NewsSalvator Mundi
Was Leonardo's Salvator Mundi for sale when it went on show at the National Gallery?
Public collections usually avoid showing works that are on the market, but expert claims the $450m picture was made available to museums and collectors before the 2011 exhibition
NewsCatalogues raisonnés
Secret papers on famous artists including Gauguin, Renoir and Monet to be revealed
New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes
NewsResearch
Gauguin’s Tahitian lover may be more fantasy than reality
As the National Gallery's exhibition opens in London, an expert speculates that the teenager in his Polynesian works could be a composite of women the painter encountered
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French exhibition aims to reveal naked truth about 'nude Mona Lisa'
New research suggests work could be a prototype of an idealised “Venus” portrait designed by Leonardo himself
NewsClimate Change
From the Arctic to Wyoming, Smithsonian artefacts offer insights into climate change
Institute’s collections are helping to provide an understanding of how global warming affects specific locations
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
London's National Gallery defends inclusion of Salvator Mundi in Leonardo show after criticism in new book
The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting
NewsMuseums & Heritage
X-ray of Uffizi's Artemisia Gentileschi reveals a tantalising underpainting
The portrait has striking similarities to a recent acquisition by the National Gallery in London
NewsTate Modern
Tate partners with Hyundai to promote non-Western art
New research centre project means South Korean motor company is now probably the largest corporate sponsor of visual arts for UK museums
Podcast
Gainsborough murder mystery. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg on performance art
We travel back to the 18th century and delve into the grisly family murders that helped Gainsborough gain fame. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg tell us all about her new book Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st century. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
AnalysisArt market
Fair’s fair? The murky world of stand costs
Research by The Art Newspaper uncovers wide disparity in both fee structures and transparency
NewsThomas Gainsborough
Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years
New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Mystery identity of Van Gogh’s 'gardener' solved
New research reveals name of man in the artist’s finest asylum portrait
FeatureLost art
Lost art: the world’s invisible collections
Noah Charney on the Sadnikar family's extremely personal collection in Slovenia
BlogDiary of an art historian
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait
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
NewsResearch
Palestinian stories reconstructed through films, photographs and artefacts confiscated by Israel
An Israeli art historian has spent 20 years trawling the country’s archives for Palestinian cultural property
NewsResearch
New hope for lost Frida Kahlo painting
Expert says new evidence could reveal location of Mexican artist’s biggest work, which “disappeared into thin air”
NewsRestitution
German researchers trace Jewish newspaper mogul’s vast Nazi-looted art collection
The Mosse Art Research Project, a cooperation with the German government, identifies eight works and launches online database
NewsConservation & Preservation
Where petroleum exploration meets art
Researchers use terahertz scanning to understand artist’s methods
NewsConservation & Preservation
Tate awarded $1.5m research grant to conserve contemporary works 'that challenge the structure of the museum'
The project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, will concentrate on time-based media, digital and performance art
NewsResearch
Salvador Dalí foundation completes digital catalogue raisonné after 17 years of research
Online inventory of more than 1,000 paintings will help scholars and the art market
NewsArtists
The grave of Schiele’s muse, Wally Neuzil, found in Croatia
The site is to be restored as a monument to the artist’s young model, whose portrait has been called the Mona Lisa of Austria
NewsResearch
Egon Schiele catalogue raisonné to go digital with updates on newly discovered works and provenance
The online platform will have an emphasis on connoisseurship says the catalogue’s author and art dealer Jane Kallir
NewsCaravaggio
Galleria Borghese launches Caravaggio research centre—with a little help from Fendi
Roman museum aims to become the primary reference for scholarship on the artist
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Archival gifts are 'holy grail' of Edward Hopper
Five thousand items, shared between Whitney and artist's boyhood home, could inspire new exhibitions
NewsResearch
Scholarship drives the next edition of Pacific Standard Time
Ambitious projects on Latino, Chicano and Latin American art could rewrite art history textbooks
NewsResearch
Safra Foundation gives $1m to Washington’s National Gallery of Art to support art scholars
The money secures a permanent professorship at the museum’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
NewsResearch
Heirs of Jewish publisher team up with German museums to track down Nazi-looted art
The Mosse Art Research Initiative aims to recover thousands of missing works
NewsArtists
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation names head of catalogue raisonné project
Douglas Dreishpoon joins the foundation from the Albright-Knox Gallery
NewsDesign
Harvard museums bring back the spirit of the Bauhaus
An extensive public database chronicles the university’s rich holdings related to the Weimar art school
NewsResearch
Barnes Foundation plans Matisse colloquium in Philadelphia
The conference follows a publication detailing the museum's collection of his work and Albert Barnes early support of the artist
NewsResearch
Former Judd curator launches fellowship for ‘radical thinking’ at Edinburgh University
Independent research post is informed by the philosophies of the American Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume
NewsIn the frame
Insta-classic: Paris museums launch digital archive with social media project
NewsPhotography
Save the data: New York Public Library launches online biographical archive for photographers
Started by one man based on a now defunct database, the Photographers’ Identities Catalogue could one day become a community-driven wiki
NewsArtists
Art360 initiative lets artists take the long view
Three-year archive programme will focus on Modern British and contemporary artists, starting with three women
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Have mummies, will travel
CT scans reveal secrets of Field Museum’s Peruvian and Egyptian treasures before they are sent on the road
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Surprise use for Egyptian blue pigment
NewsExhibitions
Research puts Goya’s witches in right order
"Feat in forensics” finally establishes correct sequence of artist's private album
NewsResearch
Leading art libraries pull together to make research available on the web
Joint project to place 31.5 million images on a single website would “revolutionise” art history, says Frick Collection’s Inge Reist
CommentLeonardo da Vinci
Doubly lost: why the Salvator Mundi's failure to show up at the Louvre is to be greatly regretted
Insurance measures allowed the Leonardo painting to be included in the Louvre’s blockbuster if the loan was confirmed by 1 January. Now that date has passed, Martin Kemp laments its disappearance
Martin Kemp