NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
NewsFrieze London 2019
Frieze returns to safe haven of painting amid threat of recession and political instability
Traditional medium is back in fashion amid looming Brexit
AnalysisAlbert Oehlen
Buyer's guide to...Albert Oehlen
With three separate shows of his work taking place in London during Frieze Week, the German artist's market is heating up
ReviewBooks
Titan of Turin: Italy's greatest interior decorator receives definitive scholarly book
Bertrand de Royere provides a thorough examination of the life the 19th century decorator and furniture designer Pelagio Palagi
ReviewBook Shorts
Not all about nudes: volume uncovers new area of Lucian Freud’s work
Best known as a portrait painter, the artist was also fascinated by plant life
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Beyond the Metaphysical: Milan show aims to reassess Giorgio de Chirico's late period
Major survey at Palazzo Reale will include his "most difficult" works as well as early pieces that inspired the Surrealists
NewsConservation & Preservation
Probing nine paintings, conservators in Amsterdam unlock Chagall’s secrets
Research project at the Stedelijk Museum sheds light on some of the artist’s techniques
PreviewLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo at the Louvre: an exclusive first look at this year's biggest blockbuster
We reveal the research and science behind the monograph exhibition exploring the Renaissance painter's artistic evolution
NewsEnvironment
Jeppe Hein's ‘breathwork’ is headed to the United Nations headquarters
The project will be launched on the heels of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York
PreviewExhibitions
From blasphemer to bookworm: Paris show reframes Francis Bacon's later works
Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on the artist’s post-pope period, which has received less critical examination
ReviewBook Shorts
The first book on official Australian art and artists in the First World War explains how the national collection was made
The aim of Australian government’s war art scheme was to prioritise first-hand representations of the conflict
NewsRestoration
Monumental Veronese painting—once cut into 32 pieces by Austrian soldiers—to undergo fourth restoration
Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021
ReviewBook Shorts
This book of essays explores the varieties and definitions of Islamic art
The authors ask “What is Islamic about ‘Islamic’ art?”
NewsMuseums
Art Gallery of Ontario acquires a Caillebotte after long legal struggle
A government grant for works of importance helps to block departure of the painting from the country
InterviewPolitics
Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction
Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London
PreviewExhibitions
More great Danes: new Copenhagen show expands Denmark's Golden Age
Works from the 19th-century helped construct a national identity in Denmark that is ripe for discussion now, says curator
ReviewBooks
The scientific brotherhood: Pre-Raphaelite art put under the microscope
The Victorian artist group explored the connections between art and scientific observation to enhance art’s moral purpose
NewsExhibitions
In highly personal portraits, an artist speaks up for his native Baltimore
Painted before Donald Trump disparaged the city, Derrick Adams's new works celebrate family life there
ReviewBook Shorts
The travel books of Eugène Delacroix have now been translated into English
These notebooks reveal how the artist discovered the "real" Orient in North Africa and southern Spain and adjusted his paintings accordingly
ReviewBooks
Fit for a king: book lays out the vast scale of the Orléans collection
The second Duke of Orléans’ assembly of his famous art collection may have been a covert preparation for seizing the throne of France
NewsAttribution
Hidden number discovered in conservation helps reveal painting is from Titian's workshop
Part of the Wellington Collection in London, the picture was originally believed to be by a minor north Italian artist
PreviewExhibitions
Winslow Homer beach paintings—cut in half after a bad review—reunited for Cape Ann Museum show
Exhibition of marine paintings will be joined later this month by a survey of the artist's Civil War illustrations at Harvard Art Museums
ReviewBook Shorts
This book gives a first-hand account of Second World War art and propaganda
A vivid account of the art arising from the experiences of the artist, George Plante
BlogThe Buck stopped here
The gadflies and the gifted: Johnny Dewe Matthews and Andrew Logan at Roche Court
Johnny Dewe Mathews on his exhibition of 1970s photographs at New Art Centre
ReviewBook Shorts
A book of wallpaper art for students
The botanical illustrations of Alexander von Humboldt in poster form
ReviewBooks
Coming out of one’s shell: new book explores overlooked mollusc art by naturalist's daughters
Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers
ReviewBook Shorts
Children’s portraits without shadows: new book on painting childhood
No Chucky or Lord of the Flies in portraits by British and British-based artists
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh's correspondence about famed Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta unearthed
Largely overlooked postscript suggests surprise friendship between the Van Gogh brothers and the young Belgian
NewsNational Gallery
'Exceptional loan' of Francesco Melzi painting from Russia comes to London's National Gallery
Unusual month-long display of recently restored work by Leonardo’s favourite and heir will be lent by the State Hermitage Museum
ReviewBook Shorts
Boilly, prolific portraitist and genre painter
Almost unknown in Britain, his work was secretly amassed by Harry Hyams, the billionaire property developer
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Alejandra Castro Rioseco on collecting the work of female artists
Latin American artists feature prominently in the collection of the Chilean supporter of women's rights
InterviewDamien Hirst
Blossoming artist: Damien Hirst on returning to the studio, fluorescent florals and the 'muppets' in government
Hirst has spent the past 18 months in his London studio painting cherry blossom and now, in an exclusive interview, he explains why this new body of work is a matter of life and death
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Collector's Eye: an interview with Bernard Lumpkin, a 'black art ambassador'
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
PreviewExhibitions
Twelve exhibitions not to miss during Frieze New York
From the Leipzig School artist Neo Rauch at the Drawing Center, to Nari Ward at the New Museum, there's plenty to see around New York City during Frieze
ReviewExhibitions
Hockney-Van Gogh exhibition is ‘a tame,though colourful, bit of fluff’
The British artist dominates the Van Gogh Museum’s dubious doubleheader, which offers little to connect the pair
NewsExhibitions
Tate to show $6m Blake watercolours that sold for £1,000 in a Scottish bookshop
Discovered after 165 years, eight of the 19 paintings will be included in the London exhibition in September
ReviewBook Shorts
William-Adolphe Bougeureau: tasteless, sentimental, soft-porny, but French above all
Book looks at the former official darling of the American republic
InterviewPainting
Liu Xiaodong: an interview with China’s great documentary painter
The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with William Zhao
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
AnalysisEgon Schiele
Buyer's guide to... Egon Schiele
While well known in the West, the work of this major figure of Austrian Expressionism is less recognised in Asia—until now
PreviewExhibitions
Grandmaster flash of the Mediterranean—Joaquín Sorolla comes to London's National Gallery
The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour
FeatureExhibitions
Making Miró: MoMA show explores turning point in artist’s career
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art focuses on The Birth of the World, a 1925 painting that marks a definitive turning point for Joan Miró
FeatureThe Armory Show
From grit to glitter: a look back at 25 years of The Armory Show
The Gramercy International Art Fair was the edgy alternative to establishment fairs when it first began—reimagined as The Armory Show, it has grown into an economic juggernaut
PreviewExhibitions
Agnes Pelton show looks to introduce the visionary but little-known painter to a new generation
Phoenix Art Museum hosts first US survey of the Californian artist in more than two decades
NewsAcquisitions
Spot the difference: newly acquired Cranach painting joins earlier work at London’s National Gallery
Moral painting of Venus and Cupid by the German Renaissance master shows the young god of desire being attacked by bees
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
How Van Gogh's Sunflowers have inspired generations of British artists
Painters from Brangwyn to Nash paid homage to the masterpiece, all illustrated on the Art UK site
NewsDigital Age
New watercolour database could help experts combat climate change
Global digital resource provides valuable environmental documentation from an age before photography
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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
ReviewBooks
How to try to understand Jusepe de Ribera's many scenes of violence
The Spanish artist’s extraordinary paintings of tortured bodies and tormented souls
NewsConservation & Preservation
Wallace Collection crowdfunds to conserve Canaletto works in room with many views
Museum aims to clean and analyse all 28 of its vedute paintings of Venice by spring 2020
PreviewExhibitions
Grotesque, exotic, fantastic: Emil Nolde's road to Expressionism explored through three lenses
Survey exhibition of "degenerate" German artist at Zentrum Paul Klee includes works being exhibited for first time
NewsParis
Double vision: Paris show displays two Mary Magdalene Caravaggios
Scholars are divided over whether either of the paintings of Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy—or both of them—are copies
ReviewExhibitions
Big on Bruegel: Vienna museum assembles largest show on the artist
A literally once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum
InterviewFeatures
Larry Poons: Art isn’t business
The octogenarian painter stars in The Price of Everything, a new film about the machinations of the market airing on HBO
ReviewBooks
The influence of Klimt in Central European art after the First World War
The adaptations and expansions of the Austrian painter in the nations of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
ReviewBooks
What books in paintings mean
The significance of books in works of art
ReviewBooks
A monumental study of the heyday of Historicist painting
This comprehensive volume looks at a genre popular in 19th-century Europe but long scorned in the art world
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Niko Pirosmani: the ‘vagabond’ who inspired the Russian avant-garde
The self-taught artist, whose work commands surprisingly high prices at auction, is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna's Albertina museum
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'Prime minister of taste': Horace Walpole's collection reunited at Strawberry Hill
Exhibition in collector's former Thames-side home follows a successful (and ongoing) treasure hunt
ReviewBooks
Jackson Pollock's art gets lost in academic theory in new book
This scholarly overview of the artist’s work is modishly opaque
NewsConservation & Preservation
Family reunited: US exhibition brings together the pieces of cut-up 17th-century Frans Hals portrait
Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio shows three paintings confirmed as one original work by recent conservation
NewsConservation & Preservation
Death triumphs: Museo del Prado completes challenging two-year-long Bruegel restoration
Newly conserved danse macabre work travels to Vienna for major exhibition marking 450 years since the artist's death
PreviewExhibitions
Largest ever exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder opens in Vienna
Show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum unites more than three-quarters of the artist's paintings
NewsConservation & Preservation
Is Bergamo’s rediscovered Mantegna linked to a triptych in the Uffizi?
Accademia Carrara’s curator Giovanni Valagussa explains how he put “two and two” together
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Mystery identity of Van Gogh’s 'gardener' solved
New research reveals name of man in the artist’s finest asylum portrait
NewsPodcast
Does Van Gogh's Starry, Starry Night feature the Milky, Milky Way?
On our latest podcast, we explore how a modern reconstruction of the night sky in June 1889 shed light on the artist's late masterpiece
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Luxury London store Fortnum & Mason hosts mini retrospective of landscape paintings by John Virtue
PreviewExhibitions
Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary takes over Venice
The “avant-garde superstar” of the Renaissance is celebrated in his home city before works make rare trip to the US