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The fake feud between Picasso and Matisse
Shortly after Matisse’s death, Clive Bell called time on the artist’s rivalry with Picasso – and rightly so
The man in charge of modernising the Uffizi
Reforming Italy’s most famous museum is a huge and sensitive task for new director Eike Schmidt
How Kansas City got its magnificent museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art built its collection from scratch in the 1930s, and is still going strong today
Acquisitions of the month: March 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from rare Fabergé animals in London to Canadian masterpieces in Ottawa
Eight art events to get to in April
Highlights include shows devoted to Botticelli, Balla, and Walker Evans, and Tate’s ‘Queer British Art’ exhibition
Damien Hirst reveals plans to pickle fellow YBAs
Tracey Emin and other YBAs will be suspended in formaldehyde during Frieze Week 2068
Activists round on artists in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights
Tensions have flared in recent months as residents accuse new galleries of ‘art-washing’ and gentrifying the neighbourhood
An ambitious plan to put Montpellier on the map
The city of Montpellier’s cultural plans include a new contemporary art museum headed up by Nicolas Bourriaud
Recollections of Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin’s great artistic struggle – and achievement – was to find a way of visualising memories
‘When I start bidding it’s very hard to stop’
Kiran Nadar on the ‘exhilaration’ of art collecting, the museum she set up in Delhi, and her commitment to showing Indian artists on the global stage
Meret Oppenheim – an outsider interested in the outsides of things
Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim’s objects – she referred to them as ‘things’ – are still deeply unsettling, drawing you into their worlds and their logic
In the kitchen with Leonora Carrington
What it was like to meet the Surrealist artist in Mexico
Culture wars in Bosnia
The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina is a powerful symbol of the tensions that persist in Bosnia more than 20 years after the end of the war
Mondrian gets his moment
The Gemeentemuseum has the largest collection of Mondrian’s works in the world – no wonder that it’s at the centre of the centenary celebrations of De Stijl this year
Can L’Aquila rise from the rubble of the 2009 earthquake?
Eight years on from the earthquake that claimed 309 lives, reconstruction work is still underway, hampered by bureaucracy and corruption
A look back over Rodin’s rollercoaster career
The French sculptor attracted commissions and controversy in equal measure, and his reputation is constantly being reassessed
Past and present collide at the Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s new medieval and Renaissance galleries put its outstanding collections in the spotlight and invites fresh and unexpected connections
The man who created ‘dictator chic’
Charles Percier may not be a household name, but his Empire style sums up the Napoleonic era – and has had imitators ever since
TEFAF video: an unholy alliance – conflict or symbiosis?
Watch a TEFAF Talk about the relationship between museums and the art trade
More to cheese than meets the eye?
How Dutch meal still life paintings captured the great intellectual preoccupations of the 17th century
Beyond the Surface: Howard Hodgkin, 1932–2017
The celebrated painter Howard Hodgkin has died in London aged 84
Where to go when you leave TEFAF Maastricht
If you’re visiting the fair, why not expand your horizons and head to these nearby art events, too?
Are things looking up for women in the arts?
Women artists have long been underrepresented on the world stage. On International Women’s Day, we celebrate some notable recent attempts at change
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017)
Once described as the ‘conscience of the art world’, Metzger believed in the responsibility of artists to inspire revolutionary social change
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