Princeton’s brand-new art museum thinks outside the box
A purpose-built home for the university’s vast permanent collection built up over 275 years passes with honours
A purpose-built home for the university’s vast permanent collection built up over 275 years passes with honours
Plus: the Louvre director offers to resign in the wake of the jewel theft, and plans to build a tunnel under Stonehenge have been quashed
The Brazilian artist flicks through the novels of Clarice Lispector in her São Paulo studio, where a poster on the wall reminds visitors of the value of silence
An experimental play about the Knoedler forgery scandal is a brilliant technical feat, but does it illuminate anything about the art world?
James Delbourgo’s new book explores the obsessions of fanatical collectors, both real and fictional
The Belgian painter was a notable figure in avant-garde circles, but stopped making art for two decades. An exhibition in Antwerp puts her back in the picture
The opening of the Fondation Cartier in 1984 changed the French art world. Does its move to the heart of Paris show that private institutions now have the upper hand?
To mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Dorothea Lange, we pick out four works that explore the power dynamics inherent to the act of looking
Ben Enwonwu is the star of Tate Modern’s landmark exhibition. Samuel Reilly looks at how the twists and turns of the artist’s career mirror those of his native country after it left British colonialism behind
Recently restored, the monumental paintings in the north wing of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London show a more caring side of the satirical genius
Plus: Italian police seize 21 Dalí lithographs thought to be fakes; Sotheby’s sells its longtime New York HQ; and the architect Terry Farrell has died
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
The boxer’s draft card is up for sale at Christie’s next month. Normally a museum would be the best home, but which one is a more complicated question than it used to be
Plus: thieves steal €600,000 of gold from the natural history museum in Paris
A new book by Leslie Primo argues that cultural cross-pollination is at the heart of Britain’s national story
The only drawback of the Scottish painter’s New York studio is that he’ll have to leave it next year. In the meantime, he’s enjoying the quiet, undisturbed by a taxidermied pheasant
The Egyptian artist’s ingenious operas, which he writes, scores, designs and directs, play around with our ideas about history
After attracting the biggest-ever cash donations to any cultural institution, the museum has announced a new extension and a big change in collecting policy
New galleries are springing up, enriching the city’s cultural life and adding to the offerings of the university
This magnificent gilded cup fuses organic form with astonishing craftsmanship, explains Caterina Badan of the Schroder Collection