When Timothy Millett was apprenticed in the family’s coin-dealing business, he was fascinated not by Roman gold or Renaissance bronze, but by the oddities that sometimes showed up in lots …
Arts
Acclaimed sculptural installation, once threatened with demolition, reopens on a new site
A large-scale installation by the sculptor Elyn Zimmermann which was previously slated for demolition officially reopened today (April 4) with a new name and design on the campus of American …
Vitamin C+: collage in contemporary artcontributors include Yuval Etgar, Phaidon, 304pp, £49.95 (hb) Phaidon’s latest survey of contemporary art in the Vitamin The series focuses on the underrated medium of …
Why show us inside the ruins of Grenfell Tower? Late in the evening on June 14, 2017, a fridge caught fire in a flat on the fourth floor of the …
Concept Artist Jessica Vaughn Wins New Frieze Prize, Will Present Mail Art Project at New York Fair
Postal Art Fans Visiting Next Month Frieze New York (May 17-21) at The Shed go for a treat: the fair will feature a special commission from the New York-based concept …
Pablo Picasso’s police records searched for new book about his life as a foreigner in France
Everyone can consult the archives of the Paris police,” writes Annie Cohen-Solal at the start of her new book, Picasso the stranger. In the police shops, she finds an inflated …
Bonhams closes the gender pay gap by 39%, but Sotheby’s and Christie’s lag behind
The gender pay gap in UK public museums has historically been narrow, a trend not mirrored by the country’s top auction houses. So far. Today Bonhams released its 2022 pay …
Could a virtually unknown Vermeer painting be languishing in storage at the Philadelphia Museum of Art? His photos are very rare and the curators of the current Rijksmuseum retrospective Vermeer …
After the disaster of the war with Prussia, the Emperor Napoleon III went into exile in England in 1870, accompanied by his Spanish wife Eugénie and his son the Prince …
You’re never too old to grace the cover of Vogue, as evidenced by Apo Whang-Od, an indigenous Filipina tattoo artist who graces the April issue of the Philippine edition at …