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Gold and agate brooch (1865), made by the Phillips Brothers.

The hidden gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum

The museum is showing off its collection of jewels and metalwork, from neo-gothic to art nouveau

21 Sep 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win Miraculous Encounters: Pontormo from Drawing to Painting (Getty Publications)

21 Sep 2018
Robert Venturi in Las Vegas in 1968.

Robert Venturi (1925–2018)

Art news daily: 20 September

20 Sep 2018

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

20 Sep 2018
Drawings by W.S. Graham over the pages of Artificial Limbs: For Use After Amputation and Congenital Deficiencies by F.G. Ernst (1923).

‘No story of painting in St Ives is complete without W.S. Graham’

An exhibition on the art of the Scottish poet reveals the impact that his friendship with the St Ives artists had on his own work

20 Sep 2018
Geta Brătescu, photographed in 2015.

Geta Brătescu (1926–2018)

Art news daily: 18 September

19 Sep 2018

Haute couture and holy robes at the Met

High fashion turns out to be no match for some lavish loans from the Vatican

19 Sep 2018
Elliot Bostwick Davis, newly appointed director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art.

Elliot Bostwick Davis named director of Norton Museum of Art

Art news daily: 18 September

18 Sep 2018

Everything must glow – Nicky Wire is having his first solo show

The Manic Street Preachers bassist is showing mixed media works in Pembrokeshire – and he’s not the first bass-player to have a sideline in art

17 Sep 2018
The Glasgow School of Art on 22nd June, photo: © Robert Perry/Getty Images
Ground – Thread Bearing Witness (detail) (2018), Alice Kettle.

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

17 Sep 2018
Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978–79, courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

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

17 Sep 2018

Van Gogh in the shopping mall

Replicas of Van Gogh’s paintings are on a tour of major retail centres in the US. Plus: art on the loose in Toledo and Kanye goes back to school

16 Sep 2018

Is it time to call an end to biennials?

Biennials are a mainstay of the contemporary art world, but their purpose seems increasingly unclear

15 Sep 2018
The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.

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

14 Sep 2018

Highlights of LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2018

The works not to miss at the 10th edition of LAPADA’s annual fair

14 Sep 2018
Portrait of Wim Wenders taken in 2015 by Peter Lindbergh, image courtesy Wim Wenders

‘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

13 Sep 2018
Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov in Moscow on 31 July 2018.

Suspected poisoning of Pussy Riot member

Art news daily: 13 September

13 Sep 2018
Installation view of Sensorial Estates by WE-Designs, LAByrinth PROJECT (Hong Kong) at the London Design Biennale

Emotional intelligence at the London Design Biennale

Projects from over 40 countries and cities examine the links between design and emotion

13 Sep 2018
Closed Loop (2017), Jake Elwes

AI art is on the rise – but how do we measure its success?

Artworks produced using artificial intelligence have long confounded viewers

13 Sep 2018
Photo courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art
Eyrecourt, Co. Galway (n.d.), John Nankivell.

The drawings that capture Ireland’s crumbling castles

John Nankivell has specialised in recording decaying historic buildings, but his work also provides some reasons for hope

12 Sep 2018
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, main building at Ausstellungsstrasse, 2017.

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

12 Sep 2018