BlogArt history
Canon in drag: artist Tirtzah Bassel reimagines art history without the patriarchy
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Weathervanes get their second wind in an exhibition at New York's American Folk Art Museum
The ornate devices used for measuring wind direction date back to ancient times, but they have come to be associated with Americana—and Modernist art
NewsMuseums & Heritage
The first ‘wall to wall’ museum union in the US turns one year old
Staff labour organisers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reflect on their accomplishments
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Rarely seen paintings by Nina Hamnett, fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, to go on show at Charleston
The artist, who was most famous as a model and a memoirist, specialised in portraits of working people and her artistic circle
FeatureDecorative arts
Meet the Hugos, a family of goldsmiths that worked with Picasso and now collaborates with contemporary artists
The third-generation Ateliers Hugo has been casting artists’ creations using ancient techniques from the same workshop in the south of France for nearly 70 years
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Niki de Saint Phalle’s first US retrospective at MoMA PS1 to El Museo Del Barrio’s sweeping survey of Latinx art
ReviewAbstract Expressionism
Jeanne Reynal, a woman Abstract Expressionist who ‘painted in stone’, gets overdue recognition
Her monochrome mosaics using cement, gemstones and sometimes teeth are now on view in New York
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Seeing Chaïm Soutine through the eyes of Willem de Kooning
A side-by-side show at the Barnes Foundation brings together two Expressionist greats who fused the figurative and the abstract in their work
FeatureFilms
Unimpressed by the Golden Globes Best Picture nominees? Watch these art-inspiring films instead
The Tel Aviv-based artist Guy Yanai has been painting scenes from movies during the pandemic, and has chosen five of his favourites here
NewsConservation & Preservation
Foundation that championed women’s art in Florence will close down after restoring 70 works by artists including Artemisia Gentileschi
The philanthropic organisation Advancing Women Artists will halt conservation projects due to lack of funds
NewsExhibitions
The historic Indian Congress is reunited in Omaha by artist Wendy Red Star
The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898
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Fragile yet forceful glass works by Ai Weiwei, Fred Wilson, Fiona Banner and others travel from Venice to Florida
An exhibition of contemporary glass art opens at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
NewsCollectors
Moderna vaccine billionaire Timothy Springer explains his love for Chinese scholar rocks
Gongshi—whose unusual forms are created by years of river erosion—have long been highly prized in Asia. Now they are garnering admirers in the West
NewsPhotography
How a Christmas present made Maripol the 'Polaroid Queen'
The artist and designer tells us about the enduring appeal of the instant camera
NewsAcquisitions
Yuichiro Ukai’s manga monster drawing acquired by American Folk Art Museum
The 25-year-old Japanese self-taught artist’s densely layered Yokai is his first piece to enter a museum’s collection
Interview US politics
‘The arts were an integral part of my self-discovery’: an interview with Sarah McBride, state senator and Delaware Art Museum trustee
The newly elected US legislator and transgender activist credits her early education in the performing arts for opening her world view
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A stitch worth 1,000 words: how America’s First Ladies used their wardrobes to make a statement
The National Portrait Gallery has organised a historic show on the women in the White House
InterviewExhibitions
Can art help us heal? Rudy Shepherd has been working on it for more than a decade
The artist has painted 400 portraits pulled from the news cycle to understand the people beyond the headlines
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
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‘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