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UK national museums back call for end to ‘relentless negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship

The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have signed a public letter authored by the co-chief executives of Sadler’s Wells

Gareth Harrisabout 3 hours ago

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam ponders space to ‘respectfully’ house human remains

The museum's director of content has suggested that spaces “where people can come and be with their ancestors” could provide an interim solution to the ethically fraught issue

Senay Boztasabout 4 hours ago

‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’: Georg Baselitz incorporates his wheelchair into his art

The mobility aid has become a creative accessory for the artist, whose latest exhibition is on display at Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Matthew Holmanabout 3 hours ago

Amid uncertainty over Trump’s tariffs, many collectors pause purchases while others ‘hold their noses and pay’

The antiques trade and lower- to mid-tier sectors of the art market are waiting for the situation to stabilise, while the most deep-pocketed collectors continue to transact

Daniel Grantabout 10 hours ago

Paris gallery directors join forces to launch ‘open-ended’ advisory

Samy Ghiyati, formerly of David Zwirner, and Nicolas Nahab, who previously led Mendes Wood DM Paris, have founded NG, which is focusing on experiential commercial ventures and a raft of client services

Kabir Jhalaabout 3 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

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 Naji1 day 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 Chernick2 days 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

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

Book Club

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

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

Gareth Harrisabout 23 hours 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 Harris1 day 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 Schindelabout 22 hours 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

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 Buck1 day 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

Philippa Kelly2 days ago

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 Brady1 day ago

Art market

‘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 Brady1 day 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

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

Exhibitions

Rachel Whiteread in a West Sussex woodland: UK’s Goodwood Art Foundation opens

The Duke of Richmond launches a non-profit 70-acre home to contemporary art on his estate to offer all ages the educational and health benefits of art, in a seasonally shifting plot of South Downs woodland

Louis Jebbabout 3 hours ago

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

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

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

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”

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

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Rijksmuseum to display 200-year-old condom featuring half-naked nun

The 20 centimetre contraceptive was most likely made from a sheep’s appendix

The Art Newspaperabout 5 hours ago

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

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

Book reviews

A biography of Turner and Constable that goes beyond the stereotypes

New analysis considers the artists’ common cause as champions of landscape alongside their renowned differences

Andrew Loukesabout 24 hours ago

A personal take on the cultural politics of collecting

The often violent history of public statues and museum collections—including that of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum—is told in this biographical book that energises and exasperates in equal measure.

Roger Bowdler1 day ago

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

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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