The awards were presented yesterday evening at a Gala Party marking the start of the citywide art event
Your chance to win ‘The Fabric of India’, Rosemary Crill, ed.
William Kentridge’s gift to the George Eastman Museum; rare Picasso heads to Scotland; NGA Washington expands its photography holdings
It’s motto? ‘All art is contemporary.’
Announcing the shortlist for the Asian Art in London Art Award 2015
The Frankfurt museum ends its bicentenary year with an impressive pairing of works from its permanent collections with ‘eminent guests’ from around the world
Your chance to win ‘Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama’, by Marianna Shreve Simpson and Louise Marlow
Seen and liked in London this Frieze week: Sluice_ in black & white, a witty sculpture at Sunday, rare books at Frieze Masters + some artfully ruined jeans
Changing it up at PAD and Frieze Masters; Lee Ufan at Pace; Gutai, Zero and Kusama at Bonhams; Multiplied at Christie’s
Seen and liked in London this Frieze week: A breath of fresh air at the Courtauld; outsider art at Frieze Masters; and a princess at the Chiltern Firehouse
Seen and liked in London: star exhibits and media stars, crowds and crowdsourcing at the Frieze Masters preview last night
Seen and liked in London this week: Richter at Dominique Levy, Boetti at Luxembourg & Dayan, and Larry Gagosian sampling the local beer
Your chance to win ‘The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts’, by Edmund de Waal
Ivory medallions, Samuel Palmer’s lively letters and Maya Angelou’s birthday quilt have all found homes
The UK government has extended its export bar on a valuable ancient Egyptian statue known as the Sekhemka, in an effort to…
As the destruction of archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq continues, what can dealers of legal antiquities do to end the trade in illegally obtained artefacts, and the looting it encourages?
Your chance to win Rodin, by Raphael Masson and Véronique Mattiussi
Absurdities abound
The Victorian Society has released a list of historic buildings that are most in need of our help this year
Your chance to win ‘Damascus Tiles: Mamluk and Ottoman Architectural Ceramics from Syria’, by Arthur Millner
Six of the most significant acquisitions to be announced by museums around the world
Apollo celebrated its Apollo 40 Under 40 – and kicked off the new art season – with a party in London
New York
Chief Curator, the Frick Collection New York
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
Could the antiquities trade do more to combat looting?
As the destruction of archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq continues, what can dealers of legal antiquities do to end the trade in illegally obtained artefacts, and the looting it encourages?