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Le Baiser (c. 1957), René Magritte.

The final Spring Masters New York offers a glimpse of things to come

In 2017 Spring Masters will be reincarnated as one of two hotly anticipated TEFAF New York fairs. It’s hard not to see this year’s event as a soft launch

3 May 2016
Perspective of the Palace Complex in its Landscape Setting, Viewed from Inland

Visionary palaces in a gallery’s empty basement

Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s palace designs came to ‘nothing more than a beautiful dream’ – and, thankfully, a fascinating set of prints

2 May 2016

Drawing in museums is a form of respect – let’s not ruin it

It’s annoying that we can’t sketch knickers at the V&A, but more annoying that footfall takes precedence over engagement

30 Apr 2016

Museum of the Year shortlist announced

Art News Daily : 29 April

29 Apr 2016

Cracks, chance and Japanese philosophy: An interview with Bosco Sodi

The Mexican artist on the importance of artistic process and the arts charity he has set up in Mexico

29 Apr 2016
South London and Maudsley CEO Matthew Patrick with Grayson Perry at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London.

The Art Fund’s shortlist for Museum of the Year has been announced

The nominees range from small local museums, to a 100-acre outdoor museum and one of the UK’s biggest institutions

29 Apr 2016

Can we trust in museum trustees?

Trustees serve a vital purpose in the culture sector, but only if politicians avoid the temptation to meddle…

29 Apr 2016
Chisenhale Gallery has closed its doors for the full duration of conceptual artist Maria Eichhorn's solo show...

A London gallery has shut its doors in the name of art. Is that acceptable?

If you want to see Maria Eichhorn’s solo show at Chisenhale Gallery – you can’t. Believe it or not, it’s more than a gimmick

28 Apr 2016

Palmyra may be safe – but Mosul is in peril

Art News Daily : 28 April

28 Apr 2016

Berlin’s wartime bunkers are becoming unlikely havens for art

Désiré Feuerle is the latest person to move his art collection underground

28 Apr 2016

Paris’s Bourse de Commerce to open as museum

Art News Daily : 27 April

27 Apr 2016

Are there too many Renaissance exhibitions?

Exhibitions about the Italian Renaissance have never been more popular, but is the difficulty of securing loans leading to some very diffuse shows?

27 Apr 2016
The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, opened in 1935 and successfully restored in 2003–05.

‘Why risk skin cancer when there’s architecture to enjoy?’

Large, long windows and a flat roof for sunbathing: is it any wonder that Britain’s early experiments with modernist architecture were by the sea?

27 Apr 2016

Big Lebowski pad acquired by LACMA

The LA museum has acquired its first home – what does this unusual architectural acquisition mean for the city?

27 Apr 2016

Is London’s skyscraper boom damaging the city?

Peter Murray and Gillian Darley debate whether London’s changing skyline is leaching the city’s history

27 Apr 2016
Cave 320, south wall, depiction of the Aparimitāyus Sutra

The sacred, ancient grottoes where world cultures came together

An enormous project to preserve, study and replicate the cave temples of Dunhuang lies behind the Getty’s latest exhibition

27 Apr 2016

One year on: an update from Nepal’s earthquake-damaged heritage sites

Restoration work will take years, and some monuments will never be rebuilt – but progress is being made

Smoke rises from The National Museum of Natural History in New Delhi on April 26, 2016, after an early morning fire was controlled. No casualties were reported, but the entire collection may have been lost.

Fire destroys Delhi’s Natural History Museum

Art News Daily : 26 April

26 Apr 2016

It’s easy to turn a blind eye to homelessness. Can art make people stop and listen?

Bekki Perriman’s project for Brighton Festival tells a different story about life on the streets

26 Apr 2016

It would cost £15m to keep this Italian drawing in the UK. Here’s why it matters

Veronese’s preparatory sketch for Venice Triumphant (c. 1581) has a long history here

25 Apr 2016
Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Energy

When did the Sublime become an extended environmental guilt-trip?

The word has become a catchall term for environmentally-conscious art. It’s more specific than that

23 Apr 2016
Bank of England Governer Mark Carney unveiled the design for a new £20 at Turner Contemporary today (22 April).

J. M. W. Turner is the new face of the £20 note

Art News Daily : 22 April

22 Apr 2016