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The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again
With attractions by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Delaunay, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and others, the resurrected Luna Luna opens in Los Angeles this month
Artists, writers and cultural workers sign open letters criticising Art Gallery of Ontario over departure of Indigenous art curator
Wanda Nanibush's departure has been linked to a leaked letter accusing her of “posting inflammatory, inaccurate rants against Israel”
Influential French curator Vincent Honoré, who put on shows at Tate Modern and Palais de Tokyo, has died
Art world figures including Nicolas Bourriaud pay tribute
'The Charlie Chaplin of street photography': Elliott Erwitt remembered by those who knew him best
Martin Parr and Magnum colleagues remember the renowned American street photographer, who has died at age 95
Long-unseen royal portrait by Diego Velázquez could bring $35m at auction
The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's
Art market
Frieze Los Angeles will feature 20% fewer galleries in 2024 than previous edition
The fair's organisers are scaling back and gathering all exhibitors under one roof for their next outing at Santa Monica Airport
Caspar David Friedrich sketchbook to be sold in Berlin proposed for national heritage list
The auction house, Grisebach, says the sketchbook’s candidacy for the list will not affect plans for today’s sale
Emalin gallery doubles down on east London, opening second Shoreditch location
The new space will be located in an 18th-century building that is among the neighbourhood’s oldest
White Cube will represent Lynne Drexler's archive outside the US
The market for the American painter exploded last year, more than two decades after her death
Works by Canadian abstractionist Jean-Paul Riopelle rack up $8m at Heffel’s evening sale in Toronto
The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total
Museums & Heritage
Philadelphia museum returns 16th-century manuscript to Peru
Federal investigators found that the six-page manuscript at the Rosenbach Museum and Library had been illegally removed from a larger volume
Waddesdon Manor’s elephant swings its trunk once more
Restored to its former glory, the 200kg automaton is now on show at the Buckingham mansion
Which heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed in Gaza?
Plus, the life and work of the pioneering Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and a revealing manuscript by Paul Gauguin
Works from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s collection will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum
The couple will also donate select (as yet unspecified) pieces from their personal holdings to the museum
German authorities repatriate 75 ancient artefacts to Mexico
All but one of the items were voluntarily handed over by the Museum Schloss Salder in Salzgitter
Exhibitions
A new survey of the Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray lets her community tell the story
The exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia singles the artist out as one of the great painters of the late 20th century
Dublin show looks at the links between the making of nations and rise of Modernism
Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art draws parallels between the geopolitical shifts after the First World War and what the artists of new nations were making
Ethiopian culture explored with Medieval icons, Haile Selassie’s cloak and scratch-and-sniff cards
An exhibition at the Walters Art Museum spanning two millennia looks to open our eyes to the splendour of an intercontinental cultural hub
An Elisabeth Frink survey at the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery is the latest to have been prompted by the distribution of her estate
A dozen museums throughout the UK have received works by the artist, who died in 1993
Category-shredding exhibition of African art and artefacts looks at new ways of addressing colonialism
Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery is presenting highlights from its collection alongside work by contemporary artists
Obituaries
Henry Kissinger, symbol of American global power and subject of artistic satire, has died, aged 100
Kissinger, one of the most photographed men of his time, with an instantly recognisable pair of spectacles, was a powerful graphic gift to artists including Philip Guston
Radcliffe Bailey, an artist who explored the Black American experience across materials and forms, has died, aged 55
Known for toggling between works rooted in painting and more sprawling sculptures and installations, he was always concerned with the histories of objects and materials
Robert Irwin, pioneering creator of light and experiential art, has died, aged 95
Irwin explored human perception with his installations as well as the spaces he designed for institutions such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles
Remembering Park Seo-Bo, the ‘Father of Korean Contemporary Art’
A leading figure in the Dansaekhwa movement, he had a profound influence on the teaching of painting and the administration of art studies
Hamburg art collector and patron Harald Falckenberg dies aged 80
Falckenberg, one of Germany’s most important private art collectors, once said he was drawn to “outsiders and freaks"
The Week in Art
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Books
The visual thrill of the legendary filmmakers Powell and Pressburger
A rich exploration of the artistry of the film-making duo, founders of the Archers production company, who directed some of the most influential films in the history of cinema, from “A Matter of Life and Death” to “The Red Shoes”
Israel-Hamas war
Candice Breitz exhibition in Germany is cancelled over her Middle East views
The artist says the “level of German self-righteousness is beyond absurd”
Bombing of Gaza has damaged or destroyed more than 100 heritage sites, NGO report reveals
A Byzantine church and a seventh-century mosque are believed to have been obliterated, while scores of other cultural landmarks have been affected
Archaeologists in Israel join effort to identify victims of Hamas attacks
First-of-its-kind operation has seen experts continue the grim search at a forensic level
Israeli gallery destroyed by Hamas finds new homes
Be’eri Gallery was burned during the 7 October attack, but displays in Jerusalem and beyond are carrying its legacy
‘It’s important to me to show what happened’: the Israeli artist drawing the traumatic events of 7 October
In the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Kyiv-born, Tel Aviv-based artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi made drawings depicting victims and hostages
Diary
Sign of the times—artist Nan Goldin is no. 1 in the Art Review Power 100 List
The annual ranking of the art world crème de la crème is dominated by artists
Rachel Whiteread’s Christmas tree lights up Mayfair
Turner prizewinner’s festive work stands outside the plush hotel, The Connaught
‘It’s Robbie’—Banksy (apparently) reveals first name in 2003 BBC interview
Chat during Turf War show also touches on ‘microwave meal’ art—and Charles Saatchi
Tim Burton exhibition in London brings Edward Scissorhands and Batman to life
Film director's ghoulish illustrations and paintings to go on show at the Design Museum
Technology
News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.
Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertips
Digital art platform Kinfolk has launched a four-artist exhibition that is available to view at designated sites through their application
Mail art meets NFTs for all in the ‘MoMA Postcard’ programme
New York museum invites online audience to make and own non-fungible tokens communally on the blockchain in 15-person groups
Can AI unlock the ancient Herculaneum scrolls?
Plus, the appointment of the new Venice Biennale president sparks a political row, and a tender portrait by Dorothea Lange
Artist and AI pioneers use DeepDream to create ‘hallucinatory’ depictions of landscapes by Capability Brown
Daniel Ambrosi used Google's AI to reimagine high-res photographs of parkland designed by the 18th-century landscape architect
Can digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
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.
Gauguin’s shocking claim: Van Gogh painted the Sunflowers 'following my advice'
The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death
Book Club
Paper, politics and poetry: why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look
British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists
How Claude Monet battled his own temperament and why the women in his life were ‘fundamental’ to his art
The art critic Jackie Wullschläger’s talks to us about her new book, the first major biography of the French Impressionist written in English
An expert’s guide to Lee Miller: five must-read books on the American photographer
All you ever wanted to know about Miller, from a biography and collection of love letters to a book of her recipes—selected by the curator Martin Pel
November book bag: from a collection of ‘weird’ Medieval art to a publication detailing Hokusai’s obsession with Mount Fuji
Our roundup of the latest art publications