A concept by the artist John Baldessari to display a human cadaver as a work of art could one day be realised, a leading curator believes, despite a recent failed effort to find and display a dead body within the strict legal framework surrounding…
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The Portuguese billionaire José Berardo (right) says he hopes to lend his collection of more than 300 Art Deco works to a Miami-based institution for up to five years. Berardo, the chairman of the investments company Metalgest, owns paintings,…
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As a man was jailed on 15 August for stealing thousands of pounds worth of lead from the historic Newstead Abbey, once home to the poet Lord Byron, politicians called on cultural organisations to support a proposed law to tighten the regulation of…
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Experimental software developed to reassemble Cold War documents may soon shed light on the mysteries surrounding around 5,000 medieval stained-glass fragments from Coventry Cathedral, as well as on the work of John Thornton, one of England’s…
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The Shukhov radio tower in Moscow is in dire condition and may be lost if it is not properly restored soon, according to Vladimir Shukhov, the great-grandson of the engineer and architect (also called Vladimir Shukhov) who designed the structure….
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International dealers have joined forces to lobby against potential US legislation that could have a “significant and negative impact on the art market in New York”. The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the Society of London Art Dealers…
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The Robert Rausch-enberg Foundation is intending to increase the scale of its operations dramatically over the next 15 years. By then, it will be one of the largest grant-making bodies for the visual arts in the US, distributing as much, if not…
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Leonardo’s Mona Lisa was probably completed a decade later than the date given by the Louvre. This radical redating follows conservation work on the Prado’s copy of the Mona Lisa.
The Louvre dates the Mona Lisa to 1503-06….
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Leonardo-mania officially ends at 10pm on Sunday 5 February—at least as far as London is concerned. That is when the National Gallery’s “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” will close its doors. Gone will be the early-morning queues…
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jeddah. Usually it is the job of an art historian to pinpoint when an art movement begins. But last month, on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, the overwhelming feeling among visitors to a ground-breaking exhibition of Saudi contemporary art was that…
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