This month's acquisitions include a hoard of Soviet nonconformist art, a significant example of brutalist architecture, and a Danish masterpiece
Your chance to win ‘Käthe Kollwitz in Dresden’ (Paul Holberton; £30)
A sleek, modern aesthetic ups the selling power of a pair of Polynesian dance paddles
After going AWOL for several days, Grayson Perry’s cat has been reunited with the artist. Hooray!
Art news daily: 7 December
Latif Al Ani's beautifully framed photographs provide a moving, modern picture of Iraq
Art news daily: 6 December
How a seven-hour performance of only ten lyrical lines entranced its audience at the London Contemporary Music Festival
The artistic tastes of Britain’s spies, Prince Harry’s museum dance, Damien Hirst’s shopping habits and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
A convincing case is made for the Italian artist's ambitions, and the need to bring a wider audience to his work
The US is planning to eliminate 'like-kind' exchanges for artworks, a key tax deferral tool for the art trade
Art news daily: 5 December
Mark Handforth discusses his commission for the ICA Miami's new home – and the city's thriving art scene
Art news daily: 4 December
Considering the artist’s writing gives us invaluable new ways in which to see his painting
An exhibition at the O2 in London is as carefully stage managed as anything Prince put on during his lifetime
Ottomanism is in and modernism is out – as the state of three mosques shows
Art news daily : 2 December
The stylish New York salonnière makes her Canadian debut in this enjoyable survey of her paintings
Artist Mikes Poppe has been cut from a block of marble that he chained himself to 19 days ago
Art news daily: 30 November
On its 700th anniversary, Sufi treatise 'The Garden of Mystery' continues to inspire today's Iranian artists
...And Rakewell hopes that Paris Hilton takes her rightful place in its display (erm, honest)
Should the French government be launching a heritage lottery fund when the UK version is in decline?
