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Peasant company – Jean-François Millet among the moderns
How the Barbizon painter’s subversive rural scenes inspired artists from Van Gogh to Salvador Dalí
The saintly sight of Cardinal Newman
Rakewell digs out some portraits of John Henry Newman, the first British person to be canonised for nearly 50 years
‘Frustrate the Feminine Fanatics’ – how women overcame their critics at Cambridge University
It is 150 years since women first arrived at Cambridge – and the fight for equality has taken almost as long
Trevor Paglen trains his sights on the rise of machine vision
What are the implications of using object recognition technology to classify human faces and emotions?
Glass act – inside the Danish museum devoted to studio glass
The Glasmuseet in Ebeltoft has a significant collection of works donated by artists from around the world
Venus enlargement? Marlene Dumas takes on Shakespeare’s erotic verse
The artist is one of few to have attempted to illustrate Venus and Adonis
Emilie Gordenker announced as new general director of Van Gogh Museum
Art news daily: 16 October
Mark Bradford descends into the hell of modern America
A new series of sprawling canvases by the Los Angeles-based artist takes inspiration from Cerberus, the mythical hound of Hades
Public relations – solidarity posters from Castro’s Cuba
The 1960s and ’70s were a golden age for Cuban artists who designed striking graphics for liberation movements across the world
A long-lost Cimabue has emerged – and the ‘first light’ of painting now burns brighter than ever
The chance discovery in a kitchen in France has major significance for scholarship on the Florentine master
Messier and Messier – at the FC Barcelona Museum
A visit to Camp Nou – where Lionel Messi’s boots can be found alongside works by Miró, Dalí and Tàpies
Open letter calls for MoMA trustee Larry Fink to divest from private prisons
Art news daily: 11 October
‘My art is about overcoming our limitations’ – an interview with Agnes Denes
The artist talks about what it meant to plant a wheatfield in Manhattan – and why she wants her work to outlive her
Around the world in 35,000 objects – and a handful of clicks
The Khalili Collections have partnered up with Wikimedia UK to broaden access to their vast holdings spanning centuries and cultures
From schools to cigar shops – the eclectic vision of Henry van de Velde
The Belgian painter-turned-designer was a prominent figure in the early history of modernism – although his precise role is not so easy to pin down
Italian court blocks Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man from travelling to Louvre
Art news daily: 9 October
Cumberbatch the cat artist brings London to a standstill (sort of)
You’ve heard about the Extinction Rebellion protests… but a 19th-century cat artist is also doing his bit to bring London to a standstill
‘Making already complex things more complex’ – an interview with Imran Perretta
The artist discusses his latest film, whose title – the destructors – is borrowed from a short story by Graham Greene
Art UK initiative uncovers Van Dyck portrait in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery
Art news daily: 8 October
Sitting pretty – the world’s best museum benches