Happy Easter! Marcel Broodthaers, Leather Bag with Eggs, 1968 #easter #eastereggs #marcelbroodthaers #conceptualart

“To get the objects back, prosecutors made an agreement with the people accused of stealing them. The specifics of the agreement were unclear.” ie they paid a ransom or secured a shorter prison sentence for one of their mates. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

How exactly?

Happy Easter from Belgian ironic-conceptualist artist-poet Marcel Broodthaers. He knew you couldn’t disrupt the art market and discourses of contemporary art without breaking few eggs ‘Oval of Eggs, 1965 #easter #art #broodthaers

True. The only sensible and inevitable solution is to charge everyone to enter our major museums like every other country in the world does

'The murals are among more than 6,600 that have been identified, photographed and digitised in an ambitious project which launched in January 2024, the charity Art UK said.' 1/2

It’s high time UK museums charged visitors an entry fee just like other museums around the world. unherd.com/newsroom/bri...

Free Lucy Letby www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'R J Salmon dangles in a crate suspended from a crane to take an aerial shot of Fleet Street, London. 1929'

Terrific review here. The closest we get to Matisse in Brit art history is Hockney www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Looks like Mr Safra wishes to sell his version of the #salvatormundi – known as the Ganay. Good luck with that.

RIP Jürgen Habermas, whom I quoted on a poster for a performance art event and happening I organised at university in 1986. "Those who proclaim the end of art... are impelled by the experience of resignation." #habermas #frankfurtschool

Can this be a solution?

Have they got him - errr - over a barrel?

Free Lucy Letby www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is not going to please the IP dept at Lego

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

The man who made modern Shanghai: Edwin Heathcote sizes up the achievements of László Hudec, the Hungarian architect who went east, not west, between the wars and created a new skyline.

" This production has not been made with the involvement, endorsement or sponsorship of the House of Alexander McQueen. No costumes, clothing, fabrics or designs, etc etc" Why not? Michael Clark is involved in this.. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/unn...

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand. Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

They say plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, so I am honoured to see that my Tracey Emin article has been so thoroughly read by @alicettimes.bsky.social This first image is The Times article, the next two from mine archive.ph/UuvEO

*knowing laugh*

Free Lucy Letby www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The New Yorkers' great art critic Peter Schedkdahl died in 2022, but what would be say about Tracey Emin's exhibition if he was still alive today? #AI #traceyemin #newyorker Thanks to Claude-Anthropic

MattCollingsAI reviews Emin Every art critic under the sun is reviewing the Tracey Emin exhibition except Matthew Collings, who's always been one of my favourite voices on art. I feel his absence. So I asked Claude AI to write a review in his style #traceyemin

#artquiz 5. Name the artist

Toronto's @thestar.com sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the podcast network that @indicator.media wrote about on Wednesday. He has promised to reverse course. www.thestar.com/opinion/publ...

#artquiz 4 Which work of art do you associate with these four objects?

#artquiz 4 Which work of art do you associate with these four objects?

All these column inches wasted by attention-seeking commentators pronouncing the old 2 party politics dead in the UK. Nonsense it’s just the disgruntled unrealistic electorate voting once again for the other guy, not the incumbent, the untried option. Soon they will feel the same abt Greens & Reform

"I am old enough to remember when everyone except Charles Saatchi hated the art of Tracey Emin." I have written about Tracey Emin this week, just like every other two-bit art critic. unherd.com/2026/02/trac...

Slava Ukraini www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Bernd & Hilla Becher show at Spruth Magers in London is phenomenal.

#signofthetimes original photograph, Members of the National Guard walk past a banner with President Donald Trump hanging on the Department of Justice, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, Allison Robberts, AP

If Marlene Dumas...

Tariffic news!

Blackberries. Beautifully painted in 1813 by Raphaelle Peale, who was born on this day in 1774.

Fine to disagree with Wenders but it’s not a reason to pull out of festival.

A common misconception: “The female nude, as depicted and objectified by the male artist, has dominated western art for centuries” From antiquity til late 19thC male nude dominated. Anybody disagree? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Leon Black took out a loan of almost $500m using his art collection, valued at $1bn, as collateral. Stunning sleuthing by @joshspero @joshspero.ft.com in the depths of the Epstein files suggests 'art loans' are far bigger than currently thought. #epsteinfiles #artmarket www.ft.com/content/89ba...

If you control a nation's past, you control its future. If you steal a nation's past, you steal its future. If you destroy a nation's past, you destroy its future.

What famous work of art is this a detail of? #HIGAFY

The Art World in one image and one article www.frieze.com/article/guts...

Congratulations to Manhattan ADA Matt Bogdanos, who almost singlehandedly toughened up America and then the world's approach to looted antiquities. He gave a great interview in my podcast about the Met's Golden Coffin open.spotify.com/show/6Y2M6So...

"In summary, tulip buying is over; it was fun while it lasted." The Great Contemporary Art Boom 2001-2025 is over says veteran billionaire collector Adam Lindemann. What'd he get for his Murakami's now? #contemporaryart #artmarket news.artnet.com/art-world/ad...

"In summary, tulip buying is over; it was fun while it lasted." The Great Contemporary Art Boom 2001-2025 is over says veteran billionaire collector Adam Lindemann. What'd he get for his Murakami's now? #contemporaryart #artmarket news.artnet.com/art-world/ad...

He’s sort of right but a) he omits to assess if the policies of the populist right will alleviate or exacerbate the problems wch have driven their political advance b) if they won’t or don’t, it undermines his claim that the ‘liberal order’ has been ‘discredited’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“masterpieces by the biggest names of the most recent cycle, like a word painting by Christopher Wool or a joke painting by Richard Prince can now sell for half of what they once did.” Another insider admits the contemporary art market has crashed… news.artnet.com/art-world/ad...