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Conquistador letter found

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:00 GMT

One of the oldest letters sent to the New World, dated 15 October 1522, has been found in the State Archive in Naples after disappearing for more than a century. The document carries the “Yo el Rey” signature belonging to Charles V, the head of the...

The battle for Egypt’s ancient Roman site, Antinopolis

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:46:00 GMT

Leading archaeologists have denounced the poor state of conservation of the Roman remains at Antinopolis in Egypt, the city built by the emperor Hadrian, who ruled Rome from 117AD to 138AD. The revolution that swept through the country in 2011 and...

Paddle8 moves to buy stake in Artnet

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:13:00 GMT

The online auction house, Paddle8, is acquiring an option to purchase a stake in Artnet, the online auction data provider and auctioneer. The stake, approximately 3%, currently belongs to Redline Capital Management, which attempted a takeover of...

Lawsuit raises questions about Warhol authentication process

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:08:00 GMT

An exposé published this week in the New York Review of Books (NYRB) sheds intriguing new light on the authentication processes applied to works by Andy Warhol. The article focuses on a lawsuit that began in April 2010, more than a year...

Martin Creed gets Freudian

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:14:00 GMT

Martin Creed’s sparse conceptualism is not an obvious candidate for psychoanalytical readings but, as part of the UK-wide Museums at Night festival, the maverick artist appeared at the Freud Museum in London on 16 May and turned a 100-strong...

European paintings get (back) the space they deserve

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:00 GMT

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s galleries for European paintings made between 1250 and 1800 open to the public on 23 May, visitors will experience a collection transformed and refreshed, the result of two years of expansion and rethinking....

Met’s Old Masters galleries reopen

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:59:00 GMT

Interpol targets Qaddafi family treasures

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:00 GMT

The UK government has confirmed that art is likely to be among the items seized as part of a drive to recover billions of dollars worth of assets siphoned off by the Qaddafi family during four decades in power. A number of initiatives have recently...

Audio archive breaks silence on Sehgal

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:17:00 GMT

Tino Sehgal’s ban on any documentation of his work is well known by now. No photography is allowed at his exhibitions, the artist—shortlisted for Tate's Turner Prize this year—explains how to create his ephemeral works verbally to performers and...

When art fought the Cold War

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:11:00 GMT

In the 1990s, a long held suspicion was confirmed: the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent Abstract Expressionism and other forms of American art and music abroad in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a propaganda campaign to assert American...