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26 March 2020 Reviews

‘Thomas McKeller was singular among Sargent’s pantheon of models’

What did it mean for a wildly successful artist to paint a black elevator operator in stuffy Boston society?

24 March 2020 Art Market

A history of Birmingham in 456 lots – the Assay Office Library comes to auction

A sale of volumes collected by the Assay Office over two centuries brings numerous important works to the market, despite local opposition

24 March 2020 Comment

‘She refused to allow moral disgust to cancel admiration’ – a tribute to Fiona MacCarthy

The biographer's revelations about Eric Gill were delivered with calm objectivity – a quality that made her a superb observer of extraordinary lives, her own included

18 March 2020 Reviews

Henry Wallis – the Pre-Raphaelite painter who fell out of fashion

The artist's ‘The Death of Chatterton’ was one of the most popular paintings of the 19th century, but what else did he do?

18 March 2020 News

National Gallery, British Museum and Royal Academy temporarily close

Art news daily: 18 March

11 March 2020 News

TEFAF to close early after exhibitor tests positive for coronavirus

Art news daily: 11 March

11 March 2020 Comment

‘Rome without people isn’t really Rome at all’ – notes from a city under quarantine

With the whole of Italy in lockdown, the streets of Rome are empty – and the city without visitors has a strange and confusing atmosphere

6 March 2020 News

Griselda Pollock is first art historian to win Holberg Prize

Art news daily: 6 March

4 March 2020 Art Market

The best of TEFAF Maastricht 2020 – part one

Rare books by Dürer, a bowl owned by William Beckford and a pioneering Pop sculpture – what not to miss at this year’s fair

2 March 2020 News

Ulay (1943–2020)

Art news daily: 2 March

2 March 2020 Reviews

Baroque stars – the birth of a style in 17th-century Rome

Caravaggio and Bernini are the headliners – but the Rijksmuseum’s show reveals the range of artists who adopted the baroque style

28 February 2020 News

Norwegian government authorises demolition of building bearing murals by Picasso

Art news daily: 28 February

28 February 2020 Features

The triumphant – but temporary – return of Raphael’s tapestries to the Sistine Chapel

For just one week the full set of surviving tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X could be seen in their original setting

27 February 2020 Comment

What is Pyotr Pavlensky playing at?

There is no shortage of theories about why the Russian artist leaked a sex tape that made a French politician drop out of the mayoral race in Paris

25 February 2020 News

More than 600 artists endorse Bernie Sanders in open letter

Art news daily: 25 February

25 February 2020 Reviews

Personality cult – Alfred Jarry makes an impression at the Morgan Library

The creator of King Ubu and inventor of pataphysics was deeply attached to the art of the book

24 February 2020 Comment

Have art prizes had their day?

The decision to split the Turner Prize caused quite a stir – do such gestures undermine art prizes or open up new ways of judging contemporary art?

21 February 2020 Photography

‘The full measure of the great artist so many suspected had always been there was becoming visible’

Joshua Chuang remembers working with Santu Mofokeng on a series of books presenting the South African photographer’s life’s work

20 February 2020 News

Director of Forensic Architecture barred from travelling to United States

Art news daily: 20 February

20 February 2020 Reviews

Money matters – the art of German hyperinflation

The emergency money issued by many German towns during the First World War featured a range of designs – including witches, devils and donkeys