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Ai Weiwei remembers the Sichuan earthquake, ten years on
On the anniversary, the artist reflects on the disaster and China's response
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Can two festivals bring hope to Trump country?
Front International in Cleveland and Opens Spaces in Kansas City aim to encourage unity in the US’s divided heartland
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Liverpool Biennial: city that prospered in age of empire aims to show different world perspectives
Tenth edition named after poem written “at a time when Europe was in disarray”
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How Yugoslavia’s architecture tried to cement a national identity
Exhibition at New York's MoMA aims to show how monumental buildings contributed to a “collective civic space in a multi-ethnic society”
NewsThe Buck stopped here
Football fans and Pride paraders mingle with art crowds for South London's Art Night
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David Wojnarowicz’s furiously prolific but short-lived career explored in major show
As US culture wars reignite, the Whitney Museum stages a timely exhibition of New York’s finest firebrand
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Secret lives: new show recasts Gala Dalí as 'much more than a muse' to artists
Exhibition in Barcelona looks at the life and work of the Russian best known for being the wife of Salvador Dalí
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Crowd-magnet Vermeer borrowed for Alte Pinakothek’s curtain-raiser
Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation
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Ten public art works to see for free around New York this summer
When the sun’s out, get your buns—and other extremities—out to catch some of these projects across the city
InterviewLaure Prouvost
Trespassing allowed at Laure Prouvost's secret Parisian garden of delights
The french artist tells The Art Newspaper about her new Palais de Tokyo show, her Venice Biennale plans and why play is important
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Israel shuts down exhibition of Israeli flags in Jerusalem
Justice Ministry spokesman says show was shut down for "security reasons"
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
Ferens Art Gallery: a northern powerhouse
Hull gallery more than tripled visitor numbers during UK City of Culture year after “Herculean” renovation
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Making a hash of it: paintings created using marijuana go on show in London
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Three to see: London
Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum
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Three to see: New York
Celebrate Independence Day with American stories from the Museum of Arts and Design to the Met
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Private View: our pick of July and August gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from Canova's prank portrait of Giorgione to a feminist take on Pop art
NewsCommercial galleries
What to see in Condo New York
The American edition of the international gallery exchange programme brings exhibitors from Cairo, Tokyo and Kolkata
BlogThe Buck stopped here
National Portrait Gallery director unveils his Michael Jackson show—and unleashes his inner moonwalker
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A hundred works for 100 years: New York’s Neue Galerie marks Klimt and Schiele's centenary
New show explores how the Austrian artists tackled “issues that we’re grappling with today”
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From Y2K to Tor: new show explores how artists make sense of the internet
Exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is one of the largest to tackle the subject so far in the US
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Can’t beat it? Michael Jackson’s impact on contemporary art explored in London show
Artists participating in National Portrait Gallery exhibition explain why the King of Pop matters to them
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The Medici touch: exhibition shows how Florence fell for Islamic art
Six centuries of city’s connection to Muslim world explored in rare Uffizi and Bargello collaboration
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Unbridled enthusiasm for the art of horse racing on show in France
Exhibition at Domaine de Chantilly is the first on the development of the painting tradition
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Three to see: London
From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Random International’s new permanent commission on London’s embankment to be unveiled on Art Night
Sixty projects will punctuate the contemporary art trail winding through South Bank, Vauxhall and Nine Elms
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Australian artists and inmates collaborate to make videos about the reality of life behind bars
Works are on show as part of Dark Mofo, a festival organised by the Museum of Old and New Art just north of Hobart
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Hamburg addresses German genocide in Namibia with photography exhibition
Show of Marc Erwin Babej’s work comes as Namibia calls on Germany to return cultural treasures
Podcast
Podcast episode 37: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview
With the World Cup in full swing, we look at a London show exploring football as a cultural phenomenon with its co-curator Eddy Frankel, and talk to the British film-maker John Akomfrah about his exhibition at the New Museum, New York.
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Pinault Collection extends empire with Rennes show, new Paris space and long-term loans programme
French billionaire—whose collection numbers 3,000 works—has sold 130 pieces since 2000
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Whitney’s Warhol: new blockbuster show to reinvent artist for the Instagram age
Museum’s director Adam Weinberg explains why exhibition took eight years to realise and why it will be "selfie-central"
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Newly discovered Michaelina Wautier painting added to first major show on Baroque’s forgotten female master
And experts are convinced that “many more works will pop up”
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Ai Weiwei retraces his father's steps to Marseille in 1929 for new show
Chinese artists unveils new commissions alongside 50 works at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
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British Museum show focuses on Assyrian antiquities targeted by Islamic State
Loans likely to come from Iran—but works from the Met would not meet London museum's strict borrowing guidelines
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Joaquín Torres-García, mapped and remapped
Acquavella Galleries’ exhibition of the Uruguay-born Modernist is a primer for the uninitiated and a treasury of rarely seen gems
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Contested Asante trophy head to shine in new Wallace room
Seized during the Ashanti war and long held by the London museum, the prized Ghanaian work is to be displayed in a new permanent gallery
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Step into Frida Kahlo’s ‘secret’ wardrobe
Frida Kahlo's Making Her Self Up opens at Victoria and Albert Museum in June
PreviewArt Basel 2018
Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger: Where the wild things are
From getting fit to analysing your tears, Swiss artists’ installation at the Museum Tinguely invites visitors to dive right in
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Three to See: Basel
From a gesamtkunstwerk designed to awaken the senses to a five-decade survey of Bruce Nauman
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Major survey of Joan Mitchell’s work to open in 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art and SFMoMA are co-organising the show, which looks at the person and process behind the abstract works
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Three to see: New York
From Gainsborough's friendly cows to Giacometti's depictions of people
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Dream team: 11 of the best football works
As the World Cup 2018 kicks off in Russia, Eddy Frankel picks some of the most striking pieces by contemporary artists
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Match of the day: football vs art
The two may seem unlikely bedfellows, but plenty of artists are football fans—and they are making their allegiances known during this summer’s World Cup
NewsArt Basel 2018
Multi-billion-dollar Picasso show heads to the Beyeler
The exhibition, which opens in February, will focus on Blue and Rose Periods
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Riga's first biennial launched by all-female team
Inaugural Riboca exhibition is financed by a Russian entrepreneur—to some Latvian reservations
NewsArt Basel 2018
Show and sell: the added value of a museum exhibition
How soon is too soon? Private collectors are selling off works as little as a few weeks after lending them to high-profile shows
NewsArt Basel 2018
Giacometti’s chaotic Paris studio brought back to life
Reconstruction at heart of new research centre preserves spirit of artist’s cluttered creative space
NewsArt Basel 2018
Three cheers for Zeng Fanzhi
Hauser & Wirth will host concurrent exhibitions of the Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi this autumn in Zurich, London and Hong Kong
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Masterpieces from London's Courtauld Gallery head to Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
Works by Manet, Van Gogh and Cézanne will return to France for the first time in more than 60 years
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The best—and worst—of Magritte is on show at SFMoMA
The “philosophical painter” poses age-old questions about what the senses apprehend, what awareness and reflection contribute, and how we know
NewsArt market
New York gallerist Tanya Bonakdar to open first space in Los Angeles
The dealer says her artists encouraged the expansion
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Juergen Teller tackles football’s highs and lows in Moscow show
Exhibition at Garage Museum includes stalker-like snaps of Pep Guardiola and live work charting Germany’s World Cup success—or failure
Artists
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
The panel discussion at London's Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac coincides with exhibition of the German artist's early work
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A Saatchi for the next generation? Damien Hirst commissions 21 works by emerging artists for new show
Artist mentored Boo Saville, Helen Beard and Sadie Laska, allowing them to create their largest pieces to date in his studios for Newport Street Gallery show
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Key figure of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Charles White, finally gets his due
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to celebrate artist and activist after lengthy search for works
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From Riga to Los Angeles, biennials are searching for answers in troubled times
Manifesta 12, Made in LA, Riboca and the tenth Berlin Biennale explore whether art can make a difference in a rapidly changing world
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Selfridges department store gets its own Fourth Plinth designed by architect David Chipperfield
Partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park is shop's latest investment in contemporary art
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Kerry James Marshall on painting, politics and P Diddy’s record-breaking purchase of his work
The artist’s retrospective opens at the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, the largest private owner of his work
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Three to see: London
From the Hayward Gallery’s sparkly and surreal Lee Bul survey to the final paintings of Howard Hodgkin
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A great send-off: Howard Hodgkin's extraordinary final paintings go on show at Gagosian
Late artist completed six paintings in five weeks, all of which are included in London gallery exhibition
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Andrew Lloyd Webber to lend works to Tate Britain’s Edward Burne-Jones show
The musical impresario, who has long collected Victorian artists, is understood to be anonymously lending half a dozen works by the Pre-Raphaelite
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Fish work spontaneously combusts, postponing Lee Bul show at Hayward Gallery
Chemical used to prevent rotting smell is likely cause of fire
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‘Global’ contemporary African art comes to rural Portugal—despite growing visa issues for artists travelling to Europe
New festival Evora Africa includes key works by Malick Sidibé, Romuald Hazoumé and Cheri Samba
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Lee Bul work at Hayward Gallery catches fire hours before private view
The fire was quickly contained and no one was hurt a spokeswoman said, but the public opening could be delayed
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Solaris-inspired show in Florence sheds light on 'Soviet Renaissance'
Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli hosts exhibition of Russian nonconformist artists in first foreign venture by Moscow’s AZ Museum
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Lee Bul lights up Hayward Gallery inside and out for its 50th anniversary
Korean artist has covered exterior of Brutalist gallery with 180,000 crystals as part of mid-career survey
NewsStreet art
Banksy’s records will tumble in ‘greatest hits’ show, former dealer says
Highest price to date is $1.9m, but Steve Lazarides says some paintings have a £2m-plus price tag
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Othoniel makes a splash in his hometown of Saint-Etienne
For its 30th anniversary, the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain invited the artist to show his monumental sculpture The Big Wave as part of a major retrospective
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Three to see: New York
From William Eggleston's America to Lynda Benglis's homecoming
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The Met unpacks its Souls Grown Deep gift
An excellent show add new strands to our understanding of what makes American art uniquely American
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Bay Area commissions turn dismantled guns into art
The Robby Poblete Foundation, started by the mother of an aspiring artist and gun violence victim, aims to take guns off the street and draw attention to daily shootings in minority neighbourhoods
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The futuristic architecture that emerged from Mobutu’s Kinshasa comes to MoMA
First US survey of Bodys Isek Kingelez shows how his sculptures addressed urban, social and economic concerns in Congo
InterviewGiuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone on Arte Povera, Cézanne’s best work and never tiring of trees
The Italian artist speaks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his major show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
NewsConservation
British Museum positions itself as a European expert on Korean art with major conservation project
It is the first Western institution to launch a long-term project to study and conserve pictorial art from the country
NewsVenice Biennale 2019
From Eva Rothschild to Laure Prouvost: women to make their mark at Venice Biennale 2019
Female artists are set to represent Austria, France, Ireland and the UK at the 58th edition of the exhibition
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Jackson Pollock and Thornton Dial given equal billing in Met exhibition
Highlights from Souls Grown Deep Foundation acquisition go on show among New York museum's collection
NewsBuilding projects
Ingleby Gallery’s new Edinburgh home was once the HQ of a religious sect
A show of new works by the Scottish artist Callum Innes opens the refurbished venue
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From Cleopatra to Banksy: satirist Ian Hislop to co-organise British Museum show on subversion
Private Eye editor will select 100 objects highlighting dissent down the ages
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Three to see: London
From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble
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Blood, sweat, tears, piss and vinegar: Adrian Piper at MoMA
The retrospective shows how the artist has reckoned with structures of racial, gender and sexual oppression through her 50-year career
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What René Magritte did when Surrealism was trumped by ‘Nazi idiots’
Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores Belgium artist's lesser-known late period
CommentExhibitions
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers
BlogThe Buck stopped here
‘A primal, erotically-charged mud fest’: Florence Peake’s rite at De La Warr Pavilion
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery
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Douglas Coupland’s work in plastic is fantastic
The writer and artist unveils an ecological work inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and a 3D-printed national portrait of Canada
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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
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‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition
As told to Helen Stoilas