Modern art
A world away from the rest: David D'Arcy on Paula-Modersohn Becker at Galerie St. Etienne
A show of the artist's work reveals her proximity to and distance from both modernism and academicism
Milan’s Palazzo Reale eyes up the Symbolists
Major exhibition opens of the artists who put poetry, myth, love and death first and foremost
Short, sharp—and funny: Bernhard Schulz on Adolph Menzel
To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”
What Delacroix taught the Moderns: Beth Wright on Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art
A splendid exhibition gauges the painter's influence on the Impressionists and post-Impressionists
An island of bitter-sweetness: Caroline Bugler on Paul Klee
Two shows in Bern reveal how the artist grappled with youth, exile and death
Tehran’s Modern art could travel to the US
Hirshhorn holds preliminary talks but Berlin first in queue to borrow works by artists such as Gauguin, Pollock, Rothko, Picasso and Bacon
Berlin will be first to show works from Tehran's world-class Modern art collection
Exhibition of Western and Iranian art agreed in historic German-Iranian deal
Gallerists at Frieze are saluting their pioneering forebears
Stands pay tribute to dealers who were ahead of their time
UK debut for Calder's most complex mobile
The 12-foot sculpture has not left Brazil since Calder gave it to the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil in São Paulo, in 1948
Back of Blue Period painting offers glimpse of ‘the Picasso behind Picasso’
La Gommeuse is being sold at Sotheby’s New York with a second, irreverent work on the reverse
Is it an auction house, a gallery or a museum?
Phillips to host non-selling Barbara Hepworth show in London next summer, with works on loan from Wakefield and private collections
Against allegory: on Benjamin Buchloh’s new collection of essays
The art historian’s new book is properly pessimistic
Punctured Fontana egg to headline Sotheby’s London auctions
Modern Italian works set to steal contemporary art’s limelight (again) in Frieze Week sales
Van Gogh and Malevich works are star lots in Sotheby’s November sales in New York
The auction house looks to hold on to its lead in Impressionist and Modern art against rival Christie’s
Shadow boxing with Joseph Cornell: Kelly Grovier on what the artist hid and revealed
The US artist’s exhibition at the Royal Academy is full of careful omissions
A healthy dose of nature: David D’Arcy on van Gogh’s landscapes
An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute is a road map for the artist’s psychological journey
A problem for every problem: Mike Pepi on Art is a Problem
Joshua Decter’s book of essays raises questions it refuses to answer
Portrait of the jeering artist as a young gent: Alexander Adams on Francis Picabia
The artist’s conventional beginnings belie his artistic proclivity for mockery. By Alexander Adams
An existential shudder from a pure white surface: Kelly Grovier on the art of Agnes Martin
The US artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern reveals an artist who transcended traumas
Restituted works help Sotheby’s lead the way in London sales
Impressionist and Modern art auctions were in line with expectations
Beautiful brutality: the splendours of violence at the Venice Biennale
The central exhibition at the Venice Biennale is searing but splendid, even if it raises moral concerns
Sotheby’s stands alone and sweeps up $368.3m at Impressionist sales
The auction house took a chance sticking to a schedule that clashed with the Venice Biennale’s opening—and it paid off
Looting in the Middle East encourages fakes and forgeries
Modern art targeted as the originals go missing
Leonard Lauder: The man who put Cubism in the Met
The billionaire philanthropist reveals how he amassed a collection of works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger with a museum in mind
Tate celebrates return of restored Rothko
The product of 9 months of restoration leaves no traces of graffiti ink
Tate Modern’s Matisse show is a cut above
London, and then New York, will see the largest number of Matisse’s paper constructions ever assembled
Tate Modern is our model, says director of Pushkin museum
Maria Loshak seeks industrial space for Modern and contemporary art satellite in Moscow
Rauschenberg’s collection gets New York outing at Sperone Westwater
“Radio Waves: New York ‘Nouveau Réalisme’ and Rauschenberg” provides a snapshot of the 1960s art scene
Hermitage and Pushkin involve Putin in new museum row
The two institutions have clashed over the future of modern masterpieces
Dealers work towards changing perceptions of what is worth investment: Art Basel 2013
But will the wider market and museums buy in?