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Ooh aah Museum Cantona!

The French footballer-cum-actor has his heart set on opening a museum in Sardinia

1 Sep 2017

Book competition

Your chance to win ’Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed’ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

1 Sep 2017
Eike Schmidt on April 4, 2017 in Florence, at the Gucci Cruise 2018 press conference. Photo by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images for Gucci

Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

Art news daily: 1 September

1 Sep 2017
This former Kraft Foods plant is to be transformed into an ambitious new arts venue

Crystal Bridges announces details of major new arts venue

Art news daily: 31 August

31 Aug 2017
David Tang, at his office in Hong Kong, 15 November 2004. SAMANTHA SIN/AFP/Getty Images

Sir David Tang (1954–2017)

Tang was well known as an entrepreneur, a socialite, and a columnist; he was also a leading art collector and patron of the arts

31 Aug 2017
Tropicália (1966–67), Hélio Oiticica: installation view at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 2017. Collection of César and Claudio Oiticica. Photo: Matt Casarella

Hélio Oiticica’s playful approach to protest

Don’t miss this celebration of the Brazilian artist’s brief but dazzling career

30 Aug 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy

30 Aug 2017
Old Greenwich Place, early 17th century; © National Trust Images

The traces of the Tudor palace at Greenwich are a truly remarkable find

Archaeological discoveries at Greenwich are rare – which makes finding the remains of the Tudor palace even more significant

30 Aug 2017
Hurricane Harvey. NOAA/NASA GOES Project

Texas museums close in effort to prevent hurricane damage

Art news daily: 29 August

29 Aug 2017
Installation view of Zeitnot (2017), Elisabetta Benassi. Photo: Andrea Rossetti; courtesy Collezione Maramotti; © Elisabetta Benassi

The contemporary vision of Collezione Maramotti

In the decade since it opened, the collection has emerged as a frontrunner among Italy’s contemporary cultural foundations

29 Aug 2017
Paintings by De Chirico hang in the mirrored dining room of Francesco Federico Cerruti's villa. Photo: Gabriele Gaidano

The mysteries of collecting

They don’t make collectors like Francesco Federico Cerruti any more. Or do they?

29 Aug 2017
At the Cafe (detail) (c. 1875–77, Edgar Degas.

How do you deal with an artist like Degas?

An exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum encourages us to approach the restlessly experimental artist with an open mind

28 Aug 2017
David Lamelas. Photo: Celeste Leeuwenburg

‘I think of myself as a producer of ideas’

Pioneering conceptual artist David Lamelas on space, identity, and taking advice from Anthony Caro

28 Aug 2017
Do museums need to be more socially engaged? Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

Do museums need to be more socially engaged?

Alistair Hudson and Elisabeth Callihan ask whether today’s museums could be more useful

28 Aug 2017
Andre Malraux holding a Khmer sculpture, Photo: © Bettmann/Getty Images

The many lives of André Malraux

Collector, dealer, novelist, art historian, culture minister, conservationist – André Malraux’s influence still looms large

26 Aug 2017
Installation view of 'This too shall pass' by Sudarshan Shetty, curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta (26 Septemberl–30 October, 2010). © Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

Mumbai’s oldest museum looks to the future

Could the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum provide a model for modernising India’s cultural institutions?

25 Aug 2017

Decline in numbers taking GCSE art and design courses

Art news daily: 25 August

25 Aug 2017

Please keep off the art…

Visitors get too close to an Yves Klein, and an 800-year-old sarcophagus is the scene of a strange photo shoot

25 Aug 2017
An archaeologist works on part of a 1,500-year-old mosaic discovered near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, on 23 August 2017. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images

Byzantine mosaic discovered in Jerusalem

Art news daily: 24 August

24 Aug 2017
Finding Fanon (2015–17), David Blandy and Larry Achiampong. Photo: Sam Garwood

Riding the wave: Plymouth’s burgeoning art scene

The city’s cultural ambitions are growing in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage

24 Aug 2017

Leonardo DiCaprio, meet Leonardo da Vinci…

Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him

24 Aug 2017

Documenta 14 cancels controversial performance

Art news daily: 23 August

23 Aug 2017

Getting round the Great Firewall of China

Will increased restrictions on the internet in China be too much for new media artists?

23 Aug 2017