Forum: Is the Turner Prize still relevant at 30?
The Turner Prize turns 30 this year – but does it continue to represent the best of contemporary British art?
Gallery: ‘FLASHBACK’ Pala Alpitour, Turin (Italy)
FLASHBACK in Turin supports the premise that ‘All Art is contemporary’
Gallery: ‘Odd Volumes: Book Art’ at Yale University Art Gallery
An insight into the world of book art
Acquisitions of the Month: October
The Metropolitan Museum gains a collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts, while Tate takes home some contemporary work from Frieze
Muse Reviews: 2 November
Pierre Huyghe’s stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’; and Schiele’s uneasy nudes
Art Outlook: 30 October
Some of the stories and discussions we’ve spotted online this week: Could ‘orphan’ artworks be brought in from the cold?…
Gallery: ‘Modern Times’ at the Rijksmuseum
Highlights from the Rijksmuseum’s first major photography show
Gallery: French Flowers in Dallas
Flower paintings are often appreciated for their decorative qualities, but their simple beauty belies the significance of the genre
Gallery: The City Lost and Found at the Art Institute of Chicago
How did artists turn the chaotic transformations of the USA’s big cities into powerful and resonant art?
Book Competition
Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640–1840, by Ruth Guilding
Forum: Are online auctions the future of the art trade?
Earlier this year, the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report estimated the value of the online art trade in 2013 to…
Art Outlook: 23 October
Rene Burri dies aged 81; Nicholas Serota takes the Power 100 top spot; and Detroit makes a last-minute deal
The Apollo Podcast Film special: Mike Leigh on Mr. Turner
Thomas Marks is joined by the director to talk about his love of Turner’s work, and taking art to the movies
Highlights from The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Highlights from this year’s fair, from precious metals to furniture, fine art and jewellery
Gallery: Lady Lever Art Gallery
The Lady Lever Art Gallery has received £1.2m backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund
Gallery: ‘Sculptors’ Drawings’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Works on paper by masters of Italian Renaissance sculpture
Gallery: Caspar Wolf at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Wolf’s paintings of the Alps capture something of the mountains’ hostile magnificence
Gallery: ‘Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe’ at the Alte Pinakothek
Bellotto’s work took him all over Europe. View some of highlights from an upcoming exhibition in Munich…
Muse Reviews: 19 October
Matisse goes to New York, the British Library goes Gothic, and Sotheby’s goes to Chatsworth
London Diary: 17 October
Frith Street Gallery moves back to Frith Street, and Multiplied opens at Christie’s
Art Outlook: 16 October
Frieze Week; Burrell at Bonhams; Venice at risk; a public art challenge; and the art of slowing down
London Diary: 16 October
Charles Ede Ltd celebrates ‘a flourishing tradition’; the National Portrait Gallery celebrates anarchy and beauty…
London Diary: 15 October
From Rembrandt to Richter: some major new shows opening today, not to mention Frieze itself
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?