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In mid May this year, New York felt even more like the centre of the art world than it has in recent years. The big auctions coinciding with heavy-hitting fairs Frieze, Independent and TEFAF reminded ...

The sculptor Stefano Maderno is not nearly as well known today as his near-contemporaries Giambologna or Gian Lorenzo Bernini, falling somewhere into the gap between the Mannerism of the former and ...

Next week, staff at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington will stage two days of strike action – as a breakdown in industrial relations spreads west. Strikes earlier this month already hit ...

The Breuer building is abuzz this month with 57 exhibitors presenting work by some 130 avant-garde artists at Independent 20th Century. But for anyone wanting to sample a different flavour of modern ...

The Vienna Workshop was a linchpin of the city’s avant-garde creative scene in the early 19th century. The wares of 30 Jewish women from its cohort of artists, designers and artisans are presented ...

Salman Toor spent years copying baroque, rococo and neoclassical paintings before encountering the work of modern South Asian artists: intimate scenes by Amrita Sher-Gil, Bhupen Khakhar’s fantastical ...

Following early incarnations at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, an exhibition covering 2,000 years of Korea art and culture ...

Before the ‘talkies’ revolutionised Hollywood in 1927, film-makers had to get creative to convey a sense of character on screen. One way of expressing personality was through clothing, and the Bard ...

Much excitement has been caused by the news that a dress previously belonging to Princess Diana is coming up for auction at Sotheby’s. Diana fans will remember this outfit from the Serpentine summer ...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has returned 36 antiquities to Syria. Among the objects repatriated at a ceremony in New York on 23 September is a stone funerary relief from Palmyra and 14 ...

In this week’s edition of dinner parties your roving correspondent can only dream of being invited to: the state banquet held by Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., for Chinese president Xi Jinping, ...