Julia Michalska

Julia Michalska is the Interim Co-Editor of The Art Newspaper. She is also the Deputy Editor and Digital Editor, as well as the creator and producer of the award-winning podcast The Week in Art

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Louvre shuts after knife attack of ‘terrorist nature’

Man was shot after attacking soldier near entrance of Paris museum

Behind the scenes of Poland’s €100m art deal

Not everyone is happy that the country has bought the prized Czartoryski Collection, which includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine

Poland's Second World War museum under threat after court allows controversial merger

Shortly before opening, the €100m institution has become a battleground over Polish history

Berlin and Biesenbach, 25 years on

Klaus Biesenbach recalls co-founding the city’s influential KW Institute for Contemporary Art as a medical student

Poland's clampdown on its cultural institutes

Series of high-level dismissals shows the right-wing government’s tightening grip on the arts

Three to see: London

From Malick Sidibé’s black-and-white photos of Bamako’s youth culture to Ken Price’s bright and colourful ceramics <br> <br>

Three to see: London

From Rodin’s twirling dancers to Mapplethorpe’s still-lifes

Three to see: London

From the feminist avant-garde works collected by an Austrian electrical company to the Aussie Impressionists inspired by Monet<br> <br>

Three to see: Vienna

See Francis Alÿs’s dreamy paintings and Dürer’s apocalyptic nightmare during Vienna Art Week<br>

Alphonse Mucha's grandson sues Prague to stop Asian tour of Slav Epic

Artist’s heir fears trip to Japan and China could harm the 20 monumental paintings

Artists express dismay at Donald Trump’s US election victory

Billionaire political outsider has few supporters in the art world

Alphonse Mucha's grandson sues Prague to stop Asian tour of Slav Epic

Artist’s heir fears trip to Japan and China could harm the 20 monumental paintings

Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens fully inside Berlin brewery

Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art in trendy Neukölln district has been unveiled in stages

The man who spent 40 years preserving Palmyra’s past

Polish archaeologist Michal Gawlikowski on his hopes for the war-torn city and his friendship with murdered scholar Khaled al-Asaad

Spiders sell well at Frieze London

Tomás Saraceno is "well-known in the circle of arachnologists"

Top five London shows during Frieze week

Our pick of the city's must-see exhibitions, including Picasso, Pollock and two million pennies<br>

Blockchain: how the revolutionary technology behind Bitcoin could change the art market

The software has the potential to improve transparency, copyright and ownership issues

Three to see: London

Contemplate Abstract Expressionism at the RA before getting down to big beats and 3D visual treats in the Hayward’s Infinite Mix

Technologyanalysis

Blockchain: how the revolutionary technology behind Bitcoin could change the art market

The software has the potential to improve transparency, copyright and ownership issues

Contemporary art fair comes to Warsaw's historic Palace of Culture

New event in Soviet relic casts an eye beyond Polish borders

Pioneering war photographer Gerda Taro's images vandalised in Leipzig

Open-air display of photographs covered in black paint in "politically motivated" attack

Brexit vote triggers shock and dismay

Fears for London art market amid political and economic uncertainty after UK votes to leave EU

Art Cologne reschedules to avoid clash with Berlin Gallery Weekend

Visitors and participants may be spared having to choose between the two events

Edgy art in Basel’s back yard

Head to Salts in the leafy suburbs to find brand new work in garages and gardens

Fairsnews

Art Basel's Unlimited section is one big party

Curator Gianni Jetzer says that organising the show is like party planning—and with a record 88 works this year, he has pulled out all the stops

Six shows to see during Art Basel

Alleviate your fair-tigue with these exhibitions in and around the Swiss city

Walter Benjamin’s reading list of crime and classics revealed

Philosopher’s little black book of books included in Berlin show by artist and author Edmund de Waal