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Frederico Castro Debernardi | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Collectors

Federico Castro Debernardi

Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Monaco

7 Sep 2017
Njideka Akunyili Crosby | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Artists

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Los Angeles, USA

7 Sep 2017
Neha Kirpal | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Business

Neha Kirpal

Founding Director, India Art Fair, Delhi, India

7 Sep 2017
Jorge Coll | Apollo 40 Under 40 Global | The Business

Jorge Coll

Co-founder, Coll & Cortés, and CEO United Kingdom, Colnaghi, London, UK

7 Sep 2017

The artists buttering up Justin Trudeau

Canada’s prime minister has been immortalised in butter, while a Kiwi artist has chosen a rather less tasteful medium for his political statuary

7 Sep 2017
The Primitive World (1857), Adolphe François Pannemaker. Courtesy of TASCHEN

Dinosaurs, dioramas, and the strange world of natural history

Paleoart and dioramas are designed to depict prehistory and the natural world – but what they really reveal are our own hopes and fears

7 Sep 2017
Jeune garcçon endormi, à mi–hauteur, profil gauche, (detail), Jean–Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805). Galerie Eric Coatelem (price on application)

The best of the new Biennale Paris

The Biennale des Antiquaires returns in its new guise as the Biennale Paris with an impressive showing of French fine and decorative arts

7 Sep 2017
Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable

Why it’s time for auction houses to start talking to each other

Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the auction sector

6 Sep 2017
Club group (18th–early 19th century), Tonga, Fiji or Samoa, Polynesia. Michael Evans Tribal Art. Photo: Stephen Petegorsky

A preview of Parcours des Mondes

This year’s event explores links between traditional African art and contemporary art practice, while galleries around Paris present their best items

4 Sep 2017
Letters from Bombay (2012-14), Howard Hodgkin. © Howard Hodgkin, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

How India inspired Howard Hodgkin

‘Painting India’ at the Hepworth Wakefield includes many of the artist’s most engaging and joyful paintings

2 Sep 2017
Eike Schmidt on April 4, 2017 in Florence, at the Gucci Cruise 2018 press conference. Photo by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images for Gucci

Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

Art news daily: 1 September

1 Sep 2017
David Tang, at his office in Hong Kong, 15 November 2004. SAMANTHA SIN/AFP/Getty Images

Sir David Tang (1954–2017)

Tang was well known as an entrepreneur, a socialite, and a columnist; he was also a leading art collector and patron of the arts

31 Aug 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy

30 Aug 2017
David Lamelas. Photo: Celeste Leeuwenburg

‘I think of myself as a producer of ideas’

Pioneering conceptual artist David Lamelas on space, identity, and taking advice from Anthony Caro

28 Aug 2017
Andre Malraux holding a Khmer sculpture, Photo: © Bettmann/Getty Images

The many lives of André Malraux

Collector, dealer, novelist, art historian, culture minister, conservationist – André Malraux’s influence still looms large

26 Aug 2017
Finding Fanon (2015–17), David Blandy and Larry Achiampong. Photo: Sam Garwood

Riding the wave: Plymouth’s burgeoning art scene

The city’s cultural ambitions are growing in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage

24 Aug 2017

Leonardo DiCaprio, meet Leonardo da Vinci…

Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him

24 Aug 2017
Rakewell: Apollo's roving eye on the art world

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’

22 Aug 2017
Rose bowl (c. 1938), Michael Cardew.

A potted history of studio ceramics

Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain

19 Aug 2017
Installation view of 'Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Bronzes from the 1980s' at Michael Werner Gallery, London, photo: courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, London and New York

Per Kirkeby’s triumph of form over substance

The Danish artist clearly takes great delight in the physical properties of paint (and bronze, too)

18 Aug 2017

Studying art history can make you famous – honest!

Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.

18 Aug 2017
Julian Assange gestures as he speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy Of Ecuador on May 19, 2017 in London, England. Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts

What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker

17 Aug 2017
Hugo Erfurth with Dog (1926), Otto Dix. © DACS 2017. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Staring at the zeitgeist

August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany

17 Aug 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle

15 Aug 2017