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‘I felt I was more connected in a way with Arab art’
Dia Al-Azzawi on why he sees himself less as an Iraqi artist and more as one from the wider Middle East
Bigger and better: TEFAF and FIAC expand their horizons
TEFAF’s expansion into New York has been the talk of the art world. Can it pull it off? Meanwhile, FIAC kicks off in Paris and Christie’s marks 10 years in Dubai
Mary Sibande’s alter ego tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa
The Johannesburg-based artist talks to Apollo about what it means to be a young black artist working in South Africa today
Recognition at last for the women of Abstract Expressionism
‘They told me I would be more successful if I was a man, French, or dead.’
The illuminated manuscripts that are lighting up the Fens
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s ‘Colour’ exhibition is a triumphant introduction to medieval manuscript painting
Why Brussels really needs the Centre Pompidou
The local argument that sparked an international museum partnership between Belgium’s capital and the Centre Pompidou
Kader Attia wins France’s prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize
Edinburgh’s Inverleith House gallery to close due to financial pressures; an update on the Knoedler trial, plus more of today’s art news
Kai Althoff reveals the pain and the privilege of being an artist
‘I cannot defend or think of it as something people need to see or bother with’
Mafia allegedly providing guns to terrorists in exchange for antiquities
Art News Daily : 18 October
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Michael Gove ❤ art history; Mr. Turner’s lost masterpiece; Rod Stewart’s tour of the Royal Academy; and a topsy-turvy Matisse
TEFAF takes its treasures across the Atlantic for the first time
The celebrated TEFAF art fair will opens its doors at New York’s Park Avenue Armory this month. Susan Moore selects her highlights from the landmark event
The revolutionary collector who changed the course of Russian art
How Sergei Shchukin brought paintings by the most trailblazing members of the French avant-garde to Russia
Make no mistake, art history is a hard subject. What’s soft is the decision to scrap it
Exam board AQA is to scrap art history A-level. It’s a crazy decision to take just as public perception of the subject is changing
The art that built Martin Luther’s brand
Lucas Cranach’s service to the Reformation went beyond creating iconic images of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther
The faces of antiquity in the sale rooms of New York
Christie’s New York is offering two mummy portraits at auction this month. What do we know about these strange survivals from antiquity?
Neo Rauch and the carnival of European art
The German artist’s work, finally on show in London, is an uprooted reunion of everything strange in the supposedly familiar tale of western art history
A fresh look at Philadelphia’s unrivalled collection of South Asian art
A renovation project at the Philadelphia Museum of Art pays tribute to Stella Kramrisch, the woman who made their collection possible
Why are Louise Bourgeois’s webs and spiders so captivating?
The etchings and sculptures on show at Hauser & Wirth Somerset are at their most powerful when we stop trying to understand them
Hoping for a miracle as Inverleith House shuts its doors
‘The decision to shut Inverleith House is sudden, shocking and sad’