News

TEFAF 2014: Ten Galleries Pick Their Highlights

We asked 10 galleries at TEFAF to pick out their personal highlights

20 Mar 2014

Art Outlook: 20 March

The plight of Pompeii, mega-yachts in Venice, and other news, comments and stories from around the web

20 Mar 2014

‘I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart’: painting at the De La Warr Pavilion

Celebrating the gestural, colourful, restless potential of the medium

15 Mar 2014

Premiums: Interim Projects at the RA Schools

The RA Schools’ exhibition of art by its current students is open until Wednesday

14 Mar 2014

Introducing TEFAF’s new Chairman

We spoke with Willem van Roijen about his new role, and his hopes for the fair

14 Mar 2014

Art Outlook: 13 March

Spotlight on Syria and other news, comments and stories from around the web

13 Mar 2014

Manifesta 10 will go ahead in Russia despite calls for a boycott

How should the art world respond to Russia’s occupation of Ukraine?

12 Mar 2014

Catlin Art Prize shortlist announced

Seven artists will exhibit at the Londonewcastle Project Space, London, in May

11 Mar 2014

‘The 7 Most Endangered’ Programme 2014

The shortlist for ‘The 7 Most Endangered’ programme 2014 has been announced

7 Mar 2014

Art Outlook: 6 March

Our weekly round-up of art world news, comments and stories from around the web

6 Mar 2014

‘Venus Drawn Out’ at The Armory Show, New York

Susan Harris has drawn together an impressive selection of drawings by 20th-century women artists, for The Armory Show’s first curated display

3 Mar 2014

Malcolm Rogers to retire from the MFA Boston

Malcolm Rogers, the director of the MFA Boston, has announced that he is to retire

28 Feb 2014

Art Outlook: 27 February

Our round-up of stories from the week: trouble in Sydney as artists speak out against the Sydney Biennale’s main sponsor

27 Feb 2014

How not to remove a Banksy

On 20 February the Independent posted an article explaining how Banksy murals are removed: the next day, somebody had a crack at it.

26 Feb 2014

Protest at the Guggenheim over Saadiyat Island labour conditions

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is to be built on the site in the United Arab Emirates

25 Feb 2014

Collectors sue the Keith Haring Foundation

The $40 million suit argues that by labelling around 80 works as fake, the foundation destroyed their value

23 Feb 2014

The Prix Marcel Duchamp

Four nominees have been announced for the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize, the French equivalent of the UK’s Turner Prize

22 Feb 2014

Rubbished: contemporary art thrown away by cleaner

The two works, part of a group display in Italy, were mistaken for rubbish

20 Feb 2014

Art Outlook: 20 February

Stories from the art world that have caught our eye this week

20 Feb 2014

Obama’s apology to art historians

Obama has sent a handwritten apology to Professor Ann Collins Johns for the ‘off-the-cuff remarks’ he made about art history

19 Feb 2014

Florida artist destroys Ai Weiwei vase

A Florida artist has been charged with destroying a vase by Ai Weiwei in an apparently deliberate attack

18 Feb 2014

A Tribute to Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott has died aged 93, on the eve of his retrospective exhibition at IMMA

14 Feb 2014

Art Outlook: 13 February

Stories from the art world that have caught our eye this week

13 Feb 2014

Second Gurlitt hoard comes to light

Why has it only just emerged that Cornelius Gurlitt kept 60 additional works in his Salzburg flat?

12 Feb 2014