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Should the Houses of Parliament be turned into a museum?

Ed Vaizey and Michael Hall debate whether politicians should relocate for good when the Palace of Westminster closes for repairs

1 Apr 2019
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation (detail; 1980), Robert Mapplethorpe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Seeing past the shock value of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs

The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down

30 Mar 2019
Agnes Varda in front of 'La Grand Mer', one of her works on display at the Vitry-sur-Seine museum outside Paris, in 2010, photo: © MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images

Agnès Varda (1928–2019)

Art news daily: 29 March

29 Mar 2019
Artist Cosimo Cavallaro building his wall of cheese.

That border wall, made out of cheese

The Make America Grate Again project isn’t the first time dairy has been used as an artistic medium

29 Mar 2019
Assistants at work on Girl with Dolphin and Monkey Triple Popeye (Seascape), at Jeff Koons’ studio in New York, February 2010.

Is the era of superstar artists with scores of assistants coming to an end?

Recent layoffs by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst suggest factory-style set-ups may be a thing of the past

29 Mar 2019
Madonna of the Pomegranate (c. 1487), Botticelli's workshop.

Botticelli ‘copy’ reattributed to artist’s studio

Art news daily: 28 March

28 Mar 2019
Porthcurno, Cornwall, England (2017), Martin Parr.

Martin Parr takes on Brexit Britain

The photographer’s survey of the British at home and abroad takes on a suitably surreal air at the National Portrait Gallery

28 Mar 2019
Arthur Brand with the recovered Buste de Femme (1938) by Picasso.

Stolen Picasso recovered after 20 years

Art news daily: 27 March

27 Mar 2019
Laren Landscape with October Sun (1910), Jan Sluijters. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

Dutch courage – Jan Sluijters, Holland’s little-known modernist

After flirting with Fauvism and other French modes in Paris, the painter brought home a dazzling palette – only to bottle it later on

27 Mar 2019
Emma Kunz at her working table, Waldstatt, 1958.

The kaleidoscopic visions of Emma Kunz

The Swiss spiritualist used drawings to diagnose patients, but her works are now regarded as art

27 Mar 2019
Jerwood Gallery.

Jerwood Gallery to relaunch as Hastings Contemporary

Art news daily: 26 March

26 Mar 2019
Seed Pushing (1961), Krishna Reddy.

A tour of Kolkata’s thriving art scene

An exhibition devoted to Krishna Reddy and awards for emerging Indian artists are among recent highlights in the city

26 Mar 2019
Fruit Harvest (September) (1670), Herman Saftleven. Onno van Seggelen (€55,000)

What not to miss at this year’s Salon du Dessin

A bucolic Dutch scene and a paper cut-out poppy are among the highlights of the fair in Paris

26 Mar 2019
The Sackler Courtyard at the Victoria and Albert Museum, photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Sackler Trust suspends UK donations

Art news daily: 25 March

25 Mar 2019
The Lister sisters' handcoloured engraving of a bear paw clam, after Wenceslaus Hollar, published in the 'Historiae Conchyliorum' (1685-92).

Shell company – how a family of naturalists captured marine life

Science, art and natural history are intertwined in the Lister family’s monumental Historiae Conchyliorum

25 Mar 2019

Peter Crouch, connoisseur

It turns out that the former England striker has an impulsive streak when it comes to art and interiors

25 Mar 2019

Grunge in the gallery – from Kurt Cobain to Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has opened an exhibition in Seattle. He’s not the first grunge star to try their hand at the visual arts…

24 Mar 2019
Running Along the Beach, Valencia (1908), Joaquín Sorolla. Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo.

Sun, sea and sand – Sorolla’s dazzling visions of Spain

The Valencian painter is little known in the UK, but a survey at the National Gallery is set to change this

23 Mar 2019
The Switch House, now named The Blavatnik Building, at Tate Modern,Photo: © Iwan Baan
Russell Tovey

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Russell Tovey

The actor talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his ‘addiction’ to collecting art – from Tintin to Tracey Emin

22 Mar 2019
Edmund Capon, pictured with a calligraphy painting from his own collection in 1999.

‘Sydney was perfect for Edmund, and Edmund perfect for Sydney’ – a tribute to Edmund Capon

Remembering the pioneering director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, who led the museum from 1978 to 2011

21 Mar 2019
Painter Working, Reflection (1993), Lucian Freud.

The sitting targets of Lucian Freud

In his unsparing portraits, Freud pursued his mission to describe things exactly as they are

21 Mar 2019
View of a Dutch Square (detail; c. 1700), Jan van der Heyden.
David Lynch.

The cult movie directors coming to a gallery near you

David Lynch and Harmony Korine are among the directors who have made the leap to canvas

21 Mar 2019