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Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle

Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”

Martin Baileyabout 6 hours ago

A new documentary asks how King Charles was hoodwinked by forged paintings

The film examines the scandal of fakes lent by James Stunt to a royal residence, including works supposedly by Monet, Salvador Dalí and Picasso

Georgina Adamabout 8 hours ago

Sotheby's to sell art belonging to Brazil's Lady of the Resistance

The journalist and collector Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, who established the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, was exiled after speaking out against Brazil's military dictatorship

Anna Bradyabout 9 hours ago

Japan is opening its eyes to women photographers—and to the female gaze

Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and subverting traditional assumptions about the female body

Lisa Moviusabout 8 hours ago

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Jack Whitten at MoMA, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine—podcast

Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives of Black artists in France, and Hans Ulrich Obrist on a monumental painting by the esteemed Indian artist Singh

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrisonabout 6 hours ago

Art market

Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

The work sold at Christie’s New York, almost quadrupling its $3.5m high estimate, as South Asian Modern art crests a wave

Kabir Jhala2 days ago

New York art adviser Lisa Schiff sentenced to prison for fraud

Once a high-profile adviser to elite art collectors, Schiff will spend 30 months in prison

São Paulo's newest gallery knows you must ‘burn cash to support great artists’

Yehudi Hollander-Pappi, founded by two former Mendes Wood DM employees and a seasoned collector, opens this week with a 20-strong roster and a clear vision for success

London's oldest art fair celebrates its 40th anniversary

The London Original Print Fair launched in 1985 when the concept of art fairs was in its infancy. Its director of 38 years, Helen Rosslyn, reflects on its longevity

Art collector James Stunt found not guilty of money-laundering

The entrepreneur was accused along with four others, who were found guilty

Museums & Heritage

Trump appoints deputy secretary of US Labor Department to lead museum-funding agency marked for elimination

Keith Sonderling, the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, plans to steer the agency to “promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country”

Benjamin Suttonabout 24 hours ago

Bigger is not better and free admission costs institutions less, museum report finds

Remuseum’s second report concludes that admission fees are raising few funds and keeping out potential visitors—and expansions are often not worth the money

Helen Stoilas1 day ago

‘The missiles will not erase his mark on our hearts’: Palestinian artist killed in Israeli strikes

Dorgham Quraiqi, was working with the UK charity Hope and Play, when the remains of his house were bombed

A new destination for contemporary art takes shape in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Construction on the Eacheve Foundation’s new complex broke ground in January and is on track to be completed in time for an opening in autumn 2025

Libbi Ponce1 day ago

ICA Boston launches $100,000 award for women artists, with Sarah Sze winning inaugural edition

The new Meraki Artist Prize is funded by Fotene Demoulas, whose family owns the Market Basket supermarket chain

Torey Akersabout 23 hours ago

Exhibitions

Massachusetts museum presents an artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier

Ohan Breiding’s experimental film and photography, on view at Mass Moca, pay homage to the disappearing Rhône Glacier in Switzerland

Esteemed private collection of Roman marbles is starting its North American tour

Nearly 60 works from the Torlonia Collection, including striking depictions of animals and people, will feature in exhibitions in Chicago, Fort Worth and Montreal

‘A time travelling conversation about life and art’: the botanical collages of Mary Delany and Georgie Hopton

The exhibition opening at Bath's No.1 Royal Crescent, which pairs works by the 18th-century collagist and the contemporary artist, is part of a series of shows attempting to draw new audiences to the gallery

Gillian Wearing and Michael Landy’s joint exhibition shows the artistic power of love

The artist couple’s show in Naples, Italy, also taps into the city’s religious heritage

Louise Giovanelli: ‘Because of the curtains and tinsel, people think I grew up with working men’s clubs’

The UK painter’s first major museum show, at the Hepworth Wakefield, offers recognition of a talent whose ambiguous works can shift between the humdrum of the ordinary and the ecstasy of revelation

Opinion

Comment | Works of art are living things—so should we let them die?

The cost—financially and environmentally—of preserving works of art can be huge. Perhaps it is time to rethink how we look after them

Comment | Balanchine is Modern master whose impact on contemporary art should not be overlooked

The choreographer’s formal gestures and patterns make him crucial to contemporary performance art

Comment | The UK is attempting to pry open a notorious data ‘backdoor’—here's why that's alarming for artists

Emma Shapiro on the UK government's secret order to break end-to-end encryption and allow access to all citizens’ Apple iCloud data

Tristram Hunt: 'The government needs to cancel the British Council’s debt'

The V&A director on the dangers of the cash-strapped cultural organisation disappearing

Comment | Five years after opening, Cromwell Place looks more like a V&A piggybacker than a market disruptor

The London commercial gallery initially had big ambitions, but is now having more success feeding off the nearby Victoria & Albert Museum

Technology

News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.

Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?

A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view

RedNote and TikTok: what is social media like in the Chinese art world?

Killer algorithms, a huge influencer culture and the 'sweet spot' of RedNote

Technologyanalysis

Here's how the EU is aiding artists in tackling social media moderation issues

Out-of-court dispute settlement bodies are an important development in supporting creative expression

An architect’s dream: Refik Anadol launches AI tribute to Frank Gehry at Guggenheim Bilbao

The media artist presents “Living Architecture: Gehry”, generated from a new large architecture model containing visual data from the LA-based architect’s 65 years in practice

Book Club

‘He could be grotesquely, wildly intemperate’: biographer Blake Gopnik tells us about the great collector Albert C. Barnes

A new biography on the renowned businessman, who amassed one of the most important collections of Modern art in the US, looks at what made him tick

An expert’s guide to Vanessa Bell: five must-read books on the Bloomsbury Group artist

All you ever wanted to know about Bell, from a comprehensive biography to a controversial memoir by her daughter—selected by Charleston’s head of collections Darren Clarke

Tacita Dean on why she has made a book about her night in a museum with Cy Twombly’s art

The British artist has published a new book of detailed photographs of her hero’s work

Books

Review | ‘An utterly positive and dangerously irrelevant’ book written by the chief executive of Arts Council England

This journey through the UK’s publicly funded arts carefully averts its eyes from the many signs of crisis

A new monograph places the writing, painting and archive photographs of Aubrey Williams in thrilling conversation

The publication about the Guyanese-born artist includes diary entries and several works that have been photographed for the first time

New book celebrates William Butterfield, a master of High Victorian Gothic architecture

Nicholas Olsberg’s publication offers a learned analysis of the architect’s work, which includes Oxford’s Keble College and central London’s All Saints church

A new volume explores the intimate art of drawing, as seen through a wider lens

This “alternative” history navigates the medium through artists on the margins, as well as established practitioners

Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence

Catalogue accompanying exhibition at London’s Design Museum explores the US film-maker’s unique aesthetic

London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery is feeding more than passions

The gallery in leafy south London suburb will begin hosting a farmer’s market this weekend

The Art Newspaperabout 8 hours ago

Grayson Perry flips the bird at art world snobbery with Masked Singer appearance

The Turner prize winning potter stunned viewers and hosts of the popular TV show after revealing himself as the voice behind the kingfisher costume

Back of the net: Eric Cantona and Ella Toone team up with top art world figures to kick off Manchester International Festival

Rose Wylie, Ryan Gander, Alvaro Barrington and Paul Pfeiffer are among the artists participating in the exhibition ‘Football City, Art United’

Tracey Emin protégé gets first solo show

Bianca Raffaella’s flower paintings have been unveiled in London

Mickalene Thomas is bringing the glam to motorsport

The artist’s wrap design for a McLaren racing car is set to turn heads on the track

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A brush with… Renée Green — podcast

Renée, known for her installations, video pieces and texts, reflects on the nature of ideas, on subjectivity and perception, and on memory—personal and collective

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Obituaries

Remembering Rosalind Savill, the porcelain expert who transformed the Wallace Collection

During her 19-year tenure as its director, she turned a sedate institution into a vibrant tribute to the culture of 18th-century France

Jack Vettriano, immensely popular artist whose market success reflected 'an appetite for the glamorous', has died, aged 73

The sale of “The Singing Butler” at Sotheby’s in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect

Serge Lasvignes, former president of Centre Pompidou, has died aged 70

The Centre Pompidou extended its international reach during Lasvignes's tenure

Mel Bochner, conceptual artist known for text paintings and wry humour, has died, aged 84

Bochner was a pioneer of conceptual art, creating works rooted in information systems and decontextualised language

Adventures with Van Gogh

Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.

You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”