Rene Burri dies aged 81; Nicholas Serota takes the Power 100 top spot; and Detroit makes a last-minute deal
Frieze Week; Burrell at Bonhams; Venice at risk; a public art challenge; and the art of slowing down
In the news this week: art law, racism and censorship debates, and the origins of art itself…
Curator Fiona McCarthy discusses Morris’s art and politics, and argues that both are still relevant today
A new owner for The Art Newspaper; seven day weeks for Paris museums; art theft in Cyprus; and another Banksy saga
From 17th-century embroideries to 20th-century photography: some notable recent museum acquisitions
Loved up tourists will have to find another way to say they care…
Racism and censorship rows at the Barbican; hailstorms in Florence; and the end of cadmium red?
Art and books have always gone hand in hand…
It was once nicknamed ‘The Wallace Collection of Ireland’: are efforts being made to save what remains of Bantry’s historic collection?
This is the third in a hat trick of recent changes intended to place public engagement at the heart of the gallery’s operations
The Great Galley at the Wallace Collections reopens after a two year refurbishment
What would Scottish independence mean for the arts? Is the Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery as good as they say? And who spends $65 million on a new pavement?
A Turner masterpiece goes up for sale; over 70 paintings are stolen in Vienna; and a Monet shows up in Gurlitt’s suitcase
Ed Vaizey at the Art Business Conference, hard times for the UK’s regional museums, the potential impact of Scottish independence on its museums, and what you should visit this autumn
Al Jazeera’s ‘Rebel Architecture’ series challenges the ways in which we view the role of the architect
Ed Vaizey at the inaugural Art Business Conference, London
A look ahead at some of the contemporary art exhibitions opening soon in Berlin
New director for the Kunsthalle Zurich, renovation plans at the Louvre, a warped Raphael at the Borghese and an appeal to save Wedgwood
Museum reopenings and big-name exhibitions take centre stage in New York this autumn
A quiet month for acquisitions, but not everyone’s been resting on their laurels…
Art thefts, law suits, iconoclasm, politics and buried treasure
Filippetti left the Cabinet in the midst of a political crisis which resulted in a reshuffle this weekend
Major resignations at Gwangju Biennale and Art Basel; the Bin Laden’s Carrara quarry; and drama at the Jeff Koons retrospective
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
Bantry House sale postponed
It was once nicknamed ‘The Wallace Collection of Ireland’: are efforts being made to save what remains of Bantry’s historic collection?