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Aretha Franklin (1942–2018), photo: Express Newspapers/Getty Images
A view of downtown Pittsburgh, one of the US cities whose cultural organisations are the beneficiaries of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts Innovation and Management Training Program.
Bitter Campari (1960s), Franz Marangolo.

How Campari built its brand

An exhibition tracing the advertising history of the Italian liqueur reflects the changing tastes of the 20th century

16 Aug 2018

The true worth of Robert Burns’s manuscripts

New research methods will help distinguish Robert Burns’ texts from forgeries – but will it change how we read him?

16 Aug 2018

Soap and glory at the Uri Geller Museum

Uri Geller is to open a museum in Jaffa, Israel, next year – and his psychic powers, or at least an archaeological team, have led to a discovery on site

16 Aug 2018
Martin Puryear receiving a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Medal from then-US President Barack Obama.

Martin Puryear to represent US at next Venice Biennale

Art news daily: 15 August

15 Aug 2018
The Horniman Museum and Gardens in Forest Hill, London, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend and constructed in 1898–1901.

The Horniman Museum takes on the world

The London museum’s outstanding ethnographic collections finally have a fitting home

15 Aug 2018
Portrait of Chelsea Manning.

ICA in London to honour Chelsea Manning

Art news daily: 14 August

14 Aug 2018

Andrea Fraser follows the money

In her new book, the artist uncovers uncomfortable truths about art, money and politics in the US

14 Aug 2018
Constitutional Center, the headquarters for the National Endowment of the Humanities. Credit: NEH.gov.
Balls (film still; 2018), Lily Cole.

Lily Cole’s new film breathes life into the past at the Foundling Museum

Fiction and history, past and present are interwoven in this tale of two women whose children are taken into care

13 Aug 2018
State of Grace (detail; 2002), Rebecca Belmore.

The work of Rebecca Belmore demands to be heard

The experiences of Indigenous peoples past and present are brought into view in this provocative yet sensitive exhibition

11 Aug 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win Michaelina Wautier, 1614-1689: Glorifying a Forgotten Talent by Katlijne Van der Stighelen

10 Aug 2018
Alan Jones, the newly appointed president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

RIBA appoints new president amid controversy

Art News Daily: 9 August

9 Aug 2018
Gesellschaft (Party) (1911), Emil Nolde.

Colour, controversy and religion in the art of Emil Nolde

From biblical scenes to garden paintings, the paintings of this German Expressionist reveal a complicated soul

9 Aug 2018
The Hoa Hakananai’a at the British Museum in London.
Dickens’s Dream (detail; 1875), Robert William Buss.

Does the spirit of Charles Dickens live on in his furniture?

A table owned by the author has been export stopped in the UK – a situation that Dickens himself would have relished

8 Aug 2018
Installation view of ‘Yuko Mohri: Voluta’, at Camden Arts Centre, 2018, Photo: Damian Griffiths. Courtesy Camden Arts Centre

Yuko Mohri unwinds at Camden Arts Centre

The artist’s new sound installation involving solenoids, sensors and tropical fish is surprisingly decorative

7 Aug 2018
Museum of Modern Art, New York
'The List', before its defacement. Credit: Liverpool Biennial/Mark McNulty.

The destruction of The List at the Liverpool Biennial is deeply troubling

The List, which documents the thousands of people who have died trying to reach Europe, was torn down from hoardings in Liverpool

7 Aug 2018

The artist who can’t get enough of the Coen brothers

Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)

7 Aug 2018

The Apollo podcast: Mark Gatiss on John Minton

Mark Gatiss tells Thomas Marks about his new film on John Minton – and his lifelong fascination with the artist

6 Aug 2018
Ai Weiwei photographed in May 2018..

Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei’s studio

Art news daily: 6 August

6 Aug 2018