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Review: ‘Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith’ at RIBA

Edwin Smith’s photographs captured the end of a different age

Modern Myth: Mary Reid Kelley’s ‘Swinburne’s Pasiphae’

Reid Kelley retells the minotaur story with rare and quite brilliant verve

No Love Locks: too much romance on Paris’ Pont des Arts

Loved up tourists will have to find another way to say they care…

Review: ‘British Art at War: David Bomberg’ on BBC Four

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Another informative episode, but why does it claim to be about war when the subject is given so little airtime?

Review: ‘Constable: The Making of a Master’ at the V&A

If you thought that you knew John Constable’s art, you are going to be in for something of a surprise

First Look: ‘Hokusai (1760–1849)’ at the Grand Palais

Laure Dalon, curator of ‘Hokusai’, talks about the artist’s Manga, his poetic late works, and the curatorial problems posed by fragile pieces

Gallery: ‘Hokusai (1760-1849)’ at the Grand Palais

A few of the beautiful and delicate works by Hokusai on display at the Grand Palais, Paris

Muse Reviews: 28 September

From ancient Assyria to the Vienna Actionists…a round-up of recent reviews and interviews

The Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery

The nuances of the new hang might be lost on the non-specialist, but overall the Wallace Collection’s refurbished gallery is magnificent

The Week’s Muse: 27 September

National treasures up for sale; art and protest in Latin America; plaster casts and the Classics Cabal

Book Competition

‘Ming: 50 years that changed China’ accompanies a major exhibition at the British Museum

The Threadneedle Prize 2014

Congratulations to Tina Jenkins, winner of this year’s Threadneedle Prize for figurative and representational art

Bodies in action: Vienna Actionism at Hauser & Wirth New York

To really appreciate this body of work, leave your sense of propriety at the door

Art Outlook: 25 September

Racism and censorship rows at the Barbican; hailstorms in Florence; and the end of cadmium red?

The London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery

Art and books have always gone hand in hand…

Editor’s Letter: Turner mania

Timothy Spall as J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's biopic of the artist, 'Mr. Turner' (2014), Courtesy Entertainment One

As the Art Fund appeals to save Wedgwood, will anything be done to secure one of Turner’s major works for a national collection when it goes up for sale at Sotheby’s?

First Look: ‘Rubens and his Legacy’ at BOZAR, Brussels

Without Rubens no rococo, no romanticism, no orientalism. Perhaps even no Impressionism.

Gallery: ‘Rubens and his Legacy’ at BOZAR, Brussels

A look at some of Rubens’ influential paintings, and those of the artists he inspired

Diary: September Apollo

In Apollo’s September Diary, Christopher Rowell celebrates 50 years of the Furniture History Society

Gallery: Highlights from LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair

Over 100 art and antiques dealers are exhibiting in Berkeley Square this week

Bantry House sale postponed

It was once nicknamed ‘The Wallace Collection of Ireland’: are efforts being made to save what remains of Bantry’s historic collection?

National Gallery launches membership scheme

This is the third in a hat trick of recent changes intended to place public engagement at the heart of the gallery’s operations

Wp Wp Wp: Fiona Banner at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Fiona Banner’s extraordinary indoor Chinook will make you want duck and run

Art and protest in Latin America

Two exhibitions in Buenos Aires this summer explored how Latin American artists have responded to the region’s social and economic upheavals