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Workers at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum are seeking to form a union
The museum recently reopened following a $230m renovation and expansion
‘Like cutting the Mona Lisa in half’: Greek prime minister doggedly pursues Parthenon Marbles deal
Partnership with Greece reportedly backed by Labour leader Keir Starmer
‘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
The long and curious journey of the British Museum's Asante Ewer
The museum is investigating how the English-made jug turned up in West Africa before being seized during the 19th-century Anglo-Ashanti wars
Gasworks contemporary art centre in London appoints Robert Leckie as new director
Former Turner Prize judge replaces Alessio Antoniolli who has been in post for 18 years
Israel-Hamas war
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
Art market
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
Amid a weak economy and political pressures, Artbo nurtures Colombia's nascent contemporary art market
The 19th edition of the Bogotá fair—one of Latin America's most important—has shifted location and date
British art market yet to reap ‘Brexit dividends’, new report suggests
Clare McAndrew's British Art Market in 2023 survey shows a growing gulf between UK and US art markets, prompting key players to lobby government
In a new venue and timeslot, Art Jakarta continues to nurture Southeast Asia's growing scene
The fair came ahead of national elections in Indonesia
Why Les Lalanne are in high demand
Buyers are flocking to nature-inspired works by the French artists François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne
Museums & Heritage
'Where Dalí became who he was’: new museum in artist's childhood home offers insight into his earliest years
The house where Dalí was born has been transformed into an immersive cultural experience, featuring intimate family spaces and grand technological installations
As Iceland braces for the winter, museums lobby for more storage
Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril
On-site hotel nearing completion at Brazil’s Inhotim museum and botanical garden
Soaring visitor numbers and new leadership team at Inhotim Institute trigger reset for major hotel development
DIY insulation and cow bones: Oxford college renovation reveals what life was like as a 17th-century student
The conservation of St John’s College has uncovered hidden paintings, underfloor fire escapes and an intriguing signature
Three months on, art organisations continue to rally for Morocco’s earthquake victims
The Moroccan cultural sector has been hard at work to help the communities hit hardest by the disaster and trying to remind people that "this is still going on"
Exhibitions
Royal Academy president Rebecca Salter takes over Gainsborough’s House with new solo show
The survey pairs the UK artist with Rembrandt, Cedric Morris and George Frost
As the Fagradalsfjall volcano threatens Iceland, an art biennial in Reykjavik explores societal collapse
Sequences features works that meditate on the unseen forces that dictate the outcome of our lives
A theatrical new Calder exhibition staged in Seattle
The Seattle Art Museum’s gift of more than 45 works from collectors Jon and Kim Shirley makes for a compelling performance
‘As a tool, meaning has its limits’: Pope.L on being inspired by the romantics and the power of the absurd
As his South London Gallery show opens, the self-proclaimed “friendliest Black artist in America” explains why creating new versions of his work is so important
The Big Review: Africa & Byzantium at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ★★★★☆
An array of artefacts show how cultural cross-pollination thrived across centuries and continents under Byzantine rule
Books
'The Americans will wring you out like a wet rag': new book follows the life of the British architect who emigrated to the US and co-designed Central Park
Jacob Wrey Mould was the designer behind some of New York's most revered landmarks
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Is the US museum sector in crisis?
Plus, a new antisemitism scandal at Documenta and a Kim Lim sculpure on show at the Hepworth Wakefield
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with... Sutapa Biswas
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée
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.
A stolen Van Gogh drawing recovered outside a public lavatory 20 years ago goes on show
The Whitworth's watercolour will be a highlight at the Royal Academy’s exhibition
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.
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
From VR to NFTs: in the year of AI, how should we define digital art?
The opening of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong is a moment to take stock of how technological developments have changed the nature of digital art
Diary
‘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
Pop art—sports star Tony Adams and H from Steps become curators
The pair were among the celebrity “selectors”—together with curator Péjú Oshin and sculptor Julian Wild—behind the 25th ING Discerning Eye exhibition in London
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
Actor Timothy Spall shows Turner-esque works in second London show
Star has played Turner and L.S. Lowry on screen
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
Obituaries
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
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"
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
Juanita McNeely, feminist artist who created visceral paintings inspired by personal hardship, has died, aged 87
A survivor of cancer and an illegal abortion, McNeely channelled her experiences into very personal work
Ida Applebroog, who made wide-ranging work with a feminist edge, has died, aged 93
The American artist was long associated with the feminist art movement but resented the label, preferring to form her own critical iconography