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Sadiq Khan announces trust to help create affordable artists’ studios
Art News Daily : 27 October
The global ambitions of Artes Mundi
Six shortlisted artists battle it out for this year’s prize – one of the nominees, Bedwyr Williams, tells Apollo about his futuristic project
How US election art just keeps getting grosser…
First a sculpture of Hillary Clinton suckling a banker appeared in New York, and now comes Donald Trump as an ugly Renaissance baby
Portrait of the Artist
From Old Master self-portraits to da Vinci’s only surviving likeness, the Royal Collection looks at how the artist’s image has evolved over time
It’s the loneliness of Diane Arbus’s images that make them so discomforting today
An exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early work presents curiosities without cabinets
Della Robbia’s glazed terracotta changed Tuscan art
This superb exhibition makes us look at terra invetriata – a prodigious combination of earth, glass, and fire – through the eyes of 15th-century Tuscans
Keith Cunningham: the artist who walked away from fame
He was ranked alongside Auerbach and Kossoff: so why did Cunningham stop painting just as his career was taking off?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The Madonna and Maggie Simpson; Alex Katz at H&M; the girl with the not-so-pearl earring and more
Remembering Anne Crookshank (1927–2016)
Irish art history owes a huge debt to the pioneering contribution of Anne Crookshank
‘I felt I was more connected in a way with Arab art’
Dia Al-Azzawi on why he sees himself less as an Iraqi artist and more as one from the wider Middle East
Mary Sibande’s alter ego tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa
The Johannesburg-based artist talks to Apollo about what it means to be a young black artist working in South Africa today
The illuminated manuscripts that are lighting up the Fens
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s ‘Colour’ exhibition is a triumphant introduction to medieval manuscript painting
The revolutionary collector who changed the course of Russian art
How Sergei Shchukin brought paintings by the most trailblazing members of the French avant-garde to Russia
Make no mistake, art history is a hard subject. What’s soft is the decision to scrap it
Exam board AQA is to scrap art history A-level. It’s a crazy decision to take just as public perception of the subject is changing
The art that built Martin Luther’s brand
Lucas Cranach’s service to the Reformation went beyond creating iconic images of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther
The faces of antiquity in the sale rooms of New York
Christie’s New York is offering two mummy portraits at auction this month. What do we know about these strange survivals from antiquity?
Why are Louise Bourgeois’s webs and spiders so captivating?
The etchings and sculptures on show at Hauser & Wirth Somerset are at their most powerful when we stop trying to understand them
Has Jeff Koons earned his place in art history?
With his Gazing Balls, Koons has created a body of work that appeals to the brain as well as the eyes
How Georgia O’Keeffe transformed the American landscape
Georgia O’Keeffe’s commitment to what she called ‘the Great American Thing’ inspired her engagement with place
Anthea Hamilton’s journey through Kettle’s Yard
The Turner-prize nominated artist talks to Apollo about Surrealism, what she learned from Jim Ede, and being part of a legacy
Virginia Dwan emerges as the star of the NGA’s new galleries
The National Gallery has opened its revamped East Building with a celebration of the woman who put some of the USA’s most influential contemporary artists on the map
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