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Frida Kahlo with Olmec figurine (1939), Nickolas Muray.

A fresh look at Frida Kahlo

By placing the artist’s possessions next to her portraits, the V&A seeks to reveal the woman behind the icon

13 Jul 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism’ by Whitney Chadwick (Thames & Hudson)

13 Jul 2018

‘Real Detroiters are tired of their city being a symbol’

How the city’s long-term residents are fostering a thriving arts scene

12 Jul 2018
An image from The Gospels of Henry the Lion, one of the most famous items of the Guelph Treasure

Guelph Treasure case to be heard by a US federal court

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Guelph Treasure case to be heard by a US federal court…

12 Jul 2018

The Apollo podcast: William Kentridge

Thomas Marks talks to William Kentridge about his new performance project, The Head & the Load

12 Jul 2018
Glasgow School Of Art's Mackintosh building on fire for the second time.

Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt

Art news daily: 11 July

11 Jul 2018
View of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries, located in the triforium at Westminster Abbey, London.

‘The space has an otherworldly quality’ – Stuart McKnight on Westminster Abbey

A conversation with Stuart McKnight of MUMA, the architects responsible for the new galleries in the triforium at Westminster Abbey

11 Jul 2018
Bilte, (2008) Tomma Abts, installation view at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 2018, © 2018 readsreads.info

Tomma Abts’ intriguing paintings contain infinite worlds

In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos

11 Jul 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Flag wags, Madonna at the National Portrait Gallery, and why Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat might be heading to the Museum of London

10 Jul 2018
Jeremy Wright arriving at number 10 Downing Street before accepting the position of Culture Secretary on 9 July 2018.

Jeremy Wright appointed UK culture secretary

Art news daily: 10 July

10 Jul 2018
Sorry for suffering – You think I’m a puppy on a picnic? (1990), Lee Bul. Twelve-day performance at Kimpo Airport, Narita Airport, downtown Tokyo and Dokiwaza Theater.

The monstrous bodies of Lee Bul

A survey of the Korean artist’s work reveals a fascination with the fragile boundary between beauty and horror

10 Jul 2018
Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns (1979), Michelle Stuart.

Stones, scrolls and the mysteries of the universe – an interview with Michelle Stuart

The American artist looks back on half of a century of working in and with the landscape

10 Jul 2018
Habet! In the Coliseum A.D.XC (1865), Simeon Solomon.

Simeon Solomon gets his time in the spotlight

In his lifetime Solomon was shunned for defying social norms. But now the talented Victorian artist is getting his due

9 Jul 2018
Film still from txtferz (2018) by Elizabeth Price, installed at Morley Gallery (5–14 July).

Elizabeth Price’s gestures of protest

The artist’s new video piece, installed at the Morley Gallery, draws attention to the current crisis in UK higher education

9 Jul 2018
January, Yellow and Black (1957), Paul Feiler.

The modern mysticism of Paul Feiler

An exhibition in Hastings makes clear the abrupt shift in the St Ives artist’s style of painting

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

Tate St Ives named Art Fund Museum of the Year

Art news daily: 6 July

6 Jul 2018
A selection of glazed ceramic buttons (1944–45), Lucie Rie.

The great modern potter who made an art form of buttons

A comprehensive look at the career of Lucie Rie places the spotlight on her handcrafted buttons

6 Jul 2018
The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Part of a brass choir screen at De Nieuwe Kerke, Amsterdam, cast by unknown brass-founders in c. 1654, after a design by Johannes Lutma, probably in collaboration with Jacob van Campen

The fantastical designs of the Dutch Golden Age

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum explores the inventive language of the 17th-century auricular style

5 Jul 2018

Acquisitions of the month: June 2018

A major giveaway from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and a Queen Victoria bust are among this month’s top acquisitions

5 Jul 2018
The Dresden Mars (before 1587), Giambologna.
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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Ed Vaizey does the floss dance, Germaine Greer takes aim at art in schools and Vincent van Gogh gets his own beer

4 Jul 2018
Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, 1965, (1965) Graham Keen, © Graham Keen

Bacon and Giacometti remain as elusive as ever at the Fondation Beyeler

The Fondation Beyeler ingeniously pairs Bacon and Giacometti in a way that highlights the individuality of both artists

4 Jul 2018