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Black Lives Matter resonates throughout Edinburgh Art Festival

Review
Biennials & festivals

Black Lives Matter resonates throughout Edinburgh Art Festival

From a abolitionist films to historical tapestries, the effects of summer 2020's protests can be felt throughout the Scottish capital

33 minutes ago

Tim Cornwell

Eccentric Wentworth Woodhouse estate—home to centuries-old camellias—gets set to bloom again in Yorkshire

News
Historic houses

Eccentric Wentworth Woodhouse estate—home to centuries-old camellias—gets set to bloom again in Yorkshire

The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house

43 minutes ago

Maev Kennedy

Former dealer Angela Gulbenkian is sentenced to three and a half years for defrauding art clients

News
Art fraud

Former dealer Angela Gulbenkian is sentenced to three and a half years for defrauding art clients

Charges involved sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture that was never delivered and the theft of £50,000 that a friend had given her to invest

Warehouse of the Cinemateca Brasileira is struck by fire

News
Disasters & destruction

Warehouse of the Cinemateca Brasileira is struck by fire

Lawsuit was filed against the Brazilian government earlier this month citing the imminent risk of a blaze

Fourth suicide shuts down New York’s towering Vessel yet again

News
Public art

Fourth suicide shuts down New York’s towering Vessel yet again

Critics fault developers for not raising the barriers around the steps of the spiralling 150ft-tall structure to prevent deaths

Why the art market must stop trying to predict the unpredictable and enjoy a well deserved #hotgirlsummer

Latest in Comment

Art market

Why the art market must stop trying to predict the unpredictable and enjoy a well deserved #hotgirlsummer

Under the Biden administration, can US cultural policy better reflect American values?

US politics

Under the Biden administration, can US cultural policy better reflect American values?

Liverpool should not be punished for its modern vision

Architecture

Liverpool should not be punished for its modern vision

The IPCC’s predictions of sea-level rise are why Italy should beg Unesco to put Venice on its at risk list

Venice

The IPCC’s predictions of sea-level rise are why Italy should beg Unesco to put Venice on its at risk list

Now is the time for Unesco to call Venice's authorities to order

Venice

Now is the time for Unesco to call Venice's authorities to order

Visiting a historic house should be about more than just cream teas and crocuses—their full histories, however unsettling, should be told

Diary of an art historian

Visiting a historic house should be about more than just cream teas and crocuses—their full histories, however unsettling, should be told

A redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden prompts questions about artistic vision

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

A redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden prompts questions about artistic vision

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new Hirshhorn sculpture garden will create a more open and artistically inspired future for the museum

Museums & Heritage

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new Hirshhorn sculpture garden will create a more open and artistically inspired future for the museum

We tackled Dutch slaving history—the Rijksmuseum's exhibition could serve as a model of its kind

Museums & Heritage

We tackled Dutch slaving history—the Rijksmuseum's exhibition could serve as a model of its kind

Livestreamed or IRL, gallery weekends or satellite spaces—the art market faces a paradox of choice

Art market

Livestreamed or IRL, gallery weekends or satellite spaces—the art market faces a paradox of choice

Why some people still care passionately whether St Jerome was Italian or Croatian (he was neither, actually)

Exhibitions

Why some people still care passionately whether St Jerome was Italian or Croatian (he was neither, actually)

One of us or one of them? A long view of the appointment of George Osborne as chair of the British Museum

Museums

One of us or one of them? A long view of the appointment of George Osborne as chair of the British Museum

Why the figures bandied about in the art market are subject to caution

Art Market Eye

Why the figures bandied about in the art market are subject to caution

Letters to the editor | Donna Stein’s book about the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is ‘misleading’ and has ‘inaccuracies’

Letters

Letters to the editor | Donna Stein’s book about the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is ‘misleading’ and has ‘inaccuracies’

What's the point of art prizes?

Prizes

What's the point of art prizes?

The damnation of Venice: locals are being systematically driven out by officials who are selling off sites for tourism

Venice

The damnation of Venice: locals are being systematically driven out by officials who are selling off sites for tourism

'If you are of the camp that wants to keep the art world an exclusive club, then look away now'

Contemporary art

'If you are of the camp that wants to keep the art world an exclusive club, then look away now'

Hackneyed old Hockney: Museums need to be courageous, even in survival mode

Funding

Hackneyed old Hockney: Museums need to be courageous, even in survival mode

The UK Ministry of Culture is where politicians' careers go to die—but Oliver Dowden has emerged victorious, thanks to the culture wars

Diary of an art historian

The UK Ministry of Culture is where politicians' careers go to die—but Oliver Dowden has emerged victorious, thanks to the culture wars

Jobs for the boys…why I'm starting to feel old amid the new art world order

Art market

Jobs for the boys…why I'm starting to feel old amid the new art world order

Don’t trash talk museums at this perilous time: we must adapt—not throw away—our cultural heritage

UK politics

Don’t trash talk museums at this perilous time: we must adapt—not throw away—our cultural heritage

Why are there so few black-owned galleries in London?

London Gallery Weekend 2021

Why are there so few black-owned galleries in London?

Inflation is soaring in the US and UK—here's what it means for the art market

Art market

Inflation is soaring in the US and UK—here's what it means for the art market

Will gallery weekends replace art fairs?

Art market

Will gallery weekends replace art fairs?

It took 300 years for the art world to recognise Artemisia Gentileschi—now NFTs are reinforcing the bias towards Western male artists

Diary of an art historian

It took 300 years for the art world to recognise Artemisia Gentileschi—now NFTs are reinforcing the bias towards Western male artists

Is Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci? Amid the current flurry of ill-informed controversies, let us turn to the science

Salvator Mundi

Is Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci? Amid the current flurry of ill-informed controversies, let us turn to the science

Has Venice really banned cruise ships? It appears not

Venice

Has Venice really banned cruise ships? It appears not

How a new digital art market could mimic the traditional one—including in bad ways

Art Market Eye

How a new digital art market could mimic the traditional one—including in bad ways

Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu’s greatest work is much loved by the art market—but it should mean more to art history too

African art market

Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu’s greatest work is much loved by the art market—but it should mean more to art history too

Why culture is key to Hong Kong’s future as a world city

M+

Why culture is key to Hong Kong’s future as a world city

Why we are projecting First Nations art on the Sydney Opera House

Museums & Heritage

Why we are projecting First Nations art on the Sydney Opera House

Is there loot lurking in your collection? Find out—before someone else does

Looted art

Is there loot lurking in your collection? Find out—before someone else does

A feeble congress and the raising up of poetry in Cuba

Cuba

A feeble congress and the raising up of poetry in Cuba

In our current dystopian art market, the pervasive and persistent Damien Hirst may well have the last laugh

Art market

In our current dystopian art market, the pervasive and persistent Damien Hirst may well have the last laugh

NFTs and the 'Art' world: panic and possibility

NFTs

NFTs and the 'Art' world: panic and possibility

Boo to NFTs! Hang on, think of no customs fees

Diary of an art historian

Boo to NFTs! Hang on, think of no customs fees

The world of art fairs is going to change for good—and only the better-funded fairs will survive

Art fairs

The world of art fairs is going to change for good—and only the better-funded fairs will survive

How the art market turned upside down—in one month

Art Market Eye

How the art market turned upside down—in one month

How museums can ethically invest their money

Museums

How museums can ethically invest their money

EU proposes tough new laws on antique ivory trade—despite lack of evidence it leads to modern-day poaching

Art market

EU proposes tough new laws on antique ivory trade—despite lack of evidence it leads to modern-day poaching

Here is what you can do to help Myanmar's beleaguered artists

Myanmar

Here is what you can do to help Myanmar's beleaguered artists

The art market is 'high risk' for money laundering, so ignore new regulations at your peril

Art market

The art market is 'high risk' for money laundering, so ignore new regulations at your peril

Britain stole the royal, sacred Benin Bronzes from Nigeria—so why is Germany leading their return?

Benin Bronzes

Britain stole the royal, sacred Benin Bronzes from Nigeria—so why is Germany leading their return?

The looming legal and regulatory questions NFT collectors and sellers should prepare for

NFTs

The looming legal and regulatory questions NFT collectors and sellers should prepare for

The 'Ledbury Titian' discovery begs the question: who should we trust when it comes to art attribution?

Art market

The 'Ledbury Titian' discovery begs the question: who should we trust when it comes to art attribution?

Pandemic anniversary: the things museums should learn from our plague year

Museums & Heritage

Pandemic anniversary: the things museums should learn from our plague year

Freelance workers are the backbone of the art world—but how are they expected to survive on a pittance?

Comment

Freelance workers are the backbone of the art world—but how are they expected to survive on a pittance?

Six reasons why Gamestop couldn’t happen in the art market

Art market

Six reasons why Gamestop couldn’t happen in the art market

'Autism made me an art historian. But museums must do more to welcome disabled and neurodiverse communities'

Diary of an art historian

'Autism made me an art historian. But museums must do more to welcome disabled and neurodiverse communities'

'Where is the champion within UK government for a vigorous, independent visual arts sector?'

United Kingdom

'Where is the champion within UK government for a vigorous, independent visual arts sector?'

The NFT craze encapsulates the absurdity of the art world—and its obsession with authenticity

NFTs

The NFT craze encapsulates the absurdity of the art world—and its obsession with authenticity

Risky business: how new US sanctions regulations will actually impact the art market

Art market

Risky business: how new US sanctions regulations will actually impact the art market

Museums have hastily cut their staff to save money—what will happen when visitors return and they need them back?

Diary of an art historian

Museums have hastily cut their staff to save money—what will happen when visitors return and they need them back?

Sotheby's brought to you by Bulgari—product placement at auction has arrived, with limitless potential

Art market

Sotheby's brought to you by Bulgari—product placement at auction has arrived, with limitless potential

Arts researchers can help America overcome its toughest challenges

Arts funding

Arts researchers can help America overcome its toughest challenges

'Looking just gorgeous': Granddaughter of $80m Botticelli's former owner on living with the masterpiece

Botticelli

'Looking just gorgeous': Granddaughter of $80m Botticelli's former owner on living with the masterpiece

Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?

Art Market Eye

Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?

Should post-Brexit UK get rid of the Artist’s Resale Right?

Art market

Should post-Brexit UK get rid of the Artist’s Resale Right?

Tearing down troubling statues is not lying about our history—it is removing impediments to truth

Monuments

Tearing down troubling statues is not lying about our history—it is removing impediments to truth

Could 2021 be the year of the African museum?

Museums

Could 2021 be the year of the African museum?

How will US money laundering crackdown actually impact the art market? A lawyer explains

Art market

How will US money laundering crackdown actually impact the art market? A lawyer explains

A Covid-19 silver lining? Let’s not return to family-unfriendly art business as usual

Art market

A Covid-19 silver lining? Let’s not return to family-unfriendly art business as usual

Auction houses have finally entered the Amazon age—and I’m addicted

Diary of an art historian

Auction houses have finally entered the Amazon age—and I’m addicted

As 2021 beckons.... I crave new art in the new year more than ever

Covid-19

As 2021 beckons.... I crave new art in the new year more than ever

'Museums had better not be planning for a return to the status quo'

Covid-19

'Museums had better not be planning for a return to the status quo'

Art could have dwindled into insignificance in the upheaval of this year—instead it endured

The Year in Review 2020

Art could have dwindled into insignificance in the upheaval of this year—instead it endured

How art world leaders can embrace new money laundering regulations and create a 'think risk' culture

Art market

How art world leaders can embrace new money laundering regulations and create a 'think risk' culture

California needs a plan to restart the arts

Museums & Heritage

California needs a plan to restart the arts

Asian art market flies in the face of coronavirus

Art Market Eye

Asian art market flies in the face of coronavirus

Gabrielie Finaldi: 'What is the National Gallery if you can’t visit and you can’t see the pictures?'

Museums

Gabrielie Finaldi: 'What is the National Gallery if you can’t visit and you can’t see the pictures?'

'Humboldt Forum must have a clear policy that only objects of proper provenance can be used'

Humboldt Forum

'Humboldt Forum must have a clear policy that only objects of proper provenance can be used'

The art trade benefits from the UK's low import duty. What will happen to it after Brexit?

Art market

The art trade benefits from the UK's low import duty. What will happen to it after Brexit?

Provenance: the Trojan horse that can make or break a work of art

Art market

Provenance: the Trojan horse that can make or break a work of art

A new kind of museum is emerging—here's what the future holds

Museums

A new kind of museum is emerging—here's what the future holds

The turn of the screw: will tighter regulations impact the art market?

Art Market Eye

The turn of the screw: will tighter regulations impact the art market?

Pastures new: why some top gallery staff are moving on from longtime jobs

Art market

Pastures new: why some top gallery staff are moving on from longtime jobs

Finally, rebel experts come to the rescue of Unesco’s failing World Heritage programme

Cultural heritage

Finally, rebel experts come to the rescue of Unesco’s failing World Heritage programme

People see only 'silver tits' and 'bouffant pubes' now—but I predict Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture will become widely admired

Diary of an art historian

People see only 'silver tits' and 'bouffant pubes' now—but I predict Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture will become widely admired

Fifty years on, Unesco’s convention against illicit trafficking of cultural artefacts still shines bright

Heritage

Fifty years on, Unesco’s convention against illicit trafficking of cultural artefacts still shines bright

Is the UK seeing the emergence of a ‘Godfather approach’ to arts funding?

Diary of an art historian

Is the UK seeing the emergence of a ‘Godfather approach’ to arts funding?

Philip Guston show: 2022 opening is welcome news but confusion still remains

Philip Guston

Philip Guston show: 2022 opening is welcome news but confusion still remains

A message of hope from David Hockney for Lockdown 2: 'Remember, they can't cancel the autumn either'

Artists

A message of hope from David Hockney for Lockdown 2: 'Remember, they can't cancel the autumn either'

Why culture is so important in the time of coronavirus

Saudi Arabia

Why culture is so important in the time of coronavirus

Portrait of Tracey: how Emin's cancer diagnosis hasn't stopped her from being an artistic dynamo

Artists

Portrait of Tracey: how Emin's cancer diagnosis hasn't stopped her from being an artistic dynamo

A flood of art? The market issues around museum deaccessioning

Art Market Eye

A flood of art? The market issues around museum deaccessioning

Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal

Sackler family

Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal

'Another yawning gap': radical London Print Studio closes its doors

Closures

'Another yawning gap': radical London Print Studio closes its doors

Exhibitions need a perfect storm to succeed—but shows opening during Covid-19 are getting a disappointing drizzle

coronavirus

Exhibitions need a perfect storm to succeed—but shows opening during Covid-19 are getting a disappointing drizzle

Baltimore Museum of Art curators respond to deaccessioning criticism

Deaccessioning

Baltimore Museum of Art curators respond to deaccessioning criticism

Confronting the allure, and the dangers, of 'fake heritage'

Heritage

Confronting the allure, and the dangers, of 'fake heritage'

Why vote? To protect those who cannot

election 2020

Why vote? To protect those who cannot

I finally went to see some art—and caught Covid-19

Diary of an art historian

I finally went to see some art—and caught Covid-19

‘Uniquely egregious’: The disturbing precedent of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s deaccessioning plan

Deaccessioning

‘Uniquely egregious’: The disturbing precedent of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s deaccessioning plan

Visionary leaders, big business and the digital boom: 30 years that changed museums

Museums & Heritage

Visionary leaders, big business and the digital boom: 30 years that changed museums

Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting

Art market

Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting

For the arts, there’s only one choice in this election

US politics

For the arts, there’s only one choice in this election

The only way is ethics: US museums should not neglect provenance research in the funding crisis

Museums & Heritage

The only way is ethics: US museums should not neglect provenance research in the funding crisis

Done right, selling museum pieces can work—but probably not with Michelangelos

Deaccessioning

Done right, selling museum pieces can work—but probably not with Michelangelos

Philip Guston drew Richard Nixon's face as a hairy scrotum and phallus—what would he make of President Trump?

Politics

Philip Guston drew Richard Nixon's face as a hairy scrotum and phallus—what would he make of President Trump?

Gatherings are taboo in the Covid-19 world, so where does that leave experiential art?

Art market

Gatherings are taboo in the Covid-19 world, so where does that leave experiential art?

Controversial Stonehenge tunnel is unlawful, High Court rules

News
Heritage

Controversial Stonehenge tunnel is unlawful, High Court rules

Judge concludes that UK transport secretary failed to consider alternatives to the scheme or assessed the ‘risk of harm’ to the Unesco site

Felix brings the in-person art fair back to Los Angeles

News
Art fairs

Felix brings the in-person art fair back to Los Angeles

The fair, hosted at the glitzy Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, features 29 L.A. based galleries and is bolstered by the city's own gallery weekend and the Frieze online viewing room

Scarlet Cheng

That’s a wrap: artist Osman Yousefzada envelops Selfridges department store in a giant canvas

News
Public art

That’s a wrap: artist Osman Yousefzada envelops Selfridges department store in a giant canvas

Art trail in Birmingham shop also explores migration and identity—but will visitors notice?

Extract | A rare pamphlet from a historic Black art exhibition by the Spiral collective

Feature
Book Club

Extract | A rare pamphlet from a historic Black art exhibition by the Spiral collective

The text accompanied the group's only show and is now one of several texts about Black art brought together in a new book Soul of Nation Reader

Greta Thunberg says Science Museum ‘killed its reputation’ after it is revealed Shell sponsorship came with gagging order

News
Museums

Greta Thunberg says Science Museum ‘killed its reputation’ after it is revealed Shell sponsorship came with gagging order

Culture Unstained activists say contract clause is ‘chilling’ but museum group says cutting ties with energy groups is ‘unproductive’

Anish Kapoor is converting a vast, crumbling Venetian palace into his permanent exhibition space and workshop

News
Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor is converting a vast, crumbling Venetian palace into his permanent exhibition space and workshop

The 18th-century Palazzo Manfrin will house a collection of the British-Indian sculptor's work

Kabir Jhala

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Saving the art world’s self-employed amidst the coronavirus crisis

Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China

Podcast

Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China

Fill your ears with art: the top culture podcasts to listen to during the coronavirus lockdown

Podcast

Fill your ears with art: the top culture podcasts to listen to during the coronavirus lockdown

Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of 'the most beautiful pictures in the world'

Podcast

Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of 'the most beautiful pictures in the world'

Remembering Ulay. Plus, how coronavirus cancelled Art Basel in Hong Kong

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Remembering Ulay. Plus, how coronavirus cancelled Art Basel in Hong Kong

Surrealism: what was Britain's role?

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Surrealism: what was Britain's role?

Shirin Neshat on why Frida Kahlo is one of her favourite artists

Artists

Shirin Neshat on why Frida Kahlo is one of her favourite artists

Who owns the Parthenon Marbles?

Podcast

Who owns the Parthenon Marbles?

Does Los Angeles want a big art fair?

Podcast

Does Los Angeles want a big art fair?

Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting

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Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting

The story of a fake Gauguin at the Getty

Podcast

The story of a fake Gauguin at the Getty

2020: art market issues and big shows

Podcast

2020: art market issues and big shows

2019: the year in review

Podcast

2019: the year in review

Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy

Podcast

Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy

Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami

Podcast

Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami

Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship

Podcast

Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship

John Lennon wanted Hitler on cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album

Music

John Lennon wanted Hitler on cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album

Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last

Podcast

Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last

Anselm Kiefer on why size matters

Podcast

Anselm Kiefer on why size matters

Discovered: a very early photograph of the trees in Van Gogh’s final picture, painted just hours before he fired the fatal shot

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Adventures with Van Gogh

Discovered: a very early photograph of the trees in Van Gogh’s final picture, painted just hours before he fired the fatal shot

On the anniversary of Vincent’s death, his picture can be seen as “a suicide note in colour”

a blog by Martin Bailey

'Anything could happen—especially after dark': Phyllida Barlow unveils teetering, battered sculpture in London cemetery

Blog
The Buck stopped here

'Anything could happen—especially after dark': Phyllida Barlow unveils teetering, battered sculpture in London cemetery

Louisa Buck

Moca Los Angeles follows success in halting solar farm near Michael Heizer Earthpiece with announcement of Frankenthaler grant to support solar energy project

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Museums

Moca Los Angeles follows success in halting solar farm near Michael Heizer Earthpiece with announcement of Frankenthaler grant to support solar energy project

The museum plans to use the grant funds to convert Moca Geffen to renewable energy, the first step in making Moca Los Angeles completely net zero energy

Annabel Keenan

Dealer admits to marketing fraudulent Indigenous wood carvings to Canadian museums and galleries

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Fakes & copies

Dealer admits to marketing fraudulent Indigenous wood carvings to Canadian museums and galleries

Works by a non-Indigenous artist known as Harvey John were sold at museum gift shops and galleries as authentic Haida artworks

'I am honoured to be one of the first Black men to have my work sent to space': Amoako Boafo to paint triptych on rocket

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Artists

'I am honoured to be one of the first Black men to have my work sent to space': Amoako Boafo to paint triptych on rocket

The Ghanaian painter speaks about his plans for the work, which will be attached to the head of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket when it blasts into space this autumn

Anna Brady

Douglas Chrismas arrested for allegedly embezzling over $260,000 from Ace Gallery’s bankruptcy estate

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Art market

Douglas Chrismas arrested for allegedly embezzling over $260,000 from Ace Gallery’s bankruptcy estate

Chrismas, who founded the Los Angeles gallery in 1967, is accused of embezzling the funds while acting as the estate’s trustee and custodian

Daniel Cassady

Christie's to sell Texan oil tycoon Edward L. Cox's collection of Impressionist art

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Art market

Christie's to sell Texan oil tycoon Edward L. Cox's collection of Impressionist art

The collection is expected to make over $200m in New York in November

Daniel Cassady

Damien Hirst laid off 63 people last autumn while claiming £15m in government Covid-19 loans

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Artists

Damien Hirst laid off 63 people last autumn while claiming £15m in government Covid-19 loans

Job cuts came after major retrospective in Beijing was cancelled due to the pandemic

Anny Shaw with additional reporting by José da Silva

National Gallery of Australia to return 13 stolen objects to India that it bought from disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor

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Restitution

National Gallery of Australia to return 13 stolen objects to India that it bought from disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor

"The decision to return the works is the culmination of years of research and due diligence," the Canberra museum says

Elizabeth Fortescue

Llongyfarchiadau!*—Wales’ slate landscape awarded Unesco world heritage status

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Diary

Llongyfarchiadau!*—Wales’ slate landscape awarded Unesco world heritage status

The Art Newspaper

'If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough': vintage prints by war photographer Robert Capa to headline Photo London

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Art market

'If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough': vintage prints by war photographer Robert Capa to headline Photo London

Some of the earliest known prints by the mythological founder of Magnum to be shown from an unseen private collection

Tom Seymour

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces its first round of climate grants to art institutions

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Climate Change

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces its first round of climate grants to art institutions

Stipends, ranging from around $7,000 to $100,000, will help museums jump-start clean energy, climate disaster protection and sustainability projects

UK art fairs breathe sigh of relief as government waives quarantine for vaccinated overseas exhibitors

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Art market

UK art fairs breathe sigh of relief as government waives quarantine for vaccinated overseas exhibitors

Some US and European galleries at events such as Photo London in September had threatened to drop out due to added cost of isolating in hotels

Anna Brady

American Museum of Natural History sues insurer over Covid-19 coverage

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Covid-19

American Museum of Natural History sues insurer over Covid-19 coverage

New York institution says it lost over $37m when it was forced to shut down, but insurance company caps potential coverage at $200,000

Getting to know Sonia Boyce: ahead of her Venice Biennale debut, a new show deep dives into her practice

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Exhibitions

Getting to know Sonia Boyce: ahead of her Venice Biennale debut, a new show deep dives into her practice

UK artist has organised a group exhibition at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art displaying 12 artists who interact with the ideas behind her own works

A brush with... Oscar Murillo

A brush with...podcast

A brush with... Oscar Murillo

An in-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Okwui Enwezor to Nina Simone

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Julia Michalska, David Clack and Aimee Dawson. With Henrietta Bentall and Kabir Jhala

Watch retired BMW robots draw athletes’ movements at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Installation

Watch retired BMW robots draw athletes’ movements at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The installation by Jason Bruges Studio creates unique performances and images based on different sports, from swimming to shooting, sprinting to skateboarding

José da Silva

The £2m slag heap: visitors say Marble Arch Mound is London's 'worst' attraction

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Diary

The £2m slag heap: visitors say Marble Arch Mound is London's 'worst' attraction

The Art Newspaper

French culture ministry names 39-year-old Xavier Rey director of Centre Pompidou’s national museum of modern art

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Appointments

French culture ministry names 39-year-old Xavier Rey director of Centre Pompidou’s national museum of modern art

Current director of Marseille museums will take up coveted post under newly appointed Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon on 1 October

Concert from Bangladesh: virtual reality music event revives 1971 Beatles charity concert—but without the white saviour complex

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Bangladesh

Concert from Bangladesh: virtual reality music event revives 1971 Beatles charity concert—but without the white saviour complex

British-South Asian artist Shezad Dawood and curator Diana Campbell Betancourt have collaborated with a group of Bangladeshi creatives to create a virtual stage celebrating the country as it turns 50

Kabir Jhala

After soul-searching, Guggenheim names a Black ‘culture and inclusion’ officer and a human resources chief

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Appointments

After soul-searching, Guggenheim names a Black ‘culture and inclusion’ officer and a human resources chief

Appointments follow accusations of “systemic racism” in hiring and programming at the museum

American Folk Art Museum acquires 40 significant works by self-taught artists

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Acquisitions

American Folk Art Museum acquires 40 significant works by self-taught artists

Gift includes examples by Horace Pippin, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Bill Traylor

Surrealism, Sickert, Cézanne and Cornelia Parker’s exploding shed: what to see at Tate in 2022

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Exhibitions

Surrealism, Sickert, Cézanne and Cornelia Parker’s exploding shed: what to see at Tate in 2022

British artist Hew Locke has been selected for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries commission, while Barbara Hepworth gets a survey at Tate St Ives

José da Silva

Hitler’s bronze horses to become government property in legal settlement

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Nazis

Hitler’s bronze horses to become government property in legal settlement

Other Nazi sculptures seized in 2015 remain with the private collector who fought to keep them

Follow the money: Christie's bets on Hong Kong with vast new headquarters as clients in Asia spend over $1bn so far this year

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Art market

Follow the money: Christie's bets on Hong Kong with vast new headquarters as clients in Asia spend over $1bn so far this year

Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions

Anny Shaw

Monet’s water lilies masterpiece to be shown in UK for the first time

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Exhibitions

Monet’s water lilies masterpiece to be shown in UK for the first time

Painting from Paris is included in an exhibition at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery dedicated to Helen Frankenthaler to show similarities in painting style between the two artists

Hermitage museum mints Leonardo, Monet, Van Gogh NFTs to raise funds

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Museums

Hermitage museum mints Leonardo, Monet, Van Gogh NFTs to raise funds

The Russian museum had to overcome country's stringent restrictions on cryptocurrencies

Sophia Kishkovsky

British Museum to restore glass artefacts shattered in Beirut explosion

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Conservation & Preservation

British Museum to restore glass artefacts shattered in Beirut explosion

Eight vessels from the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut will undergo conservation thanks to €25,000 grant from Tefaf fund

Workers at the Hispanic Society vote overwhelmingly to unionise

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Union organising

Workers at the Hispanic Society vote overwhelmingly to unionise

Employees at the struggling New York institution join a phalanx of museum workers in the region seeking representation

Plans scrapped for solar project that would disrupt Michael Heizer’s Double Negative

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Land art

Plans scrapped for solar project that would disrupt Michael Heizer’s Double Negative

A solar farm was cancelled after months of backlash from local residents

An expert’s guide to Sophie Taeuber-Arp: five must-read books on the Swiss artist

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Book Club

An expert’s guide to Sophie Taeuber-Arp: five must-read books on the Swiss artist

All you ever wanted to know about Taeuber-Arp, from a children’s book full of inspiring projects to a publication exploring the dynamics of artist couples—selected by the Tate curator Natalia Sidlina

José da Silva

Ancient rock art complex Hima listed as Saudi Arabia's sixth Unesco World Heritage site

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Saudi Arabia

Ancient rock art complex Hima listed as Saudi Arabia's sixth Unesco World Heritage site

Global heritage body's decision boosts Saudi government's efforts to promote an open image of the country

Make politicians wear hats and Banksy carry the Olympic Torch: we look back at ten years of e-petitions to the UK government

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Analysis

Make politicians wear hats and Banksy carry the Olympic Torch: we look back at ten years of e-petitions to the UK government

Of the 169 online campaigns related to the arts since they were introduced, only three have been debated in the House of Commons

Riah Pryor

Lost Art: Do NFTs mean the end of real-world art?

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Lost art

Lost Art: Do NFTs mean the end of real-world art?

The digital works can be seen as just the latest overhyped trend, or the newest incarnation of using technology to create art

Noah Charney

American Gothic landmark Lyndhurst Mansion opens unrestored pool building as exhibition space

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Museums & Heritage

American Gothic landmark Lyndhurst Mansion opens unrestored pool building as exhibition space

The artist and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos has created a site-specific installation that provides a glimpse into the Gilded Age in the Hudson Valley

Annabel Keenan

Why the art market must stop trying to predict the unpredictable and enjoy a well deserved #hotgirlsummer

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Art market

Why the art market must stop trying to predict the unpredictable and enjoy a well deserved #hotgirlsummer

Life is still uncertain but we know the industry can keep functioning against all odds through the pandemic, so enjoy the sun and save the questions for the autumn

Melanie Gerlis

The Whitworth gallery in Manchester mints a William Blake NFT in aid of community causes

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NFTs

The Whitworth gallery in Manchester mints a William Blake NFT in aid of community causes

The museum will track the activity of the crypto work for the next two years for a 2023 exhibition on art economics

Clean, seamless and free from distraction: VR exhibition opens UBS corporate collection of blue-chip art to the public

Review
Art & Technology

Clean, seamless and free from distraction: VR exhibition opens UBS corporate collection of blue-chip art to the public

Presented on Artland's virtual reality platform, the works on show are a time capsule of the downtown New York art scene—our expert panel review the experience

The Art Newspaper's XR Panel

German Nazi loot panel rejects heirs' claim for Lovis Corinth portrait, keeping it in Berlin’s Stadtmuseum

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Restitution

German Nazi loot panel rejects heirs' claim for Lovis Corinth portrait, keeping it in Berlin’s Stadtmuseum

The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”

The Harvest: painted in a single summer's day, here's why this is Van Gogh’s finest landscape

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Adventures with Van Gogh

The Harvest: painted in a single summer's day, here's why this is Van Gogh’s finest landscape

Vincent needed to recover from his intensive work with a stiff drink and his beloved pipe

a blog by Martin Bailey

What the US government sanctions of prominent Bulgarian art collector Vassil Bojkov mean for the art market

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Art market

What the US government sanctions of prominent Bulgarian art collector Vassil Bojkov mean for the art market

Oligarch is blacklisted as countries ramp up regulation and authorities move yet another step closer to the art world

Riah Pryor

Venice is not in danger, according to Unesco

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Climate Change

Venice is not in danger, according to Unesco

For the third time, the World Heritage Committee has voted not to add the Serenissima to list of sites at risk

Anna Somers Cocks

An ancient Roman road may lie beneath Venice’s lagoon, researchers say

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Antiquities & Archaeology

An ancient Roman road may lie beneath Venice’s lagoon, researchers say

Team using sonar technology have found evidence of structures and settlements on the seafloor

Garry Shaw

Under the Biden administration, can US cultural policy better reflect American values?

Comment
US politics

Under the Biden administration, can US cultural policy better reflect American values?

Building relationships with all stakeholders—from dealers and collectors to museums and archaeologists—is vital

Peter K. Tompa

Can auctions save the earth? Christie's to fundraise for environmental charity by selling works by Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson

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Christie's

Can auctions save the earth? Christie's to fundraise for environmental charity by selling works by Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson

The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m to $10m for ClientEarth

Anny Shaw

UK government approves 50% funding cut for arts and design courses

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Arts funding

UK government approves 50% funding cut for arts and design courses

Education secretary Gavin Williamson says money will be directed towards Stem subjects

France enforces vaccine passports for over-18s visiting museums and cultural venues

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Museums

France enforces vaccine passports for over-18s visiting museums and cultural venues

Controversial “health pass” introduced to fight a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the Delta variant

Hide and seek: Hirshhorn museum to cover entire building in a giant painting by Nicolas Party

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hide and seek: Hirshhorn museum to cover entire building in a giant painting by Nicolas Party

As the Washington, DC institution begins a renovation project in September, a four-storey-high work will adorn its scaffolding

Kriston Capps

Cuba cracks down on protestors with summary trials and prison sentences

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Cuba

Cuba cracks down on protestors with summary trials and prison sentences

Artists and writers are among those targeted by the government, causing human rights groups to raise an alarm about abuses

Helen Stoilas

Craftsmen in US use medieval techniques to reconstruct Notre Dame roof support

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Heritage

Craftsmen in US use medieval techniques to reconstruct Notre Dame roof support

A full-scale truss fit for the Paris cathedral will be built in Washington, DC this summer as part of a teaching project by Handshouse Studio

Martin Rosenberg

Group show of cutting edge contemporary painting opens at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate

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The Buck stopped here

Group show of cutting edge contemporary painting opens at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate

Louisa Buck

Liverpool should not be punished for its modern vision

Comment
Architecture

Liverpool should not be punished for its modern vision

The UK city has been stripped of its World Heritage status. Walter Aubrey Thomas, who designed some of its most famous buildings, would have objected, says his great-grandson

Ivan Macquisten

No luck getting tickets for immersive Van Gogh show? San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab

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Museums & Heritage

No luck getting tickets for immersive Van Gogh show? San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab

The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient

Scarlet Cheng

From village life to vaccine centre: Museum of the Year 2021 shortlist announced

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Prizes

From village life to vaccine centre: Museum of the Year 2021 shortlist announced

Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Experience Barnsley, Firstsite, Thackray Museum of Medicine and Timespan chosen as five finalists for Art Fund's coveted £100,000 prize

Liverpool loses Unesco world heritage status—'really disappointed' mayor plans appeal

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Unesco World Heritage Site

Liverpool loses Unesco world heritage status—'really disappointed' mayor plans appeal

Committee finds that construction projects have reduced cultural value

Poland’s right-wing government dismisses director of leading contemporary art museum in latest blow to cultural scene

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Poland

Poland’s right-wing government dismisses director of leading contemporary art museum in latest blow to cultural scene

Over 1,000 leading Polish arts figures have signed a letter in defence of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw's head Hanna Wróblewska

The IPCC’s predictions of sea-level rise are why Italy should beg Unesco to put Venice on its at risk list

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Venice

The IPCC’s predictions of sea-level rise are why Italy should beg Unesco to put Venice on its at risk list

It would support the difficult measures the government will have to enact to save Venice from certain death. But Unesco is toothless

Anna Somers Cocks

Dealer Inge Baecker, a pioneer of the Fluxus movement, dies in German floods

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Obituaries

Dealer Inge Baecker, a pioneer of the Fluxus movement, dies in German floods

The gallerist was ill at home in Bad Münstereifel, one of the worst-hit towns

Fascinated by the Voynich Manuscript? Here are some other mysterious texts you can decode

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Voynich Manuscript

Fascinated by the Voynich Manuscript? Here are some other mysterious texts you can decode

If bodice-rippers are too boring for your summer reading, take a crack at these other books that have stumped researchers

Garry Shaw

Your carriage awaits: Beekman Family Coach undergoes live conservation at the New-York Historical Society

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Conservation

Your carriage awaits: Beekman Family Coach undergoes live conservation at the New-York Historical Society

Research on the historic piece of decorative art has revealed some surprising evidence that many of its original materials are intact

Annabel Keenan

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grants $3m to Black historic landmarks

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Black history

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grants $3m to Black historic landmarks

The $50m grant programme, launched in the wake of the Unite the Right rally, aims to preserve histories beyond Confederate heritage

German floods damage archives, soaking historic documents in mud

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Disasters & destruction

German floods damage archives, soaking historic documents in mud

A team from the Cologne City Archive has sent emergency aid to Stolberg

As regimes are challenged in Cuba and Haiti, a timely exhibition on power and resistance opens in Miami Beach

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Exhibitions

As regimes are challenged in Cuba and Haiti, a timely exhibition on power and resistance opens in Miami Beach

A group show at Oolite Arts explores the ways government power plays out and can be counteracted by those under its influence

Isabella Marie Garcia

US galleries survive: despite a stark decline in revenue in 2020, many galleries have a positive post-pandemic outlook, report says

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Art market

US galleries survive: despite a stark decline in revenue in 2020, many galleries have a positive post-pandemic outlook, report says

The Art Dealers Association of America 2021 survey shows many galleries intend to increase their artist roster in 2021 and slowly hire back employees

Daniel Cassady

Macba in Barcelona dismisses key curatorial staff shortly after appointing new director Elvira Dyangani Ose

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Appointments & departures

Macba in Barcelona dismisses key curatorial staff shortly after appointing new director Elvira Dyangani Ose

Museum's move to sack Tanya Barson and Pablo Martínez prompts art world backlash on social media

Gambling den identified in drawing by Albrecht Dürer

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Albrecht Dürer

Gambling den identified in drawing by Albrecht Dürer

Expert matches painter's journal entry detailing trip to Zum Spiegel in Aachen with sketch which is currently on show in major exhibition

Martin Bailey

Elba, Napoleon's Italian exile island, hosts bicentenary exhibition on the controversial French emperor

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Exhibitions

Elba, Napoleon's Italian exile island, hosts bicentenary exhibition on the controversial French emperor

Uffizi Galleries in Florence among major lenders to show marking 200 years since his death

Almost all galleries are back for Art Basel’s 2021 edition as Switzerland eases travel restrictions (for now)

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Art market

Almost all galleries are back for Art Basel’s 2021 edition as Switzerland eases travel restrictions (for now)

Basel edition will continue hybrid model and satellite booths introduced in Hong Kong

Kabir Jhala

Autumn fair calendar is fit to burst as Fiac relaunches in new temporary Paris venue near Eiffel Tower

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Art market

Autumn fair calendar is fit to burst as Fiac relaunches in new temporary Paris venue near Eiffel Tower

Dealers must decide which fairs to prioritise as Art Basel in Switzerland and Frieze in London are scheduled just weeks apart

England's Freedom Day has arrived—and museums are fighting to keep crowds at bay

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United Kingdom

England's Freedom Day has arrived—and museums are fighting to keep crowds at bay

Despite lockdown restrictions lifting today, most institutions will maintain capacity limits and distancing rules until at least end of August

Italy strengthens case for return of 'Victorious Youth' bronze from Getty Museum in heritage feud that has lasted decades

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Restitution

Italy strengthens case for return of 'Victorious Youth' bronze from Getty Museum in heritage feud that has lasted decades

Italian senate approved resolution that could pave way for restitution of the Ancient Greek bronze also known as Atleta di Fano

James Imam

Humboldt Forum opens in Berlin—finally for real

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Humboldt Forum

Humboldt Forum opens in Berlin—finally for real

After almost two years of delays, the ambitious museum complex launches its first in-person exhibitions

Further cuts at SFMoMA end its film programme, art loan gallery and publishing platform

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Museums & Heritage

Further cuts at SFMoMA end its film programme, art loan gallery and publishing platform

Seven staff will also lose their jobs as tightened budgets and low attendance impact operations

Christian Boltanski made a work that live-streamed his Paris studio. What will happen to it now that he has died?

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Contemporary art

Christian Boltanski made a work that live-streamed his Paris studio. What will happen to it now that he has died?

After a boozy dinner in Paris, the French conceptual artist proposed the work to David Walsh, the founder of Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art—and it has been running for over a decade

Elizabeth Fortescue

Exclusive: Rescued from an attic, lost Van Gogh landscape surfaces in Japan—here it is in colour

Blog
Adventures with Van Gogh

Exclusive: Rescued from an attic, lost Van Gogh landscape surfaces in Japan—here it is in colour

Vincent's watercolour of a Dutch meadow with cows was exhibited once, in 1903, and is known only from a small black-and-white photograph

a blog by Martin Bailey

Abuja, Miami, Seoul: gallery director Dolly Kola-Balogun maps out her path to African art’s world domination

Interview
Art market

Abuja, Miami, Seoul: gallery director Dolly Kola-Balogun maps out her path to African art’s world domination

The 27-year-old powerhouse founder of Retro Africa talks about her expansion plans and how she is helping to build a contemporary art scene in Nigeria

Aimee Dawson

Museum dedicated to man who deciphered the hieroglyphics opens in France—full of Ancient Egyptian treasures

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Museums

Museum dedicated to man who deciphered the hieroglyphics opens in France—full of Ancient Egyptian treasures

Musée Champollion in the south east of France—once owned by descendants of Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion’s family—is also exhibiting 82 artefacts on loan from the Louvre

Garry Shaw

Nailed it: Kizhi Pogost church is finally restored on Russian island of remarkable wooden buildings

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Conservation & Preservation

Nailed it: Kizhi Pogost church is finally restored on Russian island of remarkable wooden buildings

Newly reopened 18th-century Church of the Transfiguration, topped with 22 domes, is said to have been built without a single nail

Sophia Kishkovsky

Let's bid: David Bowie album artwork for sale, direct from the artist who created it

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Art market

Let's bid: David Bowie album artwork for sale, direct from the artist who created it

A 120-lot online auction of Edward Bell's collection of designs, photographs and proofs starts today

Ivan Macquisten

Bring your sunscreen and your opera glasses: Lithuanian pavilion performance comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music

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Performance art

Bring your sunscreen and your opera glasses: Lithuanian pavilion performance comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music

The piece that won the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale will start a tour of the US in New York this September

Protestors gather at the reopening of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America

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Museum of Chinese in America

Protestors gather at the reopening of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America

Demonstrators argue the museum is complicit in mass incarceration and the gentrification of Chinatown

Artmonte-carlo takes advantage of an open fair calendar to entice blue-chip galleries to Monaco

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Art market

Artmonte-carlo takes advantage of an open fair calendar to entice blue-chip galleries to Monaco

In addition to the fledging fair, the tax haven on the Côte d'Azur is hosting a week of exhibitions and auction house offerings

Anna Sansom

July’s book bag: from paranormal American art to a history of Stuart architecture

Blog
Book Club

July’s book bag: from paranormal American art to a history of Stuart architecture

A roundup of the latest art publications