Apollo

Wrestling with ancient Rome

A Hot Afternoon from 'The Last Days of Pompeii (2001), Eleanor Antin. Courtesy Richard Saltoun; © the artist

Plus: Jack Whitten, Lisson Gallery’s 50th birthday, and Willem de Kooning’s late paintings

The weird world of Alfred Kubin

Der beste Arzt (The Best Doctor; 1901), Alfred Kubin

Plus: Giorgio de Chirico’s writings, Enrico David’s sculptures, and reflections on W.G. Sebald

Mashed-up encyclopaedias and dismantled watches

Encyclopedic Geodes (2017), Damián Ortega. © Damián Ortega. Photo © White Cube (Ben Westoby)

Plus: exhibitions of William Turnbull, Gino De Dominicis, and Tim Head

Sinister statues and shadowy portraits

Murder of Crows, (1999), Nicola Hicks, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery London and New York; © Nicola Hicks

Plus: Brice Marden’s painstaking exploration of paint and an Italian protégé of Duchamp makes his debut in London

The Cerruti Collection – from closed volume to open book

The main bedroom at the villa of Francesco Federico Cerruti (1922–2015)

The private collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti will prove a revelation when it goes on show in Turin

Introducing Vincent van Robogogh

Impressionistic: Vincent turns your doodles into ‘masterpieces’

An AI programme developed by a Cambridge-based tech company lets you paint like Van Gogh, apparently

Neave Brown awarded 2018 Royal Gold Medal for architecture

Art news daily: 29 September

The Apollo podcast: Rob and Nick Carter

Rob and Nick Carter with Thomas Marks

Thomas Marks talks to artists Rob and Nick Carter about their Yoga Photograms series

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Charles Tunnicliffe, Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné’ by Robert Meyrick and Harry Heuser (Royal Academy of Arts)

A quiet but powerful Turner Prize

Lubaina Himid's work at the Turner Prize 2017 exhibition in Hull. Apollo magazine.

The four artists shortlisted this year tackle ideas about rootlessness and belonging in a series of understated works

Designs revealed for Studio Museum redevelopment

Exterior vew from 125th Street Plaza. Courtesy Adjaye Associates and Studio Museum, Harlem

Art news daily: 28 September

Exhibitors get creative for the sixth edition of Frieze Masters

Inscribed Apis Bull, Late Period, 26th–30th Dynasty, c. 664–343 BC, Egyptian. Ariadne Galleries

Highlights from this year’s fair, which encourages contemporary art buyers to cross over into older art

A Kunsthalle for the Kardashians

The Saatchi Gallery staged a pop-up Kardashian exhibition last week. Oh dear.

German artists protest arms manufacturer’s sponsorship of exhibition in China

Art news daily: 27 September

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Tintin the fake news reporter, Michael Jackson at the NPG, and more art-world tittle-tattle

Cataloguing the Ashmolean’s baroque paintings is no mean feat

Exposition of Moses (1654), Nicholas Poussin. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Oxford museum’s lavish new publication is a triumph of scholarship

The art of anti-terrorism

Artwork on concrete blocks acting as bollards on 4 July, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Michael Dodge/Getty Images

Artists and urban planners are finding creative ways to brighten up the concrete blocks and barriers that pepper today’s urban spaces

Fallen women and philanthropic reformers

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A Harlot’s Progress, (1732), William Hogarth, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016

Charitable efforts to end prostitution in 18th-century London took many forms, and left behind some remarkable objects

Guggenheim removes exhibits following threats of violence

The Guggenheim Museum in New York, photographed in 2004.

Art news daily: 26 September

‘Millicent Fawcett and Gillian Wearing are a winning combination’

Gillian Wearing with a model of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, Photo: Caroline Teo/GLA/PA

The design for Millicent Fawcett’s statue breaks the mould, but Parliament Square is a problematic site

The Yeats Collection sale is only the latest sign of Ireland’s broken heritage export system

Letters from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear, part of the Yeats Family Collection be auctioned at Sotheby's London on 27 September

It’s time for leading cultural figures to work with the state to reform Irish heritage protection

Concerns grow over sale of Yeats Family Collection

Art news daily: 25 September

Is sound art getting a fair hearing in museums?

Illustration: The Lindström Effect

Sound art often seems like video art’s poor relation in museums, but is its struggle for status starting to pay off?

‘Internationalism is Zeitz MOCAA’s defining ethos’

View of Zeitz MOCAA in Silo Square. Photo: Iwan Baan

Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa’s new museum, is deliberately outward-looking