Is Documenta exploiting the economic crisis in Athens?
This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?
This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?
The Gemeentemuseum has the largest collection of Mondrian's works in the world – no wonder that it's at the centre of the centenary celebrations of De Stijl this year
Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat delved into the storerooms of Sheffield's museums and discovered the joy of curating (also, a platypus)
The playful sculptures and paintings of the only woman in the Arte Povera movement have a distinctly steely edge
Gilbert & George RA; Giles Coren, art historian; and Mary Beard takes aim at the Vatican Museums
A huge Egyptian statue has been unearthed in a Cairo suburb. Will the global attention it has received lead to further discoveries at the neglected site?
The development of American printmaking since the 1960s is seen in the context of today's fragile political climate
The museum's new medieval and Renaissance galleries put its outstanding collections in the spotlight and invites fresh and unexpected connections
The Parisian fair returns this month to celebrate one of the most instinctive and timeless of mediums
Early reported sales at TEFAF Maastricht were strong, particularly among Old Master dealers
Art News Daily : 17 March
The British watercolour tradition did not end with the death of Turner
Charles Percier may not be a household name, but his Empire style sums up the Napoleonic era – and has had imitators ever since
Damien Hirst is by no means the first artist to have done a doodle for a restaurateur
Howard Hodgkin's acute eye for beach towels, plus Jack White and De Stijl
Penelope Curtis discusses this year's TEFAF Curated display, 'La Grande Horizontale', which explores the theme of the recumbent figure in art
The auction house's decision to close its South Kensington saleroom and scale back operations in Amsterdam smacks of corporate short-termism
The celebrated painter Howard Hodgkin has died in London aged 84
Christopher Le Brun PRA discusses the musical and mythological inspirations behind his work as an exhibition of his new paintings opens across two US venues
Alfred Basbous was inspired by European modernists, but also tapped into an ancient and timeless sculptural tradition