Tondeur’s work is rigorously scientific, but that doesn’t blunt its emotional impact
The J. Paul Getty Museum’s major Manet acquisition; Ronald Lauder’s warning to the Kunstmuseum Bern; and North Korea’s first UK art show
The Turner Prize turns 30 this year – but does it continue to represent the best of contemporary British art?
Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross’s latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?
The Metropolitan Museum gains a collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts, while Tate takes home some contemporary work from Frieze
Pierre Huyghe’s stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’; and Schiele’s uneasy nudes
It’s easy to be sceptical about the art biennial boom in Asia. But how have the unconventional spaces of such events shaped artists’ practices in the region?
Some of the stories and discussions we’ve spotted online this week: Could ‘orphan’ artworks be brought in from the cold?…
Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world
The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…