Apollo

Cao Fei

Cao Fei | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Artists

Beijing, China

Carter Cleveland

Carter Cleveland | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Business

Founder and CEO, Artsy, New York, USA

Sam Thorne

Sam Thorne | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Thinkers

Director, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

Eugenio Re Rebaudengo

Eugenio Re Rebaudengo | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Collectors

London, UK

Anne Huntington

Anne Huntington | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Collectors

New York, USA

Sara Raza

Sara Raza | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Thinkers

UBS MAP Curator, Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Artists

London, UK

Xavier F. Salomon

Xavier F. Salomon | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Thinkers

Chief Curator, Frick Collection, New York, USA

Museums prepare for impact of Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma approaches Puerto Rico, 6 September 2017. Photo: NASA/NOAA GOES Project via Getty Images

Art news daily: 7 September

The artists buttering up Justin Trudeau

Canada’s prime minister has been immortalised in butter, while a Kiwi artist has chosen a rather less tasteful medium for his political statuary

Dinosaurs, dioramas, and the strange world of natural history

The Primitive World (1857), Adolphe François Pannemaker. Courtesy of TASCHEN

Paleoart and dioramas are designed to depict prehistory and the natural world – but what they really reveal are our own hopes and fears

The best of the new Biennale Paris

Jeune garcçon endormi, à mi–hauteur, profil gauche, (detail), Jean–Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805). Galerie Eric Coatelem (price on application)

The Biennale des Antiquaires returns in its new guise as the Biennale Paris with an impressive showing of French fine and decorative arts

40 Under 40 Global

The most inspirational young people in the global art world

Why it’s time for auction houses to start talking to each other

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Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable

Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the auction sector

Berkshire Museum ends partnership with Smithsonian over deaccession plans

Art news daily: 6 September

Celebrity collections kick off the autumn auctions

Blue Sauna (2003), Adriana Varejão. Sotheby's London: estimate £400,000–£600,000

The personal collections of Edward Albee, Vivien Leigh and Mario Testino come to the block this month

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The latest tittle-tattle from the art and museum worlds

Dakota community to bury Sam Durant’s ‘Scaffold’

Art news daily: 5 September

Aleppo: what remains?

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The double entrance gateway to the Aleppo Citadel, largely the work of the late 12th century Ayyubid rulers of Aleppo (pictured here on 9 March, 2017) has largely survived the conflict with only minor damage. Photo: JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images

The historic city has suffered major damage, but the worst unkindness we could offer it now is to write it off as ‘destroyed’

Inverleith House saved from closure

Art news daily: 4 September

Why museums need their own ethics departments

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Image: Tom Lobo-Brennan

Ethical questions about art arise on a seemingly weekly basis. It’s time for museums to invest in sustained, open-ended research

A preview of Parcours des Mondes

Club group (18th–early 19th century), Tonga, Fiji or Samoa, Polynesia. Michael Evans Tribal Art. Photo: Stephen Petegorsky

This year’s event explores links between traditional African art and contemporary art practice, while galleries around Paris present their best items

How India inspired Howard Hodgkin

Letters from Bombay (2012-14), Howard Hodgkin. © Howard Hodgkin, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

‘Painting India’ at the Hepworth Wakefield includes many of the artist’s most engaging and joyful paintings

The wacky waxworks of Boston

A wax museum in Boston has been widely ridiculed – just look at their effigies of the Royal Family!