Art Basel Miami Beach, Louvre crisis deepens, Helene Schjerfbeck
The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton, and art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Miami Beach for Art Basel’s latest edition and d...
The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in Ottawa
After a delayed application process and an aborted initial commission, the US has at last appointed its artist for next year’s Venice Biennale: the Ut...
The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) sold for the second highest price ever realised at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday....
Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer
Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer As the Studio Museum in Harlem opens in its first ever purpose-built space, a new bui...
MFA Boston returns enslaved artist’s work to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, US, has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the enslaved 19th-century potter David Drake to his present-d...
Gauguin “fake” is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s head piece
The authenticity of the final self-portrait by Paul Gauguin, made in 1903 and housed in the Kunstmuseum in Basel, was earlier this year called into qu...
Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayne McGregor on his new installation
It is an event that has shocked the world and prompted a national reckoning in France: the robbery of eight jewels from the Apollo Gallery of the Louv...
Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and Renoir’s drawing for The Great Bathers
Amid much debate about the health of the art market, Frieze is back in London, with its two fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters. Ben Luke talks to...
Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes
Tate Modern continues to explore the histories of Modern art beyond the European and North American canons that were once its focus. This week it open...
Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed
A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, called Made in Ancient Egypt, reveals untold stories of the people behind a host of remar...