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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?
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?
Why Désiré Feuerle displays his art in a Berlin bunker
Désiré Feuerle talks to Apollo about his collection of Asian and contemporary art and its unusual underground home
‘It was almost as if the stations were crying’
Yuko Mohri talks about looking for leaks on the Tokyo metro system and her new installation at White Rainbow in London
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artist who wants you to ‘thump a Trump’; Winston Churchill’s ET moment; plus the rest of last week’s art-world gossip
‘The most perfect example of the Elizabethan Age’
From its architecture to the treasures it contains, Hardwick Hall is a complete work of art
UK formally refuses export licence for £30 million Pontormo painting
Art News Daily : 16 February
Duncan Campbell turns his attention to rural Ireland
The Turner Prize winner’s new film looks at the power of narratives to misrepresent
Turning women’s work into art
Some of the 20th century’s greatest artists have worked in textiles – and most of them happen to have been women
The Poetry of Venetian Painting
Through the work of Bordone, Il Vecchio, Lotto, and Titian, this exhibition explores painting and artistic innovation in 16th century Venice
Examining the scars of history with Günther Uecker
The German artist Günther Uecker talks to Apollo about the rise of the European post-war avant-garde
The elephant in the road
Go and see Joel Sternfeld’s strange and beautiful photographs of the USA at Beetles+Huxley while you still can
The shifting styles of Victor Pasmore
Pasmore’s work surely constitutes one of the most varied and experimental bodies of work produced by any 20th-century British artist
Siobhan McDonald’s chance encounters with a changing world
The artist’s exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris explores big themes of climate change, landscape and loss
How an artist is trolling the Venice Biennale
The Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson has handed over the creation of the country’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale to a brace of trolls. Really.
The turbulent life of Mary, Queen of Scots
She’s an icon of Scottish nationhood and martyrdom, but Mary’s life at court was a complicated one of competing cultural, social and political influences
An epic Magritte is set to be the highlight of Christie’s ‘Art of the Surreal’ sale
Auction highlights this month include works by Morisot and Magritte at Christie’s, and Sotheby’s inaugural ‘Erotic: Passion and Desire’ sale
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?