NewsVincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh's Sunflowers will leave London for over a year as Australian show is added to loan tour
Masterpiece from London's National Gallery is headed for Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia
NewsDonald Trump
Trump awards National Medal of Arts for the first time since taking office
But not a single visual artist is on the list of honourees, which were reportedly chosen without regard to the nominating council's recommendations
NewsRestitution
Dr Oetker returns painting to heirs of Jewish tobacco dealer murdered by the Nazis
Leo Bendel was killed at Buchenwald three years after he sold the painting by Carl Spitzweg to fund his escape from Nazi Germany
NewsArt market
At $6.8m, Picasso hits the high mark at Toronto sale
Portrait of Dora Maar eclipses other auction offerings at Heffel
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Jockum Nordström's childlike collages to Leo Villareal's mesmerising light displays
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre
This once in a lifetime retrospective has a freshness and coherence which appeals to public and scholar alike
Podcast
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
We take a tour of the Dora Maar show at London's Tate Modern, where the artist is finally getting her due, and talk to US artist Jann Haworth about her retrospective at Pallant House Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
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Anselm Kiefer on why size matters
Hammer Time: Sotheby's picks up the pace during a sluggish art week with $270.7m contemporary art sale
Hammer Time: records set but reserves remain low at Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale
Hammer Time: consistency and caution are key at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern evening sale
Hammer Time: Christie's Impressionist and Modern evening sale November 2019
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
How London’s Kew Gardens connects Van Gogh and Gauguin—and the monster flower that caught the latter's imagination
In Tahiti, years later, Gauguin recalled the Corpse Flower which stinks of rotting flesh
NewsArt market
'Challenging' art market hits Momart's revenue
Art logistics firm's results are down due to "Brexit related and global uncertainty", sharply reducing activity among commercial galleries and auction houses
BlogDiary
Jonathan Trayte’s playful sculptural oasis unveiled in the City of London
AnalysisArt market
Randomness rules New York's $42m American art sales
Small works won out at Sotheby's and Christie's as top lots went for their low estimates or were withdrawn
BlogDiary
Photography show reveals the many artistic faces of John Malkovich
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Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US
From 'piecemealing' medievalist to TV darling: how Janina Ramirez is championing slow media about culture
NewsConservation & Preservation
Scientists uncover a secret to rock art’s durability
Ancient artisans in British Columbia heated ochre “gunk” to high temperatures to achieve a vivid and long-lasting red
BlogThe Buck stopped here
House of Voltaire's naked Christmas tree brings new meaning to a 'festive bush'
NewsArtists
Former factory in Iraqi Kurdistan stirs hope for cultural tourism
From studio spaces to museums, a future complex holds the promise of galvanising artists
NewsCommercial galleries
Cheap rents and larger spaces: Barcelona suburb tries to entice dealers out of the city
Some galleries have moved to the industrial warehouse L’Hospitalet but others say it is too far out of the commercial centre
NewsUK politics
Jeremy Corbyn promises £1bn culture fund in Labour Party election manifesto
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats commit to stopping Brexit and protecting arts funding through the National Lottery
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Nan Goldin brings her empathy and activism to London
NewsRepatriation
'A major step forward for Britain’s colonial museums': Manchester Museum returns objects to Indigenous Australians
Move might pave the way for repatriation of sacred artefacts from other UK institutions
NewsExhibitions
Permanent Documenta exhibition opens at Kassel’s Neue Galerie
The show includes insights into preparations by the Indonesian art cooperative Ruangrupa for the 2022 edition
NewsArt market
Marina Abramovic’s The Life to become first mixed reality work ever auctioned
Christie’s will sell the piece with a £600,000 price tag next October to coincide with artist’s Royal Academy retrospective
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Chloë Bass’s show at The Studio Museum in Harlem to Yasiin Bey’s multimedia exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
NewsDonald Trump
Gordon Sondland: art collector, museum patron, European diplomat — and the man who might get Donald Trump impeached
The hotel magnate, who owns an estimated $25m art collection, testified today in Congress that there was a quid pro quo between Trump and the president of Ukraine over investigations involving his political rival
PreviewArt fairs
After years of debt and disaster, Puerto Rico’s Meca art fair offers economic boon
Opening this week in San Juan, the third edition of the event hopes to help the region on the road to recovery
NewsBooks
Missing Leonardo link: writer discovers that Da Vinci's anatomy drawings were owned by Charles II
New book hopes research of papers belonging to the king's physician will lead to further "eureka" moments
ReviewExhibitions
London exhibition examines 'tragic absurdity' at the Korean border
Group show at Korean Cultural Centre UK combines photography, installations and archival material to explore one of the world's most heavily militarised zones
NewsArt fairs
Collector and patron Kamiar Maleki appointed director of Volta and Pulse art fairs
The two events have recently come under the same ownership although there are no plans to merge them—yet
NewsSponsorship
Protestors disrupt VIP preview of British Museum's Troy exhibition
Members of the climate activist group BP or not BP? blocked entry to the museum's show dressed as statues based on Greek mythology
NewsTariffs
'A giant wall': art world feels the pinch of Trump’s 25% import duty on printed works
Collectors and artists are scrambling to find solutions to the US government’s penalty tariffs
NewsArt law
French court upholds suspended sentence for Picasso's former electrician
Pierre Le Guennec and his wife Danièle hoarded 271 works for 40 years
NewsChina
German art worth €300m disappears in China, media reports
Collector Maria Chen-Tu says she had loaned works by Markus Lüpertz and Anselm Kiefer to a businessman to be shown in museums
AnalysisAuctions
New York's autumn sales were subdued but not necessarily septic
Overall sales were down by around 30% but beyond the disappointing headline figures, women and minority artists shone
NewsPrizes
Shortlist for Hugo Boss Prize is announced
Whoever wins will receive $100,000, an exhibition at the Guggenheim, and a stamp of approval from one of the world's most prestigious awards
CommentPrivate Museums
The Marciano masquerade is exposed
The art foundation, which has closed its doors, was never more than the shell of a museum
BlogLinda on the loose
Get your rah-rahs out: Paul Pfeiffer marches to a political tune at the Apollo
ReviewArt fairs
Still very much a local (af)fair: Art Düsseldorf's Asian promise is yet to come to fruition
Strong German collector base attracts European and US galleries but the the influx of international dealers and visitors is only a trickle
NewsExhibitions
Terra Foundation plans 2024 sequel to Art Design Chicago
Yearlong 2018 effort drew 2.5 million people and brought attention to overlooked artists
NewsBanksy
Banksy’s The Drinker withdrawn from Sotheby’s sale after rival artist claims ownership
Sculpture—estimated at £1m—was removed from the street by Andy Link in 2004 but later “liberated” from his East End garden
NewsMuseums
German parliament approves institute for photographic legacy based in Dusseldorf
Government says institute is necessary to address “considerable backlog in securing the visual memory of our society”
NewsCensorship
Beijing officials deny permit for show of Chinese-American artist amid political tensions
Exhibition of Hung Liu at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art has been censored by the government at the last minute
PreviewExhibitions
Troy meets world: London show reconciles myth and reality of ancient city
British Museum exhibition will display work inspired by epic stories alongside artefacts from 19th-century archaeological excavations
CommentMusic
What Kanye West got wrong so far in his Nebuchadnezzar opera
The image used in Ye's tweet is actually thought to depict Darius the Great. But why celebrate Nebuchadnezzar anyway?
CommentHong Kong
'The future of Hong Kong is already set': Ai Weiwei responds to escalating violence against democracy protesters
In Hong Kong, university campuses have become literal battlegrounds in the protracted clash between police and protesters over the region’s future
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New Hampshire museum acquires a rare house by Frank Lloyd Wright
The 1957 home, the Currier Museum of Art's second Wright dwelling, is built in the “Usonian Automatic” style, with rectangular concrete blocks
NewsRestitution
France returns a historic sword to Senegal
The gesture is intended as a symbol of France’s commitment to repatriating African heritage
NewsMonnaie de Paris
Monnaie de Paris venue cancels its contemporary art programme
Show dedicated to Kiki Smith will be last exhibition at the historic Paris Mint due to low visitor numbers
NewsBanksy
Artist who ‘kidnapped’ Banksy's The Drinker claims ownership ahead of Sotheby's sale
Andy Link says sculpture for which he demanded £5,000 in ransom was later stolen from him. Banksy’s former dealer says otherwise
NewsLoans
Titian’s six epic mythological paintings to be reunited as Wallace Collection announces first ever loans
National Gallery in London will display the series next year and lend a Rubens work in return
NewsPolitics
What is art for? Why, to help sell arms, silly!
October saw full deployment of culture in Russian and French political and commercial diplomacy with Saudi Arabia
NewsPublic art
A stampede of one: plans to move lower Manhattan’s Charging Bull sculpture raises furore
The artist and city officials are at odds over the famous work’s removal from the heavily trafficked site it has occupied for 30 years
NewsPrizes
Stephanie Comilang claims Canada’s Sobey Art Award
The Toronto- and Berlin-based artist expressed relief after winning C$100,000 contemporary art prize: "I don’t have to worry financially now"
NewsSackler family
Nan Goldin brings first PAIN protest to the UK, storming the Victoria and Albert Museum
Demonstrators demand that V&A director Tristram Hunt drops Sackler name
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Cirque du Soleil co-founder Guy Laliberté’s immersive, multi-media art pyramid will not come to Miami
PY1's laser and acrobatics filled show promised to be a trip "through space and time" but was a box office disappointment during its premiere in Montreal this summer
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
The French general’s advice to Notre Dame's chief architect: ‘Just shut up!’
A public spat between officials erupted this week in Paris over the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged cathedral and whether its historic spire should be restored as it was or a new spire built in its place
NewsExhibitions
Alfredo Jaar revisits Rwandan genocide 25 years after the atrocity
The Chilean artist’s harrowing project goes on show in the UK for the first time
BlogIn the frame
Still a Sensation? Norman Rosenthal co-organises show of new Brit art in Venice
NewsSculpture
Antony Gormley in talks with French government over sculpture project in Brittany
Brexit is a disaster for the UK, says the sculptor as he unveils his Field for the British Isles installation at Firstsite gallery in Colchester
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Roy Oxlade's energetic canvases to Nan Goldin's first UK show in almost two decades
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Where is the portrait of Dr Gachet? The mysterious disappearance of Van Gogh's most expensive painting
Frankfurt's Städel Museum put a detective journalist on the case
AnalysisClimate Change
Three ways museums can face up to the climate crisis
No issue is more relevant—and relevance is the cultural sector’s current leitmotif
NewsAttribution
Thanks to a doodle, experts now say unattributed painting is by Botticelli
The Madonna and Child at National Museum Cardiff was believed to be a copy
NewsRestitution
George Soros's Open Society Foundations pledges $15m to help Africa recover looted heritage
Paid over four years, it will support efforts made by museums, grassroots-organisations and governments
NewsMuseums
German parliament approves extra costs for Berlin Museum of the 20th Century
The €364m budget is “a real pain threshold,” culture minister says
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Rachel Feinstein’s first survey at The Jewish Museum to a superlative collection of drawings and prints at the Met
NewsArt market
Carved from a youth centre's walls, Keith Haring mural sells at Bonhams New York for $3.86m
The Grace House Mural becomes the first and only such site-specific work by the artist to be sold at auction
NewsMuseums & Heritage
The Huntington Library acquires two collections of US slavery and abolition records
The historic documents highlight the complexities of documenting America’s "peculiar institution"
NewsCommercial galleries
Helen Molesworth to collaborate with Jack Shainman on summer programming
The curator is organising “Feedback” for the gallery’s Upstate New York satellite space, marking her first major curatorial project since leaving LA’s Moca
CommentArt market
'We felt we had to make a choice and we chose scholarship': why Galerie St. Etienne went non-profit
Jane Kallir explains why, after 80 years as a commercial enterprise, the New York gallery has become a foundation
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