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Discovered: a very early photograph of the trees in Van Gogh’s final picture, painted just hours before he fired the fatal shot
On the anniversary of Vincent’s death, his picture can be seen as “a suicide note in colour”
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'Anything could happen—especially after dark': Phyllida Barlow unveils teetering, battered sculpture in London cemetery
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Llongyfarchiadau!*—Wales’ slate landscape awarded Unesco world heritage status
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The £2m slag heap: visitors say Marble Arch Mound is London's 'worst' attraction
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An expert’s guide to Sophie Taeuber-Arp: five must-read books on the Swiss artist
All you ever wanted to know about Taeuber-Arp, from a children’s book full of inspiring projects to a publication exploring the dynamics of artist couples—selected by the Tate curator Natalia Sidlina
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The Harvest: painted in a single summer's day, here's why this is Van Gogh’s finest landscape
Vincent needed to recover from his intensive work with a stiff drink and his beloved pipe
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Group show of cutting edge contemporary painting opens at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate
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Exclusive: Rescued from an attic, lost Van Gogh landscape surfaces in Japan—here it is in colour
Vincent's watercolour of a Dutch meadow with cows was exhibited once, in 1903, and is known only from a small black-and-white photograph
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July’s book bag: from paranormal American art to a history of Stuart architecture
A roundup of the latest art publications
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The best art books to dive into this summer—as recommended by artists
Whether you are lying on a beach or next to a paddling pool, sit back and let your mind soak up these inspiring reads
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Not Safe For (Art) Work: Pornhub creates 'Classic Nudes' tours of museum collections
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Tate Moderna? Not quite. London museum to offer free Pfizer jabs on Friday evening
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Van Gogh’s self-portraits: what do they really reveal?
An exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery will be the most comprehensive ever held of Vincent's paintings of himself
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Secret deals: Hunter Biden’s gallery pens ethics agreement with White House to keep art sales anonymous
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Canon in drag: artist Tirtzah Bassel reimagines art history without the patriarchy
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What happens when Instagram sponsors a mega museum?
Instagram is sponsoring the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Gala for the first time this year. Could this be a marriage made in heaven?
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How Van Gogh helped set up a brass band in his village
Dutch trombonist discovers documentary evidence revealing that Vincent supported a musical group which still plays today
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'Quite butch' vs 'wonderful'—new statue of Princess Diana seriously splits opinion
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More Sir? Cold War Steve serves up Boris Johnson as odious workhouse master in Oliver Twist
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From Turbine Hall to Thames: Ackroyd & Harvey's enormous grass banner pleads for our planet's future
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'Island of secrets': exhibition fills former UK nuclear research site on Suffolk coast with art
Site-specific works reflect on the toxic fallout of Orford Ness's dark past
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A new Van Gogh work discovered hidden in a book
Reproduced here for the first time: a trio of sketches from Vincent’s village that appear to have been designed as a bookmark
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A ghost forest and a predator: New York public art grows a conscience
New sculptures in the city by Maya Lin and Sam Durant are not just pretty
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Crack the code—mural honouring queer hero Alan Turing unveiled at UK intelligence agency
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You ain’t nothing but a pound dog—€100,000 needed to pep up Jeff Koons’ pooped puppy
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Nature is healing: New York Botanical Garden finally opens Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room
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New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal—the 'worst place on Earth'—to get an art makeover
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How a crypto and digital art fair is using Instagram to show—and sell—works
CADAF has opened its second online edition but the social media app—paired with QR codes and AR filters—is helping the fair to physically interact with visitors in Paris
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Discovered: American couple buys a picture by Van Gogh’s friend Edmund Brooke for $45 in antiques shop
Vincent was fascinated by his Australian colleague’s links with Japan—and together they painted landscapes in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise
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NFTs of a different stripe: Joe Exotic gets into the digital art trend
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Here are Magnus Resch's five simple rules to becoming a successful artist
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A Degas bought by the Van Gogh Museum sparks off an ethical debate: are female nudes OK?
The controversial pastel stars in a show of new acquisitions at the Amsterdam institution
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An expert’s guide to Nam June Paik: five must-read books on the Korean-American artist
All you ever wanted to know about Paik, from a “deep dive” into a single work to the best biography—selected by the curators Rudolf Frieling and Andrea Nitsche-Krupp
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June’s book bag: from Peter Blake’s collages to artists’ solutions to the climate emergency
A roundup of the latest art publications
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'Mount Recyclemore': ahead of summit, artist builds gigantic electronic waste sculpture of G7 leaders
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Crypto-crazed Sotheby's launches first virtual gallery in digital metaverse Decentraland
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Van Gogh 'immersive experiences': a guide to the global battle now reaching London
Presenting a vivid insight into Vincent’s art, Van Gogh Alive opens today in Kensington Gardens
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Camp resistance: Tina Takemoto’s video Looking for Jiro explores the queer experience during Japanese internment
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Turn on, tune in, drop art: Pioneer Works new Broadcast media platform blends science and culture
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Why artist Eileen Agar’s 'womb magic' speaks to our times
While a major retrospective of her work has just opened at the Whitechapel Gallery, her feminist influence can be seen in a range of exhibitions across London
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Taking root—Es Devlin’s urban forest unveiled at Somerset House
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India’s 'vaccine prince' has a Van Gogh landscape in his living room
Adar Poonawalla, who runs the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccine producer, claims to have the finest collection of European art in the sub-continent
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Did someone say reunion? The one where The Art Newspaper features in an episode of Friends
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No Fear in Trying: Unit London gallery launches NFT trading platform
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How a Van Gogh painting was stolen from a Cairo museum—not once, but twice
The Khalil Museum, with its fabled Impressionists in a mansion by the Nile, has reopened after an 11-year renovation—without Vincent’s flower still-life
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Can Instagram bring the big auction houses into the digital age?
Christie's and Sotheby's are starting to embrace what the social media platform has to offer
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Irises: anniversary of Van Gogh’s finest garden picture, painted on his first morning in the asylum
Monet asked how the artist who made this exuberant masterpiece could possibly be unhappy—and a century later it became the most expensive work at auction
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May’s book bag: how Napoleon's plunder ended up at the Louvre, Edmund de Waal's latest book, and a 9kg tome of Chinese art
A roundup of the latest art publications
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An expert’s guide to Barbara Hepworth: five must-read books on the British sculptor
All you ever wanted to know about Hepworth, from a pictorial autobiography to a collection of her poems, notes and transcripts—selected by the curator and biographer Eleanor Clayton
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Critters to take over Cork Street for London Gallery Weekend
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Camp extravaganza and Mayday pagan frolics at Queer as Folklore exhibition in London
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New discoveries about Van Gogh’s olive grove paintings revealed in upcoming Dallas and Amsterdam exhibitions
In Provence, Vincent loved the gnarled trees with a passion that rivalled his beloved sunflowers
BlogFrieze New York
Sneak a peek at Marco Brambilla's new work Heaven's Gate at Hudson Yards
The AR work will be exhibited at the Pérez Art Museum Miami this summer
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Can't get into Frieze New York? See some AR works by Kaws, Precious Okoyomon and Cao Fei instead
The AR exhibition has been organised by Acute Art and The Shed
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Colossal calamari sculpture causes kerfuffle in Japan
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The 'world’s largest public art fair' opens today in New York
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Yinka Shonibare, an art icon with a sardonic twist
The artist is a shining example of philanthropy, funding creative residency projects in London and Lagos
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To honour Joseph Beuys's landmark urban forest installation, 100 oak trees have been planted outside Tate Modern
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You’re in charge—‘wormhole’ KW digital exhibition takes viewers on a bespoke virtual voyage
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Van Gogh's $30m riverscape with an absinthe-coloured sky comes up for sale at Christie’s
The story of Le Pont de Trinquetaille—with the young female mudlark and the ruffians from the red-light district
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Offering a ‘whale of a time’ , the American Museum of Natural History hosts a walk-in vaccination site
The museum is offering around 1,000 Moderna vaccines per day on Fridays through Tuesdays
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Bong! A toppled Big Ben made of books to appear in centre of Manchester
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Spot the difference? Sam Smith’s new tattoo looks just like a drawing by Elmgreen & Dragset
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Agnes Gund's celebrated collection inspires arty new card game
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Longtime friends Tess Jaray and Paul de Monchaux collaborate at Frestonian Gallery
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Van Gogh’s unknown period: his life in a remote Dutch heathland region
A new study and a 2023 exhibition will reveal how Vincent’s art developed in Drenthe—an escape from city life and his lover Sien
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Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project launches campaign for a solar-powered future
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Summer auction in aid of NHS gardens includes works by Maggi Hambling and Dawn Beckles
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Ben Kingsley is surreal as Salvador Dalí on Welsh film set
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London's Design Museum circumvents lockdown restrictions by opening artist-designed supermarket
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Lucy Sparrow recreates chemist shop made entirely from felt
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Interactive art work that reads emotions is just the medicine at London hospital
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How New York’s MoMA became the world’s most-followed museum on social media
Rob Baker, the director of marketing and creative strategy at the Museum of Modern Art, shares his secrets to Instagram success
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David Hockney follows in Van Gogh’s footsteps, painting fleeting spring blossom
Martin Gayford’s book pays tribute to Britain’s greatest living artist before an exhibition at London’s Royal Academy
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A cement factory from Idaho lands in Manhattan for Dia Foundation’s reopening show
A three-part solo show of work by the artist Lucy Raven marks the foundation's reopening in Chelsea, New York, after a two-year renovation
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Mat Collishaw transforms suburban underpass into eerie echolocation film space
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The Future is Fragile—Agnes Denes flies the flag for Healing Arts above Tate Britain
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Google honours sesquicentennial of the Met, one year later
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Supermodel Kate Moss turned into an NFT triptych
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Dutch police arrest over Van Gogh smash-and-grab raid: how long until the landscape is recovered?
The suspect is linked to a Frans Hals theft, which should help track down paintings from two museums
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April’s book bag: how four lesbians shaped Modernism, why we love to hate biennials, and a photographic history of African women
A roundup of the latest art publications
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An expert’s guide to David Hockney: five must-read books on the British artist
All you ever wanted to know about Hockney, from the best biography to the artist's “radical” investigations into art history—selected by the critic (and longtime friend) Martin Gayford
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Golazo! UK artists design football shirts as collectable art
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Poldark star Aidan Turner on how to play Leonardo (hint: learn to paint with your left hand)
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Who needs a gallery space? Meet the people creating Instagram-only exhibitions
As physical spaces remain shut and audiences head online, Freeze Magazine and Guts Gallery explain how shows on social media could be the way forward
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Who bought the €13m Van Gogh? Britain’s second richest family
Montmartre painting was auctioned twice by Sotheby’s, after a bidder failed to have the necessary cash
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'Choose art' with a T-shirt by Katharine Hamnett (just like Sam Smith and Jeremy Deller)
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The tragedy of Vincent van Gogh’s youngest sister Willemien—a feminist who spent 38 years in an asylum
New book explores the extraordinary story of the three Van Gogh sisters
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Gallerist finds shrimp tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch, insists it is not a piece of performance art
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Sculptor Zak Ové creates monumental Afrofuturistic rocket ship, but it has nowhere to land
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His name is my name too: Nick Cave, the musician, creates further confusion with Nick Cave, the artist, by releasing new visual art works
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Artists take to billboards to commemorate one year anniversary of UK lockdown
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Antiques dealer launches NFT—of his 17th-century Delftware vase
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'Raw pop perfection': remembering artist Duggie Fields
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The astonishing tale of how a US vice president’s Van Gogh work ended up in Iran
Vincent’s print—inscribed “At Eternity’s Gate” by the artist—went from Nelson Rockefeller to Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a new book by Donna Stein reveals
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New research reveals how a grasshopper got stuck—leaving its mark in Van Gogh's painting on a summer’s day in Provence
The new Nelson-Atkins Museum catalogue tells the full story of the Olive Trees
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March’s book bag: from a guide to decoding photographs to a survey of the world’s most celebrated museums
A roundup of the latest art publications