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Sports d’Hiver (1933), Erté. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (£18,000)

Highlights from London Art Week’s winter edition

The exhibitions and events not to miss in Mayfair and St James’s this year

4 Dec 2018
A burnt-out truck on the Champs Elysees in Paris, BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images

Several Paris museums close amid Yellow Vest protests

Art news daily: 3 December

3 Dec 2018
Double portrait of George Villiers, Marquess and later 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628) and his wife, Katherine Manners (1603–1649), as Venus and Adonis (detail; 1620–21), Anthony van Dyck. Estimate £2.5m–£3.5m

A rare chance to see Van Dyck’s racy portrait of a radical courtier

The marital portrait of George Villiers and Katherine Manners has no parallel in English or Flemish painting

3 Dec 2018
Zoe Whitley

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Zoe Whitley

Gabrielle Schwarz talks to Zoe Whitley, curator of international art at Tate Modern, about different approaches to exhibition-making

3 Dec 2018
Young Tiger Playing with its Mother, (1830–31), Eugène Delacroix. Musée du Louvre.

Delacroix earns his stripes at the Met

A major show at the Met presents the Romantic painter in many different modes

1 Dec 2018
An untitled work by Robert Morris on display at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2012. Photo: © Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

Robert Morris (1931–2018)

Art news daily: 30 November

30 Nov 2018
Untitled (Igbo Landing) (group of figures from series; 2018), Gerald Chukwuma. Gallery 1957, Accra

‘Art X Lagos is more like an arts festival than your average art fair’

The liveliness of the international art fair shows that the Nigerian arts scene is going from strength to strength

29 Nov 2018
Haroon Mirza. Photo: Gaia Fugazza

‘Artistic disciplines are breaking down’ – an interview with Haroon Mirza

As he prepares for an exhibition at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, the artist talks about ‘composing’ with light and sound

29 Nov 2018

Should paintings be conserved in public?

Rembrandt’s Night Watch is set to be restored in front of visitors. Should we welcome the growing prevalence of public conservation?

29 Nov 2018
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Tripoli Cancelled (2017), Naeem Mohaiemen. Installation view at the Turner Prize 2018, Tate Britain, London.

How can museums make us pay proper attention to moving images?

As film and video art moves into the mainstream, curators have to find new ways to keep viewers hooked

28 Nov 2018

The comic strip genius of Charles M. Schulz

The man who invented Snoopy and the Peanuts gang revolutionised cartoons – both aesthetically and emotionally

28 Nov 2018
The Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, photographed in the late 19th century.

‘Shouldn’t David be in Florence?’ – on the Cast Courts at the V&A

The museum’s gallery of historic plaster casts – newly restored – has long inspired conflicting responses

27 Nov 2018
Wanamaker Block (detail; 1955), Franz Kline. Yale University Art Gallery.

The Apollo Awards 2018 in pictures

The winners of this year’s Apollo Awards, celebrating great achievements of the art and museum worlds, were announced at a ceremony in London on Monday

27 Nov 2018
Charles Saumarez Smith photographed at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, by Clare Hewitt.

Personality of the Year

Charles Saumarez Smith

26 Nov 2018

Museum Opening of the Year

Louvre Abu Dhabi

26 Nov 2018
Post Art No. 5(detail; 1974) Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid.

Acquisition of the Year

The Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art

26 Nov 2018

Exhibition of the Year

‘Charles I: King and Collector’

26 Nov 2018
John Akomfrah.

Artist of the Year

John Akomfrah

26 Nov 2018
Royal statues from the kingdom of Dahomey (Benin), dating from 1890–92, currently at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, photo: Gerald Julien/AFP/Getty Images

Book of the Year

‘The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture, ca. 1400–1530’ by Anne Markham Schulz

26 Nov 2018
Vessel with flame-like ornamentation, Middle Jomon period (3,000–2,000 BC), from Sasayama site, Tokamachi-shi. Tokamachi City Museum, Niigata

The precocious potters of ancient Japan

During the Jomon period the Japanese archipelago was home to one of the prehistoric world’s most innovative societies

24 Nov 2018