News Appointments
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum
German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution
News Biennials & festivals
Five works to see at the Folkestone Triennial
Public art exhibition includes a giant jelly mould, minarets and a lightbulb moment
News Biennials & festivals
Setback for Lahore Biennale as artistic director Rashid Rana quits
Inaugural edition of Pakistan’s biggest ever contemporary show has now been postponed until next year
Feature Year Ahead 2017
Museum openings this autumn and winter
From Shenzhen to Cape Town, new or improved institutions prepare to open their doors in the second half of 2017
Interview Hartwig Fischer
‘We need to take into consideration the whole world, not only Europe’
The British Museum’s director has bold plans to redisplay galleries and move stored collections out of London
Blog The Buck stopped here
Roll up, roll up to Britain’s first interfaith charity shop on Selfridges’ third floor
US artist Miranda July's Artangel installation opens its doors
Blog In the frame
Brancusi sculpture inspires Romanian football kit
CSU Craiova looks to Modernist sculptor for inspiration
News Art market
Christie's adds London auctions in October, raises buyer's premium
House sees "great potential for growth" for lots under £1m in the photograph and design categories during Frieze week
Feature Art market
Can new leadership and a change of name save the Biennale de Paris?
For its 55th birthday, the fair formerly known as the Biennale des Antiquaires is hoping for a “renewal” after a difficult 2016 edition
News Commissions
Miranda July turns corner of Selfridges into interfaith charity shop
Film-maker and artist's Artangel commission has been created in solidarity with Islamic Relief
News Art market
Surfacing on the Block: a Finn Juhl coffee table and playwright Edward Albee's collection
Spotlight on this month’s most distinctive auctions
News Obituaries
David Tang, fashion entrepreneur and Chinese art collector, dies aged 63
Founder of fashion brand Shanghai Tang displayed pieces from his collection in his clubs and restaurants
Blog In the frame
Atlanta's falcon has landed
The new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta is home to a massive falcon sculpture
News Video, film & new media
How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history
A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas
News Art market
Italy relaxes stringent export laws for post-war art
New legislation eases movement of post-war Italian art out of the country, lifts restrictions on photography in state archives
Feature Art market
Closure of South Kensington saleroom marks end of an era
As Christie’s chases new markets, the middle is a casualty. Where will the trade move?
Feature Art market
Christie's South Kensington: the training ground where an industry learned its game
Art world power players add their voices to the eulogy for the well-loved secondary saleroom
Review Gerhard Richter
Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné
The latest volume reveals Gerhard Richter’s variable but not always successful styles
News Exhibitions
Yayoi Kusama’s critical friend, Donald Judd
The Japanese artist's works go on show at the Minimalist artist's Soho home
News Conservation
Cracked it! Getty exhibition unlocks the material secrets of Concrete art
Study of Latin American works from the Coleccíon Patricia Phelps de Cisneros reveals orientation shifts, household paint and ways to obtain that perfect edge
News Conservation
Artists lead preservation efforts at California arts centre
Latest commission at the Headlands Center for the Arts continues long tradition of rehabilitation projects at the former military complex
Feature Features
On the side of the angels
Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month
Feature Artist interview
Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict
As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”
News Art schools
Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of cowardice and censorship over its treatment of former professor and Henry Darger expert Michael Bonesteel
News Appointments
India Art Fair gets new director for tenth edition
Jagdip Jagpal to take the helm from Neha Kirpal, who remains founder and co-owner
News
British art comes under the spotlight at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Martin Parr and David Mach will be among speakers at the prestigious event
News Exhibitions
Doris Salcedo’s latest work: a memorial for drowned migrants
The water piece will fill Madrid's Palacio de Cristal, which is run by the Reina Sofia Museum
News Object lessons
Object lessons: an unearthed Norman Rockwell, a glass flower by Chihuly and a rare work by Ursula von Rydingsvard
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
News Exhibitions
Why Olafur Eliasson’s yellow room is coming to London's National Gallery
Visitors will experience monochrome world like the one Medieval monks wanted in “minimalist monasteries”
News
Charlottesville protestor thought to have targeted LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner work with anti-Semitic comments
The man was photographed attending torch-lit white nationalist rally in Virginia
News
Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit heading for closure
Detectives have been redeployed to work on Grenfell Tower investigation
News Street art
Thieves posing as Paris city employees caught on camera stripping street artist’s mosaics
Theft to order suspected as 15 works by French street artist Invader are stolen in 10 days
News In the frame
Athena (Theresa May) turns Ajax (Michael Gove) mad and he starts slaughtering sheep
News Building projects
Tate paid Herzog & de Meuron reduced fee for Switch House extension
Contract was renegotiated after project went over budget and was severely delayed
News
De Kooning painting stolen from Arizona museum was hanging in New Mexico couple’s bedroom
A local newspaper has identified the owners of the estate where the missing painting was found
News
‘London Museum of Photography’ to open in capital’s East End
Swedish gallery Fotografiska is behind new space near the Whitechapel Gallery
News
New York's Fashion Institute of Technology redesigns its art market Master’s programme
Tuition fees have been reduced by 25% and new coursework has been added focusing on the auction world
News Commercial galleries
Latin American galleries launch a cooperative model in Los Angeles
At 918 Ruberta Avenue in Glendale, five galleries take part in a rotating year-long residence
News
Design auctions buck the downward trend
Expanded access via online platforms has boosted the market for the masters of Modernist furniture
News Collectors
Construction boss Jack Kirkland’s collection gets Sheffield outing
Majority of works going on show at Graves Gallery have never been seen in the UK before
News Public art
Winter Whiteout is coming—to Madison Square Park with art installation
Artist Erwin Redl will blanket the park’s Oval Lawn with an installation of suspended lights
Review
Lime, sand and animal hair: on 18th-century British interiors
There was an extraordinary flowering of stucco decoration in the period at hand
Review Exhibitions
Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo
A focused show in Washington, DC, looks at why US collectors had a passion for French painting
News Exhibitions
Five of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to be reunited on Facebook
Willem van Gogh, the great grandson of Theo, the artist’s brother, will also speak in the presentation
Comment
Fake heritage for the fake news era
Damien Hirst’s exhibition in Venice this summer is part of a long tradition of counterfeiting history—but the UK artist has added a contemporary twist
News Object lessons
Object lessons: classic Americana by John Brewster, a rare sculptural work by Julian Schnabel and a Burntwater rug by Philomena Yazzie
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
News
First public art works for Battersea Power Station site selected
Jesse Wine and Haffendi Anuar awarded the inaugural Powerhouse Commission by Cass Sculpture Foundation
News
Shortlist for UK National Holocaust Memorial goes on show at V&A
Rachel Whiteread, Michal Rovner and Anish Kapoor in the running to create new structure honouring victims of Nazi persecution
News Obituaries
Tim Reeve, deputy director of the V&A, remembers Martin Roth
A sharp mind, a warm personality and a dynamic director
News
Two members of Pussy Riot detained after protesting against film-maker's imprisonment
Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova were arrested in eastern Siberia but released after the judge found errors in the case files
News Public art
The story behind the ‘controversial’ Picasso sculpture that became a symbol of Chicago
When it was first unveiled 50 years ago in the city centre, the monumental "homely" figure was not beloved by all
News
Garage Museum founders Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova split
The art world power couple said they will continue working together on joint projects
News
National Academy artists including Marina Abramovic, Chuck Close and Kara Walker condemn calls to cancel Dana Schutz show
Open letter supports ICA Boston’s decision to go ahead with show of artist whose painting of Emmett Till’s casket sparked protest at the Whitney Biennial
News
North Korean art goes on show at the United Nations—in defiance of Kim Jong-un
Four artists submitted works in secret for the international art exhibition
News Obituaries
Former V&A director Martin Roth has died aged 62
After heading museums in Britain and Germany, he became more politically engaged
News Seattle Art Fair
Seattle Art Fair solidifies standing in year three
Event adds blue-chip galleries and international flavour to attract national as well as regional collectors
News
Abramovic and Ulay reunite at Louisiana Museum
Performance artists tell Louisiana Channel that they are friends again after epic break-up on Great Wall of China
News
Artlogic announces formal expansion in the US
Marian Goodman, Gagosian and Paul Kasmin among galleries to join the London-based technology firm
News
Works by Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker to be shown for the first time in Saudi Arabia
British Council exhibition organised by six emerging Saudi women curators breaks new ground
News
Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon
The media production arm of the online retailer giant plans to release the documentary theatrically this autumn and stream it online
News
Anglo(art)phile Hilton Als to organise series of contemporary shows at the Yale Center for British Art
American author and critic has chosen painters Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Peter Doig for successive solo exhibitions starting next year
News Antiquities & Archaeology
Little Pompeii of Vienne is 'most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years'
Ancient settlement was discovered south of Lyon during construction of four apartment blocks
News Biennials & festivals
City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry
Inaugural Venice Glass Week will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium
News Exhibitions
Lost Keith Vaughan photographs go on show in London, capturing illicit love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal
Images, to be shown at Austin Desmond Fine Art, depict British artist with group of male friends on holiday at Pagham Beach in West Sussex
News
UK artist Alex Chinneck tears apart London building facade with new public work
Permanent wall piece is made from more than 4,000 bricks
News
Gold breastplate given to the Queen is unveiled at Buckingham Palace
Pre-Columbian treasure, presented by Panamanian president in 1953, could date from as early as AD700
Comment Artists
Why taking down Sam Durant’s Scaffold was the right thing to do
The director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis defends the decision to let the Dakota people claim the controversial sculpture
Olga Viso