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Piasa launches charity auction to protect healthcare workers
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Exhibition WALL-E: robot leads tour of Hastings Contemporary
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In recent decades 28 Van Goghs have been stolen in the Netherlands—but all have been recovered
Detectives are intensifying their investigation into the latest crime, at Laren’s Singer museum, which was committed this week on the artist’s birthday
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Artist draws to celebrate New York's restaurants—and donates his sales to save them
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Mona Lisa, Rembrandt and Venus enjoy a well-earned rest during lockdown
After the coronavirus pandemic, we will need our museums' masterpieces as never before
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Alien Sex Club artist John Walter offers tarot card readings over Skype during lockdown
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Derek Jarman's cottage in Dungeness is saved after Art Fund hits £3.5m target
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MoMA and Louise Lawler launch #DrawingWithMoMA to stoke creativity in quarantine
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Van Gogh’s trusty pipe: how the artist believed that smoking helped his art
Vincent lay in bed, puffing away and dreamily composing his pictures
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The final push: campaign to save Derek Jarman's cottage in Dungeness is almost over the line
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#ArtistsSupportPledge: growing online marketplace to help artists generates £9m in one week
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Follow Peter Blake on his armchair Instagram travels to secret locations
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A moment of zen: Rubin Museum's Tibetan Buddhist shrine room goes digital
The project is "an invitation to slow down and rediscover the nature of time"
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The Great Disruptors: two museum shows look back at 1970s New York
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Van Gogh’s theory on Degas’s success with female nudes
A three-volume set of The Letters of Edgar Degas—including ten with references to the Van Gogh brothers—is due to be published in April
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Gavin Turk provides some toilet humour as shit hits the fan
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Pyjamas and cava: the diary of an Art Basel VIP in an online world
A blow-by-blow account of the Hong Kong digital viewing rooms that launched this morning
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Tacita Dean’s ancestors brought a Van Gogh painting to England in 1896—now she wants to track it down
The UK artist is on the hunt for the Parisian restaurant scene, now with a secretive Texan collector
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Philip Haas's terrifying Winter sculpture at Wisley silences the children
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Augmented reality: the artists and museums pushing the limits of technology through Instagram
Sketch London's app that brings to life David Shrigley's prints is the latest in a string of developments from institutions like the New Museum and the Tate
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Opening bite: the tastiest private views in London
Reporting on food and figures at Annely Juda, Waddington Custot and Soft Opening
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Almost burned on a bonfire and then hidden behind a door for years—rediscovered Van Gogh landscape goes on sale at Tefaf Maastricht
New York’s Hammer Galleries has priced the Paris park scene at $10m-$12m
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Laura Dern sign Sandy Powell's suit for Derek Jarman appeal
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'Unashamedly gay': Tom of Finland's bulging beefcake drawings are unveiled in London
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Hunter Biden, keeping demons at bay as an artist
Biden says painting “puts my energy toward something positive”
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Sew unique: last chance to bid for textile works made by artists and prison inmates
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Artist couple Gary Hume and Georgie Hopton stage first joint exhibitions
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Great lovers of Van Gogh: Swiss couple's private collection goes on show in Vienna
The Albertina mounts a display of the Hahnloser’s relatively unknown treasures
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Vogueing is in vogue at Tate Britain with performance masterclass from Diva Miyake-Mugler
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A brush with... Tomás Saraceno
We ask the artist about his favourite book, film and cultural experience as well his thoughts on the most underrated—and overrated—cultural figures
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A Van Gogh and a Monet: you win one and lose another
The Dutchman’s newly attributed Oslo self-portrait is unveiled in an Amsterdam exhibition, while the Frenchman’s bohemian portrait suffers a downgrading
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Performance artist who ate Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana launches interactive food show in New York
Visitors to "Hungry Artist" are invited to rip off and eat common snacks displayed on gallery Ca’d’ Oro's walls
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The vagina dialogue: Linder's sensory Kettle's Yard show channels the house's mistress Helen Ede
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Fashion Institute of Technology issues apology for 'racist' accessories featured in its inaugural Master of Fine Arts runway show
The show, held at Manhattan's Pier 59 Studios on 7 February during New York Fashion Week, was designed to showcase the work of ten fashion and design graduates
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Instagram residencies: the artists moving into museums' digital spare rooms
As the Musée d’Orsay in Paris appoints an Instagram-artist-in-residence, we look at the growing trend in museums for social media takeovers and collaborations
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What can mysterious markings in stone teach us about British art?
Research for a new book begins with a pilgrimage to find prehistoric rock art in northern England
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Diary: Grimes hits the decks, the art of small business and Frieze hits the rocks (in a good way)
Plus Miss Ellie gets a makeover, and fair denizens tone up
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Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh in 1950s film Lust for Life: a look at the biopic and the myths it made
The Hollywood star, who died last week aged 103, became famous for his portrayal of the "tortured artist"
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Peter Blake’s heartfelt Valentine’s painting reveals unrequited love for Pauline Boty
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Frieze Los Angeles diary: glass orbs of LA smog and a Baldessari biscuit
Plus, Eric Doeringer pranks the Broads and Serpentine Galleries embraces the golf cart
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Miles Greenberg—mentee of Marina Abramovic—stages visually absorbing performance in New York
Greenberg has previously performed at Manifesta 11 and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center
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'We abstracted our experience—that is how we saved ourselves': emotional opening at Margate's show of African American art
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The €15m Van Gogh which was once sold in a farmyard auction for just £4
Now heading to Maastricht, the painting of a peasant cottage will be a highlight of the Tefaf fair
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The Japanese collector who bought Basquiat’s $110m painting will fly artists—and a new partner—to the moon
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Valie Export and crowning babies bring mixed messages of motherhood to Mayfair
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Deaf artist calls out Fox Sports news for limiting her sign language performance at the Super Bowl
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Grayson Perry collaborations and pansexual pageants: James Birch reflects on a fabulous life
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Wooing Dutch visitors and an impending birthday: the challenges facing Van Gogh Museum's new director
Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week
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Skin deep: armed forces comrades bare their tattoos at the National Army Museum
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Artist creates black-faced portrait of Italian far-right politician Matteo Salvini
Current bid for re-imagined image of the controversial party leader stands at €45,000 in online auction
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Nine Van Gogh 'fakes' that have emerged as the real thing
The Oslo self-portrait and other paintings have been authenticated by the artist’s museum
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Post-Banana Art: Maurizio Cattelan offers a light bulb in his likeness
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Moveable feasts and brisk bidding at Whitechapel's Art Icon gala
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Purrs and paw-prints: Vivian Suter and Athanasios Argianas join forces with four-legged friends at Camden Arts Centre
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Is a Van Gogh self-portrait hidden in a London attic?
An intriguing letter suggests that Vincent made a very unusual sale to England
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Britney Spears exhibition hits the headlines—but is it bogus?
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Disneyfication at the National Gallery? Plus, the problem with deaccessioning in the UK
The stigma around state museums selling works means that other institutions dare not buy them; and a frank review of the National Gallery's Leonardo exhibition
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Want to buy a Van Gogh? Sotheby’s has four works with (relatively) modest estimates
Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector
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Kehinde Wiley’s glorious portraits of 21st-century Dalston women in Walthamstow
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To cut down on travel pollution, Italian Vogue eschews photo shoots in favour of artists' illustrations
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Five steps to the perfect arty Instagram in 2020
Here are our top tips to help you gain—and keep—new followers in the new year
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Is a romantic dinner in the company of Klimt’s The Kiss an option—or not?
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Tim Marlow finally receives a big shiny medal as he waves goodbye to Royal Academy
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Bedwyr Williams’s bespectacled art bods appear on Pocket Tube map
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From surprising sales to emotional discoveries: the Van Gogh stories of 2019
The top exhibitions, books and auction news this year—plus the astonishing tale of the gun
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Sarah Lucas eggs women on at Red Brick Museum
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Help London's homeless this Christmas—get art on a plate by Gilbert & George
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As Trump impeachment debates roll on, see historic courtroom sketches from Watergate trial
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Two Van Goghs sold from the recovered hoard of an Italian fraudster
One painting was hidden in a Parma cellar, leading to the discovery of the Tanzi Treasure
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Oscar Murillo hosts 'fun-raising' feast in London studio
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Art Basel in Miami Beach diary: fairgoers go bananas for The Banana and Pope.L offers a message in a vessel
Plus basketball is slam dunk for art crowds and much more
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Ten myths about Vincent van Gogh
Why stories—from the mutilated ear to the eventual suicide—can distort our view of the art