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New Frida Kahlo museum, focused on the artist's youth and family life, opens in Mexico City

Museo Casa Kahlo is located a short walk from the popular Casa Azul museum in the Coyoacán neighbourhood, in a home long owned by members of the Kahlo family

Possible medieval artefacts, discovered at Canadian thrift store, will form basis of university archaeology class

Possible medieval artefacts, discovered at Canadian thrift store, will form basis of university archaeology class

Hadani Ditmarsabout 9 hours ago

US government shutdown will force federally funded museums to close in a few days

Most of Washington, DC’s top attractions will shutter by the beginning of next week unless US lawmakers reach an agreement to fund the government

Benjamin Suttonabout 12 hours ago

How growing political interference is eroding the independence of European museums

Many institutions are adopting a practice of “strategic silence” to protect funding and avoid censure

Hannah McGivernabout 17 hours ago

Art market

Art Basel Paris to offer extra-early preview slot for ‘closest clients’

Dealers can invite guests to tour the fair ahead of its First Choice VIP Opening the following day

New chapter for Artbo: Colombia’s art market finds resilience amidst flux

The 21st edition of Bogotá’s marquee art fair opened alongside the city’s new contemporary art biennial, eliciting healthy sales in the four- and five-figure range

Frieze to launch climate change fundraising initiative at its London fairs

Participating galleries have signed up to pledge 10% of the sale price of selected works to fund the Gallery Climate Coalition

Judge rejects collector Ron Perelman's claims of $410m in damages from works that lost their ‘spark’ in fire

Perelman sued his insurers after a 2018 fire at his Hamptons home, claiming works by Warhol, Ruscha and Twombly had sustained damage

Exhibitions

Linder’s performances were transportive over the summer—now one has been purchased for the first time

The artist's show across two Scottish locations, co-commissioned by Mount Stuart Trust and Edinburgh Art Festival, offered a dangerous sense of disquiet

Louisa Buck1 day ago

Georges de La Tour, once a victim of the academy’s collective amnesia, can be seen in a new light in Paris

Musée Jacquemart-André stages city’s first show in decades dedicated to the artist once favoured by Louis XIII, who later fell into relative obscurity

Dale Berning Sawaabout 18 hours ago

Christian Marclay's ‘Doors’ marks opening of Brooklyn Museum's new video art gallery

The museum's new Moving Image Gallery is its first dedicated space for showing durational art

Torey Akersabout 18 hours ago

Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition seeks to go beyond her mythology

The survey focuses on the photographer’s work rather than her colourful backstory

Simone Leigh’s largest exhibition yet to explore ‘art made under fascism’

The Chicago-born artist has been speaking ahead of a major show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts

Museums & Heritage

Museum dedicated to Indian Modernist M.F. Husain to open in Qatar

The institution in Doha will featured the celebrated—and sometimes controversial—late artist’s paintings, films, tapestries and more

Melissa Gronlundabout 17 hours ago

Historic architecture is celebrated in new Onera Foundation venue in Connecticut

The first show at the new space, opening on 1 October, is inspired by the Eero Saarinen-designed US Embassy in Oslo

Annabel Keenanabout 12 hours ago

Low morale, fast staff turnover: why the credibility of Louisiana’s ten state museums is at risk

Following years of strife and multiple leadership changes, will these important institutions meet the rigorous standards set by the American Alliance of Museums?

Lauren Stroh1 day ago

Unesco’s Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects goes live

The digital project, which was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presents looted objects in 3D form

Gareth Harris1 day ago

The new chief curator of Uzbekistan’s Centre for Contemporary Art is bringing insights from London to the youth of Tashkent

Sara Raza, who is also the space's first artistic director, has big plans to reach young people, inspired by her time at South London Gallery

Joe Wareabout 18 hours ago

Faya Palaeolandscape

In partnership with Sharjah Archaeology Authority

A Sharjah site which sheds light on the first humans to leave Africa has been listed by Unesco

A global collaboration led by Sharjah has established the Faya Palaeolandscape as a cornerstone in the study of early human migration across the Arabian Peninsula

2 days ago
In partnership with Sharjah Archaeology Authority

Casa Sanlorenzo

In partnership with Sanlorenzo Arts

Casa Sanlorenzo in Venice opens its first exhibition with a focus on ocean pollution

Fabrizio Ferri’s installation ‘Breathtaking’ shows famous figures suffocated by plastic

2 days ago
In partnership with Sanlorenzo Arts

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with… Wolfgang Tillmans—podcast

Wolfgang Tillmans talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clackabout 17 hours ago
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Book reviews

Pontormo, Vasari and Michelangelo take leading roles in this 16th-century whodunnit

Novelist Laurent Binet weaves a compelling tale of Renaissance Italy with this art historical murder mystery

Christoph Irmscher about 18 hours ago

In a new biography, Vanessa Bell is cast as the Bloomsbury Group's leading light—and as central to 20th-century visual culture

This evocative tale makes a compelling case Bell, who made inroads as an artist and designer at a time when this was rare for women

Tobias Carrollabout 18 hours ago

Euan Uglow monograph offers a fresh perspective through memoirs, papers and contributions

The book also includes myriad accounts of the British artist's inspirational teaching techniques

The 19th-century heiress whose avid collecting was just part of a rich, scholarly life

The exceptional legacy of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, best known for her scholarly collecting of ceramics, is explored in a new biography

New book offers a suitably poetic vision of Blake and his legacy

Philip Hoare has created his “version of a Blake print”, a complex book to dive into and get lost in

Opinion

Comment | The British Museum Ball will celebrate the things that connect us

The inaugural British Museum Ball will raise funds for the institution’s overseas collaborations, the BM’s director says, while emphasising the importance of the historic collection’s global reach

Comment | Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’ sparked my love of art. Let's give others the chance to find their own way in

The arts education crisis in the UK risks holding the young back from discovering what visual culture can teach us about self-expression, empathy, open-mindedness and more

Comment | EJ Hill's New York performance personifies the art of endurance

The Los Angeles-based artist is spending eight hours a day on his knees at David Zwirner's 52 Walker space

Comment | Why New York can be a risky place for dealers and museums to hold art

Could the Manhattan district attorney's seizures be putting people off sending artworks to the city?

Comment | I used to think it wasn’t cool to like Andy Goldsworthy—now I see how he helps us appreciate the natural world

Two recent Goldsworthy shows, one at the National Galleries of Scotland and the other at Jupiter Artland, have radically changed my view of the artist, writes Louisa Buck

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn—podcast

Unpacking the issues facing cultural institutions today, plus chats about a Renaissance blockbuster and a ”cut-up” architectural installation in Basel

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 story behind the Van Gogh still life that looks destined to become his most expensive Paris painting

‘Parisian Novels’ from the Pritzker collection is going on sale at Sotheby’s— along with a drawing that has not been exhibited for more than a century

Obituaries

Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87

In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives

Remembering Robert Redford, the Hollywood star with the sensibility of a struggling painter

Redford, an Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of the Sundance Institute, died yesterday at his home in Utah

Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98

Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire

Giorgio Armani, designer who changed how museums engage with fashion, has died aged 91

As well as for his iconic designs, Armani will be remembered for his broad cultural legacy

Sylvain Amic, ‘open spirited’ head of Musée d'Orsay, has died aged 58

His death was announced on Sunday by the French culture minister, Rachida Dati

Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month

Actor Sharon Stone is up for the Women in Art Prize

The movie star will compete against 24 other finalists including Bianca Raffaella

An eye for art: new US ambassador installs blue-chip collection at palatial UK residence

Warren Stephens has brought works by Cézanne, Renoir and Edgar Degas to London

‘Anish Kapoor, let him out’: satirical protest campaign claims a man is trapped inside the Chicago Bean

A group of black-clad protesters recently gathered at “Cloud Gate” to raise awareness and call for the release of the man they claim lives inside the sculpture

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