Artists
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
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
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
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>
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
Theaster Gates plans ‘sound sanctuary’ in disused church
Exhibition will be Chicago artist's first public project in the UK
Chris Burden: US performance artist and sculptor who restlessly searched for alternative visions
He countered assassinations, massacres and senseless aggression with performances that physicalised the pain of a nation
French art space forged from metalworks
Venue for socio-political art to open in converted armaments factory in Maubourguet


























