The green light to acquisition – how collector-focused technology keeps art deals moving
Arcarta reveals how the right tools could create a smoother and safer system for art galleries to sell work and for collectors looking to buy
Arcarta reveals how the right tools could create a smoother and safer system for art galleries to sell work and for collectors looking to buy
Cecilia Alemani
‘Donatello: the Renaissance’ at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
Five leading figures in the digital art world offer their insights into how the NFT market will evolve following the crypto crash
When it came to projecting British power abroad, Christopher Wren proved a handy source of inspiration in the creation of an ‘English Renaissance’ style
Funny peculiar or funny haha? Perhaps some of the artists who seem a bit obscure are actually trying to make us laugh
The Cinémathèque française’s unsettling show about film-making and espionage reveals how much the two activities have in common
Are NFTs a revolutionary approach to new media art or simply a fleeting trend? Jane Morris explores the role of non-fungible tokens today
When it comes to gold-ground paintings from Italy, condition is everything and the older the work, the better
Contemporary artists are looking to geological forms less for aesthetic cues than for perspective on time, place and human agency
Other European dynasties of the period had equally thriving court cultures, but none has had such a hold on the popular imagination
Few 18th-century painters were more enthusiastic about embracing English literature than the Swiss-born artist
A display in Vienna charts the history of one of the world’s first public museums
Phrygian cap or pussy hat? The mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics seems to be making a bid for freedom
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty Research Institute By looking at paintings, prints, medals, sculptures and ship designs – some of which have never been published before – this ground-breaking study leaves Versailles for the docks of Marseille, where the French […]
The curator Andrew Bonacina explains why Gwen John’s obsessive approach to portraiture became the starting point for a group show at Michael Werner gallery in London
The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent
The breaking of a plaque to commemorate Howard Carter in Luxor isn’t a wholly inappropriate way to mark the centenary of his great discovery
Newly restored, this museum is both an architectural treasure and home to works by Masaccio’s unfairly overlooked younger brother
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong