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Your chance to win ‘Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe’ by Peter Björn Kerber (Getty Publications)

21 Jul 2017
33 (2017), Mario Santizo at the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. Photo courtesy the author

Collaboration and conversation in Ljubljana

A shared belief in the democratic possibilities of print makes for an optimistic biennial

20 Jul 2017

Stirling Prize shortlist announced

Art news daily: 20 July

20 Jul 2017
Picture taken on December 1971 of Spanish artist Salvador Dali. Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images

Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)

Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted

20 Jul 2017
Boxkampf fur die direkte Demokratie at documenta V (1972), Joseph Beuys. © Hans Albrecht Lusznat

Joseph Beuys’s boxing career

Waddington Custot celebrates Beuys’s boxing skills, while a mysterious British artist steals the show at Bagshawe Fine Art

20 Jul 2017
Temporary Enclosure of Carioca Building Construction Site (1971), Jirō Takamatsu.

The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art

The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context

19 Jul 2017
Amanda Levete

The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete

Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A

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

Daniel Hannan gets furious about a statue of Engels, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

18 Jul 2017
Spray (1939), Harold Williamson. © Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Scared of the modern?

The British realists of the 1920s and ’30s scrupulously recorded the modern era – but in doing so, they were also avoiding it

17 Jul 2017

Nine Hull landmarks are to be listed

Art news daily: 17 July

17 Jul 2017

The London museum having a whale of a time

The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus

14 Jul 2017
The Switch House, now named The Blavatnik Building, at Tate Modern,Photo: © Iwan Baan

Tate galleries announce record visitor numbers

Art news daily: 14 July

14 Jul 2017
Giacometti working on Four Figurines on a Stand at the Tate Gallery, 1965, © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2017

The unsolved mysteries of Alberto Giacometti

Giacometti’s art seems as enigmatic as ever in this survey of the sculptor’s work at Tate Modern

14 Jul 2017

The rogue art of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera

The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector

14 Jul 2017
The Finding of Moses, (1904), Lawrence Alma-Tadema, private collection, wikimedia commons

Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again

The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked

13 Jul 2017
The salon of the apartment that Viktor Kovačić created for himself in Zagreb in 1906

The architects who designed their own homes

The houses that architects designed for themselves can tell us much about their attitudes to their work

13 Jul 2017

Record attendance at the Met

Art news daily : 12 July

12 Jul 2017
Michael Clark. Dancer (detail; 1989), David Williams. Commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 1988. © David Williams

How men dress up for art

From 17th-century cavaliers to today’s celebrities and athletes, artists have always had an eye on men’s fashion

12 Jul 2017
Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham, Villa of J.M.W. Turner, Esq., R.A. (detail; 1829), engraving by W.B. Cooke for Thames Scenery after a drawing (c. 1814) by William Havell. Turner's House Trust

Restoring Turner’s vision for Sandycombe Lodge

Sandycombe Lodge, built by J.M.W. Turner in 1812, offers an intriguing glimpse of the painter’s potential as an architect

12 Jul 2017
Nanne Dekking is the new chair of TEFAF

Nanne Dekking appointed chair of TEFAF

Art news daily : 11 July

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

Brooklyn Beckham’s photo nasties and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle

11 Jul 2017