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Isabella, Duchess of Manchester, 1738, Andrea Soldi, Whitfield Fine Art

The Foundling Museum puts women in their rightful place

Portraits of men have been replaced with those of the women who first petitioned George II to set up the Foundling Hospital

25 Oct 2018

Ancient shipwreck discovered intact at bottom of Black Sea

Art news daily: 24 October

24 Oct 2018
Kutenai Duck Hunter, Edward S. Curtis

What’s in store at TEFAF New York Fall

Your guide to the best of the leading art and antiques fair, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory this week

24 Oct 2018

‘I find myself making growling noises while I’m painting’ – an interview with Walton Ford

The artist’s new body of work reimagines the life and times of the Barbary lion

24 Oct 2018
The Albertina Museum, Vienna.
in the 1980s after its partial collapse in 1970 (photo: 2017)

The novelty and nostalgia of the Victorian seaside pier

The great iron structures of 19th-century Britain are important parts of the island’s cultural memory

23 Oct 2018
The Benin Bronzes, installed in the British Museum, London.

Nigeria presents plans for new Benin Royal Museum

Art news daily: 22 October

22 Oct 2018
Listening in the Dark (film still; 2018), Maeve Brennan.

Maeve Brennan puts out a bat-signal for the planet

The artists flags the unforeseen environmental effects of wind turbines in this award-winning film project

22 Oct 2018
Anni Albers photographed at her weaving studio at Black Mountain College in 1937 by Helen M. Post. Courtesy the Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina

Anni Albers weaves her magic at Tate Modern

A major exhibition devoted to the artist restores her – and the craft of weaving – to the heart of the modern movement

20 Oct 2018

Sophie Calle has persuaded some of the biggest names in music to pay tribute to her dead cat

The National, Jarvis Cocker, Pharrell and Bono are among the musicians the artist has corralled

19 Oct 2018
The Met Fifth Avenue, New York.
Photo: Emiliano Barbieri/Emanuele Paganelli

‘Colour became the subject’ – Phoebe Unwin on her new series of paintings

The artist brightens up the Collezione Maramotti with paintings that blur the line between abstraction and figuration

19 Oct 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne (National Gallery)

19 Oct 2018
Abaseh Mirvali

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara names new director

Art news daily: 18 October

18 Oct 2018
Celebrations (detail; 1990), Paul Guiragossian.

How is the market for Middle Eastern art faring?

The auctions of the Abraaj corporate collection offer plenty of food for thought

18 Oct 2018
Installation view of Claudia Fontes’ exhibition at the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, ‘Affective Affinities’, 2018.

Artists are taking back control at the São Paulo biennial

The displays curated by artists at this year’s event are a welcome change from the traditional biennial format

18 Oct 2018
Luke Syson Courtesy The Fitzwilliam Museum

Luke Syson appointed director of Fitzwilliam Museum

Art news daily: 17 October

17 Oct 2018
Small photograph with analysis of drawing by (1935), Reuben Mednikoff.

Psychorealism by the sea with Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff

André Breton once described the pair as the ‘best and most truly Surrealist’ of British artists

17 Oct 2018
The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn
Aerial view of the Pavilions and Michael Heizer’s Compression Line (1968/2016).

A game-changing expansion for the Glenstone Museum

The reopened museum in Maryland raises the bar for what we can expect from private collections

16 Oct 2018
The Royal Festival Hall photographed on 12 May 1951, during the Festival of Britain.
Bolton Mills (1938), Julian Trevelyan.

How Julian Trevelyan made an art of everyday life

The British artist was a key figure in the social research movement known as Mass Observation

15 Oct 2018
The City (still; 2018), Rossella Biscotti.

Digging down into Turkey’s Neolithic city

Communities past and present are explored in Rossella Biscotti’s film of the excavations at Çatalhöyük

13 Oct 2018
The Deutsches Museum in Munich. A fire has broken out at the museum’s storage unit in the nearby town of Ingolstadt.

Storage depot fire damages Deutsches Museum collection

Art news daily: 12 October

12 Oct 2018