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Fire destroys Delhi’s Natural History Museum

Smoke rises from The National Museum of Natural History in New Delhi on April 26, 2016, after an early morning fire was controlled. No casualties were reported, but the entire collection may have been lost.

Art News Daily : 26 April

It’s easy to turn a blind eye to homelessness. Can art make people stop and listen?

Bekki Perriman’s project for Brighton Festival tells a different story about life on the streets

Reconstruction work to begin on Nepal’s damaged heritage sites

Art News Daily : 25 April

It would cost £15m to keep this Italian drawing in the UK. Here’s why it matters

Veronese’s preparatory sketch for Venice Triumphant (c. 1581) has a long history here

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Italian scientists claim art is a stress buster, while the staff of a London gallery have been told to put their feet up. Rakewell has his doubts…

When did the Sublime become an extended environmental guilt-trip?

Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Energy

The word has become a catchall term for environmentally-conscious art. It’s more specific than that

J. M. W. Turner is the new face of the £20 note

Bank of England Governer Mark Carney unveiled the design for a new £20 at Turner Contemporary today (22 April).

Art News Daily : 22 April

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘The Fitzwilliam Museum: A History’, by Lucilla Burn

If you want to be mayor, you really ought to know more about London’s museums

The Museum of London, where a new concert hall is to be developed.

Goldsmith and Khan clearly aren’t museum buffs – and that could be a real problem

Damien Hirst sculptures may be leaking dangerous gas

Art News Daily : 21 April

The spirit of the Renaissance, via YouTube

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…

Should public art be in the public domain? Sweden doesn’t think so

A recent court case involving Wikimedia in Sweden has taken the art world by surprise

London needs a spring clean, or perhaps a period of stagnation…

La Coupole V, Algiers, Algeria (2013), Jason Oddy

The galleries haven’t changed that much, but the city itself has, and not for the better

Rubin Museum to honour anniversary of Nepal earthquakes

Art News Daily : 20 April

Spotlight on Seattle, where Asian and Western art collide

The Association for Asian Studies chose Seattle for its annual conference this year, and with good reason

Recreation of Palmyra’s triumphal arch unveiled in London

Art News Daily : 19 April

Crumbs! Here’s a gallery full of somebody else’s seedy secrets

Untitled (2002), Page from Art & Beauty Magazine, #2 (2003), R. Crumb.

‘I began wasting my god-given talent drawing pictures of sexy women the way I liked ‘em’. An exhibition of R. Crumb’s work invites us all to become voyeurs

Guggenheim breaks off negotiations with labour activists

Art News Daily : 18 April

Has Tate Modern secretly switched directors?

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…

Painting gardens? More of a radical pursuit than you think

Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873), Auguste Renoir

Monet and chums were doing something genuinely revolutionary when they stepped out into their gardens

The long tradition of hating Henry Moore

Let’s hope the disgruntled students at Columbia University don’t take their protests against Moore’s work to these extremes…

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The garden bridge gets hijacked on Twitter. Plus, how Damien Hirst like his fish cooked (clue: he’s fussy)

Found in Florence! The lost tribe of Leonardo

Rakewell likes nothing better than a good bit of amateur genealogy

Robert Ryman and the many shades of white

Robert Ryman, installation view, 545 West 22nd Street, New York City

An exhibition of Ryman’s eerie paintings in New York rewards repeated viewings