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Boris Johnson says Van Gogh’s Sunflowers 'lifts the soul'—as the London masterpiece is unveiled in Australia
Britons will have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the painting as Covid-19 delays the National Gallery’s international tour, now on its final stop in Canberra
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Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?
Montmartre windmill painting is on view with Sotheby’s for the first time since it left the easel
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Street viewing exhibitions provide creative comfort for art-starved Londoners
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Banana tape artist Maurizio Cattelan creates Vanity Fair Hollywood cover featuring Zendaya and Awkwafina
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'It's like a marriage': Alvaro Barrington and Sadie Coles get frank about artist-dealer relationships
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Pissarro predicted that Van Gogh 'would either go mad or leave the Impressionists far behind'
Fresh evidence of Camille’s admiration for Vincent: an unpublished document reveals he owned the Dutch artist’s portrait of their paintseller friend Père Tanguy
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Sex toys on the beach? Antony Gormley seaside sculptures—likened to 'vibrators'—fall foul of planning laws
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AI robot Ai-Da gets first major exhibition at London's Design Museum—but beware of the (lustful) critics
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Got space, need art: how Instagram helps art advisers during the pandemic
The hashtag #findartthatfits, an initiative of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, is part of an art advisory campaign to assist prospective buyers
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The art world goes dating: Instagram account Freeze Magazine uses art memes to pair its followers
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Exotic aphrodisiacs and perverse sex: dive into Viktor Wynd's cabinet of curiosities this Valentine's Day
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Hockney and Van Gogh paintings meet in Houston for exhibition on the joys of nature
Despite Covid-19, the show will open with works now safely flown across the Atlantic
BlogBook Club
February’s book bag: Jesus as muse, tips from Douglas Coupland and a reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft
The latest art publications rounded up in our new book bag section
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A brush with… eight artists tell us about the books and poems that inspire their work
Artists including Rachel Whiteread, Ragnar Kjartansson and Roni Horn share texts ranging from 19th-century poetry to postmodern fiction on The Art Newspaper’s podcast
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'Like witnessing my own funeral': Michael Landy's possession-pulverising performance piece Break Down turns 20
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New artistic director Polly Brannan takes the reins at trailblazing Open School East in Margate
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Seller of $92m Botticelli also collected Van Gogh
Sheldon Solow’s Rhône riverscape is worth $40m—but what will happen to it now that the billionaire New York collector has died?
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Statue of Captain Sir Tom Moore should go on the Fourth Plinth, insists ex-MP
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Project space providing discount studios for young London artists opens in Mayfair
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Art in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton, from the Holburne Museum to the Royal Academy
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Van Gogh’s Japanese girl could fetch record $10m at auction
A Provençal drawing coming up at Christie’s New York is based on a painting in Washington, DC
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'Remove racist paintings' and 'give back stolen objects': The White Pube takes its manifesto to the streets
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‘UK’s biggest art exhibition’ gets underway—and they want your work, too
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Kara Walker’s fountain at Tate Modern takes centre stage in new FKA twigs video
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The art of caring—UK gallery launches Nurse in Residence programme
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Why Joe Brainard still matters— Jonathan Anderson of Loewe pays homage to the late collagist and poet
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From canvas to catwalk: Dior turns Peter Doig's atmospheric paintings into menswear collection
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Is Van Gogh hiding at the back of this Toulouse-Lautrec drawing?
In this rare depiction of Vincent, now in a Hiroshima museum, he is observing a raucous cabaret in Paris
BlogMemes
The Art Newspaper joins in the Bernie Sanders meme mania
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Viral inauguration meme brings together Marina Abramovic and Bernie Sanders—plus those mittens
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Shattered glass: women artists celebrate historic inauguration of US Vice President Kamala Harris
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Patti Smith marks US inauguration day with rendition of her song The People Have the Power—watch it here
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Awash with art—Cristina Iglesias fills island lighthouse with bronze geological formations
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A lost Van Gogh self-portrait had the most extraordinary frame that included his much-loved sunflowers—here it is reconstructed
The painting—which went missing in a German salt mine during the war—was given a gilded frame with swirling lines
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Future Fossil: the concrete cast of a suburban house that will sprout into a glorious garden
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The Met invites you to play a game, and then ‘borrow’ a work of art
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Treats for Van Gogh fans in 2021: exhibitions, museum openings and books
We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them
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Patti Smith lights up London's Piccadilly Circus with birthday wishes for Greta Thunberg
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An expert's guide to Francis Bacon: five must-read books on the post-war painter
All you ever wanted to know about the artist, from a deep dive into his chaotic studio to accounts of his exploits in seedy Soho—selected by the art historian Michael Peppiatt
BlogInsta’ gratification
Gram today, gone tomorrow? Kenny Schachter predicts Instagram's future in 2021
The avid Instagram user and art world oracle forecasts the fortunes of the art world's favourite app
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Monolith mania continues as another obelisk pops up—this time in Salisbury, UK
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Courtauld Institute triumphs in nail-biting University Challenge final
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LeRoy Neiman's knockout sketches of Rocky on show at legendary Brooklyn gym
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Ring in the New Year with Patti Smith performance on Piccadilly Lights screen
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Damien Hirst in his own words—artist presents walk-through tour of his early works on Instagram
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What was the best art book you read in 2020? The Art Newspaper team reveals its favourite publications
From the catalogue for a controversial Guston show to a four-volume tome on Leonardo Da Vinci—and some lighter reads too
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Fingers on buzzers.... Courtauld takes on Goldsmiths in arty University Challenge
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'A global conversation'—in face of pandemic, 21 galleries launch a collaborative exhibition programme
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As Jupiter and Saturn kiss, slow down this Winter Solstice with Serpentine Galleries’ stress-busting sound work
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Mary, Joseph.... and Darth Vader? Vatican's sci-fi-esque nativity scene raises eyebrows
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Barbra Streisand just bought a Van Gogh painting—once owned by Penthouse boss Bob Guccione—for a cool $4.5m
Californian-based singer and actress, now 78, has long collected art and design, starting with a Matisse in 1964
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Shining a light in 2020—Nathan Coley’s new text sculpture illuminates Liverpool
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Portraits of local heroes go on show at London's Kings Cross
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The top five Instagram posts that capture the art world in 2020
As we have all been staying at home more this year our screen time has sky rocketed—and the Instagram feeds have never been busier
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Why the Van Gogh Museum might never have existed—new research reveals how the family collection was nearly sold off
In 1911, the Kröller-Müller couple tried to acquire 200 of Vincent’s paintings and 600 drawings
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Abso-lot-ely fabulous: Joanna Lumley tries out her auctioneering skills at Christie’s
Star sold seven illustrations in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
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Jeremy Deller marks World Human Rights Day with UK-wide poster campaign
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Visit Mañanaland today: Pedro Reyes's utopian vision plays out through an AR scavenger hunt
The artist Pedro Reyes offers a peek at a future where threats such as health crises, climate disasters, social division and nuclear destruction are far behind us
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Poignant Van Gogh watercolour of a windmill coming up for sale
Sheltering from a rainstorm at the mill, Vincent and his brother Theo made a teenage pact
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What was the best art book you read in 2020? The art world’s biggest names give us their top tips
The directors of the Met, Tate Modern, British Museum, Centre Pompidou and more, as well as artists such as Tracey Emin, tell us all about their favourite book—just in time for Christmas shopping
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Freelands awards MK Gallery and Ingrid Pollard £100,000—and releases annual report highlighting art world's glaring gender discrepancies
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Hunt still on for a Van Gogh self-portrait lost deep in a salt mine during the Second World War
The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive
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Grizedale launches campaign to turn historic Lake District pub into rural arts centre
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V&A acquires Harry Styles’s TikTok-trending multicoloured patchwork cardigan
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Southbank Centre's outdoor lights show offers glittering festive cheer—but scant comfort to its redundant workers
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Auctions, pledges and DMs: creative ways to buy and sell art on Instagram
Alternative sales models are springing up on the social media platform
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A separated pair: the story behind Van Gogh’s famed empty chairs
An insight into what the two paintings reveal about Vincent's life with Gauguin in the Yellow House
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Phyllida Barlow hosts virtual pyjama party for Contemporary Art Society's fundraising dinner
During a second lockdown CAS found an ingenious solution for its annual artist-hosted fundraising dinner
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Mark Titchner's 'carnivalesque' posters deliver optimistic rallying cry to locked down London
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Francis Bacon's legacy continued by new unconventional publishing company
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Did alcohol withdrawal really cause Van Gogh’s mental crises?
Vincent was allowed 42 units of wine at the asylum—three times more than today’s recommended limit
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Rent a sculpture from this London gallery for lockdown 2.0
While its gallery is closed, Pangolin is offering works by artists including Lynn Chadwick to UK clients to take home until January
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New book solves the mystery of Van Gogh's lost harmonium portrait
Vincent scrunched up a study for a second portrait of Marguerite Gachet, the daughter of his Auvers doctor
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Activist art steps in when words are not enough
Fiona Banner drops a klanger outside Defra while Laure Provost takes language to new levels
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Ed Sheeran is selling his Lego set—and his art
The singer has donated his "Jackson Pollocky" painting to a GeeWizz charity auction alongside hand-written song lyrics and other memorabilia
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Halloween with Ai Weiwei: artist's new film screens in Piccadilly Circus and online tonight
The Chinese dissident artist is stopping the regular advertisements in the famous square for an hour
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Two Van Gogh fakes in Washington? Strong evidence produced against early drawings at the National Gallery of Art
Revelations in new book about an attic discovery throw fresh light on Vincent’s decision to become an artist
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Woof! Jeff Koons’s Puppy at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao gets its own flowery face mask
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Wear the art—charity t-shirt pieces by Wolfgang Tillmans, Linder and Sunil Gupta go on sale for £30
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Séances and spiritual awakenings abound in travelling exhibition exploring the 'artist as medium'
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Royal Academicians band together to release portfolio of prints made in the midst of lockdown
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'Boris u r a poo!': nation's children submit letters to prime minister for exhibition at London's Foundling Museum
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An expert’s guide to J.M.W. Turner: four must-read books on the British painter
All you ever wanted to know about Turner, from a “rollicking read” of a biography to a “picture book with a point”—selected by the Romantic period painting specialist David Blayney Brown
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In a moving letter, Van Gogh complains about quarantine after his forced removal from the Yellow House
New exhibition at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is a unique opportunity to see Vincent’s correspondence, normally locked away in a vault
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge launch public art exhibition showing portraits of a nation in lockdown
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'Gorgeous, repellent, savagely erotic': Polly Morgan slithers into our subconscious at London's Bomb Factory
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Coveted Van Gogh bouquet to be sold at Sotheby's New York, valued at $18m
Chequered past: from the Bear Skin to the Nazis, a once-restituted painting is now coming up for auction
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Just an illusion? Trickster Derren Brown paints David Attenborough
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Instagram turns ten: how the world's favourite photo app disrupted the art market
Dubbed "the world's new big art dealer" the platform is often used to spark interest in sales and helps artists and galleries to grow international brands
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Frieze Week treats from Sarabande's new gallery space to Damien Hirst's sweet Saatchi memories
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Take a virtual ride down Sunset Boulevard with Ed Ruscha
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The most famous bedroom in art history: secrets of Van Gogh’s nocturnal life
A story of changing wall colours, a pair of pillows, wartime bombs and the hunt for a lost bed
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Fiona Banner's 1.5 tonne sculpture protesting industrial fishing removed by UK government
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Idris Khan designs Vivaldi-inspired facemasks to support Black and POC curators
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Delayed Royal Academy Summer Exhibition delivers powerful diversity statement and an Okwui Enwezor tribute
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Gauguin and Van Gogh: their shared love of Japan revealed
“Beautiful women” in Gauguin’s rediscovered manuscript are now identified as by Kunisada—Vincent’s favourite Japanese printmaker
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Galleries start to clean up their environmental act with new climate coalition
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What has the Goldsmiths CCA director Sarah McCrory been reading this year?
The curator's interests have ranged from artist interviews and books on race, to crime fiction and a biography revealing what Walter Gropius really thought of the English
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An expert’s guide to Artemisia Gentileschi: five must-read books on the Italian artist
All you ever wanted to know about Artemisia, from the best biographies to a book about her place in early modern feminism—selected by Italian painting specialist Letizia Treves