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UN Advisors Urge Saudi Arabia to Drop Death Sentence for Palestinian Artist

Art News Daily : 4 December

Book Competition

Your chance to win Apollo’s Book of the Year – ‘Carrying off the Palaces: John Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes’, by Ken Jacobson and Jenny Jacobson

Imagine… the BBC without Alan Yentob

Rakewell cringes through Alan Yentob’s most recent Imagine profile, of David Chipperfield

‘Our Europe is an inclusive Europe’: the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new European Galleries

Lesley Miller, the lead curator of the museum’s new ‘Europe 1600–1815 Galleries’ explains the hard decisions involved in making displays

Alan Yentob Steps Down as BBC Creative Director

Art News Daily : 3 December

Tate Britain finally gets round to tackling the subject of empire

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What took them so long?

Picasso’s best sculptures are the ones he didn’t take terribly seriously

The artist’s smaller, seemingly tossed-off experiments at MoMA have a surprisingly contemporary feel

François Pinault Denies Paris Museum Rumours

Art News Daily : 2 December

French Artists React to Marine Le Pen

Art News Daily: 1 December

Not even Stalin could snuff out the legacy of early Soviet photography and film

The Jewish Museum’s exhibition reveals the importance of formal innovation to freedom of expression

Baltic Diary: The Purpose of Art Prizes

The Lorck Schive art prize has an important role to play in Trondheim’s growing art community

Has the Art World Been Duped Over ‘Leonardo’ Drawing?

Art News Daily: 30 November

Willem Baron van Dedem (1929–2015)

Remembering the renowned collector and TEFAF President

Art critics have ignored the condition of artworks for too long

Judging the quality of a work should involve some appreciation of its current condition

Bulgaria must not try to forget its past

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Sofia has many important monuments – and they should not be removed or destroyed

Can art exist on social media?

Can artists and the wider art world use social media for more than self-promotion? Some certainly think so…

Peter Lanyon’s reputation is finally taking off

His gliding pictures at the Courtauld Gallery show an artist in his element

Are artists justified in boycotting Israel?

Calls for cultural and academic boycotts of Israel continue to hit the headlines. Should we regard such politically charged stances as divisive or necessary for change?

Ruins and reconstruction at the Neues Museum

The building is simultaneously remnant and monument, a showcase for historical artefacts which itself embodies Europe’s disastrous history

FAO John McDonnell: Mao memorabilia for sale!

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

The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip

Alex Salmond is enamoured of his new portrait; Norman Foster’s colourful wardrobe; and Paris Hilton hits the decks at Art Basel Miami Beach

‘Without a palace of glass, life is a burdensome task.’ Paul Scheerbart’s utopian fantasies

‘Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader’ reviewed

Report Published on Clandon Park Fire

Art News Daily: 27 November

Autumn Statement brings relief but also unanswered questions for the arts

Blythe House in west London, where the British Museum currently holds some 2,000 objects in storage.

Arts sector funding fared surprisingly well in the latest spending review, but questions remain, not least over the fate of municipal museums