A recent spate of high-profile sales has reignited debates around deaccessioning and diversification
The subject of a well-known miniature by Isaac Oliver has long been a mystery, but could the painting’s motto offer a clue to its sitter’s identity?
From post Impressionist painting to 20th-century toys, the humble potato has caught the imagination of many an artist – and infant cubist
Plus: Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning sales, and more recent stories
Radical collectives in the 1970s were keen to make documentary photography more democratic
From eye miniatures to lockets of hair, historical love tokens brought people together even when they were apart
Reimagined for its 23rd edition, the event is now split into two sections – with the first leg focusing on Indian and Islamic art
The photographer’s first UK retrospective explores his abiding interest in the experience of outsiders in society
The reconstruction of the Berlin Palace is just one example of the city’s nostalgia for the past
The artist was a reluctant photographer – yet from the 1920s to ’40s, the Surrealist vision he brought to fashion photography helped elevate it to an art form in its own right
Oliver Beer’s sound installations reveal a music that was already quietly present
With far fewer in-person visitors exiting through the gift shop, institutions must find new ways to mitigate their losses
With new labels for some of its most contested objects the museum is engaging in an important conversation – but has it got the tone wrong?
The Brooklyn Museum is to sell another round of works from its collection, and more recent stories
Why is it that single women living in Manhattan nearly always find themselves working in an art gallery – on TV, at least?
In these paintings from the 1980s and ’90s, Hodgkin found a way to depict that ‘almost impossibly nebulous subject’ – his own past experiences
The Ohio-based artist discusses her long-term research into our throwaway culture – and how a LACMA fellowship led to her working with NASA
A survey of artists inspired by the movement considers how successfully sculpture can convey a sense of transience
The museum is selling part of its collection of Islamic art as well as some extraordinary timepieces
A portrait of an 18th-century comedienne and a long-lost manuscript by Gauguin are among this month’s highlights
Olmec artists from the Gulf Coast region of Mexico produced some of the most striking sculptures in the ancient Americas
The gallery is paying homage to the famous wartime concerts organised by Myra Hess with a series of performances – with no audiences, alas
Plus: Nancy Spector resigns from the Guggenheim; and more recent stories
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