The archive of the late Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, one of the most influential curators of the post-war era, is due to go on show at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in February. The exhibition, Harald Szeemann: the Museum of Obsessions, will then travel to the Kunsthalle Bern to coincide with Art Basel in 2018. After that, it is expected to tour to venues in Germany and Italy. The

Anyone passingly familiar with the art of Richard Diebenkorn knows of his acknowledged debt to Henri Matisse. The exhibition Matisse/Diebenkorn at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) tallies that debt as no other curatorial project has before, thematically grouping 100 paintings (40 by Matisse, 60 by Diebenkorn) and a few drawings by the two, who never met. Despite the bounty of exemp

The US artist and architect Vito Acconci, known for his radical conceptual works such as Seedbed (1972), has died age 77. The Bronx-born artist turned poet and architect, who is considered a Body Art trailblazer, arguably paved the way for a later generation of artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Matthew Barney and Paul McCarthy. Acconci received his BA with a major in literature from Holy Cross

Has there been a more rigorous sceptic than Donald Judd? Set aside, for a moment, the philosophers who only think about the world, and picture Judd in Long Island City at the Bernstein Brothers metal shop in 1970 telling labourers how to make his work. Picture him at home in Manhattan at 101 Spring Street, the building he bought in 1968 as a studio, home and space "in which to install work of mine

The British artist Anish Kapoor has described the repeated vandalising of his monumental sculpture Dirty Corner when it was exhibited last summer in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles as an inside job. The trumpet-shaped steel work was installed outside the French royal palace in June 2015. It caused controversy after it was nicknamed the queens vagina, reportedly by the artist, although he

The Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosted the conference ©Iwan Baan/Fondation Louis Vuitton/Gehry Partners Charles Jencks revisits his article written for The Art Newspaper in 2000 to survey how museum architecture has evolved since the millennium. Then, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao ushered in an era of spectacular buildings designed for mega-collections. As the Louis Vu

Museums in Berlin are helping to welcome refugees to the city and its culture with the programme Multaka from the Arabic word for forum or meeting placein which trained refugees from Syria and Iraq give free guided museum tours in Arabic to other displaced groups. The programme, started by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums), offers visits twice a week in four museums: the Museu

The art historian Michael Fried's new book, After Caravaggio , which has just been published by Yale University Press, looks at the painter's followers and the long shadow he cast over the 17th century. It follows Fried's 2010 publication The Moment of Caravaggio , where he focused on how the Italian Baroque artist propelled the emergence of the "gallery picture" as a distinct genre that moved aw

ConservationPortrait of Gainsborough's nephew will sparkle in National Portrait Gallery show thanks to conservators The painting, which took the artist less than an hour to paint, was restored for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition opening in London this week

The people of Geneva have narrowly rejected a controversial plan to extend and renovate the city’s Musée d’Art et d’Histoire by the French architect Jean Nouvel. The “non” camp won the public vote on 28 February with 54%.   Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris designed the planned extension, which was approved by Geneva’s municipal council last May, in collaboration with the local firms Architectures Ju