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The Week’s Muse: 24 May

A round-up of news and comment from the Muse Room.

Book Competition

‘The First Georgians: Art & Monarchy 1714–1760’ accompanies an exhibition of the same name at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

Major blaze at the Glasgow School of Art

Fire crews are tackling a major blaze at the iconic Charles Rennie Mackintosh building on Renfrew Street

Review: Bill Viola’s ‘Martyrs’ at St Paul’s Cathedral

‘Martyrs’ is a beautiful series of videos, but it’s overshadowed by Wren’s magnificent architecture

Gallery: ‘Julian Opie Collected Works’ at the Holburne Museum

Julian Opie’s contemporary works are set against historical items from his own collection

Art Outlook: 22 May

Some of the stories, debates and discussions we’ve spotted this week

Review: Ben Johnson ‘Time Past Time Present’ at Alan Cristea Gallery

Time stops in Ben Johnson’s intricate paintings of empty architectural interiors

Mind the Gap: William Holman Hunt’s ‘Isabella’ should stay in Delaware

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Should a museum, purportedly in order to save its head, sell off the jewel in its crown?

‘Consumption’: The Fifth Prix Pictet Shortlist

Eleven photographers have been shortlisted for this year’s Prix Pictet on the theme of ‘Consumption’

Florida pastor is convicted of trying to sell fake Damien Hirst paintings

But authenticity is hardly Hirst’s own strong point

First Look: Georges Seurat at the Kröller-Müller Museum

A new display of Georges Seurat’s paintings and drawings opens in the Netherlands this week

Gallery: Georges Seurat at the Kröller-Müller Museum

‘Le Chahut’ and ‘Le Cirque’, Seurat’s last two large figure pieces, are among the highlights in this new exhibition

The Book of Miracles

This facsimile edition of a recently-discovered Renaissance manuscript is a wonder in its own right

Homecoming: Sergio Larrain’s photographs on display in Chile

Larrain’s powerful work hasn’t been on display in his home country since the 1960s

Cutting off: Alison Watt’s tapestry for Scottish Opera unveiled at Dovecot Studios

A cutting off ceremony is an artistic drama like no other

Review: ‘The Power of the Sea’ at the Royal West of England Academy

Interest in maritime art ebbs and flows, but it seems that we have hit a new wave

Gallery: Highlights from ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary

Figurative and abstract highlights from the upcoming Mondrian exhibition in Margate

First Look: ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary

The exhibition is the first to consider in depth the significance of colour to Piet Mondrian’s early career

Review: Tania Kovats’ bottled oceans at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

‘Oceans’ is a sophisticated response to a multitudinous, powerful subject

Muse Reviews: 18 May

A round-up of the week’s reviews from Paris, Berlin, London and New York

Review: Artists’ Scrapbooks at the ICA, London

The ICA’s Reading Room was put to good use recently with an exhibition of creative scrapbooks

The Week’s Muse: 17 May

Does art history have an image problem? A round-up of stories and comment from the Muse Room.

Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, ‘The Strange City’ (Monumenta 2014)

The Kabakovs’ ‘Strange City’ at the Grand Palais isn’t completely alien

Why do we need an International Museum Day?

Museums enrich communities around the world; why not take a day to celebrate that fact?