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Stolen Dutch paintings recovered in Ukraine

Art News Daily : 15 April

Jean Nouvel’s oasis of calm in São Paulo

The architect’s first project in São Paulo restores and adds to one of the city’s historical landmarks

Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon and five Marilyn Monroes

Four Marilyns (Reversal Series)

For a handy reminder of why Warhol was so radical, head to Gagosian Gallery’s ‘Avedon Warhol’ exhibition in London

Palmyra’s legacy is everywhere – and ISIS could never have erased it

The city’s ancient ruins inspired buildings around the world, many of which are now heritage sites themselves

US Senate votes to bar import of Syrian antiquities

Art News Daily : 14 April

Painting steals the show at Art Cologne

Contemporary painting in Germany is flourishing, if the highlights of Cologne’s art fair are anything to go by

George Gilbert Scott – not such a ‘dead dog’ after all

John Betjeman called him ‘dull’ and William Morris dismissed his work, but Scott’s reputation is bouncing back

Mrs Thatcher’s missing handbag and the case of the disappearing duck

Rakewell ponders two statues in London that have come in for criticism because they are missing vital accessories

Yana Peel announced as new Serpentine director

Art News Daily : 13 April

Project launched to save ancient Ethiopian wall paintings

Art News Daily : 12 April

A strange tale of cruelty and creativity in the Moroccan desert

The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers by Ben Rivers, installed at the Whitworth, 2016.

Ben Rivers’ attempt to reveal the artifice of filmmaking is somehow dull and disconcerting at the same time

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

David Shrigley’s foam hands, Olafur Eliasson’s shaky economics and a chance to buy Andy Warhol’s studio

Smithsonian decision on London outpost imminent

Art News Daily : 11 April

Very clever software, but not great art

The techno-connoisseurship involved in the ‘Next Rembrandt’ project is fun and interesting, so what’s the problem?

Should museums be ideology-free?

East pediment of the Parthenon frieze at the British Museum.

A new book which argues that museums should be above politics is hardly above politics itself

Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island

Art News Daily : 8 April

Pencils, irons and used underwear: the world’s wackiest museums

Whatever your thing, says Rakewell, there’s a museum for you out there somewhere

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art’, published to accompany the current exhibition at the National Gallery, London

Major art award suspended over fears of compromise

Art News Daily : 7 April

Never mind the buttocks

Allegory of the Immaculate Conception (detail; 1566), Carlo Portelli.

An exhibition in Florence finally gives Carlo Portelli the attention he deserves

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2016

Bonnie Prince Charlie makes a triumphant return to Edinburgh, while the NGA add hundreds of works to its huge collection

‘Rathkeale Rovers’ members jailed

Art News Daily : 6 April

Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London

Hajra Waheed’s exhibitions at BALTIC and the Mosaic Rooms are full of strange, evocative details

Inside Cuba’s changing art world

Havana’s contemporary artists face a contradictory mix of opportunities and restrictions