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‘There’s still a lot more to learn about this haven in Rome’

Reflecting on the Protestant cemetery in Rome – which Shelley called ‘the most beautiful cemetery’ he knew

Has the French culture ministry lost its way?

The French state has always prided itself on its special relationship with culture. But its recent history has been a troubled one

27 Jun 2016

Does today’s gallery system work for artists?

Representation by a leading gallery can make an artist’s career. But do commercial galleries hold too much sway over contemporary art and artists?

27 Jun 2016
Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, one of 46 buildings recognised in this year's RIBA Awards.

Winners announced for 2016 RIBA Awards

Art News Daily : 23 June

23 Jun 2016
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Toned down and grown up: highlights from this year’s Masterpiece London

In six years, the fair has shaken off its early reputation for extravagance, but the works on show are as eclectic and enjoyable as ever

21 Jun 2016
Switch House, Tate Modern

Why has Tate consigned painting to history?

Painting isn’t dead, but it has been prematurely buried in Tate Modern’s Boiler House

20 Jun 2016

Cultural engineering in Norman Sicily

The island’s Norman rulers encouraged the use of Islamic, Byzantine, and Romanesque elements in art and architecture as a deliberate display of their power

18 Jun 2016

Art Basel takes a historical turn

Why artists’ estates were the talk of the fair. Plus collector selfies, the cheapest piece at Basel and medieval books in a contemporary world

18 Jun 2016
Frances Morris, director of Tate Modern.

A university with a playground attached: Frances Morris’s vision for Tate Modern

The gallery’s new director on the Switch House extension, promoting women artists, and finally having the final say over the collection

16 Jun 2016

Inspirational drawings from Delacroix to Auerbach go on display in London

Admiring a drawing is ‘like looking over the artist’s shoulder’, says Stephen Ongpin

15 Jun 2016

The Smithsonian is coming to London

Art News Daily : 14 June

14 Jun 2016

The museum that keeps Bath buzzing

The Holburne Museum is a place of serious pleasure, says director Jennifer Scott, and that’s how it stays true to its roots

13 Jun 2016
Mrs. James Gurthrie

A special relationship? US attitudes to British art are changing

The old cocktail of countesses and Chippendale won’t cut it anymore, so the Met and the Yale Center for British Art are rethinking their displays

11 Jun 2016
Self-portrait (1773–74), Pompeo Batoni.

Pompeo Batoni didn’t just paint aristocrats abroad

The most prestigious portrait painter in 18th-century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects

9 Jun 2016
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The fall and rise of the second school of Paris

This loose group of European artists lost out to the American Abstract Expressionists in the 1960s. But are we seeing a revival of interest?

Five photography shows to see in New York this week

There are some great, focused shows open at the moment, from office-block abstraction to a difficult look at the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

6 Jun 2016

A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls

Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.

6 Jun 2016

Committed to memory: the art of Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo makes monuments to the victims of political violence – out of chairs, sewing needles, and rose petals.

4 Jun 2016
'Embrace the Base’: 30,000 women link hands, completely surrounding the nine mile perimeter fence at RAF/USAF Greenham Common, Berkshire (1982), Edward Barber.

Edward Barber’s preventative photography

Edward Barber’s photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum

3 Jun 2016
LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS

Bruce Conner: It’s All True

MoMA reveals how this American artist addresses a range of postwar themes in his work, including a rising consumer culture and the dread of nuclear apocalypse

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Portrait of a Woman (c. 1640), Anthony van Dyck.

Van Dyck would have relished seeing his work on show at the Frick

The ambitious portraitist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Frick Collection earlier this year

1 Jun 2016

How Tate Modern transformed London – and beyond

As the new Tate Modern opens, leading museum directors and critics assess the impact the museum has had since it opened in 2000

31 May 2016

‘800 years of oppression!’ Ireland’s contemporary art biennial

The latest edition of EVA International tackles issues of postcolonialism at home and abroad

31 May 2016