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Geneva museum director fights attempt to oust him
Around 100 scholars have signed a petition to the city’s mayor arguing that Marc-Olivier Wahler is not the right person to run the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
The art fair season kicks off in Asia: here is your guide
From Shenzhen to Shanghai, Hong Kong to Beijing, this autumn is awash with events despite border closures and long quarantines
Antiquities trade should prepare for more government oversight
US Treasury Department issues a call for input on forthcoming regulation that aims to counter money laundering
Mexico recovers stolen 16th-century manuscripts
The historic works were taken from the National Archives over the years in what its new director calls a “wholesale pillaging”
Colnaghi's show explores the broad threads that connect Spanish art and the New World
Exhibition of work from the Pre-Columbian age to mid-century Modern paintings, extended to 22 October
British Museum to sell NFTs of 200 Hokusai works—including The Great Wave
The institution has partnered with French start-up LaCollection to auction the non-fungible tokens, coinciding with its exhibition of the Japanese artist's work
Design Miami is expanding to Qatar
The design fair has launched a new partnership in Doha
Creative salvage has a renaissance at Design Miami/Basel
At the design fair, contemporary designers are creating collectible rarity through the judicious use of discarded and salvaged material
A new flavour of non-fungible token: Vito Schnabel launches an NFT auction platform
ArtOfficial, developed with help from Gary Vaynerchuk, "aims to broaden the experience of digital art" and make its purchase more accessible and transparent
Portrait of a pandemic: five works at Art Basel that confront Covid-19
The first edition of Art Basel to take place since the onset of the global pandemic is full of new works created in the midst of lockdown
Art Basel 2021: it’s good to be back—but things are going to change, dealers say
Despite the success of the fair's first post-pandemic edition, galleries are weighing up the future
Artists announced for Saudi Arabia's first ever contemporary art biennial
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale is part of a drive to promote the cultural credentials of the middle Eastern kingdom
New York’s Hispanic Society gears up for its second act
The museum and libarary in northern Manhattan has a new director with a packed agenda—and some needed improvements on its horizon
Martin Puryear to create permanent sculpture for Storm King Art Center
The dome-like work marks the first time the artist will work with brick as a material
Looted Gilgamesh tablet returned to Iraq
The ancient cuneiform, once fated to be displayed at the Museum of the Bible, was sold by Christie’s for $1.7m to the owners of the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby
Five-metre-tall fountain pen sculpture by Michael Craig-Martin unveiled in Oxford
Artist says the work at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government is the ‘most daring of all my sculptures’
Swiss landscape painting—once destined for Hitler’s Führermuseum—acquired by London’s National Gallery
Alexandre Calame’s Chalets at Rigi was sold in 1996 at an auction of unclaimed works with proceeds going to benefit victims of the Holocaust
Art and architecture merge on Vancouver’s towers—but is the cultural outreach more than illusion?
Two public projects launching this week highlight the Canadian city’s booming developments, in which only a select few can afford to live
Two veteran lawyers from New York's Herrick Feinstein create new firm, Kaye Spiegler—and save on moving fees
The boutique firm will continue to work from the same offices, but wants to take on riskier contingency cases
National Gallery of Australia commissions its most expensive ever piece of art
Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works
Soedarmadji Jean Henry Damais, Indonesian curator and historian, dies aged 78
The last director of the Jakarta History Museum was a leading advocate of the archipelago's traditional arts, crafts and designs
'The Europeans are back and buying': sales flow steadily at first Art Basel since the pandemic
Though Covid-19 travel complications have kept many US and Asian collectors away, dealers report brisk business from the VIP opening
Try before you buy? Art rental scheme could bring steady income for emerging artists
Gertrude aims to make the art market more accessible and evenly distributed
Artistate launches to help artists safeguard their legacy
Founded by gallerists and lawyers, the venture will provide estate-planning advice—for a fee—to artists and their families
German auction of Latin American antiquities goes ahead, but many works fail to sell
Ambassadors from eight countries—Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru—whose heritage was included in the sale launched a united front against it, with calls for Unesco to intervene
‘Excellence in Essex’: Firstsite wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021
The small contemporary art organisation was awarded the £100,000 prize for its work during the pandemic and engagement with the local community
Conservative party donor John Booth appointed chair of London's National Gallery
Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview
Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong sets new opening date for long-delayed Abu Dhabi museum
New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says 'we can re-centre where the stories of art are told'
Unlimited—Art Basel’s section for large works—opens to visitors with a rainbow jacuzzi, a spooning couple and a house made of bread
Curator Giovanni Carmine walks through highlights among the 62 supersized installations presented at the fair
France launches Islamic art shows across 18 cities to combat rising Islamophobia
The Louvre-led government initiative aims to shatter clichés and encourage a deeper understanding