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England's culture sector to receive £850m in extra funding from Treasury
The budget, to be announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, has earmarked £300m for museums to "redevelop and refurbish their sites"
Rome villa with Caravaggio's only ceiling painting announced for auction with a €471m price tag
The Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, was decorated by Caravaggio in around 1597
Benin pushes for 'full restitution' as 26 looted objects destined to return to the country go on show at the Quai Branly in Paris
A farewell exhibition, due to be visited by French President Emmanuel Macron this week, is being hosted at the French museum. But the West African nation is "not satisfied" with the partial restitution
Chinese heritage sites see boost from local tourists as pandemic closes borders
The travel restrictions—and political encouragement—have driven increasing domestic demand for cultural travel experiences in China, prompting concerns over preservation
Sanctioned Chechen leader appoints 22-year-old daughter as culture minister
Aishat Kadyrova marked her appointment by announcing an exhibition in the Chechen capital of historic weaponry from the State Hermitage Museum
Art market
'Local galleries need to wake up, learn to compete with the real deal': what Seoul's galleries think of the influx of international dealers
With a rash of blue-chip gallery openings, and a new Frieze fair, the South Korean capital’s star is on the rise
Rock Legend Alice Cooper is selling the Warhol he forgot he owned—then found in his garage
The 1964 Little Electric Chair silkscreen will be auctioned in Arizona and is expected to make up to $4.5m.
NFT art sales hit $3.5bn so far this year—but market is still volatile
The latest Hiscox Online Art Trade Report finds that this booming asset class benefitted from a late-summer surge
Same city, new venue: Fiac returns to Paris, but eco-conscious galleries say they plan to cut back on art fairs
Sales at the French fair were generally healthy, but David Zwirner felt it lacked "the vibrancy of Frieze"
Organisers cancel Volta Miami over venue uncertainties and Covid travel restrictions
Director says the fair is now looking at a number of cities for its third base as question marks hang over Miami
Museums & Heritage
England's culture sector to receive £850m in extra funding from Treasury
The budget, to be announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, has earmarked £300m for museums to "redevelop and refurbish their sites"
Chinese heritage sites see boost from local tourists as pandemic closes borders
The travel restrictions—and political encouragement—have driven increasing domestic demand for cultural travel experiences in China, prompting concerns over preservation
Denver’s Gio Ponti-designed Art Museum gets a $150m revamp and a remix
Campus expansion opens up “standoffish” building and inspires a total rehang of the encyclopaedic art collections
French art foundation unveils plans for mobile museum on board a €32m catamaran
Art Explora, set up by the tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset, will launch the vessel in 2023 with a tour around the Mediterranean
'Forget everything you know about museums—this is different': Oslo's enormous Munch museum is ready to open after a decade of setbacks
The 13-floor new building by the fjord rehomes the Norwegian master's vast bequest of 28,000 works
Exhibitions
As the Photographers’ Gallery in London turns 50, we look at five of its defining shows
The institution's director Brett Rogers has selected five key shows from the past five decades
Storm in a furry teacup? There was much more to Meret Oppenheim than her most famous work
Kunstmuseum Bern's major survey on the Swiss Surrealist aims to give an account of her long and varied career
Caribbean-British artists: the long road to recognition
Tate Britain's ambitious show in December comes at a time of widespread interest in the overlooked artists of Caribbean heritage
The Big Review: Judy Chicago at De Young Museum
The retrospective of the legendary feminist offers some familiar pleasures and a chance to re-evaluate her recent work
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.
Another insect discovered in a Van Gogh painting—and this time it has left behind a trail
Show opening in Dallas and travelling to Amsterdam reveals findings from three-year international research project into Vincent's olive grove pictures
The Week in Art podcast
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
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
It’s a wrap: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s final fabric project unveiled in Paris
Plus, Art Basel: are the buyers back? And Mary Beard on images of power
All glitz and glamour? Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum
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A brush with... Thomas J Price
An in-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Giorgio Morandi to Alberto Giacometti
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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
An exquisite study of the man who documented North America’s wildlife in the 18th century
This exploration of Mark Catesby is a rich and deeply researched account of his journey from amateur naturalist in East Anglia to intrepid observer in the New World
How the Beano encouraged generations of artists to break the rules
We asked eight artists about the comic's influence ahead of a new exhibition exploring the publication's history and featuring contemporary art with that "Beano sensibility"