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Emmanuel Macron in Burkina Faso

‘We want to get people involved in their city’

Judikje Kiers, director of the Amsterdam Museum, on the museum’s expansion plans and its TEFAF loan exhibition

7 Mar 2018

The best of TEFAF Maastricht 2018 – part one

Susan Moore’s pick of the works not to miss in Maastricht this year

7 Mar 2018
Windmills near Zaandam (1871), Claude Monet.

Beyond TEFAF – more to see in Maastricht and the region

A look at some of the impressive satellite shows being staged alongside TEFAF

6 Mar 2018
Nymph of the Spring (ca. 1540), Lucas Cranach the Younger. Courtesy of The San Diego Museum of Art

Acquisitions of the month: February 2018

A Duchamp readymade owned by Robert Rauschenberg and an Etruscan bronze are among this month’s top acquisitions

6 Mar 2018
Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images

The Apollo podcast: learning from the Old Masters

Thomas Marks talks to Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about how we can deepen our understanding of Old Master paintings

6 Mar 2018
Barack and Michelle Obama at the unveiling ceremony for their portraits at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., on 12 February 2018.

The crowd-pulling power of the Obama portraits

Form an orderly queue to see Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits

6 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The critics putting the hatchet into Civilisations and ‘All Too Human’, why Ed Sheeran is going Anglo-Saxon, and more arty tittle-tattle

6 Mar 2018

The BBC’s ‘Civilisation’ reboot is fixed firmly in the present

The update of Kenneth Clark’s landmark series takes a more questioning approach to art history

5 Mar 2018
Charles I ('Le Roi à la chasse') (detail; c. 1635), Anthony Van Dyck. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Charles I, the connoisseur king

His political judgements may have been poor, but Charles I’s art collection was first rate

3 Mar 2018

A nude causes a fuss on Facebook (again) – but clothes are making mischief at the Met

You can’t show the Venus of Willendorf on Facebook, it seems, but neither can you wear period dress to the Met

2 Mar 2018
The central courtyard at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Daniele Falletta/Alamy Stock Photo

The monuments that made Mexico

The Museo Nacional de Antropologia presents a thrilling sequence of Mexican civilisations from the second millennium BC to the present day

2 Mar 2018
Meeting You Halfway II (2009), Anthony McCall. Installation view, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2009.

Light, fire and smoke – an interview with Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall talks about sculpting with materials such as light and fire – on view in Wakefield and London

1 Mar 2018
Gigantomachy II (detail; 1966), Leon Golub. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The epic battles of Leon Golub

Leon Golub’s paintings harness classical myth to criticise atrocities and abuses of power

1 Mar 2018
Centre Pompidou Málaga

Centre Pompidou Málaga will stay open until 2025

Art News Daily: 28 February

28 Feb 2018
Our Lady of Sorrows, view of the interior looking towards the main altar, with the painting of Christ taken down from the Cross now attributed to Pietra Testa above, Reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College

The Catholic chapel that cost Eton one pound

An early 20th-century copy of a baroque chapel has been restored to its former glory

28 Feb 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle

28 Feb 2018
Visualisation for ‘Contrary Life: A Botanical Light Garden Devoted to Trees’ (2018), by Alia Farid and Aseel AlYaqoub, commissioned by Art Jameel, courtesy the artists

Kuwaiti artists win inaugural Art Jameel commission in Dubai

Art news daily: 27 February

27 Feb 2018
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Plan of Ancient Rome, 16th century, Pirro Ligorio, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reconstructing ancient Rome

An extraordinarily ambitious attempt to map the city will set off as many arguments as it solves

27 Feb 2018
Fernanda Pivano and Jack Kerouac per Segnalibro, Milano (1966), Ettore Sottsass.

Jack Kerouac’s art reminds us that his real talent was for words

An exhibition of Kerouac’s art in Milan gives some sense of his restless creativity

27 Feb 2018