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‘This is not America’. Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square

Jarr’s restaged message to ‘America’ feels as as relevant as ever

Gallery: Olafur Eliasson turns Louisiana MoMA into a ‘Riverbed’

Eliasson’s new installation at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art lets a river overrun the gallery

Radical Order: Geometry and the Utopian Impulse

What’s behind the enduring appeal of geometry in modern art?

Review: ‘The Art and Science of Exploration’ at the Queen’s House

A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story

Gallery: ‘African Cosmos’ at LACMA

How has the night sky influenced African art over the centuries?

Review: ‘Syria’s Apex Generation’ at Ayyam Gallery

How does an art scene evolve if its founding location becomes a war zone?

Muse Reviews: 17 August

Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan

First Look: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center

A new exhibition at Stanford University looks at the changing face of the devil in art

Gallery: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center

Satan, sin and the underworld…selected highlights

The Week’s Muse: 16 August

Are art installations the new video games? Are adverts the new art installations? News and comment from the Muse Room…

Gallery: ‘The Art of Marcel Ronay’ at the Lightbox, Woking

Ronay’s paintings and drawings from interwar Vienna build up a revealing portrait of a pleasure-seeking city

Book Competition

The Scottish National War Memorial, which stands within the walls of Edinburgh Castle, was built to commemorate the dead of the Great War

Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings

The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication

Apollo 40 Under 40: The Thinkers

Which curators, writers, academics and educators are steering public opinion about art?

Art Outlook: 14 August

Ukraine museums move to protect their collections; auction houses move online; and robots move in to the Tate

Are art installations the new video games?

Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?

Gallery: ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ at Luxembourg & Dayan

Seven artists over eight decades who have explored the body as a fetishised, provocative object

Could a newly discovered tomb in Greece hold Hellenistic treasures?

It’s thought it could have links with Alexander the Great, and items have been found previously nearby

Review: Mark Neville’s Helmand Work at the IWM London

Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war

Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston

For centuries, painters have experimented with the landscape. Where will today’s artists venture next?

Art and Advertising: friends or foes?

Cosy, co-dependent, sometimes antagonistic: the relationship between art and advertising is a complicated affair

Folk Art and ‘Civilisation’: the question of art in context

Tate Britain’s ‘Kenneth Clark’ and ‘Folk Art’ shows looked at, and outside, the art-historical canon

Milking It: Delaware Art Museum will sell two more works of art

Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up

Gallery: ‘Lights Out’ commemorates First World War centenary

A look back at last week’s light-based commissions marking the outbreak of the First World War