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The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Edward Hopper archive goes to Whitney Museum

Art news daily : 31 July

31 Jul 2017

The visual side of Renaissance thought

Susanna Berger’s enquiry into philosophy and visual culture is full of original insight

31 Jul 2017

The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors

The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London

30 Jul 2017

How Native Americans are reclaiming their history

This book is inevitably partial, but offers the best single account to date of repatriation claims in the US

29 Jul 2017

Is the ‘monkey selfie’ case making a monkey out of the law?

Even if a wild animal could create an image by itself, it’s not easy to see how it can claim copyright

28 Jul 2017
Metropolitan Museum director Thomas P. Campbell (pictured here speaking at the opening of the exhibition 'Manus x Machina' in 2016), has been awarded the second annual Getty Rothschild Fellowship.

Thomas P. Campbell awarded Getty Rothschild Fellowship

Art news daily: 28 July

28 Jul 2017
Adrián Villar Rojas, 'The Theater of Disappearance', National Observatory of Athens, Hill of the Nymphs.

Adrián Villar Rojas digs deep in Athens

The Argentinian artist has planted artefacts, sculptures and a fantastical garden in Athens

28 Jul 2017

The curious case of Microsoft Paint

Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos

27 Jul 2017

Philippe de Montebello joins Acquavella Galleries

Art news daily: 27 July

27 Jul 2017
A Turkish Woman by a Stream, (c. 1907), John Singer Sargent. Victoria and Albert Museum

Sargent’s great escape from society portraits

Freed from the limitations of his studio, Sargent’s sketches speak of the carefree existence of a gentleman of leisure

27 Jul 2017
House in Viscri, Romania., 2017, Photo: © Nicholas Hodge

There’s more to Transylvania than crumbling castles

Efforts to preserve and revive Transylvania’s UNESCO-listed villages depend on involving the inhabitants as closely as possible

27 Jul 2017

Controversial Markus Lüpertz mural gets green light

Art news daily: 26 July

26 Jul 2017
Paimio armchair (1930), Alvar Aalto. Alvar Aalton Museum; photo: © Victoria and Albert Museum

Plywood: the V&A has nailed it

This thrilling exhibition reveals the glamour of an everyday material

26 Jul 2017

A new initiative brings galleries to the Rhineland

An alternative to the art fair model, Okey Dokey’s collaborative project hopes to strengthen regional and international ties

26 Jul 2017
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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Salvador Dalí’s moustache, Madonna’s hairbrush, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

25 Jul 2017

Drawings that change our view of Gainsborough

The reattribution of 25 drawings will transform how we think about a great British painter

25 Jul 2017
Camel Coat Couple in Street Steam, New York City, 1975, Joel Meyerowitz. Courtesy of the artist and Howard Greenberg Gallery.

What not to miss at the world’s leading photography festival

This year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles ranges from Joel Meyerowitz’s street photography to repurposed statues of Lenin in Ukraine

24 Jul 2017
Two Women Sitting in a Garden (showing Charlotte Epton and Tirzah Garwood in the Brick House garden) (1932), Eric Ravilious. Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden

An outbreak of talent in Great Bardfield

Ravilious, Garwood, Bawden, Binyon… Why were so many artists drawn to a village in Essex?

24 Jul 2017
Portrait of a Young Man, (1565–70), Alessandro Allori,

Italian painting takes a bow in northern France

Picardy’s magnificent collections of Italian paintings shine in a series of exhibitions

22 Jul 2017
The Getty Center.

Macron goes large for his official photo

The French president has upset local mayors by messing around with the format of his official photograph

21 Jul 2017
Emma Hart, 'Mamma Mia', installation view, Whitechapel Gallery

Out of the kitchen and into the gallery

Emma Hart’s installation at the Whitechapel proclaims a feminine aesthetic that reaches far beyond the domestic

21 Jul 2017