Charles Saumarez Smith to leave the RA and join Blain|Southern
Art news daily: 27 July
Art news daily: 27 July
An exhibition at the MEG urges us to see African religious objects afresh by placing them in contemporary sacred contexts
Nobody wants to take a coffee table book to the beach, so here’s some fiction about art – picked by Apollo’s editors
The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable
In his new show, What is America?, the comedian foists some pungent art on a gallerist in California. It's not the first time he's fooled the art world
The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors
The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists
The artist’s subjects include drones, undersea cables and a sculptural satellite in space
Two hundred years ago, the English parliament passed the Act for Building New Churches, allocating £1m for the task
By placing the artist’s possessions next to her portraits, the V&A seeks to reveal the woman behind the icon
A conversation with Stuart McKnight of MUMA, the architects responsible for the new galleries in the triforium at Westminster Abbey
In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos
A survey of the Korean artist’s work reveals a fascination with the fragile boundary between beauty and horror
The American artist looks back on half of a century of working in and with the landscape
An exhibition in Hastings makes clear the abrupt shift in the St Ives artist’s style of painting
A comprehensive look at the career of Lucie Rie places the spotlight on her handcrafted buttons
An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores the inventive language of the 17th-century auricular style
A major giveaway from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and a Queen Victoria bust are among this month’s top acquisitions
The Fondation Beyeler ingeniously pairs Bacon and Giacometti in a way that highlights the individuality of both artists
Museums across the UK are able to borrow from the national collections, but they need external support to do so