German government considers reducing VAT for art sales
Art news daily: 15 March
Art news daily: 15 March
An exhibition that takes the Agadir earthquake of 1960 as its starting point is well framed in the brutalist surrounds of the Barbican
An early 20th-century copy of a baroque chapel has been restored to its former glory
Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week's art-world tittle-tattle
Museums of national history put the stories countries like to tell about themselves into physical form
What kind of art are Syrian artists making, if they are able to make art at all?
Both the Mendoza Review and David Cannadine’s recent ‘Why Collect?’ report are too limited in scope
Art news daily: 20 February
Correcting Jasper Johns, Tory fossils, artists as cheeses, and, erm, a couple of cats stories
Can T.S. Eliot’s poetic experiments be read alongside parallel developments in the visual arts? And how much has he influenced artists?
Plaster casts of monuments have long been an unfashionable feature in museums – but the art of copying may be coming into its own again
The paintings that Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Third Reich art dealer, kept hidden for decades are now out in the open – so what happens next?
A cartoon turtle graced the Met's Michelangelo exhibition last week – and Leonardo suffered a rather greater indignity at the Louvre
A recent government report says it should – but with limited public funding available, can Britain's existing museums grow?
Rasheed Araeen talks to Apollo about six-decades of making visually arresting and politically engaged art
The Society of Jesus commissioned extraordinary works for its mother church in Rome – and they're about to go on display on the East Coast
The scholar, teacher and advocate of the applied arts of 20th-century Ireland has died at the age of 69
Art news daily: 10 January
The Pentagon wants to ban the display of art by Guantánamo detainees – but it’s important that we engage with art made in captivity
Art news daily: 5 January