scholarship
New York's Kallir institute opens new home dedicated to Austrian and German Modernists
The Manhattan-based centre, which builds on legacy of Otto Kallir’s Galerie St Etienne, is making its vast library and archives available to scholars
Frans Hals scholars split over attributions
As a major exhibition on the Dutch Old Master opens at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a divide has emerged among specialists over the total number of autograph works
Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland
Pioneering research by a National Museums of Scotland curator finds statue reflects a village of eminent tomb-makers
Double vision: Paris show displays two Mary Magdalene Caravaggios
Scholars are divided over whether either of the paintings of Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy—or both of them—are copies
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait
National Gallery names art historian Wu Hung as 2019 Mellon Lecturer
The scholar will give six talks surveying more than 2,000 years of Chinese history
Scholars weave craft into the art history canon at College Art Association
The subject appears throughout this year's programme for the leading US conference for art historians
Books: Caravaggio's diametrically opposed contexts in conflict
Across two books, the master's work is interpreted in divergent, not diverse, ways
The best that was and will be: Curator interviews
Curators and scholars on their key exhibitions of 2013, 2014 and beyond.
Modigliani catalogue raisonné still years away
Competing claims and potential conflicts of interests delay publication, originally scheduled for 2006
Books: Less opportunism and more rigour in study of Rothko, please
The 10 essays of Seeing Rothko are distinctly varied in quality
Calder Foundation's new space for exhibitions and encouraging scholarship
Dealers not welcome says director of Calder Foundation
Books: Francis Bacon and the sudden experience of eye-opening words
David Sylvester reevaluates violence
Studies in Modern Art from MOMA to be published annually
The inaugural edition focuses on works from the 1960s
To the defence of the brilliant and tragic artist: Modigliani at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westphalen
With an excerpt from leading expert Werner Schmalenbach’s monograph