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A culture in denial? A thought-provoking exhibition in Manchester on black people in British art shows that there is much research still to be done—perhaps,
How many black people were there in nineteenth-century Britain? Who were they? What were white attitudes to them? 'Black Victorians' goes quite some ...

Not only nouveau but also vieux: David Platzer applauds the Royal Museums in Brussels for placing art nouveau in context in its ambitious survey of Belgian
The title of this exhibition at first appears as a misnomer. Art nouveau is only one dish on the menu of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Belgian decorative ...

Basel Ancient Art Fair
This Egyptian limestone relief fragment of Osiris, c. 664 342 BC, is being offered by Rupert Wace at the second Basel Ancient Art Fair (4-9 November), ...

De Young Museum
The De Young Museum in San Francisco has just re-opened in a new building, by Herzog and de Meuron, replacing one damaged in the 1989 earthquake. Its ...

'Ron Mueck'
'Ron Mueck' at the Fondation Cartier, Paris, is the first exhibition in France of the Australian noted for his super-accurate but huge sculptures (such ...

Shanghai Art Fair
The ninth Shanghai Art Fair takes place 16-20 November at the Shanghai MART building. Bernard Cathelin's The Burmeses (left) is with Kwai Fung Hin gallery, ...