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Narrating the past, collecting for the future

For Inti Ligabue collecting tribal and oceanic art is a way of telling stories about the cultures the objects come from

15 Aug 2017
Dog Head (ganabi), 19th century, Gogodala people, Papuan Gulf. Voyageurs & Curieux, price on request

The widening market for Oceanic art

Once championed by the Surrealists, Oceanic art is now achieving top prices at auction and attracting an increasingly diverse collector base

14 Aug 2017
Carolee Schneemann holding a Venetian lion mask, photographed in London in May 2017, Photo: Benjamin McMahon

Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term

12 Aug 2017
Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and other Saints, (c. 1300-05), Giovanni da Rimini.

The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini

Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London

10 Aug 2017

Martin Roth (1955–2017)

Art news daily : 7 August

7 Aug 2017
Martin Roth, Apollo magazine, 40 Under 40 Europe

A tribute to Martin Roth (1955–2017)

The former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum has died at the age of 62

7 Aug 2017
Speak to the Earth and It Will Tell You, (2000–17), Jeremy Dellar, Photo: Henning Rogge; © Skulptur Projekte Münster

Münster turns its public spaces over to sculpture

This year’s Skulptur Projekte Münster shows that digital technology has transformed the public realm – but some artists are resisting

7 Aug 2017
Frescoes in the Tomb of the Augurs, Necropolis of Monterozzi, Tarquinia. Courtesy Mibact. Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'Area Metropolitana di Roma, la Provincia di Viterbo e l'Etruria Meridionale

D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans

Is D.H. Lawrence’s account of the archaeological sites of Etruria still relevant today?

5 Aug 2017

Hollywood! Brooklyn! Basildon!

Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected

4 Aug 2017
The Taking of Christ (1602), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. © The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Fed up of the Fringe? Then escape to a museum

Edinburgh’s museums and galleries provide respite from the onslaught of the Fringe

4 Aug 2017
autoportrait (2017), Luke Willis Thompson. Installation view at Chisenhale Gallery 2017. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery and produced in partnership with Create. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Andy Keate

Silence speaks volumes at Chisenhale Gallery

Luke Willis Thompson’s work with Diamond Reynolds is a powerful response to the shooting of Philando Castile

3 Aug 2017

The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors

The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London

30 Jul 2017
Metropolitan Museum director Thomas P. Campbell (pictured here speaking at the opening of the exhibition 'Manus x Machina' in 2016), has been awarded the second annual Getty Rothschild Fellowship.

Thomas P. Campbell awarded Getty Rothschild Fellowship

Art news daily: 28 July

28 Jul 2017
Adrián Villar Rojas, 'The Theater of Disappearance', National Observatory of Athens, Hill of the Nymphs.

Adrián Villar Rojas digs deep in Athens

The Argentinian artist has planted artefacts, sculptures and a fantastical garden in Athens

28 Jul 2017

The curious case of Microsoft Paint

Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos

27 Jul 2017
Paimio armchair (1930), Alvar Aalto. Alvar Aalton Museum; photo: © Victoria and Albert Museum

Plywood: the V&A has nailed it

This thrilling exhibition reveals the glamour of an everyday material

26 Jul 2017
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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Salvador Dalí’s moustache, Madonna’s hairbrush, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

25 Jul 2017
Camel Coat Couple in Street Steam, New York City, 1975, Joel Meyerowitz. Courtesy of the artist and Howard Greenberg Gallery.

What not to miss at the world’s leading photography festival

This year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles ranges from Joel Meyerowitz’s street photography to repurposed statues of Lenin in Ukraine

24 Jul 2017
Two Women Sitting in a Garden (showing Charlotte Epton and Tirzah Garwood in the Brick House garden) (1932), Eric Ravilious. Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden

An outbreak of talent in Great Bardfield

Ravilious, Garwood, Bawden, Binyon… Why were so many artists drawn to a village in Essex?

24 Jul 2017
Picture taken on December 1971 of Spanish artist Salvador Dali. Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images

Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)

Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted

20 Jul 2017
Temporary Enclosure of Carioca Building Construction Site (1971), Jirō Takamatsu.

The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art

The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context

19 Jul 2017
The Finding of Moses, (1904), Lawrence Alma-Tadema, private collection, wikimedia commons

Alma-Tadema deserves to be loved again

The artist has fallen so far out of critical fashion that his merits are often completely overlooked

13 Jul 2017
The salon of the apartment that Viktor Kovačić created for himself in Zagreb in 1906

The architects who designed their own homes

The houses that architects designed for themselves can tell us much about their attitudes to their work

13 Jul 2017