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Time regained: a lost rococo clock is found

An outstanding 18th-century clock made for a Hanoverian prince has resurfaced

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

A prank ‘artwork’ at SFMOMA, and art thieves caught on camera in Madrid

Taco Dibbits to succeed Wim Pijbes at Rijksmuseum

Art News Daily : 30 May

Acquisitions of the Month: May 2016

John and Minnie Constable looking into the fire ‘All Hallows Eve’ (John Constable, Minnie Constable)

May’s acquisitions include rare signed etchings by Picasso and photography by the Victorian pioneer Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Spilled water and naked bomber jackets in Marylebone

Returning to the scene of an embarrassing art accident…Plus, Simon Mullan’s surprisingly beautiful tiled compositions

Refreshingly partisan: David King’s homage to John Heartfield

The graphic designer, writer, editor, photographer, and researcher David King died earlier this month. His last book was a collection of John Heartfield’s pioneering photo montages

The musical forms of Fausto Melotti

Fausto Melotti’s sculptures ingeniously blur the line between figurative and abstract forms and his work deserves to be better known

Xavier Bray to take over at the Wallace Collection

Art News Daily : 27 May

Wallace Collection appoints Xavier Bray as new director

Xavier Bray is to take over as director of the Wallace Collection

It will take both ambition and creative thinking to lead the museum: thankfully, Bray’s record so far suggests he has plenty of both

Why the history of photography starts north of the border

Stereocard depicting Balmoral Castle from the north-west (1863), George Washington Wilson (1823–90) & Co., Aberdeen. © National Museums Scotland

Photography flourished in Scotland during its early development in the mid 19th century

Stonehenge among sites threatened by climate change, warns UN report

Art News Daily : 26 May

Coronation Street joins the northern renaissance

A Coronation Street character is heading to art school. What’s next, the Turner Prize?

Fitting the entire universe into an art gallery

Totality, 2016, Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson once beamed Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back. At the Lowry, she continues to explore the vastness of space

Antique ivory poses no threat to elephant conservation: in fact, it needs protection itself

Mirror valve: game of chess, from the Louvre collection

Antiques dealers have cause for concern, but there’s also an opportunity to broaden the debate…

Factories, fine art and starry skies in rural Finland

Art Museum Gösta Serlachius

The Serlachius Museums in Mänttä are an admirable example of how art can flourish outside Helsinki

Stedelijk Museum begins search for new contemporary art venue

Art News Daily : 25 May

‘Conservative in art, radical in politics’: James Boswell and the Artists’ International Association

Boswell’s acutely observed satires sum up the social and political issues of the 1930s

George Shaw finds the otherworldly in trees, porn magazines and plastic sheets

The Rude Screen (2015–16), George Shaw

As associate artist at the National Gallery, Shaw focuses on the nondescript woodland where many of art history’s most sordid stories play out

Courtauld secures £9.4 million from Heritage Lottery Fund

Art News Daily : 24 May

Don Quixote of the drawing board: the visionary schemes of the Earl of Mar

The Earl of Mar has long been seen as a failed rebel and harmless utopian architect, but it’s time to take him seriously as an Enlightenment thinker

Art Fund launches appeal to acquire ‘Armada Portrait’ of Elizabeth I

Art News Daily : 23 May

Going it alone in the modern city

Olivia Laing’s book on the art of loneliness has some excellent insights, but who is it meant for?

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Victoria Beckham gets the Venus de Milo treatment; what Dubya’s family think of his painting; and the Pont des Arts minus the padlocks

‘Museums will have a strong future.’ Wim Pijbes moves on from the Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes has announced that he will step down in August.

We spoke to the outgoing Rijksmuseum director about the internet, Old Masters, and art by the seaside as he prepares for a new role at the Museum Voorlinden