If you could live with just one piece of art, what would it be? I am constantly hypnotized by the painting of Arshile Gorky The Liver is the Comb of …
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The Art Newspaper: If you could live with just one piece of art, what would it be? Beatrice Graton: Daughter (1957), a work by Australian modernist artist Joy Hester, in …
Book review | A globe-trotting guide to contested sites, dubious historical restorations and terrifying heritage destructions
Barely a week goes by without disputes arising over disputed heritage, from demolished statues and monuments to slave traders and colonizers, the removal of British imperial buildings and the reclamation …
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Five panels from Dosso Dossi’s “magnificent” Renaissance frieze brought together for an exhibition in Rome
THE camerin d’alabastro (alabaster room) – one of the private apartments connecting the Castelle Estense and the Palazzo Ducale in Ferrara – was created for Duke Alfonso I D’Este as …
Fluxus Artist Stanley Brouwn’s Conceptual Work Explored in Chicago and New York Exhibitions
In 1969, Suriname-born, Amsterdam-based conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn wrote a letter to curator Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern containing proposals for four rather impossible projects. The first was to …
From the ashes of Masterpiece London comes Treasure House Fair—who participates?
More than 40 leading dealers, the majority of which are based in London, have lent their support to a new art fair announced last monthwho will replace the Masterpieces Fair …
Courbet’s painting – seized by the Nazis and belonging to a reverend – must be returned to its original owners
Seized by the Nazis in occupied France, a painting by Gustave Courbet currently in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, will now be returned to the descendants …
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is the most popular American art museum for the first time since 2008
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC was the most popular art museum in the United States last year, with nearly 3.3 million visitors. This is the first …
When waste becomes a work of art, street artist Bisk transforms Parisian trash into optimistic installations
One man’s trash is another man’s canvas, as the saying goes (apparently). That’s certainly the case with French street artist Bisk, who transforms mounds of rubbish on the streets of …