Ancient Torlonia treasures head for the US and Canada
Roman sculptures from the Torlonia collection—considered to be the finest group of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands—will tour…
Strike at Seattle Art Museum ends as visitor services staff ratify first contract
Security workers at the Seattle Museum of Art (SAM) ended their 11-day strike strike last week, with an overwhelming…
1,375-year-old pyramid structure found in Hidalgo, Mexico
An 1,375-year-old pyramid-shaped structure has been uncovered during highway road work in the Sierra Alta region of Hidalgo, just…
London-based Studio Weave wins competition to revamp British Museum entrance
The London-based architectural practice Studio Weave has won the competition to design welcome pavilions at the British Museum, paving…
A literary homage to Peggy Guggenheim that falls short
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), as readers of The Art Newspaper will know, is the Venice one and not the New York…
This newly translated volume compiles the photographic traces of a libidinous love affair
At first glance, the photographs in Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie’s The Use of Photography do not seem particularly useful.…
New book views glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham through the eyes of poets and glaciologists
The glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) are some of her best-known works. When the Scottish artist visited the Grindelwald…
Two books explore Piet Mondrian’s journey into abstraction—and his posthumous influence on 1960s fashion
While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet Mondrian caught the eye of…
From sfumato to selfies—can art history explain the Instagram phenomenon?
When it comes to art and images, Instagram is not new. So says the new book Instagrammable by the art…
a collection of letters that the critic John Berger exchanged with his artist son
Édouard Manet, in constant pain during his last years, painted the same motif over and over again: cut flowers in…