NewsSalvator Mundi
'We want Salvator Mundi' for Leonardo blockbuster, Louvre says
Claims that it had "cancelled plans" to show the work are "fake information", the museum says
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
How a protest poster by David Wojnarowicz may have inspired Basquiat's Defacement
Artist's 1983 depiction of an infamous case of police brutality goes on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June
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Hammer Museum dishes up a feast for Allen Ruppersberg's first major US show in 30 years
The exhibition includes a major new 13-hour video
NewsRestitution
Met hands over an Egyptian coffin that it says was looted
Describing itself as a victim of fraud, museum says it cooperated with district attorney's investigation
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Diane Arbus's intimate portraits of street life at the Hayward Gallery to a window into the future at the Whitechapel Gallery
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Patti sings 'Because the night belongs to Annie'
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Frida Kahlo's hidden treasures to a layered look at James Baldwin
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Lucas Blalock gives ‘pathetic’ objects a new lease of life at the ICA LA
More than 20 photographs are included in the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US museum
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Botticelli’s violent stories have a contemporary resonance in #MeToo era
“Spalliera” panels depicting parables are reunited at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time in 500 years
InterviewRijksmuseum
Interview: the Rijksmuseum's Taco Dibbits on Rembrandt's pulling power
We speak to the general director of the Dutch museum ahead of its exhibition on "all" of the works by the master in its collection
NewsPodcast
George Shaw: 'I make no distinction between great painting and great TV'
On The Art Newspaper podcast, the British painter discusses the diverse influences, from Hockney and Rembrandt to the children’s television series Grange Hill, that have informed his paintings of the estate where he grew up
NewsSalvator Mundi
Simon Fujiwara builds mini museum for Leonardo's Salvator Mundi at the Whitechapel in London
The original painting is never shown, only copies and projections are displayed
NewsExhibitions
Parkland victims remembered through New-York Historical Society photo show
As part of her residency at the museum, the photographer Bettina von Zwehl made portraits with New York City high school students
NewsPhotography
Novelist Orhan Pamuk unveils photographs of Istanbul he took from his balcony
On show in Turkey this month, the images are an ode to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s hometown
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Edmund de Waal to create exhibition in Jewish Ghetto in Venice
The ceramicist will also unveil library of books by exiled writers at Ateneo Veneto to coincide with the opening of the 58th Biennale
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Monty Python snub 'pretentious' Victoria and Albert Museum
Comedy troupe was planning a show at the institution but clashed over the title
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Diane Arbus's nudists, drag artists, carnival folk and street urchins are laid bare in London show
Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery uses a distinctive layout to encourage visitors to get up close to US photographer’s early 35mm works
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Don McCullin's powerful war photography at Tate Britain to a last chance to see Lorenzo Lotto's insightful portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
PreviewExhibitions
15 must-see Rembrandt shows during the 350th anniversary of his death
Two exhibitions to be held at the Rijksmuseum this year will provide a cohesive overview of Rembrandt’s life and work
Podcast
Tracey Emin on mourning and #MeToo; George Shaw on realism and Rembrandt
We talk to Tracey Emin as her new show at White Cube opens. And we speak to George Shaw, whose exhibition has arrived at the Holburne Museum after its stint in the US. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar’s washboard works to Shen Fan’s playful abstraction
NewsJeff Koons
Jeff Koons says computer technology allowed him to downsize his New York studio
The US artist has laid off the majority of his painting assistants to focus on experimenting with sculpture
PreviewExhibitions
Have Brooklyn and Boston bagged Frida Kahlo blockbusters?
Shows at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston explore the Mexican artist’s love of fashion and “arte popular”
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the dazzling dresses of Dior at the V&A to the grim reality of how architecture can affect your health at the Wellcome Collection
NewsProtest
'Exploitation and injustice': London gallery show protests BP sponsorship at British Museum
P21 show, organised by campaign group BP or Not BP, is due to coincide with a “mass takeover” of the British Museum
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Don McCullin on why he is showing at Tate Britain even though he is ‘not an artist’
The photojournalist also reflects on his career and reveals the most important stories he covered
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Theaster Gates on how his new show was inspired by the eviction of 45 people from an island in Maine
The Chicago-based artist's exhibition in Paris examines the forced removal in 1911 of the inhabitants of Malaga Island
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From female artists who made their mark on New York to designs for cities of the future
PreviewLeonardo da Vinci
Twelve Leonardo shows to open simultaneously in the UK to mark 500th anniversary of artist’s death
Drawings from the Royal Collection go on show around the country this week before larger surveys in London and Edinburgh later in the year
InterviewArtist interview
Back to basics: Michael Craig-Martin on his new show in Windsor (Florida)
The conceptual artist brings a range of recent works stateside in a presentation co-organised by the Royal Academy of Arts
ReviewExhibitions
Dawoud Bey brings viewers on an evocative journey along the Underground Railroad
The artist’s new series of nocturnal photographs, on show at the Art Institute of Chicago, vividly imagine the kinds of scenes escaping slaves might have seen
NewsDAU
DAU: giant art installation on Soviet era unveiled in Paris
Highly anticipated event blighted by snags with venues and security
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New London shows lift the lid on Boilly, the prolific painter of Parisian life
Exhibition at the National Gallery and a display at the Wallace Collection focus on artist virtually unknown in the UK
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A careful collector’s gift of African objects and Modern art is celebrated in Detroit
New exhibition is dedicated to Margaret Demant—a passionate booster of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection
ReviewExhibitions
Madrid's small but perfectly formed Bartolomé Bermejo show is 'art history at its best'
Museo del Prado’s show on the 15th-century Spanish painter is elegant, intellectually incisive and rich in both news and rarely seen art
News#metoo
Student curators bring consent debate to Dartmouth College's renovated Hood Museum of Art
University is facing $70m lawsuit from seven women claiming that it turned a blind eye to sexual abuse and discrimination
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Pierre Bonnard's colours-turned-up-to-11 at Tate Modern to Bill Viola's dust up with Michelangelo at the Royal Academy of Arts
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Two venues of Andy Warhol, and young painter Theodora Allen's ancient symbolism
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When Saharan sands glittered with gold: how the world's largest desert was a major medieval trade route
New exhibition at the Block Museum of Art looks at the artefacts that flowed through the region assisted by the spread of Islam
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Bicentenary events aim to reignite John Ruskin’s radical flame
The work of the influential—but now underappreciated—polymath, whose followers included Gandhi, is the subject of several shows this year
BlogIn the frame
Andrei Molodkin wants to turn your blood into art in new Belgian show
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More to Viennese Modernism than Klimt and Schiele: new show on forgotten female artists
Organisers had to delve deep into the Belvedere archives and visit artist's descendants to assemble the exhibition
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Lucio Fontana survey shows how sculpture sowed seeds for artist's slashing series
Exhibition at the Met Breuer argues that the Italian-Argentinian's early sculptures and decorative pieces inspired his works to come
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Adelita Husni-Bey on traumatised lawyers and undocumented immigrants
The New York-based Italian artist tells us about her new film installation in her New Museum show
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Tate Modern takes a ‘slow look’ at Pierre Bonnard’s fleeting moments
Exhibition aims to reassess French artist’s reputation and revel in depth and detail of his work
FeatureBill Viola
Kira Perov: the ‘guardian angel’ in Bill Viola’s life and work
As the Royal Academy in London prepares to open a show uniting the US video artist with Michelangelo, his wife and collaborator discusses her pivotal role in his process
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Grace Wales Bonner's group show at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery to a last chance to see Christian Marclay's The Clock at Tate Modern
Podcast
Sisters are painting it for themselves: meet the female Old Masters finding prominence at last
We speak to curators Letizia Treves and Jordana Pomeroy about the growing trend to bring historical female artists to the fore. Plus, Kate MacGarry tells us about participating in Condo London. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the many sides of Bruce Nauman to the many subjects of Eugene Richards
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Jeremy Deller and Aries make English pre-history sexy as Theresa May suffers Brexit wipeout
BlogLinda on the loose
Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu bears witness in a marathon of moving images at the SculptureCenter
One work represents a kind of career retrospective for this widely respected artist and human rights activist, who appears to have been born with an archival gene
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Arthur Jafa’s searing chronicle of Black America comes to Tate Liverpool
The artist's radical video sparked debate about race relations in the US
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Grace Wales Bonner explores black spirituality for London show
Mystical rituals lie at the heart of the fashion designer’s first major exhibition taking place at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
ReviewExhibitions
Pakistani-American painter Ambreen Butt imbues traditional miniatures with timely social criticism
Her show Mark My Words is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC—one of the museums still open during the shutdown
ReviewExhibitions
Essential viewing: Warhol from A to B and Back Again at New York’s Whitney Museum
The sprawling show is a needed revisit for those who remember Warhol as a living, brilliant savant, taste-maker and oddball
NewsBrexit
Leave campaigners call for Photographers' Gallery to be stripped of charitable status over Jonas Lund's project to 'reverse Brexit'
Swedish artist created fully functioning office ‘to expose online manipulation tactics’ used in the lead up to the EU referendum
NewsProtest
Hundreds of Christians protest against McJesus sculpture at Haifa Museum of Art in Israel
Finnish artist Jani Leinonen has asked museum to remove the work—with no response
NewsBritish Museum
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl will not travel to Quai Branly in Paris for Oceania exhibition
Royal Academy says conservation issues—not restitution fears—mean the ceremonial feast trough can not be loaned
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s most important painting leaves Europe for the first time
National Gallery’s Sunflowers heads to Japan where it is likely to be seen by around a million people
PreviewArt market
Acceptable in your 80s: first monograph and a London show for octogenarian sculptor
Book accompanies Paul de Monchaux's new exhibition, a collaboration between his young dealer Megan Piper and Bowman Sculpture
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Condo’s gathering of 52 galleries to a last chance to take a dip into Elmgreen & Dragset’s world at the Whitechapel Gallery
FeatureBauhaus
Germany celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus with a bonanza of museum openings and exhibitions
From newly conserved buildings and puppet shows to virtual-reality installations and ballet, across the country the German school is finally getting its due
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From cross-cultural pollination in Armenia's Christian art to a pagan awakening
NewsLGBTQ
Largest exhibition of LGBTQ art in Asia to open in November
The collaboration between Sunpride Foundation and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre explores issues of inclusion in ‘Asia’s Gay Capital’
NewsVincent Van Gogh
National Gallery in London to send Van Gogh's Sunflowers to Japan
Exhibition with 60 other loans from the museum will help celebrate the Tokyo Olympics in 2020
NewsEdvard Munch
British Museum to stage major show of Munch prints
Exhibition in London will be largest in 50 years
NewsBanksy
German museum to show shredded Banksy work
Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden aims to make the work “accessible to as many people as possible”
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head displayed upside down
Curators discovered old mistake during research for No Man's Land exhibition
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A pair of golden tyres at the Opéra Garnier in Paris provokes public ire
A new installation by artist Claude Lévêque is proving controversial since its unveiling on 30 December
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Settlement of lawsuit paves way for Derek Jarman painting show
The case began when Jarman’s long-term companion Keith Collins lodged a civil action against the art dealer Richard Salmon
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eL Seed brings his brand of contemporary calligraphy to London for first UK show
French-Tunisian artist’s 'tabula rasa' paintings at Lazinc will challenge “deep-seated preconceptions” about Arabic script
NewsExhibitions
Overlooked sculptor Elisabeth Frink's legacy reexamined in extensive UK survey
Curators of the Sainsbury Centre exhibition consider her work in relation to darker political concerns
ReviewExhibitions
Skip the art history lesson—experience Picasso ‘intuitively’ at Musée d’Orsay's Blue and Rose blockbuster
The show promises a continuum in Picasso’s work, a gentle slide, rather than rigidly compartmentalised episodes