Podcast
David Chipperfield on the new Royal Academy
The Academy’s £56m project opens, with subtle additions and revamps by the British architect. Chipperfield talks about the subtleties of architecture, the RA’s chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith discusses funding and the quirks of the institution and we review the buildings and its displays with Jane Morris.
NewsConservation
How do you conserve time-based media? Museums invest in research to keep up with new technologies
Symposium on the subject to open at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts
NewsBuilding projects
Ingleby Gallery’s new Edinburgh home was once the HQ of a religious sect
A show of new works by the Scottish artist Callum Innes opens the refurbished venue
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Paint and pronouncements fly as Alfred Molina reprises Rothko in West End revival of Red
NewsArt market
Jan Fabre explores Belgian identity—and rails against far-right nationalists—at new Galerie Templon show
New space for the Paris dealer consolidates gallery’s position as primary market power in France
Latest in In the frame
Drinks, canapés—and poppers—at the Cruising Pavilion in Venice
Pucker up! Mae West Lips surrealist sofa ends up at the V&A
Couples lock lips and make sweet music in Sydney
A portrait of the artist as a mother
Nancy Baker Cahill drops AR art bombs
NewsExhibitions
From Cleopatra to Banksy: satirist Ian Hislop to co-organise British Museum show on subversion
Private Eye editor will select in 99 objects highlighting dissent down the ages
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble
NewsAppointments & departures
Mark Coetzee suspended from the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
An inquiry has been launched into the executive director and chief curator’s professional conduct
NewsArt market
Out with the old in with the new, with a side of Bacon, at Phillips and Christie's $528.8m auction night
New record for Joan Mitchell as fresh artists join the $10m-and-up club—but Bacon and Basquiat still dominate top prices in New York
Latest in Comment
‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Design or colour? Look to Titian
Retain or return? It’s complicated
Vital artistic exchanges will be stifled by Trump's travel ban
ReviewExhibitions
Blood, sweat, tears, piss and vinegar: Adrian Piper at MoMA
The retrospective shows how the artist has reckoned with structures of racial, gender and sexual oppression through her 50-year career
NewsLooted art
Berlin’s Ethnological Museum returns Alaskan grave artefacts looted by explorer
The objects “do not belong in our museums”, says the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
PreviewExhibitions
What René Magritte did when Surrealism was trumped by ‘Nazi idiots’
Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores Belgium artist's lesser-known late period
Latest in Video
Michelangelo: The Art Newspaper's editor talks about a British treasure
Damien Hirst visits Peter Blake in his studio
What do Queen Elizabeth I and Surrealist Frida Kahlo have in common?
Women in the art world: our founding editor speaks on her experiences in the field
Will Ferrell and Joel McHale try to make sense of the art at LA’s Hammer Museum
FeatureMichelangelo
The UK's only marble Michelangelo takes pride of place at new Royal Academy
The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece
NewsArt market
Edward Burtynsky unveils preview of Anthropocene project at Photo London
Canadian photographer has been working with scientists to draw attention to man's impact on the planet
NewsArt market
Kerry James Marshall sets $21m record for a living African American artist at Sotheby's sale
Rapper P. Diddy identified as buyer of the Chicago-based painter's Past Times
NewsObituaries
Chicago dealer Richard Gray has died, aged 89
The gallerist and patron was a key figure in the city’s art scene for more than 50 years
NewsObituaries
‘Believing is seeing’: Tom Wolfe on Modern art
The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic
NewsBiennials & festivals
Havana’s alternative #00Bienal ends on a defiantly optimistic note
The event’s organisers see success in the participants’ resistance to threats and intimidation from Cuba’s government
BlogThe Buck stopped here
From Shrimp Eyes to Tom Odell: Royal Academy's collection (and VIPs) serenaded at opening party
NewsArt market
Tbilisi’s first contemporary art fair hopes to draw new buyers
Steep rise in foreign investment in Georgia and steady economic growth has prompted a “new generation of art buyers”, says director
CommentExhibitions
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers
NewsBiennials & festivals
Contemporary art biennial returns to Mardin in Turkey after three-year hiatus
Event resumes in the ancient city in the country’s south-east corner after years of tumult
NewsArt market
Christie’s $416m Impressionist and Modern art sale reaffirms bullish market for top material
Even without a $150m-plus headliner, the auction topped rival Sotheby’s by $100m thanks to deeper, more even bidding
NewsArt market
First exhibition on Jean Dubuffet’s fascination with cities to open this summer
Hauser & Wirth show in Zürich includes loans from the Tate, the Stedelijk Museum and the Fondation Dubuffet
CommentDiary of an art historian
Design or colour? Look to Titian
A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama
FeatureRoyal Academy
How the Royal Academy Schools shook off their fusty image
Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution's postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London
NewsArt market
Nahmads confirm Picasso’s $115m flower girl will go to Paris
Dealing dynasty says that the painting bought in the Rockefeller sale will be loaned to the Musée d’Orsay
NewsArt market
Modigliani nude leads Sotheby's $318.3m Impressionist and Modern auction
Sex sells—but only if it is guaranteed
NewsAcquisitions
American University Museum gets 9,000 works from Corcoran Gallery of Art’s collection
The defunct museum has given the last of its 20,000 works to 22 institutions in Washington, DC
NewsArt market
Object lessons: our picks from this week's evening auctions in New York
Highlights include works by Cady Noland, Kerry James Marshall and Lyonel Feininger
BlogThe Buck stopped here
‘A primal, erotically-charged mud fest’: Florence Peake’s rite at De La Warr Pavilion
NewsAmedeo Modigliani
Modigliani the maverick? Vienna show to position Italian artist alongside Picasso
Exhibition at the Albertina Museum in 2020 will “reposition” artist as an avant-garde innovator, organiser says
NewsCensorship
Instagram deletes photographer Dragana Jurisic's account and Facebook censors her work
Image is no more contentious than those shared on the platforms by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, supporters say
NewsPhilanthropy
Russian billionaire’s Peri Foundation will keep paying for culture after arrest
It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
Ignominy to influence: a history of women at the Royal Academy
London institution’s founders included two women, but a long period of male domination has only recently been challenged
NewsAnniversary
Phyllida Barlow’s feat of engineering for Jupiter Artland’s tenth birthday
Joana Vasconcelos, who is showing a giant stiletto at the Edinburgh venue, will launch her on-site swimming pool next year
NewsArt market
Rockefeller collection 100% sold at Christie’s New York
Leaning on romance of Rockefeller name and its appeal to international and first-time buyers, the auction house triumphed in its marathon week of sales
NewsLooted art
Hamburg museum says its Benin bronzes could return to Nigeria—but not yet
Applied arts institution is showing the sculptures in a looted art exhibition
Newsscholarship
National Gallery names art historian Wu Hung as 2019 Mellon Lecturer
The scholar will give six talks surveying more than 2,000 years of Chinese history
NewsConservation
Damaged art undergoes intensive care in Berlin’s Bode Museum
The institution is using funds from a private foundation to restore works scarred by war
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
We go behind the scenes as the Royal Academy celebrates 250 years
Delve into the heart of the revamped London institution—expanded, embellished and eccentric as ever
NewsArt market
Online sales, Asia and guarantees: auction house chiefs on the future of the business
The heads of Christie's, Bonhams and Phillips speak on market shifts, challenges and why they believe their model will succeed
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery
Podcast
The $646m Rockefeller sale. Plus: should big galleries subsidise smaller ones?
We drill down into the big numbers from the Post-Impressionist and Modern sale in New York with Georgina Adam, talk to Professor Rachel Pownall about the wider market and look at a small gallery housed in Piccadilly Circus Tube station.
NewsDeaccessioning
Anonymous donor steps in to pay hefty penalty for the National Gallery of Canada’s botched Chagall sale
The rushed deaccessioning—to fund the acquisition of another work from neighbouring Quebec—raised a storm of criticism
NewsExhibitions
Douglas Coupland’s work in plastic is fantastic
The writer and artist unveils an ecological work inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and a 3D-printed national portrait of Canada
NewsComment
Why the French can sell arms and culture to Saudi Arabia, but the US and UK only arms
France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs
NewsCultural policy
The blueprint for Saudi Arabia's multi-billion-euro project with France
We exclusively reveal the details of the plans for a “historic” collaboration
NewsObituaries
Danish artist Per Kirkeby has died, aged 79
The painter was well known for his opaque, semi-abstract canvases inspired by natural history
NewsRestitution
Damning report says France must catch up, fast, in return of Nazi-era loot
Heritage expert calls for new government taskforce to guide provenance research and even rule on restitution cases
PreviewExhibitions
Spark your wanderlust with a wander through Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
New exhibition looks at how love of travel was a prominent feature of 19th-century German Romanticism
NewsArt market
Too hot to handle? Frieze New York to compensate all dealers after sweltering fair sent collectors packing
Details yet to be finalised, but the fair is also looking at how to deal with “increasingly erratic weather” after heatwave sent exhibitors into meltdown
NewsArt market
Rockefeller heavy-hitters pull in $646m for charity at Christie's
Evening auction featuring the family's most valuable works set new records for Monet and Matisse
NewsArt market
Live from the saleroom: Christie's auctions the art collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller
Sit back, relax, and follow the action from tonight's evening sale via tweet
NewsArt market
Judge halts suit filed by collector seeking to block sale of Basquiat at Sotheby's
The painting, estimated to bring $30m, is a key lot in the auction house's upcoming evening sale in New York
NewsConservation
Army helicopter paint used to restore outdoor sculptures
US Army research on the use of matte black on helicopter blades is aiding conservators working on outdoor sculptures
NewsControversies
Paris mayor wants to turn city into ‘refuge’ for works in conflict zones
Anne Hidalgo’s plan, which has drawn fire, involves storing items threatened by conflict in buildings owned by the city authority
NewsRestitution
German researchers trace Jewish newspaper mogul’s vast Nazi-looted art collection
The Mosse Art Research Project, a cooperation with the German government, identifies eight works and launches online database
NewsArt market
How did the Rockefellers shape the modern art market?
Ahead of the sale of the David and Peggy Rockefeller collection at Christie’s this week, the family's archivist examines their approach
NewsSexual assault
Four women including arts and culture producer Tanya Selvaratnam accuse New York Attorney General of abuse
After denying the allegations, Eric Schneiderman resigned his post on Monday
FeatureFrieze New York
Holy inspiration: the Met's Costume Institute finds a divine connection between religion and fashion
The museum's annual gala show examines how the Catholic Church’s aesthetics have influenced designers
CommentExhibitions
‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition
As told to Helen Stoilas