Huguette Caland—leading artist of the Arab world—has died, aged 88
Huguette Caland’s Untitled (1971) was included in the 57th Venice Biennale Viva Arte Viva Courtesy of Galerie Janine Rubeiz One of Lebanon’s best-known women artists,…
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‘A democratic vote swayed by lies is not democracy’—Mary Beard on what antiquity can teach us about political spin
Boris Johnson (left) and Emperor Nero (right) The world may be gaping in astonishment at the mess the UK is making with Brexit, but in…
Beyond the Metaphysical: Milan show aims to reassess Giorgio de Chirico’s late period
Metaphysical matador: De Chirico’s Self-Portrait in Torero Costume (1941-42) © G. de Chirico by SIAE “And what shall I love if not the enigma?” goes…
Bogotá’s Artbo closes its 15th edition on a vigilant note
Vernissage at Artbo 2019 © Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá The International Art Fair of Bogotá (Artbo) closed its 15th edition on Sunday 22 September…
Leading online database to remove 600,000 images after art project reveals its racist bias
ImageNet Roulette was launched by the artist Trevor Paglen and the AI researcher Kate Crawford Courtesy: ImageNet Roulette ImageNet, one of the largest, publicly accessible…
Josef Albers’s Manhattan returns to its rightful place in the MetLife building
Workers install Josef Albers’s recreated Manhattan mural in the MetLife building © Casey Fatchett There was public outcry when Josef Albers’s monumental mural, Manhattan, which…
This could be the first Cimabue painting to be sold at auction in recent times
Patterns of worm holes in the poplar panel suggest this painting is the missing part of a polyptych by the Florentine artist Courtesy of Actéon…
‘The most beautiful female bust’ brought back to life with vivid colour
From left, The Beauty of Palmyra today, with reconstituted elements, and in the final stage of digital reconstruction Tahnee L. Cracchio/Ben Goddard/Cecilie Brøns/Lars Hummelshøj Harald…
Art history professor Gary Xu Gang accused of sexual assault and rape by two former students
Gary Xu Gang was allowed to resign from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2018 with a $10,000 bonus Photo: Shenzhen Biennale Two former…
Fears gig economy law may hit culture workers
Uber and Lyft drivers protest over wages outside of Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File With California’s gig economy bill expected to…