Roman sculptures from the Torlonia collection—considered to be the finest group of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands—will tour the United States and Canada next year, marking the first time…
Security workers at the Seattle Museum of Art (SAM) ended their 11-day strike strike last week, with an overwhelming majority (98%) of unionized employees voting to ratify their first contract…
An 1,375-year-old pyramid-shaped structure has been uncovered during highway road work in the Sierra Alta region of Hidalgo, just north of Mexico City. Representatives from the country’s National Institute of…
The London-based architectural practice Studio Weave has won the competition to design welcome pavilions at the British Museum, paving the way for an improved visitor experience at both entrances on…
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), as readers of The Art Newspaper will know, is the Venice one and not the New York one, though shortly before her death she gifted her unfinished…
At first glance, the photographs in Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie’s The Use of Photography do not seem particularly useful. They show what most people would keep from public view,…
The glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) are some of her best-known works. When the Scottish artist visited the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland in May 1949, she could not have…
While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet Mondrian caught the eye of a brainy female Oxford University graduate. Henry Moore, his Belsize…
When it comes to art and images, Instagram is not new. So says the new book Instagrammable by the art history professor Koenraad Jonckheere. The book weaves together examples of…
Édouard Manet, in constant pain during his last years, painted the same motif over and over again: cut flowers in a glass vase, a profusion of whites, reds, and pinks,…
