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The unnerving brilliance of Alina Szapocznikow

The Polish artist's powerful work is finally being accorded the attention it deserves. Don't miss the chance to see it in the UK

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The art of the sausage roll, Terence Conran’s childhood, and Eric Cantona’s little pen and notebook

Gavin Delahunty resigns from Dallas Museum of Art

Art news daily : 20 November

Power dressing – a formidable collection of samurai armour in Dallas

Gabriel and Ann Barbier-Mueller have amassed one of the most important collections of its kind in the world

There’s more to say about art since 9/11

The Imperial War Museum's 'Age of Terror' exhibition is important, but fails to ask some key questions

How the British fell for Chinese art

The redisplay of Chinese art at the British Museum demands that we look back at a rich collecting tradition

New York Public Library reveals $317m renovation plan

Art news daily: 17 November

Why Vienna is too vulgar for the Victoria Line

Advertising posters bearing nude sketches by Egon Schiele were deemed too racy for London's commuters

A potty fundraising campaigning in Salisbury

Visitors to the Salisbury Museum will be privy to a new fundraising campaign from 'World Toilet Day'

The Danish collector with a passion for French painting

Wilhelm Hansen amassed his impressive collection, now showing at the Musée Jacquemart-André, in only two years

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ fetches $450.3m at auction

The sale of ‘the last Leonardo’ is a triumph for the dark art of marketing

Christie’s pulled out all the stops for the sale of 'Salvator Mundi' – and its efforts have more than paid off

The criminal genius of J.L. Pearson

How could such a gifted architect also be responsible for such appalling ‘restoration’ jobs?

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Big bucks for a Britney Spears painting, Van Gogh's grasshopper, and absinthe at the National Gallery

Walker Art Center director Olga Viso steps down

Art news daily : 15 November

Why are there so few portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots?

The discovery of a hidden painting highlights that very few depictions of the queen date from during her lifetime

‘An age riven with contradictory impulses’

The Palazzo Strozzi makes the most of the tensions that fuelled the cinquecento’s creative energy

UAE detains Swiss journalists covering Louvre Abu Dhabi opening

Art news daily : 14 November

Canova’s lost portrait bust of Joachim Murat has come to light

Until recently, experts were unsure where this extraordinary portrait bust of Napoleon's brother-in-law had ended up, or whether it had survived at all

Rediscovering a priceless collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A century after it was left to the city of Philadelphia, John G. Johnson’s art collection continues to surprise

Appeals court halts Berkshire Museum collection sale

Art news daily : 13 November

A moving medley of manifestos

Julian Rosefeldt’s new film looks again at the emotionally charged, political, performative texts that have shaped the course of culture

The medieval marvels in Durham Cathedral’s kitchen

Among the treasures of St Cuthbert in Durham are several of the most remarkable medieval objects to be seen anywhere