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New York performing arts centre receives $89m grant

Art news daily: 17 December

17 Dec 2018
Chromosaturation (1965), Carlos Cruz-Diez. Installation view of the exhibition ‘Dynamo, A Century of Light and Motion in Art’ at the Grand Palais, Paris, 2013.

Kinetic art – a field that has always refused to stand still

From Calder to Kusama, modern and contemporary artists have created many different versions of kinetic art

17 Dec 2018
Berlinde De Bruyckere, photographed in her studio in Ghent in October 2018.

The bleak beauty of Berlinde de Bruyckere

An interview with the Belgian sculptor, who discusses hope, suffering, bodies, and blankets

15 Dec 2018
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center in Washington, D.C., with the Washington Monument and National Mall in the background.

Book competition

Your chance to win Fuseli: Drama and Theatre by Eva Reifert

14 Dec 2018

The Apollo podcast: social media and the art market

Thomas Marks talks to Paul Melton from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about the impact of Instagram and other social media platforms on the art market

14 Dec 2018
José Olympio da Veiga Pereira.

Fundação Bienal de São Paulo appoints a new president

Art news daily: 13 December

13 Dec 2018
View of the East Wing of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in 2013.

Natural history museums have never been more necessary

Natural history collections are uniquely placed to help us make sense of the relationship between humans and catastrophic climate change

13 Dec 2018

The impressive cultural achievements of China’s Qing empresses

New research shows that women in the Forbidden City had more influence on the arts than previously thought

13 Dec 2018
Interior with Mrs Mounter (1916–17), Harold Gilman.

Harold Gilman cuts a dash

In praise of the Camden Town painter’s bold brushwork and daring draughtsmanship

12 Dec 2018
Kaywin Feldman
Venus and Vulcan (c. 1545), Jacopo Tintoretto. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Tintoretto’s drawings fizz with energy and invention at the Morgan

The 500th anniversary of the Venetian master’s birth prompts this celebration of his sprightly draughtsmanship

12 Dec 2018
Hoa Hakananai'a, displayed at the British Museum in November 2018.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Activist group stages protest at Whitney Museum

Art news daily: 10 December

10 Dec 2018
Still from BRIDGIT (2016), Charlotte Prodger, courtesy the artist, Koppe Astner, Glasgow and Hollybush Gardens

How political is political art?

Many artists take themes such as migration, climate change, and human rights as their subjects, but what are they actually doing with them?

8 Dec 2018
A portrait of Lothar Baumgarten at work for his show ‘America Invention’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1993.

Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018)

Art news daily: 7 December

7 Dec 2018
View across Lake Seeberg to the Muntigalm (1778), Caspar Wolf.

Acquisitions of the Month: November 2018

A major collection of Swiss art and an early Dutch genre painting are among this month’s top acquisitions

7 Dec 2018

Fishy fragrances and Flemish still lifes

Plus: Lucian Freud on horseback and how Sex and the City made Marina Abramović

7 Dec 2018
Cloud Gate (2006), Anish Kapoor.

Anish Kapoor reaches out-of-court settlement with the NRA

Art news daily: 6 December

6 Dec 2018
Studies of the Nose and Mouth (c. 1622), Jusepe de Ribera.

The everyday cruelty of Ribera’s world

The baroque painter’s depictions of human suffering are extreme – but so was the violence of much early modern life

6 Dec 2018
Charlotte Prodger, winner of the Turner Prize 2018. Photo: Emile Holba 2018

Charlotte Prodger wins 2018 Turner Prize for iPhone films

Art news daily: 5 December

5 Dec 2018
Photograph of Robert Morris; date and photographer unknown.

A tribute to Robert Morris (1931–2018)

The artist is remembered as a pioneer of Minimalism, but his legacy as an experimental performer is equally powerful

5 Dec 2018
The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck
Marilyn Diptych (1962), Andy Warhol. Tate, London.

New ways of seeing Andy Warhol

As an exhibition at the Whitney proves, there’s far more to the Pop art superstar than Marilyn and soup cans

4 Dec 2018