The idea to bring the Pompidou to Brussels has been met with scepticism: will it just be a tourist attraction or will it enhance the city's cultural scene?
The government's efforts to keep a rare Pontormo in the UK after it was sold unexpectedly by its owner have revealed cracks in the export bar process
Bruce McLean's new paintings may seem like a departure from his earlier conceptual pieces – but not for the artist
The London Old Master sales may not have included any blockbuster paintings, but sales were strong for works fresh to the market
Is action man Sylvester Stallone about to be made Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts by President-elect Trump?
Was Van Gogh arrested in Arles on the night that he severed his own ear?
Art News Daily : 16 December
A rich selection of essays, interviews and memoirs offer a unique glimpse into the life and works of René Magritte
Art News Daily : 15 December
In 1853 Auguste Salzmann went to Jerusalem to photograph religious sites. The results, on show at the Metropolitan Museum, are an insight into his own faith
Berlin's Gemäldegalerie has postponed a display of contemporary art from Tehran - what does this mean for cultural exchange in Iran?
Art News Daily : 14 December
A perfectly realised exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in London explores Rodin's obsession with dance and its expressive power
Caravaggio and the end of capitalism; Benedict Cumberbatch in Tate’s Rauschenberg gift shop; and Alan Yentob in Calais
Art News Daily : 13 December
Caravaggio's radical vision inspired a legion of followers across Europe, whose work is increasingly in the spotlight at museums and auction houses alike
Art News Daily : 12 December
Renoir's late paintings, particularly his nudes, provoke extreme reactions but these paintings are among his most interesting work
Expansive, near encyclopaedic within its limits, and very beautiful, this exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum is not to be missed
Not one, but two groups of preparatory work for Edward Burne-Jones’s monumental painting 'The Golden Stairs' have made it into the same sale
Art News Daily : 9 December
There's an absolutely extraordinary exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's art in London right now – and it's not at the Tate. Plus more London art highlights
Art News Daily : 8 December
The finest new additions to public art collections, from a large group of Cuban art in Miami, to G. F. Watts' celebrated portrait of Violet Lindsay
