News
Art Outlook
Art news: Ai Weiwei shows in Beijing; Gwangju Biennial and New Museum Triennial curators announced; stolen Rodin sculpture found; MFA Boston in racism row
London Art Week Highlights
From Old Master portraits to 20th-century abstraction: there’s plenty on offer in the capital this week
Art Outlook
French culture minister sacks Nicolas Bourriaud; Italy seeks 20 new museum directors; Whitworth wins Museum of the Year award; condom art controversy in Milwaukee
Is the art market unhealthy?
Some major art dealers are calling it quits, others have joined forces. Who’s saying what about the changing state of the industry?
New scheme to get work by female artists into museums
Valeria Napoleone and the Contemporary Art Society are taking a proactive approach to a protracted issue
Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2015: Shortlist
Six museums are in the running for this year’s £100,000 prize. Which would you choose?
Acquisitions of the Month: June 2015
A good month for women artists: works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Remington, and Anna Vallayer-Coster are acquired for major museums
Art Outlook
Isis destruction in Palmyra; Russborough treasures withdrawn from auction; Court orders Danh Vo to produce new work; Queen Elizabeth deeply unimpressed by painting
Art Outlook
Europe remembers Waterloo; Outsider artist Nek Chand dies; Art Basel opens its doors; and Anish Kapoor’s ‘vagina’ sculpture is vandalised at Versailles
10 celebrities who claim to be artists
Meet the musicians, actors and politicians who dabble in the arts
Major fire at the Basilique Saint-Donatien in Nantes
Video from the scene suggests serious damage to the building
Baltic Diary: Making Art Work in Finland
Can Finland’s art scene survive in the face of declining public funding, lack of economic security, and oversupply of labour?
Art Outlook
Attempted terrorist attack at Karnak; chaos on the Cooper Union board; Sleeping Beauty found in Ethiopian tomb; and the new Garage Museum
Haunting photographs of Palmyra go on display at the Smithsonian
A rare funerary bust is accompanied by 19th-century photographs from the site
Is Culture Bigger Than Politics? The British Museum and Abu Dhabi
The ‘Museum for the World’ is a noble but dangerous ideal
Art Outlook
British Museum highlights could be sent to Abu Dhabi; Iranian artist imprisoned for ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’; MoMA staff stage protests
Send them back: Sir Hugh Lane’s Impressionist icons belong in Ireland, not London
And the National Gallery knows it
Cuba’s censorship of Tania Bruguera’s art makes her message more powerful
In a way, the disruption completes the performance
The Magnificent 20: these Italian museums have been granted financial autonomy
These 20 Italian museums will appoint new directors this year and will be granted financial autonomy, as part of the…
Are Italy’s museum reforms enough to stop the rot?
Red tape, nepotism, funding shortages…The Italian museum system has long been in need of an overhaul
Acquisitions of the Month: May 2015
Barbra Streisand donates to LACMA; the Met and the NGA pay homage to Aaron Douglas; SNPG celebrates the Scottish Colourist F. C. B. Cadell
Have the SuicideGirls trumped Richard Prince?
An inventive 21st-century response to copyright infringement
Art Outlook
Fighting continues in Palmyra; Tania Bruguera is detained in Havana; Richard Prince raids Instagram
Most popular
- Recent
- Recent
Podcast
![Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London](http://new-dev.apollo-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MPL2022_4263.jpg)
Who’s in the running to lead Italy’s top museums? A look at the shortlists
Culture minister Dario Franceschini has 20 very big decisions to make