Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female...
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female...
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? A new licensing scheme in the UK could give people the right to reproduce photos, diaries, letters and recordings when the copyright owner is unknown. The estimated 91 million ‘orphan works’ include Alfred Wallis’s written works in […]
Huyghe's notoriously uncategorisable works are both strange and beautiful
Highlights from the Rijksmuseum's first major photography show
In a region that lacks a strong museum culture, Asia has looked towards alternative ways of displaying contemporary art
Monteleone focuses on an apparently shiny, happy new reality...Yet the Italian photographer is playing a sophisticated game
From Brueghel and Rembrandt to Rego and Steve McQueen
How did artists develop new ways of depicting urban life in the 1960s and '70s?
How did artists turn the chaotic transformations of the USA's big cities into powerful and resonant art?
To me, Burgert's paintings are packed with art-historical allusions. But if the artist meant them to sneak in, he won't admit it
Earlier this year, the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report estimated the value of the online art trade in 2013 to be around $1.3 billion, suggesting that this was likely to double by 2018. But are online auction houses poised to replace the physical saleroom? Or will the traditional auction house continue to prosper, since so […]
Rene Burri dies aged 81; Nicholas Serota takes the Power 100 top spot; and Detroit makes a last-minute deal
As London recovers from Frieze week, attention has turned to Paris and the Grand Palais
Auckland Castle, the Bowes Museum and Durham University host a major Spanish Art symposium which draws on the region's own superb collections
Works on paper by masters of Italian Renaissance sculpture
How important was drawing to the Renaissance sculptor?
McQueen's elegiac new work asks how we can memorialise a life
A new exhibition celebrates the work of Caspar Wolf and 'the wild, uncivilised world of the mountains'
Wolf's paintings of the Alps capture something of the mountains' hostile magnificence