The week in art news – V&A revises plan to restructure departments
Plus: Mali and Unesco receive symbolic reparations for Timbuktu destruction, France pledges €500,000 for Sursock Museum repairs, and more stories
Plus: Mali and Unesco receive symbolic reparations for Timbuktu destruction, France pledges €500,000 for Sursock Museum repairs, and more stories
Walking around the city can feel like following in the footsteps of the famous photographer – but today’s empty streets are altogether more depressing
These vast, bustling buildings were once emblems of city life – but they've been in decline for years and the pandemic has only hastened their demise
Many British royals have been keen on acquiring works of art, but few have been as diligent about looking after them as Queen Mary
Ralph Beyer’s idiosyncratic letter-cutting isn’t to everyone’s taste but there’s no denying its power
Sacha Jafri's vast canvas may have fetched $62m, but it also landed him in hospital – and he’s not the first artist to have suffered a work-related injury
A new series on BBC Radio 3 delves into the notorious life of Benvenuto Cellini – and it's a binge-worthy Renaissance thriller, Christina Faraday writes
The V&A says it’s protecting the jobs of librarians (for now), but the fate of the greatest art library in the UK remains uncertain
Irma Stern’s idylls of African life have too often been read at face value – but they mask a more troubled history
With human contact all but banned, an exhibition about touch was always going to provoke mixed feelings
Since the 1960s, artists and designers have regarded the brooch as a miniature sculpture – and an opportunity to try out new materials and techniques
The architect wreathed his buildings in mystical language – but his modern citadels are clearly among the great achievements of 20th-century architecture
The German painter moved freely between Surrealism, Expressionism and Symbolism, as this display in Hamburg reveals
Christie’s just sold a Jpeg file for a staggering $69.3 million. There’ll be a saving on shipping costs, if nothing else...
A pair of Lear’s macaws, named after the poet, painter and parrot-lover, have been released into the wild in Brazil
A display of interwar posters is a reminder of that utopian moment when artists believed they could invent a new world
Will Martin steps away from his screen and takes his cues from some of the world’s leading contemporary artists
Locked down in Arles, the celebrated interiors photographer François Halard made a series of dreamlike Polaroids that emerge as an enigmatic self-portrait
Gillian Wearing is in an unusually candid mode in her lockdown paintings, writes Martin Herbert – if you take them at face value, that is
Thanks to deepfake technology you can make Rembrandt roll his eyes – and be creeped out by the results