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Long lost portrait of Scotland’s great poet Robert Burns goes on show for first time
The painting by Henry Raeburn, which resurfaced last year, is being displayed at the National Gallery of Scotland
US National Portrait Gallery reveals winner of its triennial portraiture award
The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal has received the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for a video work created using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s
Museums and galleries in Minneapolis join citywide general strike in protest of Ice operations
In protest of federal immigration enforcement officers’ violent campaign in the city, hundreds of local business and organisations will shutter on 23 January
New experimental art organisation opens in New York
The gallery, Times, will focus on the present—with a planned obsolescence after three years
Metropolitan Opera considers selling multi-storey Chagall murals, valued at $55m
Despite a promised $200m deal with Saudi Arabia, the largest performing arts organisation in the US is taking drastic measures to cover its costs
Art market
London show of Lee Miller photographs is fundraising to save thousands of her negatives
Gallerist Lyndsey Ingram is working with the Lee Miller Archives to support the conservation of the photographer’s works and Sussex home
Iranian galleries close amid protests and communications blackout
Uncertainty has gripped life and art in Iran as unrest continues—Trump's threats of military intervention, meanwhile, have ramped up tensions
Winslow Homer’s mountaineer and Bob Ross's valley view: our pick of the January auctions
Plus, a tapestry by Otobong Nkanga and Claes Oldenburg’s electric plug are on sale this month
French court cancels €2.8m sale of Chinese vase after eight-year wrangle over date
The Paris court of appeal has ordered Galerie Kraemer to repay Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani what he paid after experts “raised doubts” the work was from the 18th century
Lehmann Maupin takes permanent space in Mayfair’s No. 9 Cork Street
It is the first year-round tenant in the Frieze-run central London gallery hub
Museums & Heritage
Thieves empty Dutch silver museum in early morning heist
The robbery of the Doesburg Silver Museum is the latest in a spate of precious metal heists in the Netherlands
Northern California museum and sculpture park puts its property up for sale
The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has listed its Napa Valley property for sale for $10.9m
UK government earmarks £1.5bn arts funding until 2030
Many cultural leaders welcome the move, while the UK National Audit Office reports that the culture department is consistently underspending
Ethiopia’s Africa Hall wins Modernist conservation award
The 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize honours the famous Addis Ababa building’s decade-long, $57m renovation
Sex, love and gladiators: Pompeii graffiti found in corridor highlights residents’ passionate side
Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city
Art SG
As Art SG kicks off in Singapore, we take a look at the fair and the city state’s other cultural offerings
Singapore cements its role as a hub for art—and artists—in Southeast Asia
The city-state punches above its weight, with its government institutions, nonprofits and galleries championing not just homegrown artists, but of those from its neighbours across the region
Singapore Art Week puts women artists from the region to the fore
A new book and a major exhibition are highlighting contemporary female artists from Singapore, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries
From shopping malls to housing estates, Singapore Biennale integrates art into the city’s urban fabric
Works that address resistance, ecology and colonialism are part of the year’s vibrant exhibition titled "Pure Intention"
Exhibitions
‘Rubens with jokes’: UK exhibitions place Beryl Cook in the art historical canon
Two new shows in the artist’s hometown of Plymouth examine her themes and influences
Practice what you preach: artists reflect on ocean crisis at England's Baltic as centre wins sustainability award
Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas and Otobong Nkanga are among the artists included in the group exhibition 'For All At Last Return'
Conceptual artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s gets expansive tribute in California show
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive aims to present a more complete view of the late artist’s varied practice
Naomi Campbell reflects on Picasso’s muses for exhibition in Swiss Alps
The supermodel has penned an essay for Nahmad Contemporary's upcoming show in Gstaad
South African artist Gabrielle Goliath to approach high court over cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion
The move by the artist and her team comes as South Africa’s culture ministry has allegedly begun approaching new artists about making work for the 2026 pavilion
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s ‘Bathtub’—podcast
Ben Luke hears about the British Museum’s fresh approach to the stewardship of its collection of Hawaiian objects, discusses the eerie history of Ca’ Dario and learns more about a late Beuys work
The Year Ahead
Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2026
The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Madrid
Fair behemoths bet on Gulf plus new, bigger venues for Independent—a quick look at art fairs in 2026
Art Basel and Frieze are expanding in the Middle East while Art Cologne is reinstating its Mallorca edition
Venice, Sydney, Gwangju: the most interesting biennials to visit in 2026
Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year
Art market 2026 predictions: underwhelming rebound and another Frieze fair
Our columnist gazes into her crystal ball to spot the major trends—from London regaining its lustre to AI fatigue—that are set to dominate the trade over the coming 12 months
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.
Pioneering US collector Albert Barnes turned down both of Van Gogh’s 'Starry Nights'
But he did buy seven of the artist’s paintings, which are now shown in his Philadelphia museum—including two risqué ones
Books
How an artist and a writer forged a frank friendship—and a book
The author Olivia Laing and the painter Chantal Joffe tell us about collaborating on a new book detailing their creative exchanges
New book tells the tale of David's ‘Death of Marat’ through the eyes of a lifelong admirer
Art historian’s dissection of famous work is as much about the painting as his decades-long obsession with it
January Book Bag: from a book about Constable and the weather to a controversial Russian artist’s manifesto
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Five new art books to look out for this spring, including key artist biographies and the tale of an artistic rivalry
Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead
An expert’s guide to the Gothic: five must-read books on the topic
The best recent publications about the subject, from a book following the rebuilding of Notre-Dame cathedral to a Batman comic set in Barcelona—selected by the museum director and curator Annabelle Ténèze
Opinion
Comment | Tate Britain’s Turner and Constable show got me thinking about Marxist art history
On a recent trip to London, Bendor Grosvenor enjoyed the buzz of the Old Masters auctions but bemoaned Tate’s exhibition labels
In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?
Artificial intelligence attempts to offer objectivity in the inherently subjective field of authentication
Comment | We are living in an age of bad painting—the medium must be challenged to stay interesting
Painting may not be dead, but it may have become too comfortable
Let’s celebrate the new arrivals in the public domain, for auld lang syne
Copyright changes bring New Year cheer for fans of Léger, de Staël and Hepworth
Comment | Dave the Potter finally becomes a complete artist
Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now
Obituaries
Remembering Gathie Falk, Canadian artist whose singular practice sparked comparisons to Surrealism and Pop art
Shaped by the austerity of her Mennonite upbringing and the bustling Vancouver art scene of the 1960s and 70s, she developed a playful, poignant and exacting visual language
Beatriz González, indefatigable force in Colombian art, has died, aged 93
One of the most important Latin American artists of the 20th century, she influenced the direction of post-war painting and helped shape Colombia’s museums as a curator, educator and mentor
Kathleen Goncharov, influential curator who helped many artists ‘realise their dreams’, has died aged 73
Alongside her work at organisations such as New York’s Just Above Midtown gallery and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida, Goncharov was also an artist
Remembering Erik Bulatov, the Soviet artist who reframed propaganda
The pioneering painter was known for his luminous skies and loaded slogans on power, space and freedom
Arnulf Rainer, a revolutionary figure in postwar Austrian art, has died aged 96
The Baden-born artist, known for addressing the trauma of the Holocaust, was a founding member of the influential Galerie nächst St Stephan
A brush with... podcast
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A brush with… Luc Tuymans—podcast
Luc Tuymans 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
Diary
Want to win a €1m Picasso? Buy a €100 raffle ticket in painting prize draw
The draw is due to take place at Christie's Paris next April
Sweet Jesus—Trump auctions off a Christ painting made in ten minutes
Work was created live by Vanessa Horabuena at Mar-a-Lago New Year’s eve bash
We are all in the gutter but Banksy’s Christmas kids are looking at the stars
The same work has appeared in west London and under the Centre Point tower in the city centre
Spirited art—Sharon Stone looks to the afterlife for her latest paintings
For her new Rogues Gallery series, the film star says she channelled spirits from across the centuries
Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum
Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar