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Church of Holy Sepulchre; Basilica of Holy Sepulchre; Holy Land; Jerusalem

Church of the Holy Sepulchre closes indefinitely

Art news daily: 26 February

26 Feb 2018
Sculpture at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, photo: © Robert Harding/Alamy Stock Photos

What national museums tell us about national identities

Museums of national history put the stories countries like to tell about themselves into physical form

26 Feb 2018
Installation view, ‘Power and Beauty in China's Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson’ at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2018, Courtesy the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Robert Wilson creates a feast for the senses

The celebrated theatre director and artist explains his approach to creating exhibitions

26 Feb 2018
Hylas and the Nymphs (detail; 1896), J.W. Waterhouse. Manchester Art Gallery

Speaking up about art

Conversation can be a important and enjoyable way of paying attention to artworks

26 Feb 2018
I am Not An Artist, (2016), Thaer Maarouf, courtesy the artist

‘We can’t talk about the war because we are still in the middle of it’

What kind of art are Syrian artists making, if they are able to make art at all?

24 Feb 2018
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Hammer campaign

Hammer Museum launches $180m capital campaign

Art news daily: 23 February

23 Feb 2018
Jeremy Bentham at University College London.

Jeremy Bentham hops across the pond

Jeremy Bentham leaves University College London to take part in a show at the Met Breuer

23 Feb 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Blue: the History of a Color’ by Michel Pastoureau (Princeton University Press)

23 Feb 2018
Towner Art Gallery

Towner Art Gallery faces major funding cut

Art News Daily: 22 February

22 Feb 2018
Installation view of Mark Dion's 'The Library for the Birds of London' (2018) at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018, Photo: © Jeff Spicer/PA Wire

‘There are no spectators, only participants’

Mark Dion’s playful installations at the Whitechapel Gallery turn viewers into voyeurs

22 Feb 2018
Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin, (c. 1745), William Hogarth. National Maritime Museums, Greenwich

Group dynamics in polite society

How ‘conversation piece’ paintings summed up the social aspirations of a new social class

22 Feb 2018
The Tabacalera building in Madrid

New contemporary art space to open in Madrid

Art news daily: 21 February

21 Feb 2018

Museum collections in the UK need a brand new strategy

Both the Mendoza Review and David Cannadine’s recent ‘Why Collect?’ report are too limited in scope

21 Feb 2018
Pin-up (1973/74), Friedl Kubelka.

Looking at the female gaze

At Richard Saltoun Gallery, the body is both subject and material for women artists exploring gender and sexuality

21 Feb 2018
Judy Blame (1960–2018) in London, 2013

Judy Blame (1960–2018)

Art news daily: 20 February

20 Feb 2018
Freedom of Expression National Monument (1984), Laurie Hawkinson, Erika Rothenberg, and John Malpede. Battery Park City landfill.

The story of public art in New York City

From historic monuments to contemporary commissions, art is everywhere in the urban environment

20 Feb 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

London Fashion Week shuts down the National Portrait Gallery, the Duchess of Cambridge gets creative, and Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ invents a Museum of Great Britain

20 Feb 2018
Illustration by James Graham

Is arbitration the answer to settling disputes in the art world?

Privacy is just one of the advantages the arbitration process has over going to court

20 Feb 2018
Family Fortunes (detail; 2018), Dale Lewis.

The joys of junk food

Appetite is a central theme in the exuberant paintings of Dale Lewis, at Edel Assanti in London

19 Feb 2018
Esme Ward, the Manchester Museum's newly appointed director.

Manchester Museum names Esme Ward as next director

Art news daily: 19 February

19 Feb 2018
Daimyo armour (18th century), Japan. Private collection, France.

‘This exhibition is about forces enacted on the body’

George Henry Longly discusses his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, which features eight Japanese armours

19 Feb 2018
Outposts of Empire: Central Australia (detail; 1938). John Vickery. Royal Mail Archive, Postal Museum, London

First class: the art of the Post Office

How Britain’s postal system has inspired artists, from its origins in the 16th century to today

17 Feb 2018
A general view of the Angel of the North on February 3, 2012 in Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Angel delight? Twenty years of the Angel of the North

The Angel of the North may have been co-opted to sell baguettes in its time, but the north-east has undoubtedly come to love it

16 Feb 2018

Rockwell family drops challenge to Berkshire Museum sale

Art news daily: 16 February

16 Feb 2018