NewsDeaccessioning
Sotheby's sale of Israeli museum artefacts delayed after government pressure
Criticism in Israel reached an apex when President Rivlin called for the state to prevent the London auctions
NewsBeauford Delaney
Covid-19 delays long-planned documentary on Black Abstract Expressionist painter Beauford Delaney
The Tennessee-born artist, part of the Harlem Renaissance before settling in Paris, was largely neglected during his lifetime
NewsDeaccessioning
Sale of more than 250 works from Jerusalem's Islamic art museum raises ethical questions
Israeli museum professionals fear deaccessioning auction could set a dangerous precedent
PreviewExhibitions
‘If they don’t have a story behind them, what’s the use?’ Elijah Pierce's woodcarvings portray America in the 20th century
Images of the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Watergate scandal go on show at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
NewsDonald Trump
US President Donald Trump’s angry tweets recorded in tiny pricks
How one woman’s frustrations inspired an army of needlework artists—and a series of exhibitions
NewsMonuments
The complicated history of the first monument to Sacajawea, funded by suffragists and designed by a woman
The Indigenous guide who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition across America’s western territories was later celebrated by the women’s vote movement—but her story was never fully told
NewsArt theft
Asian art museum located in Israeli kibbutz targeted by thieves
14th-century Buddha and Tang Dynasty sculpture among 27 works stolen by masked burglars from Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday night
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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
NewsRestitution
How a Nazi-looted painting entered an Israeli museum
Tel Aviv Museum of Art reveals surprising provenance of 19th-century work by Jozef Israëls, which will be restituted to Jewish owner’s heirs in October