Graffiti is usually seen as art or vandalism, but the distinction is stopping us from seeing it for what it really is
Sotheby's purchases the Mei Moses Art Indices; top sales from TEFAF New York; and early sales at Asian Art in London
The history of the asylum is a tale of many reforms and not much progress
Art News Daily : 4 November
Everyone should make a point of seeing these 61 Qur’ans, in a show that sets many common misunderstandings straight.
An exhibition at Pallant House shows how classicism was a way of reinvigorating modernist experimentation
Apollo presents the winners of this year's Asian Art in London Art Award
Art News Daily : 3 November
Art UK This online database of art in UK public collections is an important resource with scholarly and popular appeal. It includes images of all publicly owned paintings and some works on paper, and plans to cover sculpture, too. Users are invited to share and organise information using tools such as ‘Art Detective’, which has facilitated […]
Abstract Expressionism Royal Academy of Arts, London 24 September–2 January 2017 The first major survey of the movement in Europe since 1959, with 163 works spanning four decades and including sculpture, photography, and prints as well as the legendary paintings. Many significant and difficult loans have been secured, including a room of paintings by Clyfford Still, […]
The Virgin of the Pomegranate (c. 1426), Fra Angelico Museo del Prado, Madrid Accompanied by a small panel recently attributed to Fra Angelico, these two additions join an Annuciation (1425–26) at the Prado, making it ‘an international reference point for the study of this Florentine master’. The work was acquired for €18 million from the Spanish Alba […]
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel Allen Lane De Hamel’s engaging discussion of 12 medieval illuminated manuscripts includes the Gospels of St Augustine in Cambridge and the Codex Amiatinus in Florence. In this personal, but scholarly account, De Hamel visits each manuscript in its current home, describes each encounter, and manages to span nine […]
Carmen Herrera The Cuban-born American artist, who turned 101 this year, has been painting since the 1950s but her reputation has grown in recent years: she sold her first painting in 2004 and her work has been acquired by MoMA and Tate Modern. This year Herrera has been celebrated with a major retrospective at the […]
Kunstmuseum Basel Basel, Switzerland The Kunstmuseum Basel reopened in spring 2016 following a 12-month refurbishment, and to coincide with the unveiling of its highly acclaimed new exhibition building, designed by Christ & Gantenbein at a cost of CHF100 million. Musée Rodin Paris, France The Musée Rodin, housed in the historic Hôtel Biron, reopened in November […]
Art News Daily : 2 November
This major, vivid biography of the art historian is meticulously researched – and long overdue
With over 190 galleries and a number of new initiatives, Artissima's 23rd edition promises to be bigger and better
With an array of great works on offer, Flashback returns to Turin for what should be a triumphant fourth edition
Art News Daily : 1 November
Turner Contemporary reveals how both artists explore man's struggle in the face of much bigger forces
An exhibition at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum aims to rethink the familiar work of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha - but could it have gone further?
Halloween horrors hit museum's social media accounts, Ai Weiwei gets sweary, and Grayson Perry takes aim at Rafael Vinoly
Art News Daily : 31 October
From neolithic objects to contemporary art, the diversity of works on offer at Asian Art in London shows just how far this market has come
