Send me a masterpiece: the museum texting its artworks to anyone who asks
Fancy a Lichtenstein? How about a Warhol? San Francisco’s MoMA will now send you anything from its collection – all you have to do is ask the artbot
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The return of Memphis: how the 80s design staple found a new audience
Once derided, the design style that specialized in squiggles and DayGlo colors is the subject of a new series of exhibitions shedding light on a loved, loathed and often misunderstood movement
Christie’s reports soaring sales of £10m-plus art
Auction house is boosted by Asian demand as well as lots including £44m Brancusi and £36m Beckmann in first half of year
“Ai Weiwei. Art Edition”: The first comprehensive monograph on Ai Weiwei’s life and work
“For Ai, the most important attribute of the artist’s existence would be reason, which had failed to illuminate anything in the China of his youth.” —Uli Sigg Today Ai Weiwei enjoys a reputation far beyond the art world. While his vast social or performance-based interventions and appropriated object-based artworks have secured his place as … Read more
Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
The V&A’s £55m new courtyard: ‘Like a Marbella beach bar airlifted to South Ken’
Amanda Levete’s dazzling new porcelain piazza brilliantly reunites the museum with the Kensington streets. But the giant new jewellery box of a gallery lurking below ground is the real star of the show