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Laura Paulson

‘Rainmaker’ art advisor Laura Paulson on how collecting has changed

Increased wealth, social media and a global art market have affected how people buy art, says the chief operating officer of Gagosian Art Advisory

24 Oct 2022
Folding horseshoe chair, late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), China. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, HK$124.6m ($15.8m)

Why is the market for classical Chinese furniture so hot?

Collectors are snapping up elegant huanghuali chairs and beds of the Ming and Qing dynasties at record prices

24 Oct 2022
Pedro Machuca

The Other Renaissance: Spanish Artists in Naples in the Early Cinquecento

The Prado explores how Italy’s southern capital became a hotbed for creativity

21 Oct 2022

Johann Gottfried Schadow: Embracing Forms

The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin shows off its vast collection of works by the founder of the Berlin School of sculpture

21 Oct 2022
Meret Oppenheim

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition

The surrealist artist’s playful and uncanny works are given the spotlight at MoMA

21 Oct 2022
Installation view of 'Klara Kristalova: Camouflage'

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

The Hayward highlights other-worldly works by 23 contemporary ceramicists

21 Oct 2022
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The week in art news – striking Philadelphia Museum of Art workers reach contract agreement

Plus: more looted objects connected to art dealer Subhash Kapoor returned to India, and the rest of the week’s art news

21 Oct 2022
The Daily Star

Salad days for satirists – a farewell to Liz Truss

She has been outlasted by a lettuce – but could the Iceberg Lady take comfort from a pear-shaped French king?

21 Oct 2022
Young Lady in a Loge Gazing to the Right Mary Cassatt

Auction highlights – Mary Cassatt gives a star turn in New York

A magnificent portrait by the Impressionist leads the pack in the sale of Ann and Gordon Getty’s collection at Christie’s this week

20 Oct 2022
Heather Phillipson Turner Prize

The Turner Prize plays it safe this year

The four nominees for this year’s prize are presenting their biggest, brightest work but not all of it is saying very much

20 Oct 2022
Jusepe de Ribera

Wilton House may be famous for its sculpture, but its paintings are just as worthwhile

The paintings acquired by the earls of Pembroke over several generations now have the catalogue they deserve

20 Oct 2022
Joël Andrianomearisoa

In the studio with… Joël Andrianomearisoa

The Malagasy artist is not nearly as minimal as his work might suggest – on an average day, his studio is filled with books, drawings, flowers and the smell of cigarettes

17 Oct 2022
Camille Lenain

How to be queer in the Arab world

Artists from across North Africa and the Middle East are expressing themselves in a sprawling show at the Institut du Monde Arabe

16 Oct 2022
Photo: Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the office of the president of Ukraine

The week in art news – cultural sites in Kyiv damaged by Russian bombardment

Plus: climate protestors arrested at National Gallery, restitution loophole in the new Charities Act likely to be closed, Angus Trumble (1964–2022)

14 Oct 2022
Rosa Bonheur

Rosa Bonheur

The animal-painter extraordinaire is celebrated at the Musée d’Orsay

14 Oct 2022

Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt

This exhibition at the British Museum includes an enchanted basin believed to possess the power to relieve heartbreak

14 Oct 2022

Edward Hopper’s New York

An exhibition at the Whitney explores the artist’s life-long fascination with the city

14 Oct 2022
Frieze art fair

Is real success being crushed in a crowd of VIPs?

Despite allowing a few celebrity sightings, the preview day of Frieze London felt more like the tube during rush hour than an exclusive experience for art collectors

14 Oct 2022
Whitechapel foundry Alan Hughes

It’s time for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry to get back to business

Plans to transform London’s oldest working factory into a hotel have, happily, fallen through – but with the site back up for sale, its future is still uncertain

For Lawrence Abu Hamdan, music makes a mockery of borders

The sound artist and ‘private ear’ talks to Apollo about his new film commission in Bristol, set in a library that straddles the US-Canadian border

14 Oct 2022
Rijksmuseum

How will European museums cope with the energy crisis this winter?

European countries have put short term regulations in place to help their museums conserve energy, but longer term strategies will be needed to secure their futures

13 Oct 2022
William Kentridge

Frieze week highlights: petrol-can pastiches and chopped-up Shostakovich

Romuald Hazoumè’s latest ‘masques bidons’ focus on global figures whose ‘masks’ were stripped off by the revelations of the Panama and Pandora Papers – plus more shows not to miss this year

11 Oct 2022
Soheila Sokhanvari

In the studio with…. Soheila Sokhanvari

The Iranian artist takes time to settle into her space in the mornings and then becomes so immersed in her work that she forgets about lunch completely

10 Oct 2022
Alice Neel

Frieze week highlights: Alice Neel and Victor Willing

An exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits and abstract works by Victor Willing are among the shows we’re looking forward to seeing this year

10 Oct 2022