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November 11, 2022
A Museum Under a Floating Dome: Louvre Abu Dhabi at Five
By 2022 the Louvre Abu Dhabi had spent five years as the Arab world's leading universal museum, its 'rain of light' dom…
November 9, 2022
The Billion-Dollar Collection: Paul Allen's Art Goes Under the Hammer
The 2022 sale of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's collection raised a record $1.6 billion — the largest single-owner a…
November 4, 2022
A Century of Wonder: Tutankhamun's Tomb at 100
In November 2022 the world marked 100 years since Howard Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb — the discovery that ignited a…
October 26, 2022
Pierre Soulages, the Painter of Black Light, Dies at 102
France's Pierre Soulages, who spent decades exploring a single colour — black — and the light it reflects, died in 2022…
October 23, 2022
Mashed Potato Meets Monet: Climate Protest in Potsdam
Days after the Van Gogh soup protest, activists threw mashed potato at a Monet 'Grainstacks' in Potsdam in 2022 — part…
October 19, 2022
Hopper's New York: The Whitney Maps a City of Solitude
The Whitney Museum's 'Edward Hopper's New York' explored how the great American painter turned the modern city into a s…
October 14, 2022
Soup on the Sunflowers: The Protest That Stopped the Art World Cold
Two activists hurled tomato soup at Van Gogh's glass-protected 'Sunflowers' in London, igniting a global argument about…
October 11, 2022
Burn or Keep? Damien Hirst Torches His Own Art
For his project 'The Currency', Damien Hirst made collectors choose between a physical artwork and its NFT — then publi…
October 5, 2022
The Father of Us All: Cézanne at Tate Modern
Tate Modern's 2022 Cézanne retrospective celebrated the stubborn Provençal painter whom Picasso and Matisse called 'the…
October 1, 2022
Flesh and Truth: Lucian Freud at 100
To mark his centenary, the National Gallery gathered decades of Lucian Freud's unflinching portraits in a major 2022 re…
September 28, 2022
London's Rotating Stage: The Fourth Plinth
Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth keeps surprising Londoners with bold contemporary commissions — from a giant blob of c…
September 2, 2022
Frieze Plants Its Flag in Asia: Frieze Seoul Debuts
In 2022 the Frieze art fair launched its first Asian edition in Seoul, confirming South Korea's rise as a major hub of…