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Lily van der Stokker

In the studio with… Lily van der Stokker

The Dutch artist’s studios are filled with artworks, miniature pieces of furniture and floral vases that she buys at flea markets in France

16 Aug 2022
, from the group known as Orpheus and the Sirens (350–300 BC), southern Italy.

The week in art news – Getty to return illegally excavated Orpheus sculptures to Italy

Plus: an arrest warrant is out for the antiquities dealer Georges Lofti, and the Tate has settled a discrimination case brought by three artists for a six-figure sum

12 Aug 2022

Will the Groucho Club become the art world’s watering hole?

Does Hauser & Wirth’s purchase of a favourite haunt of the YBAs spell the end of an altogether more riotous era?

12 Aug 2022
Issey Miyake

How Issey Miyake brought art into fashion

The Japanese fashion designer revolutionised womenswear by creating comfortable clothes appreciated for their androgynous elegance and ease

11 Aug 2022
Kim McAleese

Can Kim McAleese breathe new life into Edinburgh Art Festival?

Few of the 1.4 million visitors who flock to Edinburgh each August are coming for the visual arts festival, but its new director has plans to make that change

11 Aug 2022
Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne (detail; 1931), August Sander.

How August Sander faced up to modern times

By turning social types into individuals, the photographer influenced many of his contemporaries and shaped how we see the 20th-century

10 Aug 2022
Carl Frederik Sørensen

Shifting sensibilities – how plein-air painting became all the rage

Once overlooked by both artists and collectors, the urgency of landscape studies holds an obvious appeal for modern audiences

9 Aug 2022
Helen Frankenthaler studio visit

What artists are really doing when they take up residencies

Recent initiatives are expanding on the traditional model of patronage through community engagement, cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentorship schemes

9 Aug 2022
Installation view of ‘darning and other times’ (2022) and ‘In the House of my Love’ (2022) at the Brent Biennial.

At the Brent Biennial, home really is where the heart is

The second edition of the event concerns itself with ideas of belonging – and revels in the diversity of this part of north-west London

8 Aug 2022

Acquisitions of the Month: July 2022

Two significant works by Renaissance masters to the National Gallery in London are among this month’s highlights

5 Aug 2022
Max Hollein, president and soon-to-be CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The week in art news – Met director Max Hollein to take on chief executive role as well

Plus: new appointments at the National Gallery of Ireland and RIBA, Design Miami Paris cancelled amid security fears, and Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan museum

5 Aug 2022
portrait of antony gormley

Who will stand up for Antony Gormley’s art?

The students at Imperial College London are objecting to the sculptor’s ‘phallic’ new sculpture, proving that an outsize reputation isn’t everything

5 Aug 2022
The Arch Henry Moore

Henry Moore’s hoarding habits

The British sculptor’s monumental, minimal forms drew influence from his wide-ranging collection of ethnographic artefacts

5 Aug 2022
Rock slump from the cliffs of Sarikaya, near Yesilbaskoy. In antiquity, Sarikya was one of the main limestone quarries providing ancient Sagalossos with stone building materials.

The photographers who are obsessed with the passing of time in Turkey

Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys use 19th-century processes to bring a very modern sensibility to archaeological sites in Anatolia

3 Aug 2022
Mariana Castillo Deball studio portrait

In the studio with… Mariana Castillo Deball

The Mexican artist’s studio is filled with books and tiny pieces of detritus that have fallen off her artworks or that she finds on her travels

3 Aug 2022
Vernon Lee (1881), John Singer Sargent. Tate collection

How Vernon Lee kept her finger on the pulse of gallery-goers

Long before the invention of the visitor-response survey, the writer was curious about how works of art affected their viewers

31 Jul 2022

Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958–2018

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks beyond the ‘LOVE’ sculptures to explore Indiana’s long and varied career

29 Jul 2022
I Lay Here For You (2018), Tracey Emin.

Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You

The artist’s intimate and revealing sculptures are tucked away among the woodlands of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh

29 Jul 2022
(2022), Wangechi Mutu.

Wangechi Mutu

The Kenyan-born artist’s fantastical bronzes are set amid rolling hills of the Storm King Art Center in New York

29 Jul 2022

As Long as the Sun Lasts

Alex Da Corte’s whimsical construction takes up residence on the Louisiana’s terrace

29 Jul 2022
Not falling any time soon: plaque dedicated to Cecil Rhodes in King Edward Street, adjacent to Oriel College, Oxford.

The week in art news – Cecil Rhodes plaque in Oxford gets listed status

Plus: Long-running dispute between Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier enters new phase and British geologist’s conviction for smuggling antiquities overturned

29 Jul 2022
The cover of Beyonce's latest album, ‘Renaissance', by photographer Carlin Jacobs

Beyoncé remixes the Renaissance

The pop star’s latest album contains fewer treats for art-history buffs than its title promises – but Rakewell is too busy dancing to care

29 Jul 2022
Romain Duris in ‘Eiffel’.

Tall tale: Gustave Eiffel and his tower get the big-screen treatment

Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star

29 Jul 2022
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Willem Röell (1728), Cornelis Troost. Amsterdam Museum

The art of bodysnatching in Edinburgh

There’s no disguising the gruesomeness of the trade that underpinned the scientific advances of the 18th century

29 Jul 2022