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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in her studio in Tehran.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019)

Art news daily: 23 April

23 Apr 2019
Photo: © The Fitzwilliam Museum

In defence of the university museum

Headlines attacking UK universities for spending money on art are deeply misguided

23 Apr 2019
Detail of photograph of Lee Krasner in Springs, New York, 1972, by Irving Penn.

Getting to know Lee Krasner

It’s time to set the record straight on the life and legacy of the great Abstract Expressionist

23 Apr 2019
Illustration by Simon Landrein

Do volunteers still have a place in museums and cultural organisations?

The Art Fund is disbanding its volunteer network – is the culture sector becoming too professional?

23 Apr 2019
Portraits by Velázquez flanking Las Meninas (1656) in Room 12 of the museum, rehung in 2010

The Prado pulls out the stops for its 200th birthday

With its exceptional collection of Old Masters and rich history, the museum has plenty to celebrate

22 Apr 2019
Jenny Holzer (b. 1950). Photograph: Anne Truitt

‘I want people to attend to the content’ – an interview with Jenny Holzer

The artist talks about working with words, the ‘woman thing’, and why she likes to feel useful

20 Apr 2019
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) at home in Dublin

In search of Seamus Heaney

A literary centre in the village of Bellaghy, County Derry returns visitors to the roots of Heaney’s poetry

19 Apr 2019
Le Quai Saint Michel et Notre-Dame de Paris (detail; 1901), Maximilien Luce. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

‘Notre-Dame’s fortunes have merged with the destiny of France itself’

Over the centuries Notre-Dame de Paris has become much more than a place of worship – it is a symbol of a nation

18 Apr 2019
The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, photographed on 3 September 2018, a day after a fire devastated the building.

Dine like the artists – from Doug Aitken to Marina Abramović

From Doug Aitken’s cheese fondue to Marina Abramović’s ‘essence drink’, the recipes you need to eat like a blue-chip artist

18 Apr 2019
The Three Sisters (1955), Balthus. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

‘How do you solve a problem like Thérèse?’ – Balthus in Madrid reviewed

Balthus’ strange, dream-like paintings deliberately set out to unsettle viewers

17 Apr 2019
Notre-Dame Cathedral on fire, 15 April 2019.

Competition to design Notre-Dame spire announced

Art news daily: 17 April

17 Apr 2019
Detail from a page of the Codex Mexicana, c. 1541, created as a handbook for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain, providing him with information about his new province. The writing is in the Mexica language, Nahuatl, and Spanish. Image courtesy Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

A new tower of Babel rises in the Bodleian Library

We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford

17 Apr 2019
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, early on April 16, 2019.
Okwui Enwezor in Venice in 2015.

‘The world was better because Okwui was around, fighting for what he believed’

Okwui Enwezor was not just an influential curator, but one of the most important public intellectuals of our time

16 Apr 2019
The Vampire of Notre-Dame, plate nine from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards (1890/1910), Louis Auguste Lepère, published by A. Desmoulins.

An elegy for Notre-Dame, in words and pictures

The great Gothic cathedral has inspired innumerable artists and writers over the centuries

16 Apr 2019

Huge fire devastates Notre-Dame Cathedral

Art news daily : 15 April

15 Apr 2019
Collateral (2007), Sheela Gowda.

Sheela Gowda shows her extraordinary works made out of everyday materials in Milan

The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca

15 Apr 2019
The American Museum of Natural History photographed in 2004.

Little Britain – the Elizabethan passion for portrait miniatures

Flaunted in public and pored over in private, the portraits of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver encapsulate their age

13 Apr 2019
The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories (1840–44), John James Audubon.

Six hundred lost books and manuscripts return to Bonn

Art news daily: 12 April

12 Apr 2019

Bedding down at the Louvre – and other nights at the museum

The Louvre is going to allow one couple a chance to conk out at the gallery. Seems like cultural catnaps are all the rage…

12 Apr 2019
Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh in ‘At Eternity’s Gate' (2018)

Julian Schnabel makes us see through Van Gogh’s eyes – At Eternity’s Gate reviewed

The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect

12 Apr 2019
The late sculptor Claude Lalanne, phtoographed in 2015 (photo: Luc Castel).

Claude Lalanne (1924–2019)

Art news daily: 11 April

11 Apr 2019