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A Barbie doll depicting late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, is exhibited – alongside other commercial products – at her sister's house in the neighborhood of Coyoacan, Mexico City,on April 19, 2018. Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images

How Barbie failed Frida Kahlo

Barbie seems to have missed Frida Kahlo’s independent sense of style in its doll version of the artist

18 Mar 2018

‘It’s a record of my life, translated into art’

An interview with Joan Jonas, on the occasion of the artist’s major retrospective at Tate Modern

17 Mar 2018
Helen Legg

Helen Legg appointed director of Tate Liverpool

Art news daily: 16 March

16 Mar 2018

A confident return for Asia Week New York

Galleries, auction houses and museums come together to celebrate ancient and modern Asian art

16 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump’s share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe’s divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.

15 Mar 2018

German government considers reducing VAT for art sales

Art news daily: 15 March

15 Mar 2018
5Pointz on 19 November 2013.

Street artists in the US have more rights than they thought

The 5Pointz case sets a new standard for artists seeking to assert their moral rights

15 Mar 2018
L'Étreinte (detail; 1903), Pablo Picasso.

A long-lost pastel by Picasso re-emerges

The work belongs to an important sequence of drawings created in 1903, culminating in the famous Blue Period painting ‘La Vie’

15 Mar 2018
Richard Meier in 2009.
Rebuilding of Rylands, Manchester, L.S. Lowry

The best of BADA 2018

Arts and Crafts silver, Toulouse-Lautrec and L.S. Lowry – the works not to miss at BADA in London this year

14 Mar 2018
Bouquet of Tulips (rendering; 2017), Jeff Koons.

How Jeff Koons sold out – and why his jumbo tulips don’t belong in Paris

The artist’s changing relationship to consumer culture can make it difficult to interpret his work

14 Mar 2018
Fatoş Üstek

DRAF appoints Fatoş Üstek as director

Art news daily: 13 March

13 Mar 2018
Hubert de Givenchy photographed in September 2012 alongside a figure of Bacchus (c. 1700), attributed to François Girardon.

Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018)

Hubert de Givenchy, the celebrated couturier and collector of fine and decorative art, has died at at the age of 91

13 Mar 2018
Installation view of 'Yto Barrada: Agadir' at The Curve, Barbican Centre, 2018.

Yto Barrada wrestles with the ghosts of Agadir

An exhibition that takes the Agadir earthquake of 1960 as its starting point is well framed in the brutalist surrounds of the Barbican

13 Mar 2018

Nan Goldin leads protest at the Met’s Sackler Wing

Art news daily: 12 March

12 Mar 2018

At last! Prince Edward has become an artwork

The photographer Natalie Lennard has recreated the home birth of Prince Edward – with some surprising props

11 Mar 2018
August: Reaping Wheat, 'Da Costa Hours' (detail; c, 1515), illuminated by Simon Bening. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

Keeping track of time in the Middle Ages

An exhibition at the Morgan Library examines medieval concepts of past, present and future

10 Mar 2018
Prague's Národní muzeum

The best of TEFAF Maastricht 2018 – part three

Ritual artefacts, jewels and objets d’art – more highlights from TEFAF Maastricht 2018

9 Mar 2018
Loe Bar (1962), Peter Lanyon.

‘A total immersion within the landscape’

From Cornish coves to remote towns in Italy, a sense of place is central to the paintings of Peter Lanyon

9 Mar 2018

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960’ by Edward J. Sullivan

9 Mar 2018
The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium.

Director of Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts suspended

Art news daily: 8 March

8 Mar 2018
Sylvia Pankhurst painting onto the façade of the Women's Social Defence League shop in Bow Street, London (11 October 1912).

Sylvia Pankhurst and the art of suffrage

How Sylvia Pankhurst designed the movement that won women the vote

8 Mar 2018

The best of TEFAF Maastricht 2018 – part two

More of the artworks not to miss at TEFAF Maastricht this year

8 Mar 2018