Artists

Marlene Dumas to paint Dresden altarpiece

Work will replace a fresco painted by Osmar Schindler in 1910 and badly damaged during the Second World War

Swiss artist will make you dance to the music of fireflies and time

Robin Meier’s immersive installation is the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet’s first commission

Huyghe’s aquarium set to swim from coast to coast

Zoodram 5 (Recollection) is being jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hauser & Wirth takes on Fausto Melotti estate

Gallery partner says the Italian Modernist sculptor is less known outside of Europe

Tobacco chandelier lights up Salon 94 at Art Basel

The hanging sculpture was previously owned by the New York-based patron Agnes Gund

The messiah complex is no coincidence

Bearded and berobed figures inspired artists including Schiele and Beuys

Why curators can't get enough of Marcel Broodthaers

The late Belgian poet and conceptual artist is due to get his first US retrospective since 1989 at MoMA next year

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Salvador Dalí show heads to Shanghai

Surrealism comes to K11 art space in move to promote understanding of intellectual property rights

Why should collectors get all the breaks?

Artists seek similar tax incentives for donating works to museums and auctions

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Artist chronicles fight with Louis Vuitton

Book tells of Nadia Plesner’s three-year battle to clear her name after luxury fashion company took offence at her drawing of a designer bag

Cliché and a lack of feeling: Richard Shiff explains why critics have failed painting

Painting lives on, but the critical terms stagnate and slacken, the art historian says

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Solved: the mystery of Canaletto’s birth and death dates

He was one of the leading artists of 18th-century Italy, but confusion has reigned over precisely when the Venetian painter arrived in and departed from this world. Here, a researcher reopens—and closes—the case<br>

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Brian Sewell travels across India—with a donkey

Anna Somers Cocks is charmed by the story of Mr B, accompanied by a donkey and a stout umbrella

Images from the dark days of colonial rule

Collection of politically inspired works by artists from the Congo on the market

‘Commerce is in. If real estate is booming, art is booming’

Property tycoon Aby Rosen, promoting his new Manhattan skyscraper, talks about art-world fatigue and giving something back to society

MoMA struggles to fulfil sculptor’s last wishes

Scott Burton left his estate to the New York museum—but prices for his work have tumbled