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Museums unite to fight near record levels of antisemitism
A recent symposium in New York looked at how institutions can come up with new and innovative strategies for countering misinformation
Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring far-right donor
Ehrhardt Bödecker’s family requested the removal after his “militaristic, anti-democratic and in some respects, radically right-wing and antisemitic” views became public
Smithsonian Museum of African Art removes Benin bronzes from display and plans to repatriate them
“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says
'No one sells quickly at Artissima—but collectors will always come': the convivial Italian fair that is home of the slow sales movement—and good food
Turin's truffle season would normally attract Chinese collectors to the event, but with travel restrictions keeping Asian buyers away, loyal Italian collectors hold the fort
Looted Guatemalan and Mexican artefacts—stashed in a German farmhouse cellar—are returned
The 13 Mayan objects were handed back in a ceremony in Berlin today
The Week in Art podcast
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Depot: a new way of visiting museums?
Plus, Cop26: how can the art world respond? And Fragonard's restored The Swing
Contemporary art meets Ancient Egypt: new sculptures at the Pyramids of Giza
Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet's portrait of Zacharie Astruc
Is Paris really taking London’s art crown?
Plus, Marlene Dumas at the Musée d'Orsay and Christian Boltanksi remembered
Can the art world really change its wasteful ways?
Plus, Mark Rothko’s late paintings at Pace’s new London space and Nicolas Poussin at the National Gallery
Jasper Johns: a radical look at a colossus of post-war American art
Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen
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.
The astonishing survival of the farmhouse depicted in Van Gogh’s newly unveiled watercolour
Vincent’s picture of wheatstacks is coming up at Christie’s on 11 November—yours for around $25m
Art market
Art X Lagos puts NFTs by African artists in the limelight
Nigeria's contemporary art fair, on until Sunday in physical form and online until 21 November, has partnered with Superrare to show digital works by artists such as Youssef El Idrissi, Linda Dounia and Rendani Nemakhavhani
Art dealer's huge studio ceramics collection is up for sale—including the pot that Hans Coper swapped for a goat called Jennea
Phillips and Maak Contemporary Ceramics will jointly sell the collection of the late John Driscoll on 10 November, including works by Lucie Rie, Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji
Art market money laundering crackdown spreads from UK to the US, but what impact is it having and are businesses taking it seriously?
Global inconsistency between regulations makes already complex rules more confusing and while the US is following the EU’s lead, its regulations do not yet include “flat art”—only antiquities
Has Impressionism still got it? This months auctions should tell us
Will the wave of young Asians buying hot young artists also wash into the higher-priced, blue-chip artists on offer in New York, or has older art lost its charm?
Antiquities think tank pushes UK to impose tougher regulations to fight trade in looted art
Antiquities Coalition has published a policy brief urging government to seize the "window of opportunity" in wake of repealed EU Cultural Goods Regulations
Museums & Heritage
Seven ways museums are responding to the climate crisis
We talk to museum innovators around the world who are taking climate action, from the art on the walls to the food on the restaurant menu
Trial begins for Spanish museum director accused of spending €3.4m on forged works
Consuelo Císcar, the former director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, is said to have bought works attributed to Gerardo Rueda—but that were painted by his son
Diego Rivera's grand vision for Mexico City's Anahuacalli complex realised after nearly eight decades
Thirteen new structures now flank the main museum building of the complex, which houses Rivera's collection of pre-Hispanic art
How British Museum's maintenance woes have kept Parthenon Marbles off view for a full year
The poor condition of the London museum’s Greek and Assyrian galleries—with roofs in disrepair causing long closures—is adding to calls for the restitution of the contested works
Official at St Petersburg's State Hermitage breaks visitor's nose—live on Instagram
Russian influencer posts aftermath of assault to her 1.5 million followers as state authorities target social media users posting in museums
Exhibitions
Content warning: Jeremy Deller brings together 30 years of prints and posters
Simultaneous shows in Glasgow and Paris survey the British artist’s works, many of which started life in the streets
The forgotten faces of American art: Lacma surveys 200 years of Black portraiture
An exhibition 'showcasing Black subjects as powerful, beautiful and complex' includes works by and of the greatest Black talents of the last two centuries
Matthew Krishanu: ‘What you’re looking for, when you’re building something out of nothing, is recognition, familiarity’
As a number of exhibitions open internationally, the British-Indian artist discusses his poetic paintings drawing on familial memory and imperial history, grief and suffering
New William Hogarth survey at Tate Britain cuts the John Bull
Exhibition challenges the artist's image as a Little Englander, instead highlighting his connections to Europe
Why the long faces? Vienna's Albertina Museum looks at Modigliani’s international influences
Centennial exhibition proposes the painter was inspired by African, Cycladic and Asian art among others
Book club
The Art Newspaper’s Book Club shines a light on art books in their myriad forms and brings you exclusive extracts, interviews, picture galleries and recommendations from leading art world figures. Sign up to our newsletter and follow us on social media using #TANbookclub
From the urinal to the readymade—Marcel Duchamp monograph released more than 60 years after it first appeared in print
Historic texts by critic Robert Lebel in facsimile edition explore how the conceptual art pioneer adopted his female alter ego and cemented his reputation in America
Highs and lows of humanity reflected in new book that began on Facebook
The Book of Change includes almost 300 works, highlighting environmental challenges but giving glimpses of a better world
An expert's guide to Land Art: five must-read books on art and the environment
Books that make connections between art and the current climate crisis, chosen by the curator and author Ben Tufnell
November Book Bag: from Bridget Riley's insightful drawings and a Light and Space trailblazer to critic Robert Storr's latest musings
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Last photograph of Lucian Freud’s stolen Francis Bacon portrait published for first time
Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings
The Buck Stopped Here
Louisa Buck, our contemporary art correspondent, brings us all the gossip from the UK's key art events
