic Jenny Saville painting, a late Philip Guston work, and rich Islamic textiles

Julia Gonnella appointed new director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha

Julia Gonnella

Art news daily: 2 October

The new Chapman brothers show is delightful and disturbing – and you need to see it

'The Disasters of Everyday Life', installation view at Blain|Southern, 2017. Courtesy the artists and Blain|Southern. Photo: Peter Mallet

Featuring Goya, teddy bears and suicide vests, ‘The Disasters of Everyday Life’ is puerile, provocative, and superb