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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Art market

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

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Tax

Will the US tax proposal sell out art buyers?

A proposed revision to the tax code could subject sellers to capital gains tax on art and slow the market

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Biennials & 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

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Ragnar 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

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Jean-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”

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Museums

Former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf blames 'misunderstanding' for departure

German-born curator hits back against “baseless” accusations of a conflict of interest

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Museums

Louvre Abu Dhabi report: what was said at the grand opening of the €1bn project

Architect Jean Nouvel, Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and more speak about the Arab world’s "first universal museum"

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Cultural 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

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Art 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

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In the frame

Art advisors bring Middle Eastern masters to Hong Kong

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In the frame

New-York Historical Society celebrates centenary of women’s suffrage in the state

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Appointments

New chief executive joins The Art Newspaper

Julie Sherborn brings extensive experience of developing titles and brands in Asia

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City 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

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Restitution

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

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Art 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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In the frame

Lin-Manuel Miranda steps up for Smithsonian's twitter rap battle

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Art market

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

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Art market

Amanda Wilkinson to open new gallery in Soho

London art dealer parted ways with Anthony Wilkinson after 20 years this summer

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Building 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'

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Donations

Berlin art dealer and family donate art by Picasso, Warhol and Richter to city of Chemnitz

Bastian family have collaborated with the German city’s art collection since 2002

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Street 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

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The Buck stopped here

Rainbow Aphorisms bring sunshine—and wisdom—to south London

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Three 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

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Openings

Indonesia's grassroots scene gains major private museum

Collector founds Museum Macan to fill gap in country's cultural infrastructure

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Exhibitions

Cornelius Gurlitt’s art hoard finally gets first public showing

Organisers hope two shows will lead to restitution claims from victims of Nazi persecution

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Podcast

Podcast episode eight: how hackers are attacking the art world

Galleries are losing huge sums to cybercrime, what makes them vulnerable? Plus: the dubious restoration along the Camino di Santiago.

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In the frame

German artist Hito Steyerl tops ArtReview's (weighty) Power 100

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In the frame

Barbara Kruger reigns supreme in New York

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In the frame

Moscow museum blames hackers for rogue Tweet

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Three to see

Three to see: New York

From abstract Mexico to a fairy-tale forest

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Commissions

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

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Building 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

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Art 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

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In the frame

CNN star Anderson Cooper reveals his arty purchases

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Art 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

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Acquisitions

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

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Conservation

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

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Photography

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

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Art 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

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Exhibitions

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

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Public 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

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In the frame

Did the Krays have a hand in lost sculptures case?

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Museums

Penn Museum unveils multi-phase revamp

University museum will highlight its archaeological expeditions in new galleries

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Art market

Collectors tackle rise in fake Modern Middle Eastern art

Dalloul Art Foundation investigates authenticity of some Middle Eastern works before museum opening

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Exhibitions

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

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Funding

Victoria and Albert Museum secures £15m endowment fund with Saudi donation

Non-profit Art Jameel throws weight behind London museum’s long-term funding campaign

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Commercial 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

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Object 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

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Caravaggio

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

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Art crime

Ancient relief seized from dealer at Tefaf's fall edition in New York

The work, depicting an Achaemenid soldier and dating from the 5th century BC, was ordered removed from the stand of Rupert Wace by the district attorney

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Art 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

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Cultural 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

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Museums

Massachusetts Attorney General supports request for restraining order against Berkshire Museum

A court will decide this week whether to temporarily halt the sale of 40 works at Sotheby’s

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The Buck stopped here

Icelandic songs and ancestral sausages mark end of Peter Liversidge’s Southwark show

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Museums

New US museum to tell story of Palestine in ‘non-political, non-religious way’

Businessman Faisal Saleh says his institution will present untold turbulent history to American audiences

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Obituaries

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

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Fraud

Galleries hit by cyber crime wave

Hackers are using an email scam to intercept payments between galleries, collectors and others

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Protest

Workers of the art world sign letter against sexual harassment 

More than 200 artists, writers, curators and others have spoken out over abuses of power in the industry

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Museums

Former Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis remaps Lisbon's Gulbenkian

Freed from Tate's "tough agenda" of blockbuster shows, sculpture scholar is opening up Portuguese museum's Islamic collections

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Bass

Miami Beach's Bass reopens after $12m makeover and a year of delays

Contemporary art museum was “unbelievably lucky” to avoid damage from Hurricane Irma

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Vorticist

Sotheby’s expect First World War painting by Nevinson to make £1m

Last sold 50 years ago, A Dawn depicts French troops marching to trenches through Flanders in 1914

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In the frame

Drink up: Dubai’s cafés pop up in Berlin-based Emirati art show

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Art 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

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Museums

British Museum ends loan deal with Abu Dhabi

Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move

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Museums

New contemporary art complex to open in Catalonia with vast Juan Munoz installation

Planta project is situated in a working open-cast mine

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Object 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

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Illuminated 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

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Conservation

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

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In the frame

A room with two very different views

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Three 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

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In the frame

DJ Goldie to hand out the Turner Prize in Hull

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Podcast

Podcast episode seven: the tale of an Old Master forgery scandal

The 'masterpieces' that fooled the art world. Plus: a review of London's latest shows, from Cezanne to Soutine.

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Prizes

First Nation artist Ursula Johnson wins Canada’s $50,000 Sobey Award

The prize recognises artists under 40 from each of the country’s five regions

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Museums

Activists deface American Museum of Natural History’s Theodore Roosevelt monument

The group says it splashed red paint on the statue as “an act of applied art criticism”

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Law

Artforum’s publisher resigns following sexual harassment complaint

A former employee filed a lawsuit against the magazine after she says it tried to silence her and smear her name

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Three to see

Three to see: New York

From ancient Crete to contemporary China

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Museums

Dresden Museum of Ethnology returns ancestral remains to Native Hawaiian group

‘Restitution is a way for healing and justice’ says the museum’s director

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Art 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

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Art 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

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Seattle 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

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Restitution

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

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Artists

Lorenzo Quinn to follow in Christo’s footsteps by creating work for Lake Iseo

Italian artist known for submerging a giant pair of hands in Venice’s Grand Canal plans to install the steel sculpture next year

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Sculpture

Henry Moore’s sculpture Old Flo returns home to London after 20 years

Work that was removed from East End housing estate now on show in Canary Wharf

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In the frame

Leonardo frenzy in London as crowds throng to see Salvator Mundi

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Museums

Vienna's new-look Weltmuseum takes on colonialism

Revamped ethnographic museum encourages debate through interactive displays

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In the frame

#Glasgow International 2018 goes cyber

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Commissions

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

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Artists

Gerhard Richter makes Germany’s rich list with estimated fortune of €700m

Anselm Kiefer and Neo Rauch also figure among 1,001 richest people

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In the frame

Pussy Riot takes Trump Tower

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Law

Court orders release of Mugrabi family’s art being held 'hostage' by storage firm

Mana Contemporary must deliver five works in exchange for $1m—or turn over the entire collection within 24 hours

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In the frame

Andres Serrano judges a vampire fancy dress contest

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Donations

Dennis and Debra Scholl donate contemporary Aboriginal art to three US museums

The Miami collectors have given 200 Australian works to the Met, Frost and Nevada Museum of Art

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Monuments

David Adjaye and Ron Arad unanimously selected to design UK Holocaust and Memorial Centre

Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor also competed for the prestigious commission honouring victims of Nazi persecution

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Law

British art dealer Timothy Sammons denied bail by New York judge

The former Sotheby’s specialist was extradited to the US to face charges of art theft and fraud

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Politics

Erdogan responds to detention of leading cultural activist Osman Kavala

Chairman of the Anadolu Kültür centre, who is outspoken critic of Turkish president, was detained at Istanbul airport

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Protest

Artists in Qatar take stand against blockade with super-sized graffiti

Qatar Museums has called for more anti-embargo art on “bridges, tunnels and walls” across the country

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Public 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

Sponsored byAbu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority

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Art fairs

Tefaf Maastricht announces second preview day for 2018 and 16 new exhibitors

Responding to complaints that the preview day has become overcrowded, the fair in 2018 will hold two invitation only opening days