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Art Outlook: 1 August

Some of the stories we’ve spotted this week

Kai van Hasselt

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Acquisitions of the Month: July

Deaccessioning is in the news, but what of the museums that have been acquiring new work?

The Hague’s hidden treasures: Museum Bredius

There’s more to the Hague than the Mauritshuis

Gallery: ‘Colour Photography before the Great War’ at Martin-Gropius-Bau

A haunting series of photographs is about to go on show in Berlin

Review: ‘The Space Where I Am’ at Blain|Southern, London

Blain|Southern’s group exhibition is about absence, but does the presence of so many big names get in the way?

Edinburgh Art Festival: what not to miss

Heading to Edinburgh? Here are six fine art exhibitions to visit while you’re out there…

New Art Gallery at Goldsmiths

Plans have been unveiled for a new gallery at Goldsmiths, to be designed by London-based architecture collective Assemble

Ancient Contemporary: Hauser & Wirth Somerset

What’s a stylish mega-gallery like Hauser & Wirth doing on an old farm in Somerset?

The Rodin Gift to the V&A: a centenary celebration

In 1914 Auguste Rodin gifted 18 sculptures to the V&A, in tribute to the British soldiers fighting alongside his own countrymen in the First World War

Gallery: ‘Gego. Line as Object’ at the Henry Moore Institute

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‘Sculpture, three-dimensional forms of solid material. Never what I do!’ The HMI begs to differ…

Apollo 40 Under 40: The Artists

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Try making a list of 10 outstanding young artists, all based in Europe, and whose work already announces their original talent but also bears the promise of longevity. Where would you start?

Looking Good: National Gallery exhibitions promote close looking

‘Making Colour’ and ‘Building the Picture’ point out details in paintings that are easily overlooked

Muse Reviews: 27 July

Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg; South American art in the Royal Academy; and the aptness of the Barbican as a venue for digital art…

John Ruskin’s second career

Extract for our July/August Diary by Ruskin expert Robert Hewison

The Week’s Muse: 26 July

Are encyclopaedic museums concentrating too much on contemporary art? News and comment from the Muse Room

Gallery: Toulouse-Lautrec

Pictures from the Belle Époque: a few of the highlights from ‘The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec’ at MoMA, New York

Review: ‘Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision’ at the National Portrait Gallery

Frances Spalding’s expertly curated exhibition places Woolf at the still centre of the Bloomsbury group

Art Outlook: 25 July

Some of the stories we’ve spotted this week: Otto Piene; cruise ships in Venice; Northampton’s funding future; and schnapps

Review: Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg

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With global politics so dominant in the conversation surrounding Manifesta, there was a danger the art might become an irrelevant sideshow. Does it hold its own?

Latin American art: the best of this summer’s shows

Five exhibitions of Latin American art to see this summer

Review: ‘Radical Geometry’, South American art at the Royal Academy, London

The diversity of South American abstraction is one of its main strengths

More than ‘women artists’: Dorothea Tanning and Shelagh Wakely in London

Two London shows worth visiting this summer

Gallery: ‘Disobedient Objects’ at the V&A

What to expect from a museum show dedicated to the ingenious objects produced by protest groups