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Putin demands ramping-up of cultural hub in annexed Crimea
State Hermitage Museum and Tretyakov are involved in arts centre in contested region
NewsBienal de Sao Paolo 2018
Little known Modern artists struggling with mental health find a place in the Sao Paulo biennial
Swedish artist Mamma Andersson brings marginalised practitioners, including Chicago recluse Henry Darger, to the fore
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Dealer Mary Boone pleads guilty to $1.6m in tax fraud
The art dealer will pay $3m in restitution to the IRS after falsifying returns to hide her use of gallery profits to upgrade her Manhattan home
NewsRestitution
Sweden's Moderna Museet returns Kokoschka work to Jewish dealer's heirs
The 1910 portrait of a marquis was sold by Alfred Flechtheim’s employee after the dealer fled Nazi Germany
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Laganja Estranja sashays into Pamm
Ansel Adams's wartime women
Met’s Heavenly Bodies show reaches sky-high visitor figures
Philippe Parreno lined up for Gehry’s tower in Luma Arles
New bill shows Aretha Franklin bi-partisan respect
PreviewExhibitions
How video games grew up and became a major cultural force
Victoria and Albert Museum show promises an in-depth exploration of gaming design and culture
Latest in Comment
National Portrait Gallery’s contemporary art programme resonates more with the art world than the public
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Why arts journalism matters: because art matters
Traffic believes the US and UK ivory sale bans are ‘vital elements in the international response’ to poaching
Returning looted African art is as urgent as giving back works stolen by the Nazis
PreviewExhibitions
Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary takes over Venice
The “avant-garde superstar” of the Renaissance is celebrated in his home city before works make rare trip to the US
AnalysisArt market
Rolling with the punches: how the art market bounced back
In 2008, Damien Hirst sold £111m of art as Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a financial crisis. A decade on, what has changed?
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Massive fire devastates the National Museum of Brazil
Budget cuts and negligence blamed for the blaze
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Art Basel introduces new booth pricing structure to subsidise younger galleries
Dealers say it is a ‘step in the right direction’ but acknowledge there is a long way to go to redress the balance
FeatureSalvator Mundi
Salvator Mundi: Why Bernardino Luini should be back in the frame
The Art Newspaper invites Matthew Landrus to expand on his theory on attribution to Leonardo and studio
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
'A deeper source of truth than appearances': Antony Gormley on Joseph Beuys
Michelangelo: The Art Newspaper's editor talks about a British treasure
NewsAppointments
Palestinian Museum appoints Adila Laïdi-Hanieh as director after surprise departure of previous head
The writer and academic replaces Mahmoud Hawari who was only in post two years
NewsArt market
Sale of $100m collection will make David Teiger’s contemporary art foundation one of the world's largest
American collector's works, from Doig to decoy ducks, are to be offered across ten sales at Sotheby’s over the next eight months
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Swiss prosecutor returns 'Mesopotamian' terracotta animal made by dealer's 11-year-old-daughter—along with 5,000 seized antiquities
A further 6,000 items belonging to Ali Aboutaam of Phoenix Ancient Art are still held by authorities in Geneva
NewsExhibitions
Sweet on Europe: Ulla von Brandenburg to re-stage exhibition of European confectionery, 45 years on
Show at Whitechapel Gallery in London was held in 1973 to mark the UK's entry to the common market
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
The revealing story of the painting that inspired Julian Schnabel’s new Van Gogh film
Vincent painted At Eternity’s Gate, the title of the film premiering in Venice, when he was at the asylum
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Victoria and Albert Museum brings Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks to life online
New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: expert uncovers ‘exciting’ new evidence
Did Louvre Abu Dhabi’s $450m painting belong to an English nobleman who followed Charles I to the scaffold in 1649?
NewsExhibitions
Art made from Isis bullet hole damage goes on show for first joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
Piers Secunda’s exhibition on destroyed ancient Assyrian objects is part of ongoing attempts to bring peace to a divided region
NewsArchitecture
Renzo Piano designs replacement for collapsed Genoa bridge
Since the Morandi tragedy, architect "can’t think of anything else but that bridge"
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Berlin to get replica wall with visa controls in giant art installation on Soviet era
Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky teams up with Brian Eno, Marina Abramovic, Massive Attack for project called DAU
NewsAttendance
London's National Portrait Gallery's steep decline in visitors due to counting error
“Human error” by Ipsos Retail Performance blamed for museum’s disastrous recent visitor numbers
NewsContemporary art
Mining the lessons of African American history
With a grant from the Art for Justice Fund, Xaviera Simmons draws inspiration from Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations series
NewsSocial history
Canada struggles with monuments tied to colonialism
Echoing a conflict in the US, the nation contends with calls to remove controversial memorials
CommentSocial history
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Matthew Sears is professor of classics and ancient history, University of New Brunswick
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Pierced hearts, unicorn horns and a bottled witch: Oxford show investigates the history of magic and witchcraft
Around 180 objects at the Ashmolean Museum reveal how humans have embraced the occult over the past eight centuries
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Starry Night is held by Russian government
Van Gogh drawing had been folded in half in 1945 to fit inside a suitcase
NewsArt market
Asher Edelman’s art lending company Artemus sues Paul Kasmin gallery over ‘false invoices’ in sale of Frank Stella painting
The gallery says it has been “pulled into a dispute regarding a transaction in which it was not involved”
NewsConservation
Syria's Palmyra to be ready for tourists by summer 2019 as cost to rebuild Homs reaches $2bn
Authorities says they have received "good offers from the world powers" to help conserve ancient sites
InterviewArt history
Reliving the dawn of Modernism in India
An art historian explores the importance of the pathbreaking Progressive Artists’ Group, the focus of an exhibition opening at Asia Society
NewsBiennials & festivals
Ecuador's Cuenca Biennial organisers fret over budget shortfall
A federal allotment of $100,000, far less than in past years, has yet to be disbursed
NewsArt market
Sticking the knife into the patriarchy: Artemisia Gentileschi painting to be sold for the first time in Vienna
The female Italian Baroque artist's depiction of Lucretia is thought to have been in European collection since the 19th century
NewsPerformance art
Berlin Wall may be resurrected—and then demolished—as part of anniversary of reunification
Organisers of the culture festival Berliner Festspiele are in talks with city authorities and are yet to confirm the event
NewsExhibitions
Artists and projects announced for first Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires
September event marks end of first year of the initiative overseen by Cecilia Alemani, the director of High Line Art, New York
NewsExhibitions
From the rise of the Colourists to refugees in Scottish art: the Fleming Collection at 50
Two exhibitions in Scotland celebrate the collection’s birthday
NewsPublic art
Jeremy Deller to unveil plans for Manchester's Peterloo Massacre memorial in October
Designs and location of statue for bicentenary of "turning point in UK democracy" will be put to public consultation
NewsExhibitions
Is major survey of conceptual art pioneer Hassan Sharif heading to New York's Guggenheim?
Sharjah Art Foundation’s blockbuster retrospective of the late artist is already confirmed for venues in Germany and Italy
NewsAnish Kapoor
Man hospitalised after falling in Anish Kapoor installation
The work at the Serralves museum, which includes a gaping hole, is part of the artist's first institutional show in Portugal
ReviewAbstract art
What debt does mid-century American abstract painting owe to Monet?
Exhibition in Paris attempts to draw connections between the Impressionist and Pollock, Rothko and friends—with mixed results
NewsExhibitions
Tate's Ophelia heads down under for blockbuster Pre-Raphaelite show in Canberra
Australia deepen ties with the London museum as trove of masterpieces travels to the National Gallery of Australia for first time
ReviewDonald Judd
Settling into Donald Judd’s demanding furniture
A show at SFMoMA reminds a critic of his past experience with Judd and his creations
NewsPublic art
Frieze sculpture piece marks sixth anniversary of South African mining massacre
Haroon Gunn-Salie’s installation of 17 headless men represents victims of Marikana shootings
NewsVenice Biennale
Martin Puryear to represent US at Venice Biennale
The Madison Square Park Conservancy will organise the installation for the US pavilion
NewsPublic art
Anger over plans to 'banish' suffragette statue from Parliament to remote Regent’s Park site
Proposal to move Emmeline Pankhurst sculpture comes months after new Millicent Fawcett work was unveiled to celebrate centenary of female suffrage
NewsArchitecture
'This was no accident', says architect Renzo Piano about Genoa bridge collapse
Italy lacks effective site diagnosis, he tells Italian newspaper La Repubblica
NewsCommercial galleries
Artist withdraws work from gallery group show inspired by Peter Sellers brownface film
An op-ed criticising the exhibition for its dismissal of the movie's racist overtones has prompted some reflection
BlogIn the frame
Letting it all hang out: exhibitions in Paris and London focus on suspended sculpture
BlogLinda on the loose
An Outsize Dose of Gilbert & George
Grandiosity runs wild in the duo's vast retrospective at Luma Arles.
NewsBuilding projects
Tadao Ando designs Chicago art space dedicated to architecture and socially engaged work
The inaugural show at Wrightwood 659 will focus on Ando and Le Corbusier
NewsMarina Abramovic
‘We’re all in the same boat’: Marina Abramovic poster angers Italian right-wing politician
Trieste deputy mayor Paolo Polidori calls image commissioned for sailing regatta “political propaganda”
NewsPublic art
How a chain-link mosque at the Vancouver Biennale became a community hub
Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem's installation stands as an example of cultural exchange as diplomatic tensions break out between Canada and Saudi Arabia
NewsOld Masters
Heading home: early Rubens masterpiece returns to the artist's Antwerp studio for the first time
The work, lent by Art Gallery of Ontario ahead of a major travelling show on the artist, will undergo research at the Rubenshuis
NewsArt market
Sotheby’s in deal to sell estate of hip-hop pioneer and graffiti artist Rammellzee
Auction house is enlisting dealers and curators to promote the legacy of the polymath who is believed to have cursed his collection
CommentNational Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery’s contemporary art programme resonates more with the art world than the public
Though not as dire as first thought, visitor figures for the museum's contemporary shows have still been poor
Ben Luke