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The best of Masterpiece 2018
Manet, Modigliani and Marina Abramović are among the highlights of this year’s Masterpiece London
The Palermo pizzeria for those Manifesta munchies
A ‘Renoir’ pizza could be just the thing after perusing some of Manifesta‘s more offbeat installations
Ferdinand Hodler’s symbolic hold on the Swiss imagination
Geneva’s museums are using the centenary of the artist’s death as an opportunity to rethink how they display their collections
Berlin Museum of Islamic Art receives €9m from Saudi Arabian foundation
Art news daily: 22 June
The remarkable story of a Nazi-looted Dutch Golden Age painting
‘The Oyster Meal’ by Jacob Ochtervelt comes to auction in July after being returned to the heirs of the original owner
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is a more serious affair than usual
Frida Escobedo has created a surprisingly sombre structure for this year’s temporary pavilion
Approaching the divine at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum asks visitors to consider what it means to represent divinity in human form
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Beyonce and Jay-Z take over the Louvre, Kurt Cobain in Co. Kildare, and why Olafur Eliasson is teaming up with Ikea
‘Mounting an exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci is an act of hubris’
In the run-up to the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth, getting other museums to lend you their Leonardo is no mean feat
Why modernism was not the only way of being modern
A new study of art and design in the interwar years makes the case for a distinctly baroque take on modernity
Edmund de Waal looks back at his early porcelains
An interview with the British ceramicist, who reflects on a formative relationship with a collector of his art
‘The building as it was is gone for good’ – remembering the Glasgow School of Art
The devastating fire at the Glasgow School of Art means that incredibly difficult decisions lie ahead
Trump Foundation sued for improper spending, including $10k on a portrait
Art news daily : 15 June
How Cedric Morris fused his twin passions for plants and painting
The British artist was as devoted to cultivating flowers as he was to painting them, as this colourful exhibition reveals
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution’ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Funny business in the world of stamps
American philatelists with a nose for novelty can now get their hands on scratch n’sniff stamps. And is Royal Mail having a laugh with its Dad’s Army set?
Colour and chaos in the work of Albert Oehlen
The self-declared ‘post-non-figurative’ painter proves himself a master colourist in this survey at the Palazzo Grassi
Remembering Irving Sandler, the ‘sweeper-up after artists’
The critic, who has died at the age of 92, will be remembered as someone who wanted to be in the thick of it
How the scientific study of paintings has become accessible to everyone
A revolution in chemical-imaging techniques is bringing us closer to the original visions of artists such as Van Gogh