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Amber casket in the shape of a three-story monument containing ivory figures, (c. 1660). Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. Photo: Waddesdon Image Library/Mike Fear

‘A very Rothschild type of display’ – Waddesdon’s new gallery, reviewed

The new permanent gallery presents all kinds of exquisite pieces with special family associations

20 Sep 2019
Group of quadrants in ‘Science City 1550–1800’ at the Science Museum, London. Photo: © Jody Kingzett, Science Museum Group

The scientific revolution gets the royal treatment

The Science Museum’s new gallery makes subtle links between royal patronage, scientific progress and earthly conquest

19 Sep 2019

The quiz wizards of the Courtauld

At last – a Courtauld University Challenge team to be reckoned with

18 Sep 2019

A tour of Titania’s Palace

The fairy-tale doll’s house, now at Egeskov Castle in Denmark, still has the power to beguile with its miniature marvels and deceptions

13 Sep 2019
Nerve Visual Gallery in Derry

The closure of Nerve Visual in Derry is a real loss for the region

The building that once played host to the Turner Prize now stands empty. Where does this news leave Derry?

12 Sep 2019
Jane Seymour (detail; c. 1537), after Hans Holbein the Younger.

Acquisitions of the month: August 2019

This month’s highlights include paintings of Henry VIII’s favourite wife and Dorothea Tanning’s much-loved dog

10 Sep 2019
A security guard stands next to Jeff Koons‘ Rabbit (number two from an edition of three, plus one artist’s proof; 1986) at Christie’s New York in May 2019, ahead of its record-breaking sale at auction for $91.1m.

How did artists’ multiples come to fetch multiple millions?

The art market prizes rarity – or so they say. What, then, is behind the recent record-breaking sale of an editioned sculpture by Jeff Koons?

8 Sep 2019
Sotheby's, New York, in June 2004. Photo: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images

Sotheby’s shareholders approve sale to Patrick Drahi

Art news daily: 6 September

6 Sep 2019

‘The boxer is the closest I can get to a superhero’ – an interview with Godfried Donkor

The British-Ghanaian artist discusses his fascination with historical images of boxers – and how he works them into contemporary paintings and collages

6 Sep 2019
Photo: Sofia Dadourian

Reem Fadda

Director, Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi

4 Sep 2019
Photo: Matin Jameie; courtesy Dastan’s Basement

Hormoz Hematian

Founding Director, Dastan’s Basement, Tehran

4 Sep 2019

Dana Farouki

New York

4 Sep 2019

Adib Dada

Beirut

4 Sep 2019

Dyala Nusseibeh

Director, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi and London

4 Sep 2019

Ismail Fayed

Writer and critic, Cairo

4 Sep 2019

Tureen dreams – an extraordinary collection of delftware comes to light

A collection of Dutch delftware on long-term loan to the Gemeentemuseum den Haag is a feast for the eyes

4 Sep 2019

Baby Graysons are taking over Britain (sort of)

For the first time, Grayson is one of the 100 most popular names for baby boys in England and Wales…

2 Sep 2019
Making the Modern World Gallery at Science Museum, London

Science Museum workers go on strike over low pay

Art news daily: 30 August

30 Aug 2019
Woman Reading (detail; c. 1880–81), Édouard Manet. Art Institute of Chicago

Making the case for late Manet

The painter’s once unfairly dismissed late works are full of possibilities he didn’t live long enough to explore

29 Aug 2019
The Dark Rigi, The Lake of Lucerne (1842), J.M.W. Turner.

‘Ravishing essays in light and colour’ – on Turner’s views of Mount Rigi

The view of Mount Rigi from Lake Lucerne inspired a series of great watercolours – one of which is currently under export bar in the UK

28 Aug 2019
Air raid damage to the Naval Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London, 31 January 1941. Photo: © IWM

‘The elephant in this gallery is the cultural property seized by British troops in the 19th century’

An exhibition about cultural destruction in modern conflicts can’t help but remind us of earlier wars

27 Aug 2019
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt in front of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the reopening of the gallery’s room dedicated to the artist in 2016.

How have the Italian museum reforms fared?

In 2015, Dario Franceschini’s modernising project heralded a newly international outlook for the Italian museum system. Is it sustainable?

27 Aug 2019
War (detail; 2003), Paula Rego.

Paula Rego pictures a world of pain

A survey of the artist takes us to a land of sinister magic not so different to our own

26 Aug 2019
The ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture and the Olympic Stadium in 2012.