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The eclectic country houses of George Devey
The Victorian architect fused styles past and present, inventing fictive histories for his buildings
‘I paint for my sanity’ – an interview with Mary Corse
The painter talks about her formal experiments and the importance of being self-sufficient
Artists remove works from Design Museum in protest over arms-trade event
Art news daily: 3 August
The strangely familiar world of Pia Camil
The artist’s immersive exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary makes us question our public personas
Celebrating the diversity of Chicago’s cultural landscape
The Terra Foundation’s year-long cultural programme shines a spotlight on the ‘third coast’ of America
MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach to head LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Art news daily: 01 August
Acquisitions of the month: July 2018
A 16-metre-long Chinese scroll and some Surrealist masterpieces are among this month’s top acquisitions
Art goes AWOL at the Palace of Westminster
Works go for a wander from the Parliamentary Art Collection, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
How polychrome sculpture revolutionised art in 19th-century France
Coloured sculpture was a controversial art form that raised wider questions about realism and the role of art
The mastermind behind the modern art market
A collection of short memoirs about the late Sotheby’s chairman Peter Wilson portrays an enigmatic and highly influential figure
Eight artists’ gardens that are artworks in their own right
Artists have often been inspired by gardens – and some have created outdoor masterpieces of their own
The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics
The museum pieces every school kid in the Netherlands should see
Leading figures pick objects from Dutch collections that should be seen by every schoolchild in the Netherlands
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Michael Jackson: On the Wall’ (National Portrait Gallery)
David Bomberg finally gets his due
The English painter’s work found early success, but has since been unduly neglected
Dystopia lands in London’s Docklands
Lawrence Lek and Kode9 explore sound, architecture and the changing city in their installation at arebyte gallery
How a not-so-rude Rubens fazed Facebook
The Facebook flesh police took umbrage at a painting by Rubens that features the crucified Christ in a loincloth
Ecstasy and ethnography in Geneva
An exhibition at the MEG urges us to see African religious objects afresh by placing them in contemporary sacred contexts
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