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Portraits (2016), Tacita Dean

Smoking with Hockney and Tacita Dean

Plus: lining up the evidence at Michael Hoppen Gallery; Fausto Melotti’s ingenious sculptures; and an unsung branch of the Bauhaus

24 Sep 2016

How Switzerland’s world-class museums are getting even better

Swiss museums are full of remarkable art collections of every kind. Many are now looking to the future with outstanding new buildings as well.

22 Sep 2016

Putin’s man in Chechnya embraces the new chivalry

Ramzan Kadyrov is the latest figure to embrace the 2016 armour revival

21 Sep 2016

A rare chance to see works by Clyfford Still in London

Nine works by the artist have travelled 4,685 miles to be seen in the Royal Academy’s Abstract Expressionism show

19 Sep 2016
Hurvin Anderson photographed in his studio in London in August 2016. Photo by Jooney Woodward

‘It’s only in painting that you can do everything you want’

Hurvin Anderson discusses painting, places, and portraiture without the people

17 Sep 2016

Dedicated ‘artist zones’ proposed for London

Art News Daily : 13 September

13 Sep 2016

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

A flutter on the next Tate boss; Bob Dylan’s casino gates; and the strange case of the missing Antony Gormley sculpture

12 Sep 2016

Greta Moll’s grandchildren sue National Gallery

Art News Daily : 12 September

12 Sep 2016
Cabin (2016), Rachel Whiteread, on Discovery Hill, Governors Island. Photo by Tim Schenck.

Rachel Whiteread takes to the hills on Governors Island

Bit by bit, the former military site in New York Harbor is being transformed into a cultural destination

12 Sep 2016

The dandy from Van Dyck to Oscar Wilde

In advance of its major Oscar Wilde exhibition, the Petit Palais plays host to an event exploring the dandy through history

11 Sep 2016
The End #2 (2014), by Taiwanese artist Su Yu-Xin, part of the ‘Future Island’ project organised by Mehta Bell Projects at START Art Fair

London’s art fair season begins – but with a few casualties

A round-up of this week’s top art market stories: LAPADA and START Art Fair return to London, but Multiplied and Art16 are no more

9 Sep 2016
Negative Publicity. Redacted image of a complex of buildings where a pilot identified as having flown rendition flights lives; from the series Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition. © Edmund Clark; courtesy of Flowers Gallery London and New York

A frightening take on the War on Terror at the IWM

Edmund Clark’s eye-opening exhibition will make you think again about the impact and ethics of counter-terrorism and state control

Damascene plate signed Komai, Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

September art fair highlights

London’s LAPADA has a tempting range of offerings, while Fine Art Asia continues to thrive with impressive Chinese and Tibetan objects

7 Sep 2016

How tea changed the history of the world

Nirmal Sethia talks about the Chitra Collection, one of the world’s finest private collection of historical – and explains the true significance of tea

6 Sep 2016
St Mary-at-Hill photographed on 12 May 1988, two days after a fire had destroyed most of the roof. Apollo magazine.

The unhappy fate of Christopher Wren’s city churches

They rose out of the ashes of the Great Fire of London and transformed the city, but several of Wren’s city churches have met with disaster themselves

2 Sep 2016
Samson Young

Samson Young

Hong Kong

1 Sep 2016
Adrian Cheng

Adrian Cheng

36, Hong Kong

1 Sep 2016
Theodore Wohng

Theodore Wohng

34, Melbourne, Australia

1 Sep 2016
Elaine Kwok

Elaine Kwok

36, Vice President and Director of Education, Christie’s Asia, Hong Kong

1 Sep 2016

It’s about time Winifred Knights got some attention

The Dulwich Picture Gallery finally spotlights this British modernist, whose work owes much to Renaissance traditions

1 Sep 2016
Shift (1996–97), Jenny Saville

Drop in the value of sterling attracts global buyers

June’s auctions see works by Moore, Saville and Picardy exceeding expectations, while several museum-worthy pieces change hands

1 Sep 2016
Desire Scenery Series

The market is hot for contemporary Chinese ink painting

Contemporary Chinese ink painting is the perfect middleground between the old and the new

30 Aug 2016

Balancing the books at Yale University Press in London

Yale University Press in London is the world’s leading art publisher. What does its recent restructuring say about the press – and about art publishing in general?

30 Aug 2016
Autumn Foliage (detail; 1916), Tom Thomson. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The legend of Canoe Lake

Tom Thomson’s sketching trips in the wilderness changed the course of Canadian art, but also claimed his life

30 Aug 2016