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Is LA’s art scene growing too quickly?

In the last few years LA’s art scene has grown immeasurably. But as rents rise and experimental spaces get priced out, is LA’s arrival on the international art stage worth it?

29 May 2017
Front cover of the catalogue to accompany the ROSC ’71 exhibition in Dublin

‘The first ROSC exhibition was, by all accounts, a seismic event’

Looking back on Ireland’s ROSC art exhibitions, which ran from 1967–88

29 May 2017
Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) (1576–78), attributed to Nicholas Hilliard.

A radical new look at the greatest of Elizabethan artists

Two portraits newly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard will transform our understanding of the artist

29 May 2017

Is this a golden age for older artists?

Innovation and potential are not merely the preserve of the younger generation – as these artists are proving

29 May 2017

The contemporary art market regains its swagger

Plus: major lots announced for the London modern art sales

28 May 2017
Perspective from the south of Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), Mill Run, Pennsylvania (1934–37), Frank Lloyd Wright. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, New York. © 2017 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The failing architect who dreamt up modern America

Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered America’s greatest architect – but his career was dominated by failure

27 May 2017

The artists’ posters and posteriors aimed at Theresa May

Posters scoffing at Theresa May’s favourite slogan have appeared across London

27 May 2017

Italian museum reforms at risk after court ruling

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Court ruling undermines Italy’s museum reforms | Italian culture minister Dario…

26 May 2017
Illustration by Graham Roumieu/Dutch Uncle

Do artists’ lives get in the way of their work?

An exhibition of Eric Gill’s art in Ditchling raises questions about how far we can separate art from life. Should biography shape our understanding of an artist’s work?

26 May 2017

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World’ by Joanna Marschner with David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford (eds.)

26 May 2017

Are artists taking the fun out of funfairs?

A fairground designed by Claudia Comte is set to be installed outside Art Basel

25 May 2017

The art of putting Soviet propaganda on porcelain plates

After the Russian Revolution, the State Porcelain Factory produced a powerful new art form for a new era

Trump’s budget for 2018 envisions elimination of NEA

Art News Daily : 24 May

24 May 2017
Rock art at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

A history of Algeria in seven stops

A major archaeological discovery has put Algeria’s history in the spotlight. What can its existing world heritage sites tell us about the country’s past?

24 May 2017

The Apollo podcast: Charles Saumarez Smith

Thomas Marks talks to the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy about his new book on East London

24 May 2017
Schwitters's Merz Barn, Cumbria
Solitude (2017), Terry Adkins. Installation view, Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Photo: Luke A. Walker

Terry Adkins and the art of sound

The artist’s haunting sound sculptures and paintings address the absent figures who inspired them

23 May 2017
The UNESCO-listed ancient city of Hatra, south of Mosul, on 27 April, 2017, shortly after Iraqi forces retook the site. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

Hatra’s embattled history, from the Romans to ISIS

It’s been besieged, abandoned, and used as a training ground for terrorists – but the ancient city of Hatra still stands in the Iraqi desert

23 May 2017
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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Auerbach’s lighter side; Eddie Izzard’s fear of fine art; and more tittle-tattle from around the art world

23 May 2017

Paris’s Musée Dapper to close in June

Art News Daily : 22 May

22 May 2017
Figure representing the river Rhône (detail). Wallace Collection, London

The Avignon Clock is as good as any sculpture

This spectacular French clock, designed by the best craftsman of the day, is the star of a show at the Wallace Collection

22 May 2017

The productive failures of Vito Acconci

Remembering the pioneering performance artist Vito Acconci, who died in April aged 77

22 May 2017

‘Everything I know comes from painting’

The possibilities of paint are inexhaustible, says the German artist Markus Lüpertz

20 May 2017