Apollo

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019)

Carolee Schneemann in London in May 2017.

Art news daily: 7 March

Nature boys – Hockney and Van Gogh in Amsterdam

The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) (2011), David Hockney.

Hockney has followed the Dutch painter’s lead in his intensely coloured responses to the call of the wild

Voluptuous Venuses and sexy Sebastians – the Renaissance nude at the RA

Battle of the Nudes (1470s), Antonio Pollaiuolo. The Albertina Museum, Vienna

The rediscovery of classical art in Europe transformed depictions of the naked body

Kunsthalle Wien to be directed by curatorial collective

The Kunsthalle Wien.

Art news daily: 6 March

The painter who took a prudent approach to the French Revolution

The Poor Cat, (1832), Louis-Léopold Boilly. The Ramsbury Manor Foundation, photo: © The trustees of the Ramsbury Manor Foundation

Louis-Léopold Boilly was a peculiarly adaptable painter in turbulent times

Acquisitions of the Month: February 2019

Two Trees, Peter Doig

A Peter Doig landscape, a Banksy banknote, and a rare Rembrandt have entered public collections recently

Italy agrees to loan Leonardos to the Louvre

Art news daily: 5 March

The best preserved Roman ruins in France now have a museum to match

The Musée de la Romanité, completed in 2018, sits on the Boulevard des Arènes, across from the 1st-century amphitheatre.

The new Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes makes the most of the city’s classical past

What’s in store at the Armory Show 2019

Finch College Project, Robert Morris

A tribute to Robert Morris stands out among the displays of modern and contemporary art at this year’s fair

‘Robert Ryman gave us a lot to look at’

Robert Ryman in his studio in New York in 1999.

The painter’s commitment to white taught us new things about colour and about painting itself

Kevin Roche (1922–2019)

Art news daily: 4 March

How the Africa Museum is facing up to Belgium’s colonial past

The Crocodile Room in the Africa Museum, Tervuren.

The museum founded by Leopold II has reopened after a five-year closure and rethought all its displays. Has it gone far enough?

Part of the fabric – draped cloth and diaphanous veils in Renaissance art

The Circumcision (c. 1500), Giovanni Bellini. National Gallery, London

How Italian painters and sculptors made clothing conceal and reveal the human form

Employment tribunal finds in favour of sacked National Gallery workers

The National Gallery in London.

Art news daily: 1 March

No more waiting in vain for Bob Marley fans

Bob Marley in London in June 1977, photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images

English Heritage marks the musician’s time in Chelsea, but a literary festival’s calls for pink plaques in Highgate falls flat

Philippe Vergne to direct Serralves Museum in Portugal

Philippe Vergne, newly appointed director of the Serralves Museum in Porto.

Art news daily: 28 February

Whisky galore – and other bottles you can collect

The Macallan 60-year-old 1926 single malt up for sale at Bonhams in March (right); Gerhard Richter’s label for the 2015 vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild

Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter are just a few of the artists who have taken to the bottle and designed labels for famous brands

In blindness, Sargy Mann found new ways to picture the world

Black Windows (2006), Sargy Mann

After losing his sight, the British painter drew on touch, memory and imagination to continue his work

The disadvantages of being a woman artist haven’t yet disappeared

The anonymous Guerrilla Girls, artists and activists, photographed in 1990.

The under-representation of women by commercial art galleries helps depress their prices. How can this change?

Paris gallery cancels show of artist accused of plagiarising Basquiat

Art news daily: 27 February

Mapping a new art world order

New Art, New Markets

What are the key ingredients for success, and what role do Western traditions play, in emerging art scenes and markets?

Forty years on – the Site Gallery celebrates a significant birthday

The Joyful Mysteries of Junior (video still detail; 2012), Georgina Starr.

The Sheffield gallery’s show of works by Susan Hiller, Georgina Starr and Elizabeth Price takes a reflective turn

Zehra Doğan, artist and journalist, released from Turkish prison

A Banksy mural unveiled in New York in March 2018 to raise awareness of the imprisonment of Zehra Doğan.

Art news daily: 26 February

Karl Lagerfeld’s greatest creation was himself

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Karl Lagerfeld with Cara Delevingne during the Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week, 2014.

The late couturier, photographer, art collector and ‘showman’ was a master of harnessing the power of the image