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In 1950s New York, three single mothers bought a house together and turned it into a thriving art studio

The new documentary "Artists in Residence" tells the remarkable story of the lives and work of Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid and Louise Kruger

Susan Morrisabout 7 hours ago

Heffel’s autumn sales, including auction of art from collection of Canada’s oldest company, tally $22.1m

Across the day’s four sales in Toronto, the auction house set new secondary-market records for 16 artists’ work

Larry Humberabout 9 hours ago

New York gallery Sperone Westwater to close after 50 years amid lawsuit between co-founders

The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December

Torey Akersabout 4 hours ago

British Museum stubs out controversial tobacco sponsorship deal

The move follows a recent report which described the partnership as a key part of the tobacco firm’s lobbying strategy

Gareth Harrisabout 16 hours ago

Art market bounce back continues in New York with Christie's $123.5m 21st-century sale

Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis

Judd Tullyabout 18 hours ago

Art market

Record $236.3m Klimt leads Sotheby’s first night of auctions in Breuer Building

The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder

Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan's $12.1m gold toilet is Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

The US oddity emporium and tourist attraction franchise is “flush with excitement”, according to a statement

Kicking off New York November sales, Christie's nets healthy $690m from double-header 20th-century auction

The house's total is up 42% from last year's equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney

Print dealers' association expands to include gallerists specialised in drawings

Members of the IFPDA "overwhelmingly voted in favour" of the shift, the first major change to the association’s bylaws in decades

Museums & Heritage

Collector of Beeple’s $69.3 million NFT work launches space in Singapore

Vignesh Sundaresan, who purchased Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, has unveiled Padimai Art & Tech Studio—which opens with an exhibition made in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson

Lisa Moviusabout 17 hours ago

Rijksmuseum to host study exploring potential benefits of art for people with Parkinson’s

A leading neurologist is working with the Amsterdam museum to see if making or encountering art can help ease symptoms of the degenerative disease

Senay Boztas1 day ago

Louvre closes gallery ‘until further notice’ citing structural problems

This latest blow for the Paris museum follows a report on its buildings which highlighted “particular fragility” in its Campana Gallery

Gareth Harris1 day ago

Metropolitan Museum workers launch unionising effort

The new organising effort, with the Local 2110 chapter of the United Auto Workers, would create a union representing around 1,000 employees

Climate report from Getty’s PST Art programme urges cultural organisations to confront exhibitions’ impacts

The report is a significant step toward addressing the environmental sustainability of art world activities

Exhibitions

William Nicholson, often overlooked in favour of his more famous son, is coming out of the shadows

Head of a family of artists including the more famous Ben, a Pallant House Gallery exhibition shows this father is ripe for reassessment

James Beecheyabout 19 hours ago

Live conservation reveals hidden surprises of unfinished Spencer painting

“Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta” is the centre piece of a new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, where the artist spent most of his life

An eerie Renaissance masterpiece, fresh from a four-year restoration process, goes on show in Berlin

Ambiguity and subtlety have returned to the Carpaccio work, following the removal of grime and old varnish

J.S. Marcus1 day ago

In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice

A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”

‘Mona Lisa of illuminated manuscripts’ goes on show in Rome

The bible, which is considered a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance art, is on display as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations

Saudi Arabia's Cultural Development Fund

Turning passion and pride into success

Saudi Arabia’s first Nama’ Accelerators – Handicrafts track has helped local artisans develop and grow their businesses, tapping into a new worldwide appreciation of traditional crafts

In partnership with Cultural Development Fund

Abu Dhabi Art

Seeing beyond: Issam Kourbaj on mentoring three young artists for Abu Dhabi Art

New works by Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum and Alla Abdunabi will go on show at the fair and in the city of Al Ain, before touring the world

In partnership with Abu Dhabi Art

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Studio Museum reopens, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer in Suffolk—podcast

Editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, takes a trip to Harlem, digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses Egypt's newest museum and Ben Luke meets a curator of “Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk”

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with… Peter Doig—podcast

Peter Doig talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
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Adventures with Van Gogh

Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.

Van Gogh’s ‘Sower’ will soon go on sale at Sotheby's—where it's set to make record price

Owned by the cosmetics king Leonard Lauder, the work could become the most expensive Van Gogh drawing ever sold

Book reviews

Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander navigates her country’s complex past—a new monograph tells her story

An art historian’s book on the Lahore-born artist does justice to both her beautiful paintings and the history that informs them

The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brief but dazzling life, as told by an art-world insider

A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death

How the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti spoke truth to power

A new book explores Siena's heyday—the good, the bad and the sceptical

New book highlights Vorticism’s toxic side—and puts its women pioneers back in the frame

James King’s study places Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders at the centre of the movement

Martin Parr steps out from behind the camera lens in informal autobiography

An intimate and chatty biography gives the artist space to reflect on his career in photography and the practice’s evolution

Opinion

Comment | Want to truly read a painting? Forget the present, and focus on the past

To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor

Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient

The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives

Comment | A spate of dealer anniversaries offers hope amid art market doomerism

Several New York galleries have hit major milestones in recent months—what lessons can those in charge impart?

Comment | Museums can't get enough of anniversary exhibitions—but surely there's better ways to serve the public

This year museums are falling over themselves to celebrate Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But, asks Julia Halperin, who is it really all for?

No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign

Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach

Francis Bacon’s Paris pad honoured with plaque

The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s

Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month

Obituaries

Carla Stellweg, influential critic, gallerist and scholar of Latin American art, has died, aged 83

The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator

Tony Fitzpatrick, indefatigable artistic polymath from Chicago, has died, aged 66

A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more

Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87

In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives

Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98

Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire

Remembering Robert Redford, the Hollywood star with the sensibility of a struggling painter

Redford, an Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of the Sundance Institute, died yesterday at his home in Utah

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