Tefaf Maastricht: the wish list
Courtesy Peter HarringtonThis first edition book of Shakespearean poems was published by Kelmscott Press, the private press founded by the…
Influential collection of Indigenous art hires former Whitney curator, will open exhibition space in New York
Laura Phipps has been hired as director of the Gochman Family Collection Photo courtesy Roeg CohenThe Gochman Family Collection, an…
Artists agonise over when a work is finished—but should we viewers care?
Howard Hodgkin said of Edgar Degas’s Hélène Rouart in her Father’s Study (around 1886) that “it had got a bit…
Did Van Gogh’s Yellow House turn blue after his death?
Van Gogh’s The Yellow House (September 1888) (detail)Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)Adventures with Van Gogh is a…
New rules on importing cultural artefacts create headaches at Tefaf Maastricht
Tefaf’s vetting team checks the authenticity of objects at the fair Photo: Loraine BodewesTefaf Maastricht is the first major European…
Unesco sites in Iranian city of Isfahan damaged by US-Israel strikes
Damage to the Chehel Sotoun Palace in Isfahan on 10 March 2026Several Unesco World Heritage sites in Iran, along with…
Tomás Saraceno and Indigenous communities build art complex in Argentine salt flats
Rendering of The Sanctuary of Water, conceived by the artist Tomás Saraceno with the 11 Indigenous communities of the Red…
The rise of the destination art fair
The Hotel Jerome, home of the Aspen Art Fair. Courtesy Aspen Art FairIn the ever-more crowded art-world calendar of fairs,…
Obituary | Umberto Allemandi, visionary publisher who founded 'Il Giornale dell’Arte', has died aged 88
Umberto Allemandi © Anna Somers CocksUmberto Allemandi’s passion for the printed word began early. During the Second World War his…
Show me the money: UK gallery and auction house accounts reveal reality of a tough market
Dark times? Subdued sales are blamed for lower turnovers and profits at blue-chip galleries in 2024 compared with 2023Photo: MaxgorThe…
Unesco World Heritage buildings in Tel Aviv damaged by Iranian missile strike
Buildings in Tel Aviv's Unesco World Heritage site The White City after the strike on 28 February Courtesy of The…
Leading Russian archaeologist arrested in Poland over Crimean excavations
Alexander Butyagin has been under criminal investigation by Ukraine since 2024Photo: © 2022 SOPA ImagesAlexander Butyagin, the head of the…
The Big Review | The Woman Question 1550-2025 ★★★★½
Works in the show include (top, from left to right) Kateryna Lysovenko’s Untitled (2022), Lesia Khomenko’s A Woman in the…
‘Lost’ painting reattributed to Rembrandt by Rijksmuseum’s researchers
Rembrandt van Rijn's Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) Photo: Rijksmuseum/Kelly SchenkAn early biblical painting by Rembrandt van Rijn…
Obscured Gauguin nude sculpture may be revealed in its entirety following museum donation
The crouching woman at the left in Gauguin’s carving originally had red-painted genitals, but this was overpainted in green by…
Towering cost: Tracey Emin hit with £160,000 bill to fix Margate flats
Sky-high (costs): Arlington House in Margate AcabashiThe UK artist Tracey Emin is facing a hefty £160,000 bill to fix the…
Clash of the Renaissance titans: an intriguing double biography of Titian and Michelangelo
A portrait of Michelangelo (around 1575), attributed to Daniele da Volterra, and Titian's self-portrait (around 1562) Metropolitan Museum of Art,…
March Book Bag: from a Modigliani catalogue raisonné to a career guide for artists
Amedeo Modigliani's La Bouquetière (1919-20) Private collection © Marc Restellini/Institut RestelliniThis long-awaited controversial catalogue raisonné dedicated to the notorious early…
A new home for Asian contemporary art opens in landmarked building in Manhattan's Chinatown
The exterior of 58 Bowery, home to the Wang Contemporary Photo courtesy the Wang ContemporaryOn 20 February, the Wang Contemporary…
19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan after 60-year search
The stern of the Lac La Belle Courtesy Paul Ehorn“Shipwreck hunting is a passion, a disease—once you start, you cannot…
‘He always had spirituality’: Spanish exhibition unpicks Picasso's religious influences
Pablo Picasso, Mother with Dead Child (II). Postscript to “Guernica”, (1937) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaHe was a…
Comment | Latest auctions prove Old Masters are not ‘out of fashion’
Stand and deliver: Michelangelo’s study of a foot for the Sistine Chapel ceiling sold for $27.2m at Christie’sPhoto: Christie’s ImagesDiary…
Can you feel the love tonight? Elton John's cosy family portrait captured by Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie's Elijah, David, Elton and Zachary (2025) © Catherine Opie; courtesy of the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and…
‘A gilded edifice to one man’s ego’: critics pile on at public hearing on Trump’s White House ballroom plans
The demolition of the East Wing of the White House in October 2025 Photo by Joe Flood, via FlickrThe American…
New book digs into the little-known gallery that brought Modern art to America
Exhibition of Maria Martins at the Valentine Gallery in May 1942 Collection of the authorWhen the F. Valentine Dudensing Gallery…
UK presenters Ant and Dec take legal action over 'secret and unauthorised £250,000 profit' made from Banksy prints
Ant McPartlin and Declan DonnellyCourtesy WikiThe UK television personalities Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly—known together as Ant and Dec—have won…
Tehran’s Unesco-listed Golestan Palace reportedly damaged by US-Israeli strikes
Due to recent protests and the threat of attacks, Golestan Palace's artefacts were relocated to safe storage and its chandeliers…
A Francis Bacon self-portrait and a Surrealist avian painting: our pick of the March auctions
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait (1972) Courtesy of Sotheby’sFollowing the sudden death of his longtime partner and muse George Dyer in 1971,…
Smells like teen spirit: inside the world’s first scent-lending library
A taxidermy peacock guards the reference section at Seattle’s Scent Lending Library Photo: Bess LovejoyThe artist Donna Lipowitz says she…
War in the Middle East, the Whitney Biennial, and a newly-discovered Rembrandt in Amsterdam—podcast
The 400-year-old Golestan Palace reportedly sustained damage from a nearby missile blastFrom breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and…
‘No one was really interested in finding those works’: major Brazilian art theft still unsolved as statute of limitations expires
Claude Monet’s Marine (1880-90) was among the works stolen in 2006 Public domain via Wikimedia CommonsTwo decades after one of…
Henry Moore and Dorothea Tanning set records at Christie's triple-header sale in London
Henry Moore's King and Queen (1952-53) sculpture set a new record for the artist at Christie's 20th/21st century evening sale…
The many faces and identities of Frida Kahlo are explored in exhibition catalogue
Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait (in a Velvet Dress) (1926), painted before the artist embraced Indigenous clothing in the 1930s © 2025…
Innocent mistake? Italy's prime minister appears as a cherub in Rome church
An image of an angel with a face resembling the right-wing Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been erased from…
Royal Ontario Museum picks new leader
The new director and chief executive of the Royal Ontario Museum, Nicholas R. Bell Courtesy Royal Ontario Museum, TorontoWith the…
Profile | Pierre Rosenberg, the former Louvre president, on his long-awaited four-volume Poussin catalogue—and forthcoming museum
Pierre Rosenberg in his Paris home © Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty ImagesOn any given day, around 25,000 visitors crowd…
‘I rely heavily on instinct’: entertainment mogul Hassan Smith on the art he collects and why
In addition to working as a manager for the singer John Legend, Hassan Smith serves on the advisory board for…
Spot the difference: Bridget Riley work enjoys new green cleaning treatment
Tate has researched the polyvinyl acetate house paints Riley used to create Hesitate (1964) and other works© Bridget Riley 2025;…
Student design competition for permanent George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis opens
The temporary memorial in the traffic circle at George Perry Floyd Square in Minneapolis as it appeared one year after…
What in tarnation is U-Haul Gallery showing now?
Alexis Rockman’s The La Brea Tar Pits depicts the pits’ ancient dwellers Courtesy U-Haul GalleryU-Haul Gallery, the roving art enterprise…
An expert's guide to John Constable: five must-read books on the British painter
John Constable (around 1799) by Ramsay Richard Reinagle is in the Turner and Constable exhibition at Tate Britain © National…
'Permabase' vs 'flexispace': which is better for commercial galleries?
Lehmann Maupin is taking a hybrid approach at London’s No. 9 Cork Street. It will have a permanent gallery on…
‘It doesn’t put walls around everything’: behind the plans for Manila’s new contemporary art centre
Left: A rendering of the Kontempo Center for Contemporary Art. Right: The centre’s inaugural artistic director Reuben Keehan Rendering: ©…
Los Angeles’s next generation of dealers forges new paths
City of angels, city of art: fairgoers gather in front of S.O.S. (2026) by the Los Angeles-based artist Greta Waller,…
Former Louvre president Pierre Rosenberg on his new Poussin catalogue—and forthcoming museum
Pierre Rosenberg in his Paris home © Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty ImagesOn any given day, around 25,000 visitors crowd…
‘Haters will say this urn is mid’: US National Gallery of Art curator is Insta hit with Gen Z
Alison Luchs’s Instagram posts in slang have been a huge hit National Gallery of Art/@ngadcAlison Luchs, the deputy head of…
Van Gogh visited Georges Seurat's studio the day he left for Provence
Van Gogh’s The Sower (June 1888)Kröller-Müller Museum, OtterloAdventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, The Art…
Enzo fair is fun and fee-free
Sam Linguist’s works arrived in Los Angeles in the gallerist Laurel Gitlen’s luggage Photo: Charles BentonA new alternative-model art fair,…
Book on ‘useful art’ offers timely retort to the commodification of artists’ work
Grizedale's director Adam Sutherland at the Farmer's Arms, which is now a place for discussion and experimental, socially useful projects…
Miami’s ancient Indigenous sites face an uncertain future
A worker at an archaeological dig in the Brickell neighbourhood. Millions of artefacts have been found at the sites of…
Man arrested after London Winston Churchill statue sprayed with ‘Zionist war criminal’ graffiti
Churchill's vandalised statue in London's Parliament SquareReutersUpdate 02/03/03/2025On Monday 2 March, a 38-year-old man, Caspar San Giorgio, appeared at Westminster…
Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil
Manumissions reveal vital details about the lives of enslaved people sent to Brazil Courtesy of British Library/Endangered Archives ProgrammeA study…
In Pictures: sculpture gets a leg up at Frieze Los Angeles
Photo: Carlin StiehlVincent PocsikHands in Garden (2025) Nazarian CurcioMirrored art is notoriously attractive to fairgoers, but the Los Angeles-based artist…
Spain’s galleries are protesting against high taxes—can Arco Madrid help voice their concerns?
The 45th edition of Arco Madrid will feature 206 galleries Courtesy of Arco MadridArco Madrid, Spain’s largest commercial art fair,…
Frieze Los Angeles Diary: hockey hotties, roaming Rami and Simon sells
RF. Alvarez’s Heated Rivalry-inspired painting sold just hours into the VIP preview on Wednesday for $14,500 Courtesy of Megan MulrooneyOne…
A short guide to the hidden meanings in great paintings
Bernardino Luini, Three Angels on Clouds (around 1515–18); according to Caroline Chapman, the three most important archangels are Michael, Gabriel…
Vancouver Art Gallery gifted more than 800 photographs by Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore, Self Portrait, North Market Street and Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina, August 13, 1975, 1975 (printed 2013-14) Collection…
Perfectly unusual settings for art in Los Angeles
The Jewelry Theatre Building is now host to Matinée, a gallery founded by the artist Andrew J. Greene, with recent…
The year of André Malraux: France salutes its pioneering intellectual with exhibitions and more
André Malraux (1901-76) was the French culture minister from 1958 to 1969 under President Charles de Gaulle Jean Claude Mallinjod/INA…
Los Angeles museums on the cusp of new golden age
The first of many major new museums and expansions in Los Angeles will be the $835m addition to the Los…