Louvre Abu Dhabi
Video: Will Louvre Abu Dhabi become famous as a new wonder of the world?
Not just a spectacular building, the museum is a treasure house of art arranged in a radical, intercultural manner
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Fine Arts Paris injects Old Masters into Paris Photo week
The new fair from the organisers of the Salon du Dessin mixes paintings, sculpture and drawings from the Renaissance to the contemporary
NewsBiennials & festivals
Trio of curators to organise 2019 Sharjah Biennial that will look at rise of social media ‘echo chambers’
Three separate shows will be curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons
NewsRagnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson’s new work will see popular Italian song being played repeatedly for five weeks
The durational performance will take place at National Museum of Cardiff next year
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
Japanese billionaire sends $110m Basquiat on 'world tour'
Yusaku Maezawa broke the news on Instagram, saying he hopes the work will be “loved by people all over the world”
NewsCultural policy
Russia and Israel sign historic deal to share digitised Gunzburg Collection
Ownership of vast library of Hebrew manuscripts and books has long been contested
NewsArt market
Abu Dhabi Art set to benefit from Louvre opening
This year’s fair has 13 new exhibitors and is hoping for more international visitors
NewsAppointments
New chief executive joins The Art Newspaper
Julie Sherborn brings extensive experience of developing titles and brands in Asia
NewsCity of Oslo Art Collection
Oslo looks to track down 1,600 missing works of art
Works are from City of Oslo Art Collection, which has pieces displayed in around 1,000 locations throughout the Norwegian capital
NewsRestitution
Lord Mayor of London returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master
The Oyster Meal, insured for £1.5m, has hung in Mansion House for nearly three decades
NewsArt market
Private View: Peter Darach, Richard Diebenkorn and Lotte Laserstein
Noteworthy exhibitions at commercial galleries, from emerging names to forgotten talents
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David Tunick elected president of the International Fine Print Dealers Association
The New York dealer pledges to battle the perception of prints as "poor second cousins" to paintings
NewsArt market
Amanda Wilkinson to open new gallery in Soho
London art dealer parted ways with Anthony Wilkinson after 20 years this summer
NewsBuilding projects
Norman Foster plans subtropical landscape for Norton Museum's $100m expansion
Florida museum will show sculptures by Keith Haring and Mark di Suvero in new 'garden rooms'
NewsStreet art
New Banksy work in Bethlehem says ‘sorry’ for UK’s Balfour Declaration
Work was revealed by actor dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, marking 100th anniversary of contentious declaration
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
Nothing is quite black and white at the National Gallery, while Marie Jacotey’s enigmatic illustrations provide further mysteries
PreviewExhibitions
Cornelius Gurlitt’s art hoard finally gets first public showing
Organisers hope two shows will lead to restitution claims from victims of Nazi persecution
NewsCommissions
Superflex to sail across the Pacific for eco-art initiative
Danish collective will board the Dardanella ship as part of latest environmental project led by TBA21-Academy
NewsBuilding projects
Kettle's Yard to reopen in 2018 after £11m transformation
Cambridge house-museum and its art influenced the student Nicholas Serota to switch from economics to art history
NewsArt market
Julia Peyton-Jones returns to the birth of Modern sculpture for first Ropac show
Former Serpentine director has co-organised an exhibition on Italian artist Medardo Rosso
NewsArt market
Asian Art in London celebrates two decades with Six Dynasties
Exhibition of US TV agent Norman Kurland's collection of ancient Chinese art is a highlight of 20th anniversary event
NewsAcquisitions
Rockefeller's Matisse and Léger fireplaces reunited in Houston
Museum of Fine Arts confirms acquisition to bring together Modern masterpieces originally commissioned for billionaire's Manhattan penthouse
NewsConservation
Old Masters, new tricks: conservators unearth century-old collection’s secrets
Two years of investigation preceded the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition of highlights from the Johnson Collection
NewsPhotography
Dawoud Bey embraces the darkness in new Underground Railroad Project
The Chicago-based photographer, and MacArthur genius award winner, has given The Art Newspaper an exclusive glimpse at the series
NewsArt market
Back to the future: Artissima to champion 80s art and new talent
New director Ilaria Bonacossa introduces a drawings section and plans to return Turin fair to its experimental roots
PreviewExhibitions
Pace Gallery remembers Elizabeth Murray with show of her 1980s work
The late painter’s shaped canvases, including some museum loans, are the subject of a survey in New York
NewsArt market
Collectors tackle rise in fake Modern Middle Eastern art
Dalloul Art Foundation investigates authenticity of some Middle Eastern works before museum opening
PreviewExhibitions
Prehistoric Lion Man points towards earliest notions of religion in new British Museum show
Earliest surviving figurative sculpture, carved from mammoth tusk, is among 160 objects in Living with Gods
NewsCommercial galleries
Shanghai dealer Leo Xu to co-direct David Zwirner’s Hong Kong gallery
Xu is closing his project space and will work alongside former Christie’s head Jennifer Yum
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: a futuristic furniture find, a late Bernard Buffet, and a window on 19th century Goa
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions and fairs
NewsCaravaggio
Galleria Borghese launches Caravaggio research centre—with a little help from Fendi
Roman museum aims to become the primary reference for scholarship on the artist
NewsArt market
Art in healthcare design leads talks programme at London’s Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia
A stalwart of the London traditional art and antiques scene, the fair opens today, marking the shift from autumn to winter
NewsCultural policy
Women are under-represented and underpaid in German arts, study finds
While the country has made progress in providing childcare, it still remains an obstacle
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Icelandic songs and ancestral sausages mark end of Peter Liversidge’s Southwark show
NewsObituaries
Pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin dies aged 86
Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history
NewsArt market
Tefaf New York Fall's second edition opens with oysters and pearls
The Maastricht-based fair imports dealers in historic objects, from antiquities to jewellery, to an under-served US market
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: a medieval Flemish altarpiece, a luck-themed cabinet, and a rare cast of an Antonio Canova sculpture
Hundreds of years of historic works are on offer at Tefaf New York's fall edition, including these picks from the fair
NewsIlluminated manuscripts
Francois I’s Book of Hours has left Britain as Louvre starts to raise £8m to buy it
Renaissance manuscript with gold binding is being sold by London jeweller
NewsConservation
Portrait believed to be Mary, Queen of Scots discovered beneath 16th-century painting
Figure found using X-ray photography during research by National Galleries of Scotland and the Courtauld
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Cézanne’s ballsy portraits to a Tove Jansson survey showing that she was much more than Moomin’s mother
NewsArt market
What to see at New York's International Fine Print Dealers Association fair
The event, which opens today at a new venue, shows artists stretching the boundaries of the medium with three dimensions and digital manipulation
NewsArt market
Swiss freeport king Yves Bouvier sells art storage company Natural Le Coultre
French shipping firm André Chenue beat American competitors to buy the 150-year-old business, as Bouvier continues to fight legal case against Dimitry Rybolovlev
NewsSeattle Art Museum
Seattle set to get first Asian paintings studio in western US
Mellon Foundation grant helps to establish conservation centre at city’s Asian art museum
NewsRestitution
Painting in Gurlitt hoard identified as Nazi loot—thanks to a tiny repair hole
Portrait by Thomas Couture belonged to a French politician who opposed the Nazis
NewsCommissions
New Bloomberg HQ brings together Roman artefacts and contemporary art
Financial giant’s new London base includes sprawling commissions by Olafur Eliasson and Michael Craig-Martin
NewsPublic art
Anri Sala’s installation considers dark side of the Age of Enlightenment
Public work in Sydney connects Mozart masterpiece with arrival of British First Fleet
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Emirati voices: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi on the impact of Louvre Abu Dhabi
Leading Emirati commentator talks about how the museum will change the Gulf
CommentPublic art
‘The newly empty plinths are all potential Fourth Plinths’
The artist Hew Locke says a creative response to memorials dedicated to slave owners and empire builders can reveal hidden histories
Hew Locke