BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Now stuck in Japanese lockdown, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will not return to UK until next summer
Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces
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London's National Gallery extends Titian and delays Raphael blockbusters amid Covid-19 crisis
The museum is expected to reopen in July or August
NewsDigital Age
DIY curating: UK galleries mount virtual shows on lockdown using new digital tool
Art UK's Curations initiative enables “anyone anywhere with internet access” to create an exhibition using the national image database
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Major Raphael show in Rome returns for three-month run
Securing the loan extensions was “really easy” says director of the Scuderie del Quirinale
NewsMuseum acquisitions
While in lockdown, UK's Sainsbury Centre acquires major works by sculptor Elisabeth Frink
Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections
NewsMuseums
Blockbuster Edward Hopper show is relaunched as Swiss museums come out of 'recent slumber'
Museums in South Korea and Hong Kong have also started reopening after coronavirus lockdowns
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The photographer Lorna Simpson on how Covid-19 has revealed the ongoing segregation of America
“This moment is a hard one. It’s definitely going to be difficult to get through,” the artist says
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Salisbury Cathedral marks 800th anniversary with virtual show featuring Mark Wallinger and Grayson Perry
Works were installed throughout the historic building before lockdown
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When MoMA reopens, its budget will have shrunk by $45m and its staff by 17%
Museum director Glenn D. Lowry describes it as taking a “chainsaw” to spending
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Sydney arts centre goes into voluntary administration after cancelling six months of events due to Covid-19
Sydney Opera House may step in to take over Carriageworks, which hosts the art fair Sydney Contemporary and exhibitions
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Circus of Books online show echoes the need for 'human-to-human' interaction
Timed to coincide with the Netflix documentary on the legendary bookstore and gay haven, the digital exhibition pays homage to "something we are sorely missing during this time in isolation"
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See art from your car at ‘drive-by’ group show in Long Island this week
Artists in the South Fork will display their work near roads and highways so it can be viewed from a safe motorised distance
NewsDiscoveries
Cache of Russian avant-garde works surfaces in regional museum's basement
Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova
NewsMuseums & Heritage
China’s Giacometti and Picasso museum delayed by coronavirus
Launch of Beijing venue combining works by both artists is postponed—and some loans in doubt
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Organisers of Van Eyck blockbuster bank on possible €3.5m insurance payout to refund ticketholders
“Once in a lifetime exhibition”, which closed early due to the coronavirus outbreak, will not be extended
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Royal Academy of Arts cancels Angelica Kauffman and Paul Cézanne exhibitions amid coronavirus crisis
As the London institution announces its revised exhibition schedule, we reveal the international knock-on effect triggered by the changes
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Detroit’s Library Street Collective launches virtual exhibitions inside historic city buildings
The first group show will place digital renderings of work by artists Daniel Arsham, José Parlá, and Kennedy Yanko in the abandoned Beaux-Arts-style State Saving Bank
NewsExhibitions
Museums wrangle to extend exhibition loans beyond lockdown
Delicate negotiations with lenders are under way to postpone major European shows of Raphael, Artemisia Gentileschi and Christo
ReviewDigital art
Online GIF show Well Now WTF is a strong start for a net art revival
The energetic exhibition, broken up into several chatroom-like galleries, brings together a digital art community that had become dispersed in recent years
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Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art to reflect on our post-Covid world when it re-opens in May
Opening exhibition "grew directly out of this unprecedented situation,” says the museum's director Philip Tinari
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Shanghai's galleries reopen after Covid-19 with optimistic spate of spring shows
Temperature and health QR code checks at the entrance are still required
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Andy Warhol at Tate Modern
Can yet another Warhol retrospective tell us anything new about the Pop Art icon?
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New York’s Met renounces ‘outdated’ divisions of encyclopaedic museums for its 150th anniversary
Awaiting reopening, the institution’s birthday displays reveal the interconnectedness of world cultures
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Mourning a ‘golden' exhibition season curtailed by coronavirus
Major shows by male artists dominated the London museum landscape before the crisis, now women and non-binary artists are missing their turn
NewsArt's Most Popular 2020
The exceptional piece of calligraphy at the centre of one of 2019's most popular—and most controversial—exhibitions
Tokyo National Museum’s show on Chinese artist Yan Zhenqing ranks 15th in our latest visitor attendance survey despite contentious loan from Taipei museum
NewsDubai
Expo 2020 Dubai—the Arab world's biggest ever event—now likely to open in 2021 due to coronavirus
Major visual arts programme still planned for multidisciplinary culture and science showcase in the United Arab Emirates
PreviewPrivate view
Available online or by appointment: the best new commercial exhibitions to check out during lockdown
From a virtual tour of William N. Copley's Surrealist-inspired paintings to Joshua Citarella's exploration of young political online spaces
NewsMuseums
Anish Kapoor fan gets stuck in virtual exhibition
The man was looking for the “blackest black” in Malevich painting but says he fell “into a glitch hole”
FeatureArt's Most Popular 2020
Mo people, mo problems: when busy shows go wrong
The cost of producing crowd-pulling shows can outstrip the cash they bring in. Here are some of the downsides of being just too popular
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Which museums have the biggest social media followings?
Increasingly, the digital sphere is a new frontier for institutions to battle it out for the attention of culture-seekers
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
What were the most visited ticketed shows in London, Paris and New York last year?
Londoners stuck to the tried-and-tested and New Yorkers showed their patriotic sides, while Parisians were drawn in by golden treasures
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are 2019's most visited contemporary art exhibitions
Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in big crowds in Paris—but who beat him to claim the top spot?
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are the most visited Old Master exhibitions of 2019
The hype surrounding major anniversary celebrations saw big turnouts for Bruegel, Leonardo and Rembrandt
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are the ten most visited photography exhibitions of 2019
Female artists dominated the top ranks of last year's photography shows
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are the ten most popular Post-Impressionist and Modern art exhibitions of 2019
Big names such as Munch, Klimt and Van Gogh dominate the rankings, but a couple of lesser-known artists did surprisingly well
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are the ten most visited 19th century art exhibitions of 2019
Which Impressionist made the biggest impression in this category?
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‘On the Edge’: de Young plans juried show for artists this summer in San Francisco
No firm date is set amid quarantine, but museum is inviting Bay Area artists to take part and sell their work
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Take a virtual tour of once-in-a-lifetime Raphael show in Rome that closed after four days due to coronavirus
Video is part of Italy's "Culture never stops!" initiative providing online access to cultural and heritage sites
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A dazzling web by Studio Drift serves as a metaphor for connection
While their set piece is stuck in New York, the Dutch artists upload their L’Orfeo opera to YouTube
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Letter from Italy: the churches—open, but without services—are the only place to see art
The Art Newspaper's founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks on the impact of Covid-19 on Turin, where she is in lockdown
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Coronavirus: Manifesta 13 in Marseille on hold and Sydney Biennale goes virtual with Google Arts & Culture
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art has also been postponed
NewsArt schools
‘Social Distance Gallery’ gives MFA and BFA candidates a chance to exhibit their work
Instagram offers an outlet for students whose hopes were dashed by cancelled thesis exhibitions
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Personal stories of coronavirus: the widow who opened her husband's exhibition for a day
Diana Cohen, the 90-year-old wife of the late painter Alfred Cohen, travelled to London for the opening of the first show of his work in 20 years. Years in the making, it opened and closed within a few hours
ReviewExhibitions
Will Covid-19 anxiety colour our perceptions of MoMA’s Donald Judd show?
The artist’s requirement that his works be viewed through a relaxed prism may be too much for a post-pandemic world
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'Sadly unavoidable': first major UK exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi postponed due to coronavirus
National Gallery in London describes move as "unprecedented" and a "tough decision"
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This video is spectacular: light show in Irish mountains goes online after coronavirus cancellation
Part of the Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture programme, Finnish artist Kari Kola's Savage Beauty installation will not be accessible to the public
NewsExhibitions
Major Pompeii show in San Francisco delayed as key loans remain in Italy during lockdown
The Legion of Honor, which relies heavily on exhibition revenue, hopes to present the show later this spring
PreviewBiennials & festivals
Sydney Biennale puts climate emergency and Indigenous struggle front and centre
Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks
NewsAugmented reality
KAWS develops augmented reality project that offers a different model for the future of showing and selling art
As coronavirus forces people into lockdown, art lovers are turning to social media to share their experiences
NewsTitian
Titian’s poesie reunited at London's National Gallery—but is it with the right Danaë?
Renaissance specialists are divided as to which painting is the one commissioned by Philip II of Spain: the one at London's Apsley House or the one at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid
Podcast
Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of 'the most beautiful pictures in the world'
We speak to Gabriele Finaldi about the challenges of opening a show at the time of coronavirus and to its curator about this extraordinary series of paintings. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
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Cecil Beaton’s golden age celebrity snaps go on show in London
The exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery unites 150 images, including rarely exhibited photographs of his sisters Nancy and Baba
NewsVenice Biennale 2021
Anish Kapoor to unveil world's 'blackest' sculptures during 2021 Venice Biennale
Exhibition at Galléria dell'Academia will be first time public can see artist's works using the controversial Vantablack material
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São Paulo show to explore how samba transformed the work of Hélio Oiticica
Exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand will kick off a year of shows celebrating the influence of dance on artists
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Rare Andy Warhol drag queen portraits go on show in Tate Modern exhibition
Near-forgotten series of striking portraits are part of a 100-strong show of works opening at the London museum this week
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Four North American museums cancel exhibition of masterworks from Liechtenstein’s princely collections
National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime
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Titian’s ‘remarkable’ poesie paintings reunited for first time in 440 years
The masterpieces produced for Philip II will go on show at London's National Gallery before touring to Edinburgh, Madrid and Boston
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Coronavirus in Italy: Ai Weiwei criticised for 'insensitive' pasta meme and Raphael blockbuster closes
An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April
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From Modernist nudes to present-day politics: British Museum to reveal its contemporary Middle Eastern art collection
Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s
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Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the Hayward Gallery's expansive group show about trees to the erotic underbelly of the Victorian era at Tate Britain
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No stone unturned: an exhibition explores Cézanne’s fascination with rocks
Princeton show charts the artist’s enduring pursuit of geological compositions
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The big review: Edward Hopper at the Fondation Beyeler
The Basel exhibition on the painter's landscapes takes a fresh look at the American icon
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Prado show lifts the lid on the cases built to protect a French prince's treasures
The Madrid exhibition will feature 101 cases made from materials such as carved wood and velvet
BlogDiary
'Unashamedly gay': Tom of Finland's bulging beefcake drawings are unveiled in London
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Saved from collapse, sculptor Elisabeth Frink's studio to be resurrected within 13th-century barn
Messums Wiltshire bought the building last year and will now reconstruct it for an exhibition in its gallery—at a cost of £100,000
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Coronavirus travel restrictions force Venice Architecture Biennale to postpone opening until August
The biennial's 17th edition will now only run for three months rather than six
InterviewA brush with
A brush with... Sterling Ruby
We ask the artist about his favourite novels and find out about the Polish song he listens to on repeat
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Largest ever number of Raphaels gathered for ‘mega-exhibition’ in Rome
Survey at the Scuderie del Quirinale is jointly organised by the Uffizi in Florence and will focus on the Renaissance master's crucial Roman period
NewsFolkestone Triennial
Folkestone Triennial to include Gilbert & George billboards, an amusement arcade and the largest dance floor in town
The 20 artists taking part have been announced, with major installations heading for the seaside town
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Topless Beethoven to take centre stage in Leipzig survey of Symbolist artist Max Klinger
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts hopes to raise awareness of the German sculptor whose work was dismissed by critics as "craft"
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Somali artists put their art on the map in Minnesota
Rochester Art Center engages with Soomaal House of Art at a time of rising anti-immigrant rhetoric
CommentMuseums & Heritage
After Covid-19, museums need to plan ‘must see’ exhibitions instead of blockbusters
The Brooklyn Museum’s director of exhibitions explains how institutions can rethink their offerings going forward
Sharon Matt Atkins