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The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip

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Sting moves out, Ed Vaizey flexes his muscles, Sara Cox goes potty for pottery, and George Bush has an artistic rival

The Halloween Horrors of the Art World

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The Rake’s guide to this year’s Halloween art gossip…

Julia Peyton-Jones to Leave Serpentine Gallery

Art News Daily : 30 October

Asian Art in London 2015: Art Award Shortlist

Announcing the shortlist for the Asian Art in London Art Award 2015

European Union U-Turns on Cadmium Ban

Art News Daily : 29 October

Preview: Asian Art In London

Highlights from this year’s city-wide event: from painted scrolls to Chinese jade

Hans Ulrich Obrist & The Poetry of Rubbish

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Mistaking art for rubbish is a grand tradition. But so is mistaking rubbish for art…

UK Government Launches Scheme to Protect Iraqi Heritage

Art News Daily : 28 October

Pastel Perfect: a rare chance to see Jean-Étienne Liotard’s portraits in Britain

This travelling exhibition is a treat for lovers of 18th-century art

Star Wars: The Farce Awakens

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News that a city in Ukraine has encased a statue of Vladimir Lenin inside an effigy of Darth Vader has brought much mirth to sci-fi geeks across the globe

ISIS Executions in Palmyra

Art News Daily : 27 October

The Metropolitan Museum wants to transform our view of Ancient Egypt

Middle Kingdom show ‘upends the view that Egyptian art is all the same’

A Tribute to Lisa Jardine

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Lisa will be remembered for her scholarly work, but her real legacy will be the spaces she created for atraditional academics

Ai Weiwei vs Lego

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Danish toymaker Lego has discovered it doesn’t pay to cross Ai Weiwei…

Lisa Jardine (1944–2015)

Art News Daily : 26 October

London Diary: Auerbach’s City

Nobody has captured the city’s ever-changing whirl quite like Auerbach: don’t miss his shows at Tate Britain and Marlborough

Baltic Diary: Rethinking the role of art in the city

Engagement, interaction, the co-creation of meaning: these are the museum buzzwords of today. But what do they actually mean?

Scholarly flair at the Städel Museum

The Frankfurt museum ends its bicentenary year with an impressive pairing of works from its permanent collections with ‘eminent guests’ from around the world

The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip

A week’s notes in gossip, scandal and absurdity

50 Most Endangered Heritage Sites Named

Art News Daily : 23 October

Editor’s Letter: Spirituality in Modern Art

The Palazzo Strozzi’s ‘Divine Beauty’ exhibition presents a complex and engaging vision of modern sacred art

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama’, by Marianna Shreve Simpson and Louise Marlow

Arts Council Issues Heightened Alert Warning for UK Museums

Art News Daily : 22 October

Lawrence Weiner adds a note of anxiety at Blenheim Palace

Can contemporary art operate critically within such surroundings?