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Mexico City’s Museo Dolores Olmedo to reopen in 2026 amid controversy

Questions still linger about the future of the most significant collection of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

4,000-year-old ancient city discovered in Peru

Peñico opened to the public earlier this week, following eight years of research led by the archaeologist Ruth Shady

Maria Luisa del Ríoabout 3 hours ago

Erotic Pompeii mosaic looted by Nazi officer returned to ancient site

The mosaic depicts a pair of lovers, showing a naked woman standing over her partner

Gareth Harrisabout 15 hours ago

Artists give cultural relevance and nuance to technological advances, new British Council report reveals

Cultural and business leaders from around the world highlight the central role of artists in shaping human-centred futures at a time of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing

Louis Jebbabout 16 hours ago

Sicily's new anti-mafia museum honours ‘strength of the vulnerable over fear’

The Museum of the Present examines the legacy of the Italian island’s century-long fight against organised crime

James Imamabout 16 hours ago

Art market

Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

The exhibition is auction house’s third dedicated to Middle Eastern art, part of a strategy to support the region

Aimee Dawson1 day ago

‘Free art, with strings attached’: Zero Art Fair’s first edition in New York City puts a new spin on the old fair format

More than $500,000 worth of art traded hands free of charge last week with a contract that makes collecting more accessible and helps ease artists’ burden of storing old work

Influential New York gallery Venus Over Manhattan will close after 13 years

Founder and dealer Adam Lindemann says he will return his focus to his personal art collection

Phillips claims stake in South Asian market with London exhibition

Held in collaboration with Grosvenor Gallery, the Modernist selling show sees the auction house tap into this burgeoning region

Museums & Heritage

4,000-year-old ancient city discovered in Peru

Peñico opened to the public earlier this week, following eight years of research led by the archaeologist Ruth Shady

Maria Luisa del Ríoabout 3 hours ago

Mexico City’s Museo Dolores Olmedo to reopen in 2026 amid controversy

Questions still linger about the future of the most significant collection of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

New photography venue to open in Dublin’s gentrifying east docklands

PhotoIreland, the organiser of Ireland’s longest-running photography festival, has set up its first permanent exhibition space

Cleveland artist turns historic Greyhound bus into museum

Robert Louis Brandon Edwards has been working to convert a vehicle that carried Black Americans north during the Great Migration

Historic Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed by wildfire

The beloved 1937 complex, which hosted millions of visitors on the National Park’s North Ridge, has fallen victim to the ongoing Dragon Bravo Fire

Exhibitions

Millais treasure trove goes on long-term loan to Scottish gallery

The Raphaelite figure's great-grandson has loaned over 150 works on paper

Gareth Harris1 day ago

Vandalised portraits of Windrush generation restored and reinstated in London square

Twenty photographs in the ‘Windrush Untold Stories’ exhibition were daubed with paint earlier this month while on display in London

Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health

An exhibition at the Munch museum in Oslo shows how the artist’s fascination with medicine, bodies and mental illness was reflected in his art

Capitalism, cityscapes and the climate crisis take centre stage at Luma Arles

Shows by Peter Fischli, Bas Smets and Wael Shawky explore reflection, urban ecologies and the mythology of Pompeii

Resistance is febrile at this summer's Rencontres d’Arles

The 56th edition of the photography festival asserts the medium’s disobedient streak

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Opinion

Comment | Now is the time to fight for US arts funding

The Trump administration’s defunding of the arts has more than symbolic significance

Comment | Why it’s wrong to shame those protesting against fossil fuel funding

Protestors are taking high personal risks with the aim of affecting policy and corporate responsibility to make clear the scale of the looming climate catastrophe

Is the art world’s big summer break a thing of the past?

Gallerists are varied in how they are approaching the popular month for travel during a period of softer demand

Comment | Let’s not get rid of the UK’s culture department—let's fix it instead

Axing the Arts Council and the many other arm’s-length bodies overseen by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes more sense, argues Bendor Grosvenor

Comment | Most forms of environmental protest are no longer possible—that's where the power of images comes in

David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction

Obituaries

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

Nick Hedges, photographer who changed the way we see homelessness, has died aged 81

Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the homelessness charity Shelter

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

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

Hannah McGivern15 July 2025

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

Gareth Harris9 July 2025

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

Annabel Keenan8 July 2025

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

Helen Stoilas4 July 2025

The power of transformation: an immersive, thrillingly layered, journey into William Kentridge’s sculpture

The polymathic, multifarious, South African artist plays creative games with scale, indoor and out, in "The Pull of Gravity", a multi-decade survey at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Not mad about Modigliani: Johnny Depp’s movie about art maverick mauled by critics

“Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness” has so far received scathing reviews

The Art Newspaperabout 15 hours ago

The good, the bad and the simply ‘tone deaf’: a roll call of celebrity art

From Ed Sheeran to Adrien Brody, it seems big names can't stop picking up their paint brushes

Penis envy? 35-foot appendage at UK heritage site was almost covered up

UK government official said that trees should be planted on Cerne Abbas Giant's sizeable member

Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

The Louvre and the National in Edinburgh loaned works by the 18th-century artist

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Danae Stratou wins G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize 2025

The Greek sculptor, known for her land art installations, has created a new permanent installation inspired by the mysterious Phaistos Disc

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Book Club

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

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

Book reviews

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

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

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

Dan Hicks's new book is 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.

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

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Rudolf Stingel 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.

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

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

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