The week in art news – Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022)
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
An extremely close look at François Boucher’s portrait of the marquise in the Fogg Museum at Harvard homes in on the painter’s use of his signature colour
The painter’s use of gold in his works suggests a debt to earlier artists – and reveals a more antiquarian side of 15th-century Florence
First a man in a Maserati, then the hurling of a scooter – and now a spat between fashion houses. What on earth has got into everyone?
Works by the collective of Black photographers that started out in Harlem go on display at the Getty Center
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
The British sculptor keeps haunting relics of the colonial era in his London studio – and soothes himself with audiobooks while he works
Plus: Daniel H. Weiss is stepping down as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leaders of the alliance’s member countries have a lot on their minds at the moment, but there was still time to look pensive in front of Old Master paintings at this week’s summit
The British artist keeps long hours and prefers to work alone, listening to the music of Alice Coltrane and Stevie Wonder or lately, the Italian radio
The Gilded Age institution renowned for its Eurocentric holdings is re-evaluating its history and winning over a wider audience
A groundbreaking study looks at the slave labour on which France’s maritime ambitions depended
Ramily was a pioneer who captured the newly independent country as it wanted to be seen
This year's event aims to entice a wider range of collectors and exhibitors back to the galleries of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris
An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries
As the National Gallery prepares for its upcoming bicentenary, its director Gabriele Finaldi discusses his vision for the future
Chauncey Hare was compared to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, but he came to find the art world as repressive as the corporate world he loathed
Recent industrial action by railworkers in the United Kingdom has got Rakewell thinking about the difference between men and marionettes
The Denver Art Museum reveals another side to the modernist painter through her photographs