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Penn Museum opens Native North America Gallery after two-year overhaul
The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft gallery in collaboration with eight Indigenous curators
Final fraud suspect in vast Norval Morrisseau forgery operation found guilty
Jeff Cowan had been accused of sourcing forgeries and fabricating false provenance documents
Philadelphia Art Museum taps former Metropolitan Museum leader after firing previous director
Daniel H. Weiss, who led the Met from 2015 to 2023, will succeed Sasha Suda, who is suing the Philadelphia Art Museum over the circumstances of her firing
‘This is how art history is built’: unprecedented Mumbai exhibition unites works of Indian and Arab Modernism
The Barjeel collection in Sharjah has loaned works to the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation for the first-ever show to examine 20th-century art of both regions
In 1960s New York, three single mothers bought a house together and turned it into a thriving live/work space
The new documentary "Artists in Residence" tells the remarkable story of the lives and work of Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid and Louise Kruger
Art market
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m at Sotheby's, breaking her auction record
The final evening auction of New York’s marquee autumn sales featured a bevvy of bidding on Surrealist works and a $62.7m Van Gogh
Heffel’s autumn sales, including auction of art from collection of Canada’s oldest company, tally $22.1m
Across the day’s four sales in Toronto, the auction house set new secondary-market records for 16 artists’ work
New York gallery Sperone Westwater to close after 50 years amid lawsuit between co-founders
The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December
Record $236.3m Klimt leads Sotheby’s first night of auctions in Breuer Building
The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder
Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan's $12.1m gold toilet is Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
The US oddity emporium and tourist attraction franchise is “flush with excitement”, according to a statement
Museums & Heritage
British Museum stubs out controversial tobacco sponsorship deal
The move follows a recent report which described the partnership as a key part of the tobacco firm’s lobbying strategy
Collector of Beeple’s $69.3 million NFT work launches space in Singapore
Vignesh Sundaresan, who purchased Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, has unveiled Padimai Art & Tech Studio—which opens with an exhibition made in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson
Rijksmuseum to host study exploring potential benefits of art for people with Parkinson’s
A leading neurologist is working with the Amsterdam museum to see if making or encountering art can help ease symptoms of the degenerative disease
Louvre closes gallery ‘until further notice’ citing structural problems
This latest blow for the Paris museum follows a report on its buildings which highlighted “particular fragility” in its Campana Gallery
Metropolitan Museum workers launch unionising effort
The new organising effort, with the Local 2110 chapter of the United Auto Workers, would create a union representing around 1,000 employees
Exhibitions
William Nicholson, often overlooked in favour of his more famous son, is coming out of the shadows
Head of a family of artists including the more famous Ben, a Pallant House Gallery exhibition shows this father is ripe for reassessment
Live conservation reveals hidden surprises of unfinished Spencer painting
“Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta” is the centre piece of a new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, where the artist spent most of his life
An eerie Renaissance masterpiece, fresh from a four-year restoration process, goes on show in Berlin
Ambiguity and subtlety have returned to the Carpaccio work, following the removal of grime and old varnish
In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice
A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”
‘Mona Lisa of illuminated manuscripts’ goes on show in Rome
The bible, which is considered a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance art, is on display as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations
Saudi Arabia's Cultural Development Fund
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid—podcast
Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s senior art market editor in the Americas, Carlie Porterfield, about this week’s auctions, discusses the climate emergency with Louisa Buck and chats to the director of the Wallace Collection
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A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with… Peter Doig—podcast
Peter Doig talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.
Two Van Gogh records smashed—and a new highest sale price for the artist’s Paris period work
Sotheby's sold “Parisian Novels” for $62m and “The Sower” for over $10m, a record for one of his drawings
Book reviews
Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander navigates her country’s complex past—a new monograph tells her story
An art historian’s book on the Lahore-born artist does justice to both her beautiful paintings and the history that informs them
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brief but dazzling life, as told by an art-world insider
A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death
How the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti spoke truth to power
A new book explores Siena's heyday—the good, the bad and the sceptical
New book highlights Vorticism’s toxic side—and puts its women pioneers back in the frame
James King’s study places Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders at the centre of the movement
Martin Parr steps out from behind the camera lens in informal autobiography
An intimate and chatty biography gives the artist space to reflect on his career in photography and the practice’s evolution
Opinion
Comment | Want to truly read a painting? Forget the present, and focus on the past
To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor
Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient
The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives
Comment | Exhibitions comparing artists can be problematic, but the Barbican brings Giacometti, Bhabha and Hatoum together with perfect judgement
Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue
Comment | A spate of dealer anniversaries offers hope amid art market doomerism
Several New York galleries have hit major milestones in recent months—what lessons can those in charge impart?
Comment | Museums can't get enough of anniversary exhibitions—but surely there's better ways to serve the public
This year museums are falling over themselves to celebrate Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But, asks Julia Halperin, who is it really all for?
Diary
No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign
Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach
Francis Bacon’s Paris pad honoured with plaque
The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s
Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum
Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar
Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo
An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages
Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A
The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month
Obituaries
Remembering John Morgan, radical typographer and designer who transformed the Church of England's books
From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture
Carla Stellweg, influential critic, gallerist and scholar of Latin American art, has died, aged 83
The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator
Tony Fitzpatrick, indefatigable artistic polymath from Chicago, has died, aged 66
A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more
Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87
In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives
Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98
Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire












































