A new online museum is sharing the histories of repatriated objects
The so-called Toledo Ganesha was returned to India in 2012, having been stolen around 2005Courtesy of the Museum of Looted AntiquitiesIt seems every day there is a new story about…
Perrotin and its artists have made a €6m donation to the Pompidou—could the move set a precedent?
Emmanuel Perrotin outside the Pompidou© Tanguy Beurdeley. Courtesy PerrotinOn Monday (16 September), Perrotin sent out an unusual announcement that the gallery and its artists have donated 23 works of art,…
Skillful new volume explores the contradictory Neo-Classicist, Guillaume Lethière
Lethière’s output includes portraiture such as Woman Leaning on a Portfolio (1799)Worcester Art Museum/Bridgeman ImagesThis massive volume has been published to accompany the first ever exhibition devoted to Guillaume Lethière…
‘I’m encouraged by Marina Abramović’: FKA twigs takes over Sotheby’s
FKA twigs, The Eleven (14-26 September)courtesy Sotheby'sThe zeitgeisty musician FKA twigs is shaking up Sotheby’s in London over the next fortnight with a durational piece entitled The Eleven (14-26 September),…
Lacma pushes back opening of new building until 2026
The David Geffen Galleries building under construction earlier this year on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus Photo: Benjamin SuttonSupporters and critics of the Los Angeles County Museum…
From punk pioneer to major market player: 40 years of Maureen Paley gallery
Maureen Paley opened her first gallery in 1984, in a derelict house in East London © Devin Blair With her general air of New York cool, Maureen Paley cut a…
Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities
Margolles describes the sculpture as "a display of resilience and humanity from the trans plus/non-binary community"© James O JenkinsThe latest work to be unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in London’s…
National Museum of Denmark returns sacred Indigenous cloak to Brazil
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and members of the Tupinambá Indigenous community look at the sacred cloak recently returned to Brazil, at the National Museum's Library Photo by…
Eyelash magnate Sydell Miller’s art collection estimated to bring around $200m at Sotheby’s
Claude Monet, Nymphéas, around 1914-17 Courtesy Sotheby'sThe art collection assembled by a Palm Beach powerhouse of the beauty industry is estimated by Sotheby’s to fetch a total in the region…
Caravaggio’s Cupid heads for London
The work will form the central piece in a small displayCaravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Cupid as Victor, 1601/02. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Image by Google; Public Domain Mark 1.0…