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‘Living museum’ of British-Somali heritage heads to east London
Crowdfunded space aims to preserve community archive and support emerging artists
ReviewBook Shorts
When nothing is sacred, nothing can be subversive: photographs of London’s Soho captured in catalogue
The area’s heyday in the mid 20th century has been obliterated by commercial exploitation
ReviewBook Shorts
Twentieth-century American hopes and dreams are shown in black and white in this book of prints
Volume shows how the political and social aspirations of the Progressive Movement inspired American artists
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Jacob Lawrence’s epic series depicting America's early struggles sets off on US tour
Twenty-three of the US artist’s surviving panels will be reunited for the first time in six decades
ReviewBook Shorts
Medieval books’ margins are shown to be areas of dissent and fun, rather than mere doodling
The extra-textual decoration of medieval illuminated manuscripts are full of clues about sections of society normally overlooked by historians
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New museum tells Palestinian stories in the centre of US politics
One-room space in Washington, DC, focuses on art and culture rather than “catastrophe”— but a section is dedicated to the 1948 mass exodus
BlogIn the frame
‘Ingenious’ portrait series celebrates Juneteenth
NewsMuseums & Heritage
National Museum of African American History and Culture to unveil rediscovered Harriet Tubman photo
She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait
BlogIn the frame
Simon Fujiwara’s fascination with Anne Frank
NewsHeritage
Chunks of British Parliament go on sale
Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece
NewsThomas Gainsborough
Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years
New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child
FeatureExhibitions
Beacons of empathy: the forgotten women who brought the Foundling Museum to life
The portraits of men in the London museum's picture gallery are being replaced by portraits of women who supported a vision to protect young children
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Russian authorities force Gulag museum to close
Volunteer-run organisation has been based in former Soviet secret police headquarters for the past decade
NewsSocial history
Canada struggles with monuments tied to colonialism
Echoing a conflict in the US, the nation contends with calls to remove controversial memorials
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Siberian museum memorialises the Romanovs in house where they were imprisoned
Museum of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II in Tobolsk is Russia's first devoted to 'royal martyrs'
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Moscow museum opens archives of Stalin's Gulag labour camps
New research centre helps descendants discover fate of their family members
FeatureTate
The struggle behind Tate Modern's birth
Recently opened Tate archives reveal wrangling over division of British and international art in early 1990s
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Alabama memorial confronts America’s racist history
A site dedicated to the 4,400 victims of lynching and a museum about the country’s legacy of inequality opens
NewsPublic art
Public sculpture will commemorate Chattanooga lynching victim 100 years on
Memorial part of push for new works that challenge history of white supremacy in the US
NewsLooting
V&A opens dialogue on looted Ethiopian treasures
Director pledges rethink on objects seized by British troops in 19th-century Africa
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Rashid Johnson starts filming Native Son in Chicago
The US artist finds contemporary resonance in the 1940s novel
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'Issue one came out in less degraded times: more idealistic, less puffed up by PR machines'
Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor and chairman, looks back
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Letters of note: featuring Zaha Hadid, Picasso's biographer, a prison warden and many more
Selected correspondence from down the years
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Then & Now: boom, bust and rebirth of Damien Hirst
How The Art Newspaper has covered the artist's bullish decadence
Comment
Then & Now: "Modern art is destroying itself," warned our first issue
Museums have since devoted sizeable resources
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Then & Now: how The Art Newspaper shaped UK restitution law
Featuring a 900-year-old missal looted during the Second World War
BlogArt market
Auction of France's May '68 protest posters to mark 50th anniversary
Artcurial to offer posters with a revolutionary spirit from the collection of Laurent Storch
NewsSocial history
Argentina's female art workers call for gender parity on International Women's Day
The group, Nosotras Proponemos, has events planned at art institutions throughout the country during March
NewsPhotography
New York’s ICP revisits America’s ‘shameful’ history of Japanese internment
An exhibition travelling from Chicago includes 100 images by documentary photographers like Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, as well as incarcerated artists like Toyo Miyatake and Miné Okubo
NewsOpenings
Wende Museum of Cold War artefacts spills its secrets in California
More than 100,000 Soviet and Eastern European objects find new home in former Armory
BlogIn the frame
New-York Historical Society celebrates centenary of women’s suffrage in the state
ArchiveExhibitions
Getty Centre displays Killip’s chronicle of de-industrialised Britain
Images from In Flagrante make up the core of this solo exhibition
ReviewExhibitions
Building anew: how Constructivism sought to remake the world
In the centenary year of the Bolshevik Revolution, exhibitions survey the art of the Russian avant-garde and put its radicalism in context
NewsExhibitions
‘Humanity uprooted’: Noguchi Museum marks 75th anniversary of Japanese American internment
Timely show traces the lasting impact on the artist’s work of voluntary wartime relocation to Arizona detention camp
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Documents signed by Abraham Lincoln go on sale at Sotheby's
Copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment will go to auction
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Palestinian Museum opens—with no exhibition or collection
The inaugural show is postponed, but a satellite exhibition will go ahead this month in Beirut
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Painting the Reformation: the Cranachs celebrated
Six books reveal the multifaceted output of the elder and younger Cranach in Thuringia
FeatureSocial history
Louis XIV: his mania for the cult of self
On the 300th anniversary of the Sun King’s death, the writer of a forthcoming biography of France’s most celebrated monarch reflects on the spectacular flourishing of creativity in his reign, and on Louis’s passion for self-commemoration, in everything from medals to sculptures and buildings
NewsOld Masters
The Cranachs and Luther, a beautiful friendship: Joachim Whaley on the Luther Decade
Part one of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist
NewsOld Masters
Luther, Cranach and political propaganda: Joachim Whaley on the Luther Decade
Part three of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist
NewsOld Masters
How the Cranachs made Luther unmistakable: Joachim Whaley on the Luther Decade
Part two of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist
FeatureExhibitions
The Flux-Labyrinth: a multisensory bombardment from a more innocent time
The reconstruction of a playful installation from the 1970s at Frieze New York failed to fully conjure its original anarchic, prankster spirit
ArchiveBooks
Books: American art from Norsemen to Culture Wars
A well-written history of art in North America for students
CommentSocial history
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Monuments tell us more about those who set them up than those they represent, says Classics professor Matthew Sears
Matthew Sears