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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

David Shrigley's foam hands, Olafur Eliasson's shaky economics and a chance to buy Andy Warhol's studio

Smithsonian decision on London outpost imminent

Art News Daily : 11 April

Very clever software, but not great art

The techno-connoisseurship involved in the 'Next Rembrandt' project is fun and interesting, so what's the problem?

Should museums be ideology-free?

A new book which argues that museums should be above politics is hardly above politics itself

Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island

Art News Daily : 8 April

Pencils, irons and used underwear: the world’s wackiest museums

Whatever your thing, says Rakewell, there's a museum for you out there somewhere

Major art award suspended over fears of compromise

Art News Daily : 7 April

Never mind the buttocks

An exhibition in Florence finally gives Carlo Portelli the attention he deserves

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2016

Bonnie Prince Charlie makes a triumphant return to Edinburgh, while the NGA add hundreds of works to its huge collection

‘Rathkeale Rovers’ members jailed

Art News Daily : 6 April

Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London

Hajra Waheed's exhibitions at BALTIC and the Mosaic Rooms are full of strange, evocative details

Inside Cuba’s changing art world

Havana's contemporary artists face a contradictory mix of opportunities and restrictions

Cornelius Gurlitt’s controversial collection to go on public display

Art News Daily : 5 April

The museum pratfalls of London’s mayoral candidates (yep, Zac AND Sadiq)

Neither Zac Goldsmith nor Sadiq Khan seem to know a thing about the capital's museums

Dorset, in a Mediterranean light

John Craxton is known today for his sparkling paintings of Greece. But he first found inspiration in the colder, darker landscapes of rural England

Drastic reform is the only way to save England’s churches

Good news, then, that the Chancellor is forming a task force to look into the issue

Sekhemka statue granted export licence

Art News Daily : 4 April

‘I love the shock of conflict between cultures’

Huang Yong Ping on blurring the lines between Chinese and Western traditions

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

How Brazilian fowl play has left a Dutch artist spitting feathers

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman claims that Brazilian protesters have plagiarised his inflatable rubber duck.

British artists at the seaside

Dorset had a profound impact on a group of Slade painters, as an exhibition at Bristol's Royal West of England Academy makes very clear

Pasolini memorial vandalised in Ostia

Art News Daily : 1 April

This is reckless restoration of the very best kind

Elizabeth Price's new video is an audacious act of extrapolation, that asks deep questions about our impulse to preserve, restore, and destroy