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Past and present collide at the Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s new medieval and Renaissance galleries put its outstanding collections in the spotlight and invites fresh and unexpected connections
Discover the best drawings at Salon du Dessin 2017
The Parisian fair returns this month to celebrate one of the most instinctive and timeless of mediums
TEFAF exhibitors report another fruitful fair
Early reported sales at TEFAF Maastricht were strong, particularly among Old Master dealers
Monarch of the Glen to stay in Scotland after £4 million fundraising drive
Art News Daily : 17 March
The quiet revolution of British watercolours
The British watercolour tradition did not end with the death of Turner
The man who created ‘dictator chic’
Charles Percier may not be a household name, but his Empire style sums up the Napoleonic era – and has had imitators ever since
The artists who dine out on their reputation
Damien Hirst is by no means the first artist to have done a doodle for a restaurateur
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Howard Hodgkin’s acute eye for beach towels, plus Jack White and De Stijl
The art of lying down
Penelope Curtis discusses this year’s TEFAF Curated display, ‘La Grande Horizontale’, which explores the theme of the recumbent figure in art
Beyond the Surface: Howard Hodgkin, 1932–2017
The celebrated painter Howard Hodgkin has died in London aged 84
‘Joy has to be part of the vocabulary of art’
Christopher Le Brun PRA discusses the musical and mythological inspirations behind his work as an exhibition of his new paintings opens across two US venues
Celebrating Alfred Basbous, the artist who breathed life into Lebanese sculpture
Alfred Basbous was inspired by European modernists, but also tapped into an ancient and timeless sculptural tradition
Rothko, Richter and Rauschenberg star in London’s contemporary art auctions
Auction highlights this month include a surprisingly good group of American paintings at Christie’s London
Ten highlights from the Armory Show
A run-down of the most talked-about pieces at this year’s Armory Show in New York
How American artists made watercolour great again
A new exhibition charts the transformation of watercolour painting in the USA, from an overlooked sideshow to a major cultural movement
Meet Donald Trump’s artistic entourage
The second lady is a vocal advocate of art therapy and an art historian has joined the National Security Council
The tender brutishness of Antoni Tàpies
The Catalan artist’s large, earthy paintings at Timothy Taylor have unexpectedly intimate and spiritual concerns
The rise of art business courses is a mixed blessing for the art trade
There are more art business courses than ever, but does the discipline need to define itself more clearly?
Is the Bilbao effect over?
How has the Guggenheim Bilbao changed the city in the 20 years since it opened – and should other cities still try to copy its example?
What the sale of the Czartoryski collection says about Poland today
The Czartoryski family owned one of the greatest art collections in Poland. Why have they sold it to the Polish state?
David Hockney’s art used to be cheap as chips
In 1954, the young David Hockney made a lithograph of his local chippie and gave it to the owners. It hung above the fryer for years
Striking attitudes on the sides of ancient Greek vases
What does the style and subjects of the artist known as the ‘Berlin Painter’ tell us about vase-painting in 5th-century Athens?
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Something has gone very wrong at Christie’s
The auction house’s decision to close its South Kensington saleroom and scale back operations in Amsterdam smacks of corporate short-termism