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Relief of a Persian soldier (5th century B.C), Photo: © Office of the New York district attorney

US judge orders return of Persian bas-relief to Iran

Art news daily: 24 July

24 Jul 2018
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Bt (1888), John Thomson.

The mysteries and marvels of Sir Richard Wallace

This summer the Wallace Collection turns the spotlight on its enigmatic namesake

24 Jul 2018
Shiny Tim: Chalamet with a fruit basket

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Timothée Chalamet becomes an art-world icon and Theaster Gates reveals he’s a fan of Harry Styles

24 Jul 2018
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615–17; detail), Artemisia Gentileschi.

The remarkable career of Artemisia Gentileschi

The National Gallery’s acquisition of a work by the painter is welcome – not least because baroque women artists were long neglected

23 Jul 2018
Manama, capital of Bahrain, where the 2018 Art Bahrain Without Borders fair will be held.

Apollo recommends arty novels for the summer

Nobody wants to take a coffee table book to the beach, so here’s some fiction about art – picked by Apollo’s editors

23 Jul 2018
Untitled from the series Imagined States and Desires: A Balkan Journey (1999–2003).

The Barbican’s photography double bill speaks powerfully to our times

The photographs of Dorothea Lange and Vanessa Winship share a fascination with society in flux

21 Jul 2018
Exterior of the Bauhaus school of applied at Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius in 1926, photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images

Rethinking the utopian vision of the Bauhaus

The Bauhaus’s radical designs were meant for the masses, but they were far from affordable

20 Jul 2018

The museum pieces that every school kid needs to see

Leading figures pick objects from UK collections that should be seen by every child in the country

19 Jul 2018
Tate St Ives exterior visualisation. © Jamie Fobert Architects

Tate St Ives among finalists for Stirling Prize 2018

Art news daily: 19 July

19 Jul 2018

A great 16th-century Qur’an gets the attention it deserves

A meticulous study of the Chester Beatty Ruzbihan Qur’an does justice to the ingenuity of its calligrapher

19 Jul 2018

Public art goes prehistoric in London

A pop-up monument to commemorate 25 years since the release of Jurassic Park has appeared in London – and yes, it’s terrifying

19 Jul 2018
Waverley Gate, the site of Creative Scotland’s Edinburgh headquarters.
The Bridge, (2018) Li Binyuan, installation view at the Yinchuan Biennale.

Artistic strategies on China’s new Silk Road

The second Yinchuan Biennale is part of an official drive to open up the city to international visitors

18 Jul 2018
Gibbs toothpaste poster print (c. 1970), Michael English. British Dental Association Museum

The Wellcome sinks its teeth into the history of dentistry

A fascinating display takes us from the patron saint of toothaches to public health campaigns in the 1940s

18 Jul 2018
The Taj Mahal, photographed in March 2018.
Daydream (detail; 1900), Odilon Redon

The enigmatic visions of Odilon Redon

A new exhibition suggests that Redon’s pictures owe as much to literature and music as they do to the visual arts

17 Jul 2018
Blue Water Lilies, Claude Monet

How Monet’s water lilies took root across the pond

The French painter’s late style influenced a generation of American Abstract Expressionists

17 Jul 2018
The National Gallery, London.
Pectoral disc (19th century), Ghana, Asante peoples

The great West African kingdom that made its mark in gold

An exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art places the powerfully symbolic gold objects of the Asante peoples centre stage

16 Jul 2018
NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Keawaula, Hawaii, United States (2016), Trevor Paglen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Trevor Paglen reveals the hidden networks that rule our lives

The artist’s subjects include drones, undersea cables and a sculptural satellite in space

16 Jul 2018
A Group of Churches, designed by Sir J. Soane to illustrate different Styles of Architecture Holy Trinity, Marylebone, St Peter’s, Walworth and the chapel at Tyringham, Buckinghamshire) (detail; c. 1825), Joseph Michael Gandy.

How the church-building boom of the 19th century began

Two hundred years ago, the English parliament passed the Act for Building New Churches, allocating £1m for the task

14 Jul 2018
View of Singapore skyline.

MCH Group is launching a new fair in Singapore

Art news daily: 13 July

13 Jul 2018