The American public volubly aired its opposition to US president Donald Trump’s plans to build a $400m, 22,000-sq.-ft ballroom in an hours-long online meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on Thursday (5 March).
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Financial filings of the biggest names in the art market paint a picture of collapsing profitability
The American public volubly aired its opposition to US president Donald Trump’s plans to build a $400m, 22,000-sq.-ft ballroom in an hours-long online meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on Thursday (5 March).
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Russia’s first appearance at the Venice Biennale since Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 will feature Russian folklore and world music.
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Two decades after one of the biggest art thefts in Brazilian history, the statute of limitations has expired. This means no one will ever face prison time for stealing five works by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso in 2006.
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Christie’s London brought in £197.4m (with fees) across three evening sales on Thursday, marking a 52% increase year on year on the equivalent auctions last season.
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A show of works by the South Korean artist Lee Ufan opening at the San Marco Art Centre is one of 31 official collateral Venice Biennale events announced today to coincide with the world’s most prestigious art exhibition (9 May-22 November).
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Liliana Angulo Cortés, the first Afro-Colombian artist to lead Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, died on 21 February at age 51.
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The packed auction totalled £131m and made a record for Leon Kossoff
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The former picture researcher Caroline Chapman provides a wealth of contextual information about key historic paintings in her new publication Painted Mysteries: Interpreting Great Paintings.
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A study on the manumission of enslaved people in the state of Bahia is revealing the complex realities of slavery and emancipation in Brazil during the 19th century.
A landmark of Op art, Bridget Riley’s 1964 painting Hesitate has been cleaned for the first time.
The celebrated art historian and Michelangelo expert, William E. Wallace’s elegant double biography attempts to consider the two artists, who probably met only twice, not as polar opposites, but rounded creative beings in active dialogue.
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For Bangladeshi artists, the transitional period after the fall of Sheikh Hasina has offered danger and inspiration in equal measure.
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Tehran’s only Unesco World Heritage Site, Golestan Palace, was damaged on Sunday (1 March) as the United States and Israeli forces intensified their offensive against Iran.
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Our pick of the highlights from the March auctions
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The author, art theorist and first culture minister of France, who died 50 years ago, is celebrated with more than 130 events, exhibitions and books this year
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The British Museum has secured sponsorship from the Belarus-born hedge fund billionaire Igor Tulchinsky for its Bayeux Tapestry loan exhibition starting in September.
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An early biblical painting by Rembrandt van Rijn that was long thought to have been lost has been rediscovered by the Rijksmuseum, according to an announcement today (2 March).
Newcastle Art Gallery enjoyed a grand reopening in the coal city two hours’ drive north of Sydney at the end of February, following an expansion project costing A$47m ($33m) that has more than doubled its exhibition space and attracted a major gift of art.
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Kelly Akashi, Christina Quarles, Adam Ross and Kathryn Andrews, all of whom lost their homes in the Eaton and Palisades fires, reflect on the last year
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As her landmark Tate Modern exhibition opens, the artist discusses the rise of Reform UK and the British Museum's "terrible colonial past"
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Display of sarcophagi of the Hohenzollerns, which span 500 years, includes a new exhibition
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Today Christophe Léribault, the current president of the Palace of Versailles, has been named the president and director of the Musée du Louvre. Annick Lemoine, the current director of the Petit Palais, will take over the role of president at the Musée d’Orsay.
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A recently discovered set of rock carvings in the Venezuelan state of Monagas is being hailed as the nation’s oldest example of rock art, possibly up to 8,000 years old.
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The exhibition Hernan Bas: The Visitors will feature more than 30 new paintings in an “immersive installation” conceived specially for Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art (7 May-30 August).
The Ukrainian government has adopted a new resolution to simplify the evacuation of more than three million pieces of cultural property from frontline zones. The move came days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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With lower costs than the main event, and in some cases models that are centred on artists, these smaller events seek to offer an enticing alternative to the blue-chip global fairs
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A new show at the Royal Academy which opens to the public on 28 February, comprises more than 90 works by Rose Wylie, including a number of new paintings made over the past two years.
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Countries including the UK and Denmark have pledged to contribute to the new Ukraine Cultural Heritage Fund
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