Spain’s plans for a national Civil War museum in disarray
The construction of the National Museum of the Battle of Teruel and the Civil War is advancing slowly and its future direction is uncertainEighty-five years after the conflict that shaped…
July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson
Adam Henein's Big Reader (1995) features in The Farjam Collection of Islamic and Middle Eastern ArtThis two-volume publication published in four books features more than 800 works from the 5,000-strong…
Artist who threatened to blow up art to save Julian Assange reflects on ‘extreme stress’ of the experience
Andrei Molodkin’s Dead Man’s Switch is a pneumatic pump connecting two barrels that could cause a chemical reaction strong enough to destroy the 16 artworks. Photograph: The Foundry StudioThe Russian…
Oldest example of figurative art found in Indonesian cave
The team at the Leang Karampuang site used a new technique to determine the minimum age of the paintings, employing a laser to date a type of crystal called calcium…
Qatar Museums and Venice's new protocol of co-operation includes aim of restoring 'symbolic parts of the city’
ACP Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, is home to the exhibition Your Ghosts Are Mine—Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices, produced by Qatar Museums, until 24 November © Daniele Nalesso, courtesy of Qatar Museums…
Anton van Dalen, who imaginatively chronicled life in Lower Manhattan, has died, aged 86
Anton van Dalen in his studio in Anton: Circling Home (2020) Photo by Anthony LindseyAnton van Dalen, the Dutch American artist whose work memorialised New York’s East Village—the neighbourhood in…
‘Viscerally real’: a Caravaggio painting provides inspiration for a newly translated novel
Caravaggio’s faces are hard to forget—consider the beautiful fortune teller, her almond-shaped eyes casting a spell over her young customer as she is easing a ring off his finger; the…
Who really was John Soane? The man and manifesto behind the magnificent house museum
Francis Chantrey’s 1830 marble bust of John Soane Photo: Derry Moore; © Sir John Soane’s Museum, LondonIn 1812 John Soane—professor of architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts and, arguably,…
Charges dropped against pro-Palestinian protestors from Art Institute of Chicago encampment
Pro-Palestine protesters were arrested at the Art Institute of Chicago on 4 May David Jank / Alamy Stock PhotoCharges have been dropped against 80 protestors who took part in a…
Take a romp through Ancient Rome’s great buildings
Alan Sorrell’s reconstruction of the Roman Forum in the fourth century, looking towards the Temple of Jupiter © Ashmolean Museum, University of OxfordIn this lavishly illustrated book, the drawing recreating…