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‘X discovered under X’ – the archaeologist’s dream?

A Roman fort has been discovered under a bus station in Exeter... and it’s the stuff that headlines are made of, says Rakewell

Aux armes, citoyens! The new Musée de la Libération in Paris

A museum charting the dramatic history of the French Resistance and the Liberation of Paris has an elegant and historic new home in Montparnasse

Christopher Le Brun to step down from Royal Academy presidency

Art news daily: 26 September

Travels with Thomas Cook – in 1855

The first overseas tour organised by Thomas Cook took in the International Exhibition in Paris

‘I liked the idea of bringing sharp objects into a library’ – an interview with Sean Lynch

The artist discusses the allure of the 19th-century forger Flint Jack – who fooled museums and collectors with his brand-new prehistoric artefacts

The Danish artists who struck gold in the depths of disaster

Denmark was beset by catastrophes in the early 19th century – but its painters flourished

Painting attributed to Cimabue discovered in French woman’s kitchen

Art news daily: 25 September

Within a hare’s breadth of Dürer’s masterful drawings at the Albertina

A Dürer show at the Albertina presents a rare opportunity to see some of the German artist's drawings usually kept caged up in the dark

The East Asian and Nordic artists who found common ground

The West’s borrowings from Japanese modernism are well known – but an exhibition in Helsinki shows that the traffic moved both ways

Wallace Collection to start lending artworks

UN appoints Olafur Eliasson as climate ambassador

Art news daily: 23 September

‘The spectator should disappear into the works’ – an interview with Peter Suschitzky

The cinematographer discusses his lighting design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s upcoming Rembrandt exhibition

What are museums really for?

The perceived role of museums in society has grown enormously in recent years – but how far does that reflect what they actually are?

Luxury in exile – at Napoleon’s country villa on Elba

The Mediterranean island still bears the mark of its most famous one-time resident

How Jean Dubuffet brought outsider artists into the museum

The French artist is still the guiding spirit of the Collection de l’Art Brut, the museum he founded in Lausanne

Gianfranco Gorgoni (1941–2019)

Art news daily: 20 September

‘A very Rothschild type of display’ – Waddesdon’s new gallery, reviewed

The new permanent gallery presents all kinds of exquisite pieces with special family associations

‘An important work by Titian has been hiding in plain sight’

A lost portrait of the 16th-century writer Pietro Aretino may have been at the Kunstmuseum Basel for the last hundred years

South Africa’s most established art fair has undergone a rapid rebirth

A sophisticated revamp means that Art Joburg is now a smaller, sleeker affair

The scientific revolution gets the royal treatment

The Science Museum’s new gallery makes subtle links between royal patronage, scientific progress and earthly conquest

Director of Mori Art Museum to retire

Art news daily: 19 September

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry should be a working factory, not a boutique hotel

Why is Historic England supporting a developer’s plans when there’s a better proposal waiting in the wings?

Getty Trust announces $100m world heritage programme

Art news daily: 18 September