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The hidden gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum
The museum is showing off its collection of jewels and metalwork, from neo-gothic to art nouveau
Emmanuel Macron gets taken for a mug
Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe
Alice Kettle’s textiles stitch together the stories of refugees
An exhibition of the artist’s new large-scale textiles in Manchester bears witness to the migrant crisis
David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s
The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney
How the V&A Dundee is rewriting the history of Scotland
The country’s first design museum is taking a cosmopolitan approach to presenting the national story
‘It is a strange little science-fiction period in the history of photography’ – Wim Wenders on his Polaroids
The film-maker discusses the unique quality of Polaroids – and why in the future no one will see the digital photographs being taken today
The Design Museum Zurich gets a stylish makeover
The refurbished museum is filled with fascinating objects from New Wave typography to a Swiss railway clock
William Hogarth as you’ve never seen him before (played by Keith Allen)
The Shallow Grave actor is to play Hogarth in a new play in London. Plus Lucian Freud on Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Iggy Pop eats Andy Warhol’s hamburger
What’s in store at La Biennale Paris this year
Highlights of the 30th edition of the fair include a Roman bust and a display devoted to Napoleon
Fatoş Üstek
Director and Chief Curator, David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), London, UK
David Beckham picks up the paintbrush
Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City
The museum pieces that every school kid in the US needs to see
Five leading museum directors pick objects that should be seen by every child in America
In search of the Venus de Milo – on Milos and in Paris
The statue has been in Paris for nearly two centuries, but does it belong back on the island of Milos?
Creating a scene on stage
How set designers and scene painters have beguiled audiences through the centuries
Jiří Kolář’s collages cut up reality to devastating effect
The Czech artist’s unsettling work includes a vivid record of the crushing of the Prague Spring
Chase F. Robinson named director of Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries
Art news daily: 22 August
A prehistoric DJ makes his debut at a neolithic monument
Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara
What Roderic O’Conor learned from Van Gogh
The Irish painter takes his place among the Post-Impressionists in the first major survey of his work in many years
The Italian painter who travelled to the Holy Land with John Singer Sargent
The discovery that Sargent made the journey with Alberto Falchetti sheds new light on both artists
AI art is on the rise – but how do we measure its success?
Artworks produced using artificial intelligence have long confounded viewers