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36Museums & heritageIt’s time to end the predatory practices of ‘sleeper hunters’
Radical thought: the original owner of a “sleeper” should be compensated in future sales of the work of art, which they sold...
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34Exhibitionsthe colourful and scandalous life of Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘Black Countess’
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s 1881 painting of a Black woman driving a horse and carriage along a seafront poses a puzzle: who was she?...
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41BooksGerman museum director at centre of row over cancelled Candice Breitz exhibition steps down
The director at the centre of a row over a cancelled show of works by the artist Candice Breitz has decided to...
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42PodcastsGlobal art market value fell by 4% in 2023 amid ‘inflation and wars’, Art Basel/UBS report finds
After two years of recovery growth from the Covid-19 pandemic, the global art market shrank last year by 4%, from $67.8bn to...
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38ColumnsIn open letter, Metropolitan Museum employees call on the institution to ‘stand in defence of Palestinians’
Employees, fellows and volunteers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have signed onto an open letter to director and...
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42ArtThe woman who riled Picasso finally gets an exhibition in Paris
One of Picasso’s muses seems to have had the last laugh. Françoise Gilot famously walked away from the celebrated Spanish artist at...
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38Museums & heritageFrancesca Woodman’s posthumous path to A-lister
This story begins where most end: the artist dies. On 19 January 1981, Francesca Woodman, a 22-year-old photographer distraught over personal and...
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38ExhibitionsNewly identified William Kent chairs—discovered in a Wiltshire Church—go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
Gleamingly restored and sumptuously reupholstered in yellow silk damask, two magnificent Georgian armchairs, newly identified in a Wiltshire church as designed by...
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34BooksExhibition reveals how artists processed the trauma of a racist mass shooting
In Western New York, “May 14” is shorthand for that horrific day in 2022 when an 18-year-old white supremacist killed ten Black...
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39PodcastsAmong the seemingly endless round of biennials, eco-minded Klima Biennale in Vienna offers something genuinely new
Does the art world really need another biennale, even one that claims to be putting climate change as its centre? Aren’t biennials...
