The week in art news – Turner Prize shortlist announced
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
The largest mosaic found in London in half a century offers a welcome glimpse into the home-decorating choices of aspirational Britons
An interview with Howardena Pindell Gainsborough’s Blue Boy and friends The Humboldt Forum finally opens Medieval Christian art in Georgia Plus: Kazakh gold in Cambridge, Dürer’s wanderlust, rocks that look good enough to eat – and are New Towns old hat?
Art historians may be sceptical about artificial intelligence, but machine learning might enlarge our capacity for observation – and even revive connoisseurship
Casa Balla, Rome Opened June 2021 For nearly 30 years, from 1929 until his death in 1958, Giacomo Balla lived in this apartment on Via Oslavia in Rome. Having been left to his daughters, who lived here until their deaths in the 1990s, the flat – a living laboratory for the Futurist’s work, its walls, […]
Plus: Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring donor with far-right views, and more stories
Bernadine Bröcker Wieder and Douglas McCarthy consider what museums are really selling when they mint NFTs – and what serious collectors want
Somerset House hosts the London edition of 1-54 and galleries across the capital make the most of the limelight
Plus: Danish museum and artist in dispute over two blank canvases; and more stories
Will the glittering new arts complex bring about a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the southern French city?
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Plus: Christophe Leribault appointed director of the Musée d’Orsay; and more stories
Joseph Gandy’s dramatic paintings turned John Soane’s neoclassical designs into full-blown Romantic fantasies
Plus: Amsterdam is to return a Kandinsky to the heirs of its former owner
As calls grow for the return of objects acquired during the colonial era, the assessment of claims requires an independent process
Art-lovers and sun-seekers alike will find much to divert them on the Riviera this summer
The tallest sandcastle ever built towers over a seaside town – and there’s no risk of the waves washing it away
A troupe of nimble-footed technicians has been drafted in to restore monuments up and down the country – without a scaffold in sight
The Swiss artist’s tableaux of tables capture the joys of dining in good company
Are virtual viewings and diminished sales here to stay, or will the city’s galleries and auction houses see high footfall return?