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Getting round the Great Firewall of China

Will increased restrictions on the internet in China be too much for new media artists?

Big Ben is the least of the Palace of Westminster’s problems

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The greatest Gothic Revival building in the world is facing catastrophe unless MPs clear out

National Gallery acquires Bellotto masterpiece

National Gallery Director, Dr Gabriele Finaldi looks at the Bellotto.

Art news daily: 22 August

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Rakewell: Apollo's roving eye on the art world

Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’

The other side of Surrealism

May 16th, 1941 (1941), Grace Pailthorpe. © Artist's estate. Courtesy of Redfern Gallery, London

As male Surrealists depicted women as muses, sphinxes, and goddesses, women Surrealists sought to turn this imagery on its head

Mass resignation of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities

Art news daily: 21 August

A potted history of studio ceramics

Rose bowl (c. 1938), Michael Cardew.

Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain

Malian radical ordered to pay €2.7m for Timbuktu destruction

Art news daily : 18 August

Per Kirkeby’s triumph of form over substance

Installation view of 'Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Bronzes from the 1980s' at Michael Werner Gallery, London, photo: courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, London and New York

The Danish artist clearly takes great delight in the physical properties of paint (and bronze, too)

Studying art history can make you famous – honest!

Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Gainsborough: A Portrait’ by James Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

Donald Trump weighs in on fate of Confederate monuments

US President Donald Trump has proposed cutting funding to the NEA and NEH - again.

Art news daily : 17 August

Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts

Julian Assange gestures as he speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy Of Ecuador on May 19, 2017 in London, England. Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images

What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker

Staring at the zeitgeist

Hugo Erfurth with Dog (1926), Otto Dix. © DACS 2017. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany

Tudor palace remains discovered in Greenwich

Art news daily : 16 August

A nosey parker’s paradise in London

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

Pore over Matisse’s prized possessions and get a glimpse into Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s home at these fascinating exhibitions

North Carolina protesters pull down Confederate statue

Art news daily : 15 August

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle

Narrating the past, collecting for the future

For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from

Garden Bridge project is officially scrapped

Art news daily : 14 August

The widening market for Oceanic art

Dog Head (ganabi), 19th century, Gogodala people, Papuan Gulf. Voyageurs & Curieux, price on request

Once championed by the Surrealists, Oceanic art is now achieving top prices at auction and attracting an increasingly diverse collector base

An art rogue at Vogue

John Currin seems to have come over all coy in his portrait of Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue

Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann holding a Venetian lion mask, photographed in London in May 2017, Photo: Benjamin McMahon

Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term

New photography museum to come to London

Art news daily : 11 August