Contemporary artists who are from or have been based in the Arab world for at least 10 years are eligible to apply for the $100,000 grant
One of South Africa’s oldest wine estates has developed strong ties with the country’s leading artists
It has become increasingly common for museums to invite artists to respond to their collections, but what kind of connections are we being invited to make?
The breaking of a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture at an art fair in Miami may be less shattering news than it seems
Plus: Musée d'Orsay to restitute major works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the rest of the week's top stories
Rakewell hopes the fashion house’s newest designer will bring everyone much happiness
Our hand-picked selection of ancient Egyptian treasures includes a breastplate once worn by an actual pharaoh and a glittering golden crocodile
An exhibition in Rome recounts the complicated tale of efforts to safeguard masterpieces across the country during the Second World War
The capital of the Shang Dynasty is home to the country’s earliest surviving written records
The artist brings his scrapyard sculpture to the Hayward gallery
The art journalist’s prized collection of handbags and eclectic furniture is up for sale at Bellmans later this month
Gardens have long been seen as symbols of freedom and paradise, as this display in Stockholm makes clear
The Art Institute of Chicago considers the contradictory impulses that governed the Spanish surrealist during the 1930s
A crowded display sees some 150 works of Abstract Expressionism clamouring for attention, but perhaps this is the point
The desirability of getting a day job in a museum can make it easy for prestigious institutions to take advantage of the artists who work in them
As the 12th secretary of state for culture in the UK takes up their post, Rakewell spots at least one thing they all have in common
The German artist’s unsettling images examine the uncanny relationship between visual culture and collective memory
Two ornamental sets of vases owned by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of France go on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
The Whitechapel Gallery brings together 150 paintings by 81 international women artists
Plus: a shake-up at DCMS, strengthening cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week’s art news
The artist takes her Golden Lion-winning work celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Black women in music from Venice to the English seaside
The painter’s characterful portraits shine a light on marginalised individuals in 20th-century New York
A portrait of the 17th-century polymath and intellectual superstar Paolo Sarpi hangs in a corner of a house that once belonged to a wealthy tyrant
The Norwegian American’s trippy sculptures are cult classics in the making
