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Rebecca Rabinow leaves the Met to lead the Menil Collection

Art News Daily : 20 May

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture’ by Stijin Alsteens & Adam Eaker

While the world watches Palmyra, another of Syria’s heritage sites risks destruction

The Narthex and south entry door to the Church os St Simeon Stylites. Much of the structure on the right hand side of the great doorway has been severely damaged by the blast on 12 May 2016.

The Church of Saint Simeon near Aleppo is the greatest treasure of the Christian-Byzantine era in Syria – but it’s suffered extensive damage

The man who gathered the many moods of Venice

Vittorio Cini collected remarkable Venetian paintings, which have never been publicly exhibited together – until now

Sadiq Khan gives conditional backing to Garden Bridge

Art News Daily : 19 May

Porn and paranoia on Tyneside

Omer Fast puts contemporary fears and fictions on display at the BALTIC Centre

Baldessari, Burtynsky and a lot of David Bowie at Photo London

It’s the variety and range of photographs on show that will ultimately come to define the fair

Russian artist allegedly beaten by police

Art News Daily : 18 May

Irrelevant, boring, expensive… The book that lists everything wrong with house museums

Time for a bit of anarchy

Will Picasso’s Cubist portrait live up to the auction-house hype?

The estimate is far short of the $100m+ prices notched up in recent years – but then this is a Picasso more cerebral than sexy

Giacometti’s art channels the nervousness of an entire era

Giacometti Self-Portrait

The Sainsbury Centre’s exhibition reveals an artist grappling with a sense of human frailty

Cornelia Parker on why she relishes curating

The artist talks to Apollo about her obsession with found objects and making art out of gin

Divers discover hoard of Roman artefacts off Caesarea

Art News Daily : 17 May

From Turkey to China, the legacy of the Seljuq empire should be better known

There are many treasures in the Met’s new exhibition, but the most poignant are the metalwork pieces from Mosul, given the turmoil in the region today

Italy criticised for mismanagement of EU culture funding

Art News Daily : 16 May

Art history creeps into the XL Catlin Art Prize

Jamie Fitzpatrick, Catlin Art Prize

Figurative art is making a comeback, if this year’s shortlist of promising early-career artists is anything to go by

Around the galleries: what to watch out for this month

Collaboration is the order of the day in Brussels and Paris, where several art fairs are joining forces. Meanwhile, London gears up for Art16

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Sainsbury’s bid to employ an artist (for free); love in the Tate Modern carpark; and Fearne Cotton’s art for the apiarists

How do you capture a colour? Interview with Ettore Spalletti

The Italian artist discusses his distinctive palette and what he owes to Yves Klein

Paintings stolen in Verona heist recovered in Ukraine

Art News Daily : 13 May

What’s going on with museum funding in the US?

What's going on with museum funding in the US?

Which museums are raking it in? And which ones are facing a deficit?

The Russian portraits at the NPG are a revelation

Pavel Tretyakov (1901), Ilia Repin. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Russia’s 19th-century portraitists were more than a match for the exceptional writers and composers they painted. So why is their work so neglected?

We should all get behind the #Unite4Heritage campaign

Heritage groups around the world need to harness social media to spread their message. This campaign makes that much easier

Shortlist announced for 2016 Turner Prize

Art News Daily : 12 May