Which European artist painted the mysterious 500-year-old image that became a sacred Ethiopian icon? Last month The Art Newspaper published the first...
The Now and Contemporary evening sales, Sotheby’s dual auctions dedicated to adjacent eras of post-war art, brought in a combined hammer total...
For four nights, from Thursday 16 to Sunday November 20, the cold dark streets of Durham in the UK will blaze with...
George Osborne, the chairman of the British Museum’s (BM) trustees, hosted a glittering dinner for hundreds of guests last night (15 November)...
This week: the New York auctions. Tim Schneider, The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, joins us to discuss two weeks of...
The four remaining members of a finding committee responsible for choosing the art director of the next Documenta have resigned en masse....
Pope.L may not call himself one of the most influential performance artists working in the US today, but he has been known to pass...
Among Van Gogh’s most intriguing Arles paintings is The Night Café (September 1888), depicting the Café de la Gare, where he would...
While trans-continental interventions on the African continent began with the 15th-century arrival of the Portuguese, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Africa &...
A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), who pleaded guilty in April to embezzling funds from the museum,...