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12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Xavier Salomon’s highlights include Old Masters in Italy, the Le Nain brothers in the US, and a celebration of Hieronymus Bosch in Madrid

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Thomas Marks on Sicily at the British Museum and Ashmolean, Vittorio Cini’s paintings from the Veneto, and the Parma School in Rome

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Charles Saumarez Smith looks forward to the new Tate Modern and Design Museum buildings, the V&A’s rethink of Botticelli and Pallant House’s British art displays

Andrea del Sarto’s perfect chalk drawings

The Italian artist’s masterful works fully explore the possibilities of chalk

Cornelius Gurlitt deemed sane when making museum bequest

Art News Daily : 23 December

Tullio Lombardo’s great but forgotten sculptures

A new publication by Anne Markham Schulz pieces together the story of the sculptor’s oeuvre

Sindika Dokolo returns stolen art to Angolan museum

Art News Daily : 22 December

Finally, a reminder that post-war architecture deserves our praise

Elain Harwood’s magisterial Space, Hope, and Brutalism is a triumph

BBC announces major new art historical series

Art News Daily : 21 December

It is more important than ever to protect our museums

‘It is more important than ever to defend museums and what they make possible’

Richard Serra’s monumental move in Washington, D.C.

Esther Chadwick watches Richard Serra’s monumental Five Plates, Two Poles move into a new home at the National Gallery of Art

Is the German Cultural Property Protection Act to be welcomed?

Does draft cultural property legislation in Germany threaten to damage German cultural life, or is it necessary for the safeguarding of the country’s heritage?

Where will London’s artists work?

As London’s former industrial areas are being redeveloped, artists are running out of affordable studio space. Can a city be a thriving cultural centre if its artists have nowhere to work?

Was there no Celtic Revival to vie with the Gothic?

‘The Celtic Revival in architecture depended upon ancient shrines, castles, and vernacular buildings’

‘All kinds of abstract art were possible.’ Alan Bowness on post-war British painting

Sir Alan Bowness’s art collection goes on display at a new public gallery at Downing College Cambridge

‘This exhibition conflates the gallery and the brothel’

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Sensationalist displays are no way to explore art and prostitution, writes Lynda Nead – and the Musée d’Orsay has got carried away with selling sex

Rebellion over Heatherwick’s ‘Garden Bridge’

Art News Daily : 18 December

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975’, by Elain Harwood

Max Beckmann in Berlin

An exhibition of Max Beckmann’s early works in Berlin reveal the painter’s slow path to maturity, including false starts and missteps as well as successes

Your surreal Christmas, courtesy of a museum gift shop near you

Rakewell scours the museum gift shops of the world for his last-minute gifts for the entire family

Tutankhamun’s funerary mask back on display

Art News Daily : 17 December

Drinking scenes: the relationship between artists and alcohol

The Romantic association between creativity and alcohol has no foundation, but alcohol and its effects have proved a rich subject for artists

Turkey and Syria in stand-off over looted antiquities

Art News Daily : 16 December

The search is on for England’s missing public sculptures

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Public sculpture was one marker of an ambitious, aspirant and generous society, the kind of world that we urgently need to be reminded of