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A new documentary tracks David Hammons, the art world's invisible man
A new documentary surveying the revered but elusive artist is playing at New York's Film Forum
Antiquities trafficking investigator appointed president of Harvard Law Review—a position once held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama
Apsara Iyer says looting of Indian temples was a "wake-up call" to understanding how cultural heritage and crime intersect
Art heist film Inside starring Willem Dafoe is no masterpiece
Actor’s tortured solo performance as a thief fails to steal the show
Book review | The tale of a magnificent boat with a violent colonial history
This account of the theft of a South Seas cultural treasure by German colonists in the late 1800s reveals a series of atrocities
Art from persecuted Jewish dealer draws scrutiny at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Findings about the provenance of two Old Master drawings in the museum’s collection may test the pro-restitution stance recently adopted at US national institutions
Nam June Paik the prophet: documentary creates chronological collage of pioneering video artist's life
Director Amanda Kim’s "Moon Is the Oldest TV" supplements a timeline of the artist’s life with archival footage of his work
Revelations in Cambodia looting scandal name ‘scholar’ at Denver Art Museum as accomplice to disgraced dealer Douglas Latchford
Researcher Emma Bunker aided the notorious looter in sourcing and selling Southeast Asian antiquities
Venezuelan artists make a comeback in Miami
Art from the beleaguered country is on show at the Pinta fair, from Modern abstraction to textile works by Indigenous people
Life of elusive artist David Hammons—who once sold snowball sculptures on the streets of Manhattan—emerges in new documentary
The Melt Goes on Forever tracks the revered US artist’s career, without his direct participation, to illuminating effect
Multiple William Kentridges dramatise the philosophy of art-making in new television series
Three parts of the nine-part work premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month
Remembering Claes Oldenburg: reluctant Pop Art pioneer and maker of outsize sculptures
The artist denied that his huge sculptures of everyday objects were Pop Art, insisting he was not trying to make a comment consumerism or capitalism with them
Life inside Nazi death camps, as captured in prisoners’ clandestine photographs
Christophe Cognet on his new documentary, From Where They Stood, which focuses on extermination camp prisoners’ photographic acts of resistance
Skulls and sequins: book celebrates the art of the Haitian streets
Recently published catalogue of a touring show from 2018 shows the work of artists who draw inspiration from the urban landscape of the Caribbean nation
Non-conformers? Encyclopaedic guidebook attempts to redefine Outsider art
Lisa Slominski's book expands the canon of "self-taught" and "folk" artists to include Hilma af Klint and the Mexican Muralists
Remembering Ashton Hawkins, art lawyer, longtime Metropolitan Museum counsel and friend of Andy Warhol
Hawkins, a pioneer in the field of art law, has died at age 84
Glass art about animals in the Chornobyl exclusion zone takes on new edge
Sibylle Peretti’s glass sculptures, on view in New York and Washington, focus on the wildlife around the Ukrainian nuclear plant that has been taken over by the Russian military
At Sundance, new films tackle painful legacies through archaeology, urban design and more
Also featured is a visually stunning documentary about bird rescuers in Delhi and a cinematic essay about the sexual power dynamics of cinema
Mondrian at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is Nazi loot, heirs allege
In 1937 the work, which had belonged to art historian Sophie Küppers, was seized by Nazi authorities and eventually sold to New York collector A. E. Gallatin
Haitian artists show in Miami but worry about home
As order collapses, the country's residents lack food, water and power—but cultural life survives amid the chaos
The top four art documentaries at DOC NYC
The documentary festival includes films about Jesse Krimes, Eadweard Muybridge and the fraught power dynamics of making money from art
JR takes on borders and prisons in new film
The French artist’s special gift is to make subversive images seem not just unthreatening, but irresistible
New Man Ray book brings artist's long-hidden Jewish heritage out of the shadows
A study of Man Ray, best known for his photography but also a self-professed painter, explores his barely acknowledged Jewishness and his relationship with Marcel Duchamp
Disasters sweep across the screen in Nature by Artavazd Peleshian
The first new film in 30 years by the veteran Armenian director, commissioned by the Fondation Cartier, had its premiere at the NY Film Festival this week
Two veteran lawyers from New York's Herrick Feinstein create new firm, Kaye Spiegler—and save on moving fees
The boutique firm will continue to work from the same offices, but wants to take on riskier contingency cases
Through animation and home videos, three films in Toronto try to retrieve a lost Jewish past
The features Charlotte, Where Is Anne Frank, and Three Minutes – A Lengthening give an afterlife to some of the victims of the Holocaust
Hello Kitty, meet Louis Wain: a new film portrays the eccentric life of a cat painter
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the ill-fated Victorian illustrator who can be thanked—or blamed—for the rise of the feline in popular culture
'A thunderstorm of ash and cloud': Artists remember 11 September
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, artists reflect on how the event has impacted their work
Chuck Close, artist of monumental pictures and a monumental fall, dies at 81
The debate over the artist's place in post-1970 history, quiet since allegations against him were made in 2017, is sure to gather steam
Institutionalising 9/11: The Outsider documents Ground Zero museum’s contentious formation in Facebook premiere
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, a new film follows the challenges behind the making of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York
Now 62, but still wielding spray paint, Kenny Scharf is filmed by his daughter
The family portrait documentary follows the highs and lows of the street artist’s life and career