Some of the stories we’ve spotted this week
Blain|Southern’s group exhibition is about absence, but does the presence of so many big names get in the way?
Plans have been unveiled for a new gallery at Goldsmiths, to be designed by London-based architecture collective Assemble
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
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?
Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg; South American art in the Royal Academy; and the aptness of the Barbican as a venue for digital art…
Are encyclopaedic museums concentrating too much on contemporary art? News and comment from the Muse Room
Pictures from the Belle Époque: a few of the highlights from ‘The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec’ at MoMA, New York
Frances Spalding’s expertly curated exhibition places Woolf at the still centre of the Bloomsbury group
Some of the stories we’ve spotted this week: Otto Piene; cruise ships in Venice; Northampton’s funding future; and schnapps
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?
Looking Good: National Gallery exhibitions promote close looking
‘Making Colour’ and ‘Building the Picture’ point out details in paintings that are easily overlooked