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Why are there no Young French Artists?

We may wait years for another generation of French talents to compare with Annette Messager and her contemporaries

What has become of England’s missing public art?

Art News Daily : 15 December

Andrew Ciechanowiecki: 1924–2015

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The art world has lost one of the most respected scholar-art dealers of the 20th century

Julius Caesar Goes Dutch

Art News Daily : 14 December

The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip

Damien Hirst’s Xmas tree controversy; hungering after Olafur Eliasson’s vegetables; and is Shia LaBeouf screening Rakewell’s calls?

Triumphant new European galleries open at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Installation image of the Victoria and Albert Museum's Europe 1600 - 1815 Galleries. Photo: David Grandorge

The museum’s take on ‘Europe 1600–1815’ is nuanced, witty and revelatory

The BBC should know better about university museums

A misleading story reflects a deeper problem in how museum news is reported in the general press

New York exhibitions to see before Christmas

Take a break from Christmas shopping to take in some art

The mysteries of M.C. Escher at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

The familiarity of Maurits Cornelis Escher’s work doesn’t make it any easier to interpret, says Will Wiles

Greco-Roman Sites in Libya Threatened by ISIS

Art News Daily : 11 December

An epidemic of selfie sadness in London’s museums

Wouldn’t we all be better off without glum selfie fanatics rampaging through our museums?

Constable’s The Lock Fetches £9.1 million at Sotheby’s

Art News Daily : 10 December

The Highs and Lows of London’s Old Master Week

Constable’s ‘The Lock’ was the standout lot at Sotheby’s this week, while a number of major works at Christie’s failed to sell

The Missing Mona Lisa

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Has Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovered the secrets of art history’s most enigmatic woman?

Acquisitions of the Month: November 2015

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The most interesting and important recent additions to museum collections

Jakarta Police Cancel Art Event

Art News Daily: 9 December

‘The Most Democratic Form of Art’ comes to IKEA

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Forget meatballs: Swedish flatpack giant IKEA is now flogging street art.

Hal Foster on art after 1989 and the rise of the zombie

Hal Foster talks to Fatema Ahmed about art after the end of the Cold War, the cultural dominance of zombies, and why he eavesdrops in museums

Ukrainian Militia Attempt to Sell Stolen Dutch Paintings

Art News Daily : 8 December

London Diary: who gets to be a national treasure?

Is it acceptable to lay into an octogenarian painter who has long been a ‘national treasure’?

The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip

Arty Xmas shopping; a chocolate Putin; and a charming speech during Art Basel in Miami Beach

£1 Billion Shipwreck Discovered off Colombian Coast

Art News Daily : 7 December

Nazi-era restitution claims are just the tip of the iceberg

Artworks were looted en masse throughout the 20th century: we need far better legislation to resolve the issue

How Lempad changed the course of art in Bali

Hildred Geertz on a groundbreaking, and lavishly produced, study of the great Balinese painter