ReviewBooks
Despite its 'hybrid' approach, the Met's catalogue on French painting lacks detailed analysis
When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information
NewsOlafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson will create 'pan-European' work of art for Germany's EU presidency next year
The project, which is to be designed with participation from children and young people, will be supported by the Goethe Institute
News
French exhibition aims to reveal naked truth about 'nude Mona Lisa'
New research suggests work could be a prototype of an idealised “Venus” portrait designed by Leonardo himself
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Bernard-Henri Lévy makes poetic plea for European solidarity at Thaddaeus Ropac
NewsArt market
‘Stay of execution’ for art shippers as EU extends deadline for permits
A shortage of ECMT permits poses “huge concerns” for British art handlers in Europe
NewsBrexit
Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger launches no-Brexit poster campaign
Posters featuring Prime Minister Theresa May will be cropping up on billboards across Britain
NewsBrexit
Art world scrambles to ship art before Brexit deadline
Pavilion commissioners among those to allow extra transport time for Venice Biennale as “huge ramifications” dawn
ReviewBooks
A monumental study of the heyday of Historicist painting
This comprehensive volume looks at a genre popular in 19th-century Europe but long scorned in the art world
PreviewExhibitions
Surrealist Dorothea Tanning finally gets long-merited major survey
Show of artist whose work “undermines old idea of Surrealism being about the objectification of women” opens in Madrid before travelling to London
NewsConservation & Preservation
Death triumphs: Museo del Prado completes challenging two-year-long Bruegel restoration
Newly conserved danse macabre work travels to Vienna for major exhibition marking 450 years since the artist's death
BlogIn the frame
Gavin Turk: Brexit is like crashing a transit van
NewsArt market
Hard, soft or no-deal: how the UK art market is preparing for Brexit
Costs, paperwork and shipping delays are among gallery concerns, but experts say there are solutions
NewsArt market
Leaked document on EU import licensing proposals is deeply concerning, say dealer associations
IADAA and CINOA argue that compromise amendments to contentious new cultural goods regulations are still too stringent and ill-defined
News
House of Lords warns Brexit may starve UK museums of skilled workers
New report says a more restrictive migration system for EU citizens “could threaten the international status of the UK’s world-class institutions”
ReviewBooks
Thinking with pictures: how images were used for philosophical thinking in the Early Modern period
A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy
PreviewExhibitions
The Irishman who painted—and brawled—beside Gauguin
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: Between Paris and Pont-Aven opens at National Gallery of Ireland
NewsArt market
Art dealers slam proposed European Union licence regulations
Revising import controls on cultural goods could impact negatively on trade, dealer organisations say
News
Martin-Gropius-Bau show to mark 30 years since fall of the Berlin Wall
Exhibition next autumn will explore German unification in a global context
News
Käthe Kollwitz Museum finds new home in west Berlin
Its current venue will be leased to the new Museum of Exile from the end of 2019
PreviewExhibitions
Spark your wanderlust with a wander through Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
New exhibition looks at how love of travel was a prominent feature of 19th-century German Romanticism
InterviewFrieze New York
Frieze Artist Award winner Kapwani Kiwanga takes on colonialism
Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week
PreviewExhibitions
Escher’s love affair with landscape explored in home town show
Exhibition of graphic artist and master of illusion takes place at Fries Museum in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden
ReviewCommercial galleries
Four must-see shows at Berlin's gallery weekend
From a gallery floor-turned-treadmill at Alexander Levy to Aztec inspiration at Barbara Wien
PreviewFeatures
East German ‘arseholes’ are reappraised
The painter Georg Baselitz once profanely dismissed artists behind the Iron Curtain—but their work is now experiencing a long-overdue rediscovery
PreviewExhibitions
How theatre provided a brief escape for prisoners from concentration camp horrors
First major show on subject is at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
NewsPolitics
EU Parliament pulls plug on UK’s bid for European Capital of Culture 2023
Move raises fears that Brexit will leave Britain 'culturally isolated'
ArchiveMartin Roth
We have an obligation to share collections abroad says V&A director
The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing
ArchiveMay 2011
Gian Enzo Sperone: 'The nature of the art market has changed for ever'
The Italian dealer and co-founder of Sperone Westwater spoke to us in 2011 about botany, the difference between European and US galleries and why the "big gallery" systems won't last
ArchiveArt market
EU tax and regulation changes and more sales could allow the European art market to retain top spot over China
Yet the EU's share of the market is steadily declining and the US may already have lost its lead
ArchivePolitics
Disagreement between France and Spain on cultural protectionism
President Aznar of Spain stated that cultural protectionism was “the refuge of a country whose culture is in decline”
ArchiveArt market
A report, produced by David Kusin, suggests that the European art market seems to be in decline compared to that of the US
Are taxes and regulations hamstringing Europe or does the US just spend more?
ArchiveNovember 1996
Germany leads the way as Europe sees increased sponsorship of the arts
Record giving approached £1bn across the continent
ArchiveCultural policy
Count down to 1993 and the United States of Europe—are you prepared? Everything you need to know about the European Commission and the Maastricht Treaty
Read this and keep it if you’re an artist, a dealer, an auctioneer, a collector, a museum curator, an academic, a publisher, an advertiser, a sponsor, a restorer, an architect, a lawyer or an arts administrator—inside or outside Europe
ArchiveExhibitions
Appel, Rauschenberg, Panamarenko design high-art kites for an exhibition touring Europe
Flying art around the world