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The Apollo podcast: Ralph Taylor

Thomas Marks talks to the head of post-war and contemporary art at Bonhams about how the market is shaping up for 2018

21 Dec 2017
Allbrook House and the library, with maisonette blocks over shops to the left. Every building in this photo is proposed for demolition, Photo: James O. Davis/Historic England

Britain’s most important 20th-century housing is under threat

The Alton Estate in London is at risk from proposals that will ruin the architecture and destroy social housing

21 Dec 2017

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Leonard Rosoman’ by Tanya Harrod (Royal Academy of Arts)

21 Dec 2017

A fishy new uniform for V&A staff

The V&A has launched a new uniform – but twitter users reckon the swag would look better at a garden centre

21 Dec 2017
Round bowl, mid 1st century AD, Ennion, Roman, eastern Mediterranean, possibly Syrian, Yale University Art Gallery

The enduring appeal of ancient glass

Many of the methods invented by Roman glassmakers are still in use today

20 Dec 2017

Belfast’s MAC seeks emergency funding

Art news daily: 20 December

20 Dec 2017

How a digital dictionary will advance furniture history

A new digital resource holds a trove of information and will make furniture history more widely accessible

20 Dec 2017
‘Luciano Fabro'. Installation view at Simon Lee Gallery, London, 2017, Photo: Todd White Art Photography; the Archivio Luciano e Carla Fabro and Simon Lee Gallery

A potted guide to Luciano Fabro

The works of the Arte Povera artist playfully resist our expectations of what sculpture should be

19 Dec 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

A cheap date with Martin Parr, Damien Hirst CBE (or not), and a very meaty recipe for mince pies

19 Dec 2017
'Come Fresh Hell or Fresh Hell Water', installation view at Blain|Southern, London, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Blain|Southern. Photo: Richard Eaton

The slippery charms of Sophie Jung

The artist’s weird, witty sculptures refuse to let us fix their meaning

19 Dec 2017

Scottish government to boost arts funding

Art news daily: 18 December

18 Dec 2017
Concrétion humaine oder Coquille se dénouant (1936), Jean (Hans) Arp. Kunstmuseum Winterthur. © Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zürich

Crossing borders at Turner Contemporary

The word-objects of Jean (Hans) Arp are a reminder of how powerful hybrid forms can be

18 Dec 2017
Jonathan Yeo

The Apollo podcast: Jonathan Yeo

Thomas Marks talks to Jonathan Yeo about the artist’s first sculpture – created using Virtual Reality

17 Dec 2017
Gold belt plaque with a vulture mauling a yak and a tiger, (4th–2nd century BC), southern Siberia, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Photo: V. Terebinin; © The State Hermitage Museum

Stepping out in style with the Scythians

These Siberian nomads were consummate survivors – and highly sophisticated craftsmen

16 Dec 2017
Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, London, who is to curate the Venice Biennale in 2019,

Ralph Rugoff to curate 2019 Venice Biennale

Art news daily: 15 December

15 Dec 2017
Installation view of 'A World of Fragile Parts', Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

Why it’s time to talk seriously about digital reproductions

The V&A has launched a new declaration on the reproduction of art and heritage in a digital age

15 Dec 2017

The hidden bones of buildings

Monika Sosnowska’s sculptures reflect on the architecture of post-war Eastern Europe

14 Dec 2017

Towner Art Gallery faces severe funding cuts

Art news daily: 14 December

14 Dec 2017
Abba performing 'Waterloo’ at the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, 1974.

Thank you for the loo sick: the Abba show that conjures up a ’70s nightclub

An exhibition dedicated to Abba at the Southbank Centre recreates some gloomy rooms from the 1970s

14 Dec 2017
Girl Behind a Screen (detail; 1952), Leonard Rosoman.

The layered life of Leonard Rosoman

A fine, detailed biography convinces us to take another look at the oft-neglected British artist

14 Dec 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Celebs at Art Basel Miami Beach, Ai Weiwei’s problem with German, and Peter Hitchens pans his portrait

13 Dec 2017
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