NewsNational Gallery of Victoria
That's my grandad! Descendant of sheep shearer depicted in one of Australia's best-loved paintings sees work for first time while it visits rural Victoria
To celebrate the 130th anniversary of Tom Roberts’ 1890 painting Shearing the Rams, the National Gallery of Victoria sends work to Wangaratta Art Gallery, close to where the painting was conceived
NewsAnniversary
Remembering Dante—Uffizi unveils online exhibition of 'Divine Comedy' drawings by Federico Zuccari
Florence gallery also planning vast exhibition dedicated to the poet in Forlì featuring works by Michelangelo
NewsTate Modern
Tate Modern turns 20
To mark the London museum’s big birthday, we have searched our archive for our favourite articles on the institution, from a critic's take on the café’s cuisine to an interview with Tate’s former director Nicholas Serota ahead of the Switch House’s opening in 2016
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
The astonishing tales of how the Sunflowers survived the Second World War
To mark VE Day, we investigate the fate of Van Gogh’s masterpieces under Hitler and Churchill
NewsAnniversary
Happy birthday Beuys: German museums band together to celebrate artist’s 2021 centenary
Twenty institutions in 12 cities are planning exhibitions and events for 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’s birth
NewsRaphael
For this week only: unrepeatable chance to see Raphael’s tapestries with Michelangelo’s ceiling
The Vatican Museums celebrate Raphael’s 500th anniversary by hanging his tapestries in the Sistine Chapel for which they were created
NewsSerpentine Galleries
How London's Serpentine Galleries is going green for its 50th birthday
Exhibitions in 2020 include Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, US painter Jennifer Packer, Chinese artist Cao Fei and Strasbourg-born Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
NewsExhibitions
'Shameful scar': Centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre marked in New Delhi exhibition
Show exploring the fateful event that saw hundreds of people killed by British soldiers aims to commemorate "forgotten martyrs"
FeatureBauhaus
Bauhaus is 100 years old in 2019—but which one are we celebrating?
The German school, one of the crucibles of Modernism, was a complex entity
PreviewExhibitions
Highlights from Duke of Orléans collection brought together for 300th birthday of New Orleans
Exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art will include works by Veronese, Reni and Rubens
PreviewExhibitions
Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary takes over Venice
The “avant-garde superstar” of the Renaissance is celebrated in his home city before works make rare trip to the US
NewsExhibitions
From the rise of the Colourists to refugees in Scottish art: the Fleming Collection at 50
Two exhibitions in Scotland celebrate the collection’s birthday
NewsPublic art
Jeremy Deller to unveil plans for Manchester's Peterloo Massacre memorial in October
Designs and location of statue for bicentenary of "turning point in UK democracy" will be put to public consultation
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Party performances and a concrete cake: Hayward Gallery celebrates its 50th
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A hundred works for 100 years: New York’s Neue Galerie marks Klimt and Schiele's centenary
New show explores how the Austrian artists tackled “issues that we’re grappling with today”
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
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Ottawa Art Gallery grows five times bigger in time for its 30th birthday
The free-entry museum of Canadian art was initially scheduled to be completed last year
NewsExhibitions
London museum to replace 300-year-old collection of male portraits with women
Foundling Museum launches £20,000 crowdfunding campaign for show that marks centenary of women’s right to vote in the UK
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From Moomins to mobile phones: Finland celebrates 100 years of independence
Exhibitions at home and abroad mark centenary of country's split from Russia
NewsArtists
Cai Guo-Qiang’s pyrotechnic mushroom cloud successfully erupts over Chicago
Multi-coloured explosive commission marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear reaction
BlogIn the frame
Here’s looking at the ‘real’ and ‘reel’ Casablanca
NewsCultural exchange
Forty years of Arab-British cultural diplomacy—through the eyes of the housekeeper
NewsAnniversary
Bauhaus centenary in 2019 will be marked by events across Germany and beyond
New museums in Weimar and Dessau, extension to Berlin archive and “Grand Tour of Modernism” are among initiatives planned
NewsExhibitions
Museums go Bard: the best Shakespeare exhibitions
We choose the must-see shows that commemorate the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death
NewsAnniversary
The Queen's image: how portrayals of Elizabeth II have changed over the past 90 years
From Cecil Beaton to Lucian Freud and Annie Leibovitz, Roy Strong looks back at depictions of the monarch
NewsEgypt
How art is keeping alive the memory of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Five years after the uprisings in Cairo, the spirit of the protests lives on in cultural projects
NewsContemporary art
Artists sign up for Great War commemoration
Rebecca Warren, Ciara Phillips, Yinka Shonibare and Imran Qureshi will create new works as part of UK’s official arts programme, 14-18 Now
NewsArt
Art world commemorates 50th anniversary of Alberto Giacometti’s death
Raft of exhibitions and projects are due to launch this year
NewsArt
‘Art provides the answers to questions no one has asked’
The second “What is Art For?” investigation took place in the Hermitage Theatre last month
ArchiveHauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth makes a big birthday book
Another 20-year landmark, now in print
ArchiveArt Basel
Art Basel celebrates its fortieth birthday
The milestone is marked with nod to all the dealers who have contributed to the event since 1970
ArchiveRussian art
Russian art collective AES+F celebrates 20th anniversary with retrospective
Tate acquires edition of video shown at this year’s Venice Biennale
ArchiveAlberto Giacometti
Giacometti's expressions of moment-to-moment mortal experience to be subject of centenary exhibition at the Fondation de l'Hermitage
While the retrospective spans every stage of his career, his portraits of Robert Sainsbury and other members of the Sainsbury Family constitute the focal point
ArchiveAlberto Giacometti
Norwich's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts marks 100 years since Giacometti's birth
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury's personal connection to Giacometti meant the committee had no trouble engaging lenders
ArchiveAnniversary
Two exhibitions celebrating the centenary of Giacometti's birth examine the fruitful relationships he shared with artists to which he was bonded by blood or everything but
While the Fondazione Mazzotta concentrates on how mountainous terrain shaped the family psyche, his associations with Balthus and Cartier-Bresson are made clear in the European Academy's "Friendship: the only land"
ArchiveColonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg: Authentic, fake or 1920s dreamland?
Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at how the Colonial Willamsburg Foundation tackles the problems of shifting historical perspectives
ArchiveRothko Chapel
Books: The Rothko chapel and religious art without God
A study in obscurity for the twenty-fifth anniversary
ArchiveAnniversary
On Knoedler & Company's 150th anniversary, we remember the masterpieces that have graced their walls
This month, the New York gallery celebrates its sesquicentennial with an exhibition on its most famous paintings and clients
ArchiveArt Basel
The Basel Art Fair celebrates its silver jubilee
25 years of the world’s top fair, from 15 to 20 June
ArchiveEdouard Vuillard
Exhibition at Lyon's Musée des Beaux Arts rings in fifty years since Vuillard's death
A retrospective of this scale could not have happened without Nantes' Musée des Beaux Arts and the Caixa de Pensiones lending their assistance
ArchiveExhibitions
Happy birthday to Wartski
Gold box exhibition to celebrate 125 years
CommentLeaders
Egon Schiele was not a sex offender
The 100th anniversary of Austrian artist’s death has arrived just in time for the #MeToo movement
Jane Kallir