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Fed up of the Fringe? Then escape to a museum

The Taking of Christ (1602), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. © The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Edinburgh’s museums and galleries provide respite from the onslaught of the Fringe

Archaeologists unearth ‘little Pompeii’ in southeastern France

Art news daily : 3 August

Silence speaks volumes at Chisenhale Gallery

autoportrait (2017), Luke Willis Thompson. Installation view at Chisenhale Gallery 2017. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery and produced in partnership with Create. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Andy Keate

Luke Willis Thompson’s work with Diamond Reynolds is a powerful response to the shooting of Philando Castile

The Met hands over ancient sculpture with disputed past

Art news daily : 2 August

How to get your art-history fix at the Edinburgh Fringe

There are plenty of (sort of) art-historical turns at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Acquisitions of the month: July 2017

Head of a Young Man (detail; c. 1539–40), Girolamo Mazzola, called Parmigianino

This month’s acquisitions include a rare portrait by Richard Wilson, the Edward Hopper archive and an exceptional group of drawings

A hidden highlight at the National Gallery of Ireland

Self-portrait (detail; 1914), Margaret Clarke. © Artist’s Estate. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Photographer: Roy Hewson

A small exhibition of Margaret Clarke’s work proves that the best shows aren’t always the blockbusters

Harold M. Williams (1928–2017)

Harold M. Williams. Image courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust

The founding president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust has died at the age of 89

Getty Trust founding president Harold M. Williams dies

The Getty Center.

Art news daily : 1 August

Sculpture in two dimensions

'Ties|Legami. Pietro Consagra and Ugo Mulas' at The Italian Cultural Institute

Pietro Consagra made sculptures with the camera in mind, and worked closely with photographer Ugo Mulas

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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Giacometti at the movies, Jack Vettriano at the pub, and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle

Edward Hopper archive goes to Whitney Museum

The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Art news daily : 31 July

The visual side of Renaissance thought

Susanna Berger’s enquiry into philosophy and visual culture is full of original insight

The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors

The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London

How Native Americans are reclaiming their history

This book is inevitably partial, but offers the best single account to date of repatriation claims in the US

Is the ‘monkey selfie’ case making a monkey out of the law?

Even if a wild animal could create an image by itself, it’s not easy to see how it can claim copyright

Thomas P. Campbell awarded Getty Rothschild Fellowship

Metropolitan Museum director Thomas P. Campbell (pictured here speaking at the opening of the exhibition 'Manus x Machina' in 2016), has been awarded the second annual Getty Rothschild Fellowship.

Art news daily: 28 July

Adrián Villar Rojas digs deep in Athens

Adrián Villar Rojas, 'The Theater of Disappearance', National Observatory of Athens, Hill of the Nymphs.

The Argentinian artist has planted artefacts, sculptures and a fantastical garden in Athens

The curious case of Microsoft Paint

Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos

Philippe de Montebello joins Acquavella Galleries

Art news daily: 27 July

Sargent’s great escape from society portraits

A Turkish Woman by a Stream, (c. 1907), John Singer Sargent. Victoria and Albert Museum

Freed from the limitations of his studio, Sargent’s sketches speak of the carefree existence of a gentleman of leisure

There’s more to Transylvania than crumbling castles

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House in Viscri, Romania., 2017, Photo: © Nicholas Hodge

Efforts to preserve and revive Transylvania’s UNESCO-listed villages depend on involving the inhabitants as closely as possible

Controversial Markus Lüpertz mural gets green light

Art news daily: 26 July

Plywood: the V&A has nailed it

Paimio armchair (1930), Alvar Aalto. Alvar Aalton Museum; photo: © Victoria and Albert Museum

This thrilling exhibition reveals the glamour of an everyday material