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25BooksAfter two years of tremendous growth, France’s art auction market is in decline
In its annual assessment of France’s auction market, the national regulatory body for the sector, the auction house Council, reported that overall...
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38Podcastsfive must-read books on the Romanian sculptor
• Click here for more reading lists on the world’s greatest artistsThe Romanian artist Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957) shaped the course of sculpture...
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37ColumnsA Van Gogh self-portrait goes to Wales
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris is lending its Self-portrait (autumn 1887) to the National Museum Cardiff, where it will go on display...
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26Artconsidered adjustments prove welcome at TEFAF Maastricht
Boasting 7,000 years of art history and requiring almost as many steps to traverse its aisles, The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf)...
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30Museums & heritage‘Have you ever been sat on before?’ What it’s like taking part in a (surprisingly) private view
The journalist Bianca Bosker takes us behind the scenes of the art world in Get the Picture, a frank and funny account...
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27Exhibitionsthree new publications and the stories behind them
The spotlight falls this month on a number of new queer art publications that open up fresh avenues in a burgeoning canon,...
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34Booksfrom a collection of ‘disruptive’ women painters to a biography of the eccentric Piero di Cosimo
An Opiniated Guide to Women Painters, Lucy Davies, Hoxton Mini Press, 124pp, £15 (hb)This guide to key women painters of the past...
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25PodcastsA women’s art history that goes beyond the brush and is a call to action
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800 is an ambitious and handsome publication, which accompanies the exhibition co-organised...
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26ColumnsAn explosive cocktail of desire and betrayal in a novel set in the 1990s London art world
The paperback edition of Kingsley Amis’s novel Lucky Jim quoted glowingly from a review by William Somerset Maugham. Amis, purred Willie, was “so...
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24ArtAntoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87
The acclaimed architect Antoine Predock died on 2 March at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 87 and had been...
