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A sci-fi spectacular at the Barbican

'Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction' (installation view; 2017), at the Barbican Centre. Photo: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

This is an exhibition targeted at the senses more than the brain, more Star Wars than Stalker

£4m funding boost for Glasgow tea room

Art news daily : 10 August

The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini

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Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and other Saints, (c. 1300-05), Giovanni da Rimini.

Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London

Inside India’s first Partition Museum

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The Partition Museum in Amritsar's Town Hall

Millions were displaced and hundreds of thousands killed in the Partition of India. Seventy years on, a new museum addresses the tragedy

Estrellita B. Brodsky

Estrellita Brodsky. Photo © Hans Neumann

Curator, collector and philanthropist, New York

Melissa Chiu

Melissa Chiu

Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Doryun Chong

Deputy director and chief curator, M+, Hong Kong

Alex Farquharson

Director, Tate Britain, London

Touria El Glaoui

Touria El Glaoui. Photo © Victoria Birkinshaw

Founding director, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, New York, Marrakech

Franziska Kunz

© Mario Andreya

Global Head of Art, Deutsche Bank

Presumed lost Giacometti drawings found in antiques shop

Art news daily : 9 August

Ways of seeing with Arthur Jafa

Installation view, 'Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions', Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London.

The acclaimed filmmaker insists we notice skin colour, and acknowledge the politics of its presence and presentations

Arty cats and dogs have their day on Twitter

International Cat Day clashes with Dogs in Paintings Day on Twitter. Which has really set the cat among the pigeons…

Pussy Riot members detained over public protest

Art news daily : 8 August

Royal portraits and realpolitik at the Society of Antiquaries

Don’t miss this rare chance to see a collection of medieval and Tudor portraits, relics, documents, and physical fragments

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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Tittle-tattle and curiosities from the art and museum worlds

Over Venice? Here are the best biennials to visit this autumn

Arrival by Enrique Ramirez

There are plenty of events opening in the coming months, from Bamako’s photography festival to the sprawling, ‘borderless’ BienalSur

Martin Roth (1955–2017)

Art news daily : 7 August

A tribute to Martin Roth (1955–2017)

Martin Roth, Apollo magazine, 40 Under 40 Europe

The former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum has died at the age of 62

Münster turns its public spaces over to sculpture

Speak to the Earth and It Will Tell You, (2000–17), Jeremy Dellar, Photo: Henning Rogge; © Skulptur Projekte Münster

This year’s Skulptur Projekte Münster shows that digital technology has transformed the public realm – but some artists are resisting

D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans

Frescoes in the Tomb of the Augurs, Necropolis of Monterozzi, Tarquinia. Courtesy Mibact. Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'Area Metropolitana di Roma, la Provincia di Viterbo e l'Etruria Meridionale

Is D.H. Lawrence’s account of the archaeological sites of Etruria still relevant today?

Bassel Khartabil, founder of digital Palmyra project, executed

Art news daily : 4 August

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland’s Romantic North’ by Mary Miers (Rizzoli)

Hollywood! Brooklyn! Basildon!

Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected