Hundreds of Asian art objects go to the Met and the MIA; the world’s most expensive work by a woman artist turns up in Bentonville; and LACMA announces a major partnership
Matthias Frehner and David Lewis discuss the problematic bequest
Moore at YSP; Salon du Dessin highlights; Basquiat in Ontario; a bigger and better Drawing Biennial; and Dryden Goodwin’s enigmatic film
Museum of London to move to Smithfield; fresh perspectives on Henry Moore and Basquiat; spotlight on education in museums; Asian art at the Met
National Gallery gets a gift; MoMA under criticism; stolen El Greco work restituted; and a last ditch attempt to save a Brutalist estate in east London
We’ve picked a few highlights from the world’s premier marketplace for drawings
George Vasey recommends Raoul de Keyser’s work in Edinburgh; Vanessa Remington introduces the art of the garden at the Queen’s Gallery; and ‘Classicicity’ explores ancient and modern art in tandem
‘Ravilious’ is published to accompany an upcoming exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Terror at the Bardo Museum; Syria recovers looted artefacts; Gabriele Finaldi joins the National Gallery; and a new CEO for Sotheby’s
Highlights from The Queen’s Gallery’s springtime celebration of the art of the garden
American cantaloupes at the Louvre; Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit; Feminism and Niki de Saint Phalle
Austria to keep a prized Klimt; Gerhard Richter says art is too expensive; and are things looking up for the Warburg Institute?
Rivera’s monumental murals and Kahlo’s small but powerful paintings at the DIA
John Gerrard’s bleak vision of technological evolution; photography and human rights; and the forgotten master of still life, Henri de Fromantiou
This week’s competition prize is William Blake: The drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, by Sebastian Schütze & Maria Antonietta Terzoli (Taschen, £99.99)…
This week’s art news, including cultural destruction in Iraq, arrests in Spain, and controversy over London’s proposed Garden Bridge
The leading modern and contemporary art fair opens to the public tomorrow
Highlights from the new (and first) exhibition dedicated to 17th-century painter Henri de Fromantiou
Which of these eight recent graduates should take home the £5,000 prize?
The Detroit Institute of Arts has known hard times in recent years. As he prepares to retire, director Graham W.J. Beal reflects on the museum’s recent struggles and successes
From the first printed bibles to contemporary Inuit sculpture and astrophotography…
On Kawara at the Guggenheim New York; Mariana Castillo Deball at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Leon Underwood at Pallant House; Mackintosh at RIBA
Underwood was best known as a sculptor, but he also created powerful paintings and prints
Art news: English Heritage to split in two; Romania’s silence over Brancusi statue sale; Cézanne sketches discovered at the Barnes Foundation
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
Forum: Should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?
Matthias Frehner and David Lewis discuss the problematic bequest