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New Orleans artists mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina
Ferrara Showman Gallery brings together works from ten artists reflecting on two decades since the deadly storm
Jeff Koons returns to Gagosian four years after departing for Pace
The world's most expensive living artist is once again represented by the global mega-gallery
France returns three human skulls to Madagascar—including one that may have belonged to a king
The restitution is the first to take place under a 2023 French law on the return of human remains
Teiger Foundation gives grants totalling $7m to 85 curators
Grants of between $50,000 and $150,000 will fund exhibitions, research, touring shows or three years of programming
Pro-Palestine mural boarded up overnight at University of North Carolina
The resistance mural, created by students and volunteers, was concealed by facilities workers on chancellor's orders with no prior warning, says arts department faculty
Art market
Rising dealer Sebastian Gladstone expands in LA—what’s behind his success?
This month, Gladstone will open a major expansion in Hollywood, as others shut shop
‘Sometimes you just have to go for it’: as others close, Ben Hunter expands his London gallery
The art dealer, who has taken over an entire townhouse in coveted St James’s, talks overheads, growth and balancing the primary and secondary markets
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will close Los Angeles location
The New York gallery's West Coast outpost will cease operations in September after seven years
Buyer’s choice: how collectors factor into the art world’s quest for environmental sustainability
With the agency to make decisions on emissions-heavy activities, collectors play a crucial role in the industry
‘An incredible instinct for contemporary art’: Doris Lockhart, the overlooked figure behind the Saatchi collection, has died aged 88
Lockhart, who was the ex-wife of Charles Saatchi, is widely credited with recognising and boosting postwar US art and the Young British Artists
Museums & Heritage
Campaign group threatens legal action over University of Leicester's trans-inclusive museums guidance
Freedom in the Arts claims the guidance is “misleading”, but others say it plays an important role in protecting transgender people against discrimination
Claws for celebration: Canada’s first cat museum launching with Montreal pop-up exhibition
After the museum’s fur-st show, founder Aqeela Nahani hopes to open a purr-manent space in 2026
Artists and scholars respond to White House’s list of Smithsonian grievances
Amy Sherald, the historian Ibram X. Kendi and others personally attacked in the Trump administration’s list of reasons for why the president “is right about the Smithsonian” hit back
Ancient artefacts from sunken city lifted out of Mediterranean near Alexandria
A selection of the objects, some dating back 2,000 years, is now on view at the Alexandria National Museum
More than 150 US arts organisations pledge to resist political pressure
The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian
Exhibitions
The US’s largest Raphael exhibition is opening at the Met next year
“Raphael: Sublime Poetry” is being curated by Carmen Bambach, who organised the Met’s hugely popular Michelangelo exhibition in 2017-18
Hispanic art tour winds down in Texas
Highlights from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York collection travel to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin
Magnum Photos agency’s first exhibition, lost for a half-century, to make its North American debut
Materials from the 1955-56 exhibition, including 83 photographs, were rediscovered in Austria in 2006
Documenta unveils first all-woman curatorial team for 2027
Artistic director Naomi Beckwith will work with the four women on exhibition content, publications and programming
Gaza Biennale, featuring works by artists from the war-torn strip, will come to New York City
The roving exhibition—previously staged in London, Berlin, Athens and elsewhere—is a beacon of resilience amid destruction and turmoil
Opinion
Comment | US museums are finally going bilingual: here's why it matters
In the past few years, art institutions across the country have been making a concerted effort to provide information about their collections and exhibitions in languages other than English—and it's a step that's worth celebrating
Time for a survey? New programme provides museums with advice on long-term sustainability
The human-resources, talent and recruiting agency Verge helps institutions reach their long-term goals through a bit of introspection
Comment | Conversations about Crimea’s fate should start with one group—the Crimean Tatars
Supporting Ukrainian sovereignty must include protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples like the Crimean Tatars, whose land, rights and cultural memory have long been a target of aggression, writes Elmira Ablyalimova-Chyihoz
Comment | As artists rage over changes to WeTransfer’s terms of service, here's why the company is now in its villain era
Our data has been up for grabs for years, but for many the prospect of AI being trained on users’ files was a step too far
Comment | Now is the time to fight for US arts funding
The Trump administration’s defunding of the arts has more than symbolic significance
Art Busan x Tokyo Gendai
In partnership with Art Busan and Tokyo Gendai
Book reviews
New book offers a suitably poetic vision of Blake and his legacy
Philip Hoare has created his “version of a Blake print”, a complex book to dive into and get lost in
An expansive monograph of Celia Paul paints a portrait of a single-minded, singular artist
The book explores how the British artist's mother was her most trusted sitter and Paul's thoughts on Lucian Freud’s depictions of her during their relationship
A tome accompanying the Lahore Biennale is a celebration of authenticity
This comprehensive reader on the second edition in 2020 considers how the independent-minded institution is placing Pakistan’s artists in an international context as well as helping them thrive in a complex political environment
Why sociologists believe that culture might be bad for you
A revised edition of a 2020 book looks at the problems associated with a "white, male and middle class" cultural arena in the UK
New book delves into submerged stories of an elusive Spanish galleon
The publication on a 17th-century shipwreck reveals transatlantic connections and the complexities of underwater archaeology
Obituaries
Robert Wilson, experimental playwright, director and artist, has died, aged 83
Over a six-decade career, he created elegantly stylised performances and images with collaborators including Marina Abramović, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga
Remembering Thomas Neurath, who brought single-minded energy and intellectual bravura to leading the publishers Thames & Hudson
The managing director of one of the most admired imprints for illustrated art books, who has died aged 84, was a master of the integration of text and pictures with a beatnik streak and a desire to democratise access to the arts
Remembering Peter Phillips, the pioneering British Pop artist, who has died, aged 86
The Birmingham-born artist, who drew on the city’s industrial iconography in his 1960s breakthrough work, was closest among his British contemporaries to the US Pop Art scene
Remembering John Sailer, the gallerist and champion of Austrian art, who has died, aged 87
As founder of the influential Galerie Ulysses in Vienna, he established a market for the work of Austrian and German artists in the US as well as championing architects and designers
Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility
The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism
Book Club
August Book Bag: from a ‘behind-the-scenes’ studio book to artists joining in with the American Revolution
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins on dealing with violent imagery and finding ways of ‘showing the impossible’
Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches mediums for different books
Five new art books to look out for this autumn, including publications on US monuments and Vermeer close-ups
Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead
An expert’s guide to Edvard Munch: five must-read books on the Norwegian Expressionist
The best publications to learn all about the artist, from a renowned novelist's essay to a comprehensive catalogue raisonné—selected by the Munch museum curator Trine Otte Bak Nielsen
Arshile Gorky’s experience as an immigrant to the US and the painting that defined it
An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City
Art on Location 2025
A special focus on the latest outdoor art experiences, including public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology
‘Creating their own ecosystem’: Arts Council gives backing to collaboration between artists in rural Gloucestershire
The Hide, an artist retreat in the Cotswolds, southwest England, with an annual sculpture showcase, is a grassroots project that is gathering momentum
London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis
Vivienne Schadinsky, artist-in-residence at OmVed Gardens, in north London has used the two-acre plot as a “living laboratory” to make ink paintings, films, sculptures and prints devoted to beans and their ecology
Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show
Opening in May 2026, thirty works will be dotted around the 320-acre Unesco World Heritage site
Towering ambition: the Swiss artist Not Vital's Alpine playground
The multidisciplinary artist mixes nature, architecture and art to grand effect at his foundation’s three locations: a castle, a sculpture park and a 17th-century house
The magic of Troy Hill—a series of unique whole house art installations in Pittsburgh
Inspired by a visit to Naoshima art island in Japan, a US collector has commissioned a compelling group of site-specific installations
Diary
‘Anish Kapoor, let him out’: satirical protest campaign claims a man is trapped inside the Chicago Bean
A group of black-clad protesters recently gathered at “Cloud Gate” to raise awareness and call for the release of the man they claim lives inside the sculpture
Want to take a peek at the UK prime minister’s art collection?
Special tours of No.10 Downing Street are due to take place next month, as part of the popular Open House festival
Saatchi Yates raises a glass to London
The gallery has launched an exhibition dedicated to the capital, featuring artists including Jenny Saville and Peter Doig
Bums, boulders and biscuits: Jeremy Deller’s street party brings arty revelry to central London
The finale of the artist’s ‘Triumph of Art’ project involved performances and participatory projects that invited people to have fun—and speak out
Farewell, Jerry Gogosian—or is it?
The social media satirist behind the popular digital persona told The Art Newspaper she was eyeing up new art world projects—but she may not be leaving Insta just yet
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with… Jeffrey Gibson—podcast
Jeffrey Gibson talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.
The Royal Academy’s Kiefer-Van Gogh show offers a soaring spectacle
Nearby, the White Cube gallery is also displaying homage works by the German artist, more than 60 years after he hitchhiked in Vincent’s footsteps
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg—podcast
We speak to Jafa and Leckey about their forthcoming London exhibition, ask Alemani about the US-based biennial—whose title this year was inspired by a film by Godfrey Reggio—and zone in on a landmark dance collaboration
Technology
News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.
New app aims to improve access to Los Angeles art scene
The ArtWrld app, which also covers New York and plans to add more cities soon, is one of several digital resources seeking to keep art-loving Angelenos in the know
How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’
The American artist, whose work is currently on show in New York, makes the invisible impacts of technology visible
‘It is not good or bad’: in a frantic age, Beeple seeks a more nuanced take on technology
The media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) increasingly sees his interactive video sculptures—one of which goes on show this month at the SXSW London festival and another at The Shed in New York—and social media posts as public art
Football great Lionel Messi chooses favourite goal for Refik Anadol to transform into an AI portrait for charity
Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s
Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so
Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism