Latest
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art Basel Hong Kong announces new section dedicated to work made in past five years
The fair has also made a historic curatorial announcement
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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 | Exhibitions comparing artists can be problematic, but the Barbican brings Giacometti, Bhabha and Hatoum together with perfect judgement
Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue
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?
Diary
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












































