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Art Dusseldorf new co-owners Walter Gehlen, Marco Fazzone, Rene Kamm, Andreas Lohaus.

Art Basel owner acquires stake in new Düsseldorf art fair

Art News Daily : 9 February

9 Feb 2017
Hanging Gardens of Hammersmith, No. 1 (1944–47), Victor Pasmore. © Estate of Victor Pasmore. All rights reserved DACS

The shifting styles of Victor Pasmore

Pasmore’s work surely constitutes one of the most varied and experimental bodies of work produced by any 20th-century British artist

9 Feb 2017
Meteorite hits Savissivik, by Siobhan McDonald. Photo: Vincent Hoban

Siobhan McDonald’s chance encounters with a changing world

The artist’s exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris explores big themes of climate change, landscape and loss

9 Feb 2017

How an artist is trolling the Venice Biennale

The Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson has handed over the creation of the country’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale to a brace of trolls. Really.

9 Feb 2017

Neolithic tombs cause setback for Stonehenge tunnel

Art News Daily : 8 February

8 Feb 2017
The Blairs Memorial Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (early 17th century), Flemish, unknown artist. Blairs Museum, Aberdeen

The turbulent life of Mary, Queen of Scots

She’s an icon of Scottish nationhood and martyrdom, but Mary’s life at court was a complicated one of competing cultural, social and political influences

8 Feb 2017
‘Anya Gallaccio: Beautiful Minds’ at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Photo Todd-White Art Photography

The melancholy grandeur of a 3D-printed mountain

Anya Gallaccio is building her own version of Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower in London, using a 3D printer. What does the work say about the relationship between man and nature?

8 Feb 2017
Le domaine d'Arnheim (1938), René Magritte. Christie's Images Ltd. 2016 (£6,500,000-9,500,000)

An epic Magritte is set to be the highlight of Christie’s ‘Art of the Surreal’ sale

Auction highlights this month include works by Morisot and Magritte at Christie’s, and Sotheby’s inaugural ‘Erotic: Passion and Desire’ sale

8 Feb 2017
Baggage Claim (2010), Jitish Kallat. Centre Pompidou, Paris

Jitish Kallat’s long meditation on life and death in the city

The Indian artist’s global success has not been fully appreciated at home – until now

7 Feb 2017
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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The YBAs party until their bedtime; Donald Trump learns to draw; and Richard Prince trolls the White House

7 Feb 2017
Three soldiers (from the Flagellation of Christ; 1360), Master of Agrafen, or a follower.

We can preserve elephants AND conserve art

This week’s parliamentary debate on the UK domestic ivory trade revealed some serious misconceptions about antique ivory and those who study and sell it

7 Feb 2017
Detail of Folies-Bergère, La Loïe Fuller (1893), Jules Chéret.

Acquisitions of the month: January 2017

The finest new additions to public art collections, from a Czech Surrealist masterpiece, to a collection of 800 rare Japanese prints

7 Feb 2017

David Hockney – too much in the Sun?

David Hockney’s redesign of the Sun masthead split opinions in the art world

6 Feb 2017
Capital for a porphyry column (c. 1775–80), Pierre Gouthière, probably after a design by François-Joseph Bélanger. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo: RMN-Grand-Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Thierry Ollivier

Pierre Gouthière – the man with the Midas touch

This scholarly show at the Frick Collection is also a feast for the senses

6 Feb 2017
Head of an Actor (detail; c. 1844-64), Utagawa Kunisada. © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest

Nine art events to get to in February

The exhibition highlights and museum openings not to miss this month

6 Feb 2017

The pull of Hockney’s pool paintings

David Hockney found his great inspiration in the backyards of California – creating a look that influenced generations of artists

4 Feb 2017

Louvre closes after knife attack and subsequent shooting

Art News Daily : 3 February

3 Feb 2017
Icon (for Divine Lovers) (1923), Eric Gill. Courtesy of the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

The radical side of 20th-century Sussex

Modern art in Sussex was about more than just rolling hills and gentle abstraction

3 Feb 2017

Bones of contention at a museum near you…

Skeletons have come out of the closet at museums in the US and UK…

3 Feb 2017
Thomas Marks in conversation with Idris Khan at the New Art Gallery, Walsall

The Apollo podcast: Idris Khan

Thomas Marks talks to artist Idris Khan as the largest exhibition of his works to date goes on display at the New Art Gallery in Walsall

2 Feb 2017
Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

UK museums see significant drop in visitor figures

Art News Daily : 2 February

2 Feb 2017
Europol announced 75 arrests and the recovery of over 3,500 stolen works of art and cultural goods as part of 'Operation Pandora'.

European countries are working together to tackle cultural property crime

The success of Europol’s Operation Pandora, which recovered thousands of stolen artefacts, demonstrates the importance of international cooperation

2 Feb 2017