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Palm Beach art dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for blue-chip art fraud scheme
Victims spent “tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars” on counterfeit art sold by the dealer, according to the US Department of Justice
New York mayor declares 31 May as Ellsworth Kelly Day in honour of artist's centennary
The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy
Museum of Modern Art acquires more than 200 works by experimental film-maker Ken Jacobs
The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November
New documentary gives inside view of art museum’s attempts to become more diverse
“White Balls on Walls” shows how the staff of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum have tried to implement change amid a shifting social landscape
Victoria and Albert Museum's ambitious east London storehouse is finally complete
The Art Newspaper goes on an exclusive tour around the building which will open to the public in 2025
Obituaries
'The real departure will occur on its own, in its own time': pioneering artist Ilya Kabakov has died, aged 89
The chronicler of life in the Soviet Union was known for his "total installations", including a devastated room in a Communist apartment
Kenneth Anger, creator of visionary and transgressive films, has died, aged 96
The film-maker and moving image artist was best known for his boundary-pushing (and, according to some, blasphemous) 1963 film “Scorpio Rising”
Remembering Myriam Ullens, art collector, and philanthropist, who launched the first contemporary art museum in China
Belgian entrepreneur in fashion, food and art, co-founded the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, with her husband, Guy Ullens
Thomas Kong, who transformed a Chicago convenience store into an art environment, has died
Beloved in Chicago, the artist worked in a small corner shop that doubled as his studio
Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights champion inspired by artists' involvement in social causes, has died, aged 96
Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism
Exhibitions
Picasso show co-curated by comedian and self-confessed ‘hater’ Hannah Gadsby will dig into complexity of artist’s legacy
The Brooklyn Museum exhibition aims to “create a space for these conversations to happen” rather than “cancel” the artist
Joe Tilson: the Pop artist who dodged Hitler’s torpedoes and life on a building site
The nonagenarian talks about why Italy is more welcoming to artists, how meaning is always in the eye of the beholder, and his displeasure in learning that Boris Johnson is a fan
A pioneering Ukrainian American modernist’s wartime imagery gains new relevance
Janet Sobel has gained belated recognition for developing drip painting before Jackson Pollock, but a new exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum in New York focuses on her work during the Second World War
Striking displays of unequal power: Venice Architecture Biennale review
The 2023 event focuses on marginalised voices for the first time, with more than half of participants from Africa or the African diaspora
Art market
Paintings by Alex Colville and Emily Carr top the bill at Heffel’s big spring auctions in Toronto
The Canadian auction house also saw strong results from works by members of the Group of Seven and a soaring Warhol print
Ancient Greek gold coin from Crimea sells for a record-breaking £4.8m
The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government
Wealthy American art collectors capitalise on tax-efficient gift scheme
Donor Advised Funds allow individuals to claim tax relief while they are still alive through making gifts of art and other assets—without obligation to pay out money to charity straight away
Artcurial auction house embroiled in provenance row with London dealer
Patrick Matthiesen claims the Paris auction house was unwilling to provide painting's provenance information to comply with anti-money laundering rules
Museums & Heritage
Italy announces museum ticket price hike as part of €2bn flood aid package
Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region
Artist Julius von Bismarck engages with his chancellor forebear at newly reopened Berlinische Galerie
Following a four-month closure, the Berlin museum reopens today with five exhibitions
Russian authorities confirm that famous 'Trinity' icon will be transferred to church despite protests from restorers and art historians
The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition
Acquisitions round-up: rediscovered miniature by female Old Master added to US National Gallery of Art's collection
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
An invisible €171m renovation: Dutch royal palace reopens after five-year-long underground project
Designed as a royal hunting lodge in 1686, Het Loo has been transformed with a vast new entrance hall and multiple exhibition spaces hidden beneath the courtyard
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Art & 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.
Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG
Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology
From Frank Stella to the quilters of Gee's Bend: how Artists Rights Society is working in the world of NFTs
An NFT drop with Stella was the debut for ARS's digital platform, Arsnl. Now it brings bold patterns to the blockchain with a show of NFTs generated by the coder artist Anna Lucia working with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama
New US copyright rules protect only AI art with ‘human authorship’
The US Copyright Office has eased its stance in new guidelines, and a decision on a comic book created using artificial intelligence
'In the age of AI, putting creativity at the heart of education is more important than ever'
The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children
Press officers move over: Gagosian employs ChatGPT to announce new exhibition
The artificial intelligence chat bot was credited with creating the text for Alex Israel's show in Rome
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
New York's Spring art bonanza: the shows, the sales, the fairs
Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London
Diary
Visitors gripe over missing Girl with a Pearl Earring
Masterpiece was returned to the Mauritshuis in March
Taylor Swift’s cat painting pops up in New York museum show
Museum of Arts and Design exhibition is a feast for Swifties (namely devotees of the Shake It Off singer)
Margate gallery PR post catches Tracey Emin’s eye
Artist (cheekily) asks on Instagram if she can apply for marketing job at Turner Contemporary
Hannah Gadsby discusses provocative Picasso show at The Brooklyn Museum, wading into a row about a certain family...
'There’s not a billionaire on this planet that is not fucked up,' says the Nanette comic
Poses with wolves—guests team up with Game of Thrones canine stars at National Gallery launch
Selfie-friendly creatures are on loan from a company called Watermill Wolves
Trigger warning
Trigger Warning is a fortnightly blog by our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris that drills down on current censorship sagas, analysing the implications for artists and the art world and how such cases inform the debate around issues that dominate contemporary discourse.
Are we more prudish about Michelangelo’s David in 2023 than we were in 1564?
The ousting of a Tallahassee principal after school children were shown images of the famous Renaissance sculpture reveals a rather zealous mindset
Book Club
Anna Atkins and the algae: how the first photobook was made in the mid-1800s
In an extract from an essay accompanying a newly published facsimile, Peter Walther tells the story of how this remarkable publication came about
Opera singer Peter Brathwaite tells us why he reinterpreted Black portraiture using household items
In his book inspired by the Getty Museum Challenge, Brathwaite recreated portraits by artists such as Georges Trubert and Sonia Boyce
An expert's guide to Keith Haring: four must-read books on the US Pop artist
All you ever wanted to know about Haring, from his personal journals to interviews with the likes of Roy Lichtenstein and Madonna—selected by the curator Sarah Loyer
The story behind Sol LeWitt’s rarely seen wall drawings in a medieval tower
An extract from an essay by the art historian Rye Dag Holmboe explains how the US artist’s works ended up in the Umbrian city of Spoleto
Books
Stephen Shore's drone with a view delivers a different side of America
A book of the US photographer's aerial images, created during the Covid-19 pandemic, offers an original take on the US’s lived reality
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.
Inspired by the Seine: an ambitious exhibition with Van Gogh’s Parisian landscapes opens in Chicago
Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with… Phyllida Barlow
We sat down with the late artist earlier this year to discuss her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Nevelson to Fyodor Dostoevsky
'TikTok, TikTok… It’s time the art world stopped being so uptight and joined the world's most entertaining app'
Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform
Digital shadows: what happens to an artefact's data after it is restituted?
Museums are stepping up efforts to return physical objects to their original owners—but repatriation policies often do not consider the digital information associated with them