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Antoni Tàpies, 1923-2012

The Spanish abstract painter, died on Monday in Barcelona, aged 88 (Antoni Tàpies in his studio) Published online: 07 February 2012
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Mike Kelley, 1954-2012

The 57-year-old Los Angeles artist was found dead in his home of an apparent suicide

Published online: 07 February 2012

Artist interview: Accumulating the uncanny

The Californian post-conceptualist Mike Kelley played the role of artist, curator and collector in his 2004 Tate Liverpool show. We republish an interview with the artist following the news of his death in February

Published online: 07 February 2012

Uruguay gets its first biennale

The event is timed to take place during São Paulo’s international exhibition

Published online: 06 February 2012

Sanford Biggers’s futuristic vision at Mass MoCA

The artist relates his own personal connections to the “afrofuturism” movement in a multi-disciplinary installation

Published online: 06 February 2012

Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado

Experts say the painting was completed at the same time as Leonardo’s original

Published online: 01 February 2012

Photography trade associations weigh in on Cariou versus Prince case

Representatives of image licensing giants Corbis and Getty file friend-of-court-briefs in favour of Cariou

Published online: 01 February 2012

Mirza’s cultural politics book pulped after row over Tate cover image

London mayor’s adviser says publishers will reprint without photograph of young child

Published online: 01 February 2012

Charging to see the stars

Visitor numbers plummet at the Royal Observatory

Published online: 01 February 2012

Ten years of free entry, but can it last?

Why the political gain in the United Kingdom outweighs the economic cost

Published online: 01 February 2012

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition could mark a turning point for Leonardo scholars

Let us move the debate about restoration, which is tied up with questions of scientific analysis, on to a less fevered basis

Published online: 01 February 2012

Why the Kunsthistorisches Museum can’t afford to abolish entrance fees

With over 1.1 million annual visitors we raise between €6m and €7m from entrance fees or around 19% of the total budget

Published online: 01 February 2012

Italian football club sponsors Old Masters show

An exhibition of works from the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein is backed by a premier league team, but funding amounts have not been revealed

Published online: 31 January 2012

Icom drops Turkish committee

An independent body is due to take its place

Published online: 31 January 2012

India Art Fair looks poised to join the big league

Despite slow sales and some lacklustre local exhibitors, the event is ready to grow with the country’s developing collector base

Published online: 31 January 2012

Bungled attempts at bagging a Banksy

Australians make bad art thieves, if an advertising stunt by The Art Series Hotels in Melbourne is any guide. As reported by In the Frame last month, the boutique hotel chain encouraged visitors to steal a work by Banksy from its walls. If anyone succeeded in pinching the work, No Ball Games, they >>>

Let us move the debate about restoration, which is tied up with questions of scientific analysis, on to a less fevered basis

Martin Kemp: The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition could mark a turning point for Leonardo scholars

In Search of Hirst’s Spots

Over the next six weeks, Cristina Ruiz, our editor-at-large, has taken up the challenge to try to visit all 11 Gagosian galleries showing Damien Hirst’s spot paintings. Follow her as she blogs about her travels here.

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Turin-born Francesco Manacorda is to be the artistic director of Tate Liverpool. He will be... >>>

Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima will curate the first Istanbul Design Biennial, which is... >>>

Dreams of Nature: Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky, from Friday, 24 February in Amsterdam

amsterdam. Landscape is perhaps the most under-appreciated aspect of the symbolist movement, says Nienke Bakker, a curator at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the project leader of this exhibition, which aims to show how symbolists often used landscape “as a metaphor for mood and feeling”....

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