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Variation on a Lighthouse Theme II (detail; c. 1931–32), Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe

Piecing together the untold story of Ida O’Keeffe

An exhibition in Dallas places the spotlight on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe’s younger sister

16 Jan 2019
Kanye West photographed in December 2018.

Kanye West donates $10m for James Turrell crater in Arizona

Art news daily: 15 January

15 Jan 2019
Mary and Margaret Gainsborough, the Artist’s Daughters (c. 1774), Thomas Gainsborough

The freedom Gainsborough found in painting his family

The artist’s portraits of his household are more spontaneous than his commercial work

15 Jan 2019
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Christians protest against McJesus sculpture in Haifa

Art news daily: 14 January

14 Jan 2019
Installation view of ‘A Master’s Hand’ exhibition at Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, 2017.

Warren MacKenzie’s commitment to craft

The renowned American potter believed simplicity, beauty, and affordability were of paramount importance

14 Jan 2019
Seattle Art Museum, with Hammering Man (1991) by Jonathan Borofsky at its entrance.

What can museums do to ensure collectors follow through on promised gifts?

With no contracts or value exchanges, announced gifts can easily be revoked. But there are ways to firm up loose agreements

14 Jan 2019

The photoshop fails of your favourite politicians

The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has joined the ranks of politicians who have tried to airbrush themselves into history

13 Jan 2019
Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky poses after setting fire to the doors of the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, in central Moscow early on November 9, 2015. Photo by NIGINA BEROEVA/AFP via Getty Images
Progress (The Advance of Civilization) (1853), Asher B. Durand. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Acquisitions of the month: December 2018

A Midwestern epic painting and minimalist marvels were among the top works to enter museum collections last month

11 Jan 2019
Figure (19th–20th century), Togo/Ewe or Fon (river Mono?).

Beyond the blockbusters – five more shows to catch in 2019

Highlights include a celebration of Cosimo de’ Medici at the Uffizi and ceramics from Africa at the Design Museum in Munich

11 Jan 2019
Shooting an Elephant and The Leader (2018), Arin Rungjang.

Poetry and pessimism at the 12th Shanghai Biennale

Grand narratives of progress are undermined in a surprisingly understated edition of the Chinese biennial

10 Jan 2019
Daniel Potter, assistant curator at National Museum of Scotland, with a casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Erika Balsom

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Erika Balsom

Gabrielle Schwarz talks to the critic and scholar Erika Balsom about her experience working between the worlds of art and cinema

10 Jan 2019
Rachel Whiteread
Portrait of a Woman (1888), William Merritt Chase. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Connecticut

The modern painters who were mad about Frans Hals

Van Gogh, Whistler, Sargent and Manet were just some of the major artists who made pilgrimages to Haarlem to see Hals’s work

9 Jan 2019
Photo: Ishbel MacDonald/BBC

Cutting criticism – a tale of Bendor Grosvenor’s cat

Plus: Salvador Dalí among the drug lords and how Jeremy Deller made his mother proud

9 Jan 2019
Marc-Olivier Wahler
Devi in the Form of Bhadrakali Adored by the Gods (detail; c. 1660–70), folio from a dispersed Tantric Devi series, attributed to the Master of the Early Rasamanjari

Close encounters with the gods in court paintings from north India

Painters at the Pahari courts found new ways to represent the Hindu gods in the 17th and 18th centuries

8 Jan 2019
Stone carvings discovered in the Popoloca ruins in Puebla state, photo: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ discovered in Mexico

Art news daily: 7 January

7 Jan 2019
The Book of Durrow (detail; f. 86r) (c. 700), probably Durrow, Co. Offaly, or Iona. Trinity College Dublin

The cosmopolitan art of Anglo-Saxon England

The British Library demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon culture looked to Europe and beyond

7 Jan 2019
Installation view of Damien Hirst’s Demon with Bowl in ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2017.
Installation view of ‘Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts’ at MoMA PS1, New York, 2018.

The endless inventions of Bruce Nauman

Drawing, video, sculpture and performance – no medium is out of bounds for the titan of American art

4 Jan 2019
Visiting Harald Szeemann with the Flu (2018), Francesco Bonami

Hans Ulrich Obrist as you’ve never seen him before

Plus: Prince Charles, Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dalí, and the artistic tastes of Drake

4 Jan 2019

Where next for virtual reality art?

Some seem beguiled by VR technology but others are using it to confront our faith in digital progress

4 Jan 2019