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‘About to throw a wrench in the market’: a legal expert's view on upcoming changes to EU import law

The regulations, which comes into force this month, require proof that certain cultural goods have been lawfully exported from their country of origin

Anna Bradyabout 6 hours ago

Architect behind Serpentine Gallery's annual pavilion is also tackling Bangladesh’s museums crisis

The tent-like installation will be unveiled in London's Hyde Park later this week

Cyrus Najiabout 7 hours ago

Seven years after brutal fire, National Museum of Brazil to partially reopen

Three rooms at the Rio de Janeiro museum reopen to the public this month, offering a glimpse at recently donated artefacts and conservators’ ongoing efforts

Gabriella Angeletiabout 21 hours ago

A rare dining set by Claude Lalanne and a childhood portrait of the Dalai Lama: our pick of the June auctions

Plus, an early Western view of India and an “illuminating” Giacometti lightpost

Carlie Porterfieldabout 23 hours ago

‘The pain has become unbearable’: Tel Aviv Museum of Art workers stage daily protest outside the institution

A group of employees, representing a range of stances on the ongoing war, has protested outside the museum every workday for nearly two months

Karen Chernickabout 22 hours ago

Art market

Is Banksy getting personal? New lighthouse mural prompts speculation over its philosophical meaning

In his latest work, the street artist refers to himself in the first person for the first time in a public mural

Los Angeles dealer Ariel Pittman launching new gallery in MacArthur Park

A veteran of Vielmetter and Various Small Fires, Pittman is pursuing an adaptive business model for her own gallery, Official Welcome

Ten artists accuse Arusha Gallery of non-payment of nearly half a million pounds

The London space, which is planning to open a wellness centre in King Charles’s former Welsh home, says it has been "working exceptionally hard through a crisis" relating to a “performance drop off" and the death of the gallery's co-owner

Art Basel reveals exhibitor lineup for Paris fair's 2025 edition

The Swiss art fair giant's French expo continues to grow, with more than 200 exhibitors signed on for October

European-American investment company to buy Artnet and take it private

Beowolff Capital also has a majority stake in Artsy, and plans are in the works to combine the two companies, according to a former Artnet shareholder

Museums & Heritage

British Museum faces internal criticism over private Israel independence day event

Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass displacement of Palestinians—during one of the most violent weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict

New videos of African cultural sites add contemporary context to Rockefeller Wing’s historical artefacts at the Met

The Ethiopian American film-maker Sosena Solomon spent two years making short documentaries about specific heritage sites for the newly reopened wing

Berlin museums’ first woman leader plans to tackle reforms and construction

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, now led by Marion Ackermann, is currently undergoing major structural changes

The Wallace Collection appoints Selldorf Architects to lead masterplan to transform its historic London home

The New York firm led by Annabelle Selldorf will collaborate with the UK practices Purcell and Lawson Ward Studio to improve access, sustainability and visitor experience at Hertford House

Louis Jebb1 day ago

China’s terracotta army reportedly ‘damaged’ by museum visitor

A 30-year-old man reportedly “climbed over the guardrail” that protects the 2,000-year-old statues

Gareth Harris1 day ago

London Gallery Weekend 2025

Our picks from across the sprawling art festival, along with related news and analysis

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

From a stolen portrait of Francis Bacon to encromancy, here's our selection of outstanding shows to see in the UK capital

Ben Luke and Louisa Buckabout 6 hours ago

London Gallery Weekend 2025: the best shows for photography lovers

This year's city-wide event is emphasising London as a location in which to experience non-traditional image-making

Folklore, mythology and tradition: five must-see shows at London Gallery Weekend

Our pick of exhibitions of female artists whose practice is rooted in cultural traditions, processes and storytelling

Anna Bradyabout 8 hours ago

Book Club

Rain, insomnia and finding a model: how Morocco challenged and changed Matisse

The author of new book, Jeff Koehler, tells us about the French artist’s fruitful but sometimes tricky sojourns in Tangier

Gareth Harrisabout 1 hour ago

An expert’s guide to Postmodernism: five must-read books on the movement

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from a pivotal novel to a book on how Postmodernism “shapes all aspects of contemporary life”—selected by The Cosmic House director Eszter Steierhoffer

Gareth Harrisabout 6 hours ago

‘Cultural innovation comes from the margins’—tales of artists pushing boundaries in 1960s New York

The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono

Dan Schindel28 minutes ago

The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece

Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations

Exhibitions

An exhibition in a most extraordinary building explores Japan’s love for Van Gogh

The Pola Museum sheds fresh light on the veneration of Japanese artists for Vincent’s paintings

Melbourne exhibition celebrates the long overlooked contributions of Indigenous Australian artists

While Indigenous Australian art dates back for millennia before European settlement, it has long been barred from the fine art canon

Gagosian's spring show skips and rhymes through De Kooning's career

The ambitious New York exhibition picks out visual motifs that can be seen throughout the artist's practice

‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

The Imperial War Museum exhibition, which has been six years in the making, is the first major UK museum show to explore the under-reported topic

Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history

Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”

Korean Artists Today 2025

Eight of Korea's most exciting contemporary artists have been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today, a long-term project which will see a cohort chosen each year for their potential to make it on the global stage

Korean artists are taking the world by storm—but why does their work resonate so widely?

From London to New York, the Middle East to Singapore, Korea’s contemporary artists have become a mainstay of global museum programmes

Lisa Movius1 day ago
In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

Byungjun Kwon: ‘I want to break away from the passive, one-sided way of experiencing performances’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

Minae Kim on creating a ‘ludicrous sculptural sitcom’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

Min ha Park: ‘I think about creating situations where things don’t immediately explain themselves’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

ikkibawiKrrr: ‘We spend a lot of time visiting sites and being with people’

Meet the artists who have been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

Louisa Buck1 day ago
In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service
2 June 2025

Jewyo Rhii: ‘If you don’t die today, you get another opportunity to live’

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service
2 June 2025

Choi Goen: ‘My work always begins with discovering a material’

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service
2 June 2025

Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service
2 June 2025

Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’

In partnership with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

Obituaries

Sebastião Salgado, photographer of the planet’s margins, dies at 81

The Brazilian documentarian was internationally known for his panoramic photographs of humanity surviving on the edge and for his work as a campaigning environmentalist

Tracey Emin and Ai Weiwei pay tribute to BBC broadcaster Alan Yentob

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

Remembering Koyo Kouoh, one of the most influential curators in the global art world, and one of its most original thought leaders

The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Remembering Pope Francis, for 12 years head of the Catholic church and proprietor in trust of the Vatican's library and art collections

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

The Belgian businessman co-founded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens

Opinion

Comment | In the Trump era, LGBTQ+ communities and culture need support

“With the return of an emboldened Trump administration, our communities are facing a sustained campaign of hostility and a chilling rollback of civil rights”

Dave Harper1 day ago

Comment | Are museums ‘guilt tripping’ their visitors? No, they aren’t doing enough

Engaging with the difficult histories behind objects has deepened, not dampened, my experiences at cultural institutions—and the fact it is different for everyone is a good thing

Comment | When it comes to tariffs, here's why the art market should be grateful to a long-retired US congressman

A 1988 amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, secured by Howard Berman, could stop art imports being hit by Trump's tariff hike

Comment | The greatest failure of PST Art: its successes are not travelling

As the Getty wraps up its third edition of this initiative, it is time to address a persistent problem

Comment | Why a country should invest in art—even when it’s under attack

While physically defending their country, Ukrainian artist’s work provides oxygen for urgent issues that demand attention and dialogue, writes Björn Geldhof, the artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv

Björn Geldhof

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation—podcast

We take a tour of the soon-to-open V&A East Storehouse in London and the Met's newly revamped Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, plus a discussion of Rachel Whiteread's show at Sussex's Goodwood Art Foundation

The Sainsbury Wing reopening

After a two-year project, led by the architect Annabelle Selldorf, to remodel the wing as the main entrance to London's National Gallery, the reopening of its early Renaissance galleries forms part of C C Land: the Wonder of Art, a complete rehang of the museum's collection

The Big Review | The reopening and rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London ★★★★★

The two-year remodelling of the Sainsbury Wing as the National Gallery's main entrance has allowed for new restorations and fresh curation of the museum's unrivalled collection of early Renaissance pictures. The effect is revelatory

First look: the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ rehang at London's National Gallery

The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour

Comment | Muted grey, bloody red, or dark blue—here’s why the colour of museum walls matters more than you might think

As London’s National Gallery launches its “once-in-a-lifetime” rehang, Ben Luke asks: what is the right shade behind the art?

London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m

The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection

New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing

A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square

Spate of wins for racehorses named after superstar painters

Colts christened Henri Matisse and Camille Pissarro have recently taken home top honours

‘Year One after Damien Dies’: Hirst announces plans for posthumous works

In a recent interview with The Times, the mischievous artist also revealed that he “sort of” said no to a knighthood

Just a number: drawing by 11-year-old Joseph Wright of Derby goes on view for the first time

The modest pencil drawing is part of the exhibition ‘Life on Paper’ at Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Book reviews

New book explores how Rome’s ruins have resonated in art and literature over centuries

A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures

A new ‘anti-biography’ rips apart the myth of Leonardo as a solitary genius

The new study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his time

East meets West in Venice: the unlikely love affair between a Hermitage curator and a Cambridge don

A new volumes details a chance meeting that liberated art scholars Francis Haskell and Larissa Salmina in very different ways

Japan is opening its eyes to women photographers—and to the female gaze

Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and subverting traditional assumptions about the female body

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A brush with… Salman Toor — podcast

Salman Toor 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

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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.

Technologyinterview

‘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

Technologyfeature

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

An inside track on the Huntington’s rapid social media growth

The California institution is one of the top five museums for social media growth in the world in the past year. We spoke to the museum's director of digital and social content strategy

Technologyfeature

How AI models are helping to reveal South America's archaeological sites

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in refining the outcomes

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.

An exhibition in a most extraordinary building explores Japan’s love for Van Gogh

The Pola Museum sheds fresh light on the veneration of Japanese artists for Vincent’s paintings

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