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The stunt artist who ticked all the boxes at the Met Gala

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich pitched up at the Met Gala naked – and in a sealed box

4 May 2017

Fifty years of The Velvet Underground

It tanked in 1967, but the band’s debut album, produced by Andy Warhol, was still the best pop cultural achievement of its decade

4 May 2017
Wittgenstein in New York, (detail; from the As is When portfolio) (1965), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, ,

More can be less when it comes to Eduardo Paolozzi

Paolozzi’s 1950s work is astonishing, but a full retrospective draws too much attention to his duller later work

4 May 2017
Lubaina Himid, one of two nominees for the 2017 Turner Prize who would not previously been eligible for the award.
Detail of a female figure, 19th century, Lobi, Burkina Faso. Serge Schoffel at Cultures: The Worlds Arts Fair

This month’s unmissable international art events

Antiques in Hong Kong, tribal art in France, and London’s first quattrocento maiolica show in 100 years

3 May 2017
Portraits of Christophe Plantin (1616) and Jan I Moretus (1613/16) by Peter Paul Rubens, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp

‘A good business, like a family, needs a myth’

For 300 years, the Plantin-Moretus family in Antwerp ran one of Europe’s most important printing presses

3 May 2017

Bipartisan agreement set to increase NEA funding

Our daily round-up of news from the art world NEA receives $2m boost in funding | US cultural organisations have…

2 May 2017
Minotaure dans une barque sauvant une femme (1937), Pablo Picasso. Private collection. Photo: Eric Baudouin; Courtesy Gagosian; © 2017 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

What the Minotaur can tell us about Picasso

An exhibition documenting Picasso’s obsession with minotaurs and matadors is a curatorial triumph

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

A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle

2 May 2017
Olla, (c. 600 BC), Italy, Faliscan. Charles Ede

TEFAF takes a contemporary turn in New York

Modern and contemporary art and design take centre stage at the first ever TEFAF New York Spring

2 May 2017
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Why the Israel Museum is searching for a new director… again

Weeks after Eran Neuman took up the directorship, he left. What’s going on at the Israel Museum?

1 May 2017
Fathers of the Church (panel; c. 1892), designed by Joseph Lauber, produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company. ©The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, New York

Eleven art events to get to in May

The month’s top exhibitions, from Giacometti at Tate Modern to the 57th Venice Biennale

1 May 2017

Boris, you owe us £37 million

The Garden Bridge Trust should be pursued for the public money it has wasted

29 Apr 2017
Boy falling from a window, (1592), Italy, possibly Naples. Museo degli ex voto del santuario di Madonna dell’Arco, Naples

Religion in the Renaissance was as personal as it was public

An exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum reveals how the home in Renaissance Italy was the site of much private devotion

29 Apr 2017

Mayor of London withdraws support for Garden Bridge

Art News Daily : 28 April

28 Apr 2017
La Muse Endormie (cast by 1913), Constantin Brancusi.

May madness gets underway in New York

Plus: art fair shake-ups in Germany and an Ottoman art record in London

28 Apr 2017

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis’, edited by Maud Lankester and Yvette Bruijnen

28 Apr 2017
Hermann Nitsch (detail)

Beauty and the (dying) beasts

A dead bull is causing trouble in Tasmania, while Damien Hirst has been accused of mass murder (of houseflies)

28 Apr 2017
French presidential election candidate of the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen visits a private museum in the castle of Jaunay-Clan on 3 April, 2017. GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images

French culture: a presidential battleground

Where do the two remaining French presidential candidates stand on culture?

28 Apr 2017
Socle du Monde (1961), Piero Manzoni. Photo: Ole Bagger. Courtesy of HEART

Monuments to mundanity at the Socle du Monde Biennale

This event is a must-see if you want your understanding of Piero Manzoni and the other featured artists turned on its head

28 Apr 2017

The Met considers levying entrance fee

Art News Daily : 27 April

27 Apr 2017
Station IX from the Stations of the Cross (1913–18), Eric Gill. Westminster Cathedral, London

Eric Gill’s fall from grace

Revelations about the artist’s personal life have encouraged a reassessment of his work

27 Apr 2017
Percussion shotgun (dated 1862), made by LePage Moutier for the 1862 International Exhibition in South Kensington. From the W. Keith Neal collection. © Royal Armouries

Collecting historic firearms in the 21st century

Where is the line between antique firearms suitable for inclusion in historic collections, and weapons requiring a licence?

27 Apr 2017