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What’s in store at the National Galleries of Scotland?

Thousands of artworks are hidden away in Edinburgh’s Granton Stores. We got an exclusive tour…

Italy tucks away its assets to avoid Iranian blushes

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Italian PM Matteo Renzi likes to boast about his country’s cultural heritage – until the Iranian president visits, that is…

Champagne feminism at the Saatchi Gallery and celebrity women in Wapping

Two exhibitions in London tackle the role and representation of women in art – with decidedly mixed results

Switzerland puts $2 million into disputed art research

Art News Daily : 27 January

Will listing post-war public art really help to save it?

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Historic England’s last-ditch efforts to focus public attention on public art

Unearthing the secrets of East Anglia’s Bronze Age settlers

Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm. Photo: Cambridge Archaeological Unit

The discoveries at Must Farm reveal a lot about life 3,000 years ago. But one big question remains…

Temporary export bar for Bol portrait

Art News Daily : 26 January

Photographing ‘vice’ on the Varna Road

Janet Mendelsohn’s photographs at Ikon gallery capture the human face of Birmingham’s most notorious district

Egyptian Museum staff face tribunal over ‘botched beard’

Art News Daily : 25 January

The Rake’s Progress: Last Week in Gossip

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Harry Styles turns to painting, the new British Museum director’s penchant for Prince, and why Arts Council initiatives sound like second-rate action films

London Diary: fine art in ‘sinful Soho’

The current show at Marian Goodman gallery is a blast, and White Cube has come up with a winner, too

Post-war public art listed in the UK

Art News Daily : 22 January

Boris Johnson and the GLA are the true vandals of London

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The mayor’s expansionist ambitions are ruining the city’s historic character

The curious incident of the dog on Gormley’s coastline

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British sculptor Antony Gormley has a furry new fan

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez’, by Laura Cumming

Caballeros! Prado acquires Fra Angelico masterpiece in gentlemanly fashion

Madrid's Museo del Prado will welcome a new director ahead of its 200th birthday in 2019

Art News Daily: 21 January

Art and Migration in Modern Britain: Apollo event at the London Art Fair

Join us this Friday for a one-off event

Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin

What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman

In praise of modern Scottish women

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How did the Scottish women who went to progressive art schools fare in a reactionary art world?

ISIS destroys Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery

Art News Daily : 20 January

Cuts run deep: Is Australia’s ‘coup culture’ killing its cultural heart?

Australia's Crumbling Cultural Sector - Apollo Magazine

In the space of five years, Australia has seen five prime ministers, with wildly different attitudes to art and culture

Bursting bubbles at the Saatchi Gallery

Great to have a show dedicated to women artists – but why the baffling title?

Tokyo stadium row rumbles on

Art News Daily : 19 January

An Indian Winter in Philadelphia

The PMA’s Indian art galleries may be closed for renovation, but a trio of temporary exhibitions is filling the gap