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A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls

Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.

Why Manifesta makes sense in Marseille

The roving contemporary art biennial comes to France in 2020, but what does it mean for Marseille?

International auction houses keep faith in Hong Kong

Anna Brady on Hong Kong sales, plus a round-up of the top art market headlines

Committed to memory: the art of Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo makes monuments to the victims of political violence – out of chairs, sewing needles, and rose petals.

Floods close Paris museums

Art News Daily : 3 June

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Sicily: Culture and Conquest’

Edward Barber’s preventative photography

'Embrace the Base’: 30,000 women link hands, completely surrounding the nine mile perimeter fence at RAF/USAF Greenham Common, Berkshire (1982), Edward Barber.

Edward Barber’s photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum

What not to miss during London’s summer art season

A Still Life of a laid Table, with Plates of Meat and Fish... (c. 1615), Jacob van Hulsdonck. Johnny Van Haeften at London Art Week

Masterpiece London, Art Antiques London, London Art Week, and the Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia all return to the capital this year

Henry Moore’s ‘Old Flo’ to return to East London

Art News Daily : 2 June

Cavorting amid the ruins with Hubert Robert

The French artist’s obsessive portrayal of antiquity reveals his endless variety

The leading Lot at Christie’s this summer

Lot and his Daughters (1613–14), Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens’s epic painting of Lot and his Daughters treats a morally ambiguous subject with great artistic subtlety. It’s bound to do well at auction

‘This is the moment international attitudes to British art should change’

Golden Hours

Christie’s celebrates the great tradition of British painting this month

The Sobey Art Award shortlist has been announced

Quickeners (film still)

Five artists are in the running for Canada’s prestigious contemporary art prize

Hayward Gallery moves north of the river for one-off show

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Hayward Gallery & Vinyl Factory announce major off-site show | The Hayward…

Van Dyck would have relished seeing his work on show at the Frick

Portrait of a Woman (c. 1640), Anthony van Dyck.

The ambitious portraitist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Frick Collection earlier this year

Irish ire over heritage ‘downgrade’

The term’s been dropped from the title of the government department in charge of culture

Italy’s global search for new directors to safeguard culture and heritage

Art News Daily : 31 May

It’s culture vs the UK culture secretary in the Great British Brexit Debate

Artists and cultural figures have declared themselves for the ‘In’ campaign. Must make for some tricky meetings with the culture secretary…

How Tate Modern transformed London – and beyond

As the new Tate Modern opens, leading museum directors and critics assess the impact the museum has had since it opened in 2000

It’s the job of both artists and museums to reevaluate the past

Noviembre 6 y 7 (2002), Doris Salcedo

Art can play a key role in recovering forgotten or neglected histories, and challenging received ideas

The tragedy and triumph of a British architect in New Delhi

Arthur Gordon Shoosmith showed great promise but built very little – though he did design a magnificent church in New Delhi

‘800 years of oppression!’ Ireland’s contemporary art biennial

The latest edition of EVA International tackles issues of postcolonialism at home and abroad

Would Brexit destabilise the art market?

Would a ‘leave’ vote spell disaster for the UK’s thriving art trade, or open up new opportunities to it? Two experts debate the question

What does the Jameel Prize mean for contemporary Islamic art?

The award seeks to inspire a Renaissance in Islamic art, and is deliberately casting its net wide