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‘Amazon-style’ conditions: Prospect union members overwhelmingly vote to strike at London's V&A museums

V&A staff represented by the Public and Commercial Services Union are also considering industrial action

Gareth Harrisabout 7 hours ago

Comment | The Obama Presidential Center aims high, like a Gothic cathedral

The building’s epic art commissions play a big role, compelling visitors upwards

Jori Finkel22 minutes ago

Lessons from Notre-Dame inform reconstruction of Copenhagen Stock Exchange building

After fire destroyed half of the historic red-brick structure in 2024, its owners’ ambitious goal is to rebuild even faster than the French did with the Paris cathedral

Alexander Morrisonabout 9 hours ago

Artist starts legal case against Meta for deleting her Instagram account

Emma Shapiro and her lawyers are fighting the “loss of her artistic archive, audience, professional visibility and space for public debate”

Aimee Dawsonabout 10 hours ago

Arts groups in US cities that increased culture funding during Covid have rebounded more quickly: report

While municipal funding covered a modest share of organisations’ expenses, it had an outsized impact in cities that increased their cultural support, a new study from DataArts shows

Daniel Grantabout 18 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

Sites in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine among 25 new additions to Unesco’s World Heritage List

Three new properties were inscribed under emergency procedures and simultaneously placed on the World Heritage in Danger List

English Heritage debuts daily prize draw for ‘private time’ at Stonehenge this August

Winners and their booking group will receive ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand within the ancient stones with no one else around’ before opening hours

Gareth Harris1 day ago

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces opening date

The latest museum in the Guggenheim network will open on 11 December 2026, twenty years after its original 2006 announcement

Culture minister Catherine Pégard reveals ‘national security plan’ following another major museum theft in France

The French Culture Ministry has budgeted €30m over three years to improve security at local museums and has issued a 33-point action plan

Trump orders signage to be erected outside Smithsonian museum warning visitors of political bias

US president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommittee

Exhibitions

Treasures from Ancient Egypt’s ‘Golden City’, and the stories of the people who made them, revealed in San Francisco show

Twenty artefacts from Pharaoh Amenhotep III's abandoned city, discovered on Luxor’s west bank in 2021, are part of the exhibition at the de Young Museum

Elena Goukassianabout 9 hours ago

Artists visualise environmental fragility and resilience on New York’s Governors Island

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems

Low Kee Hong chosen to curate Biennale of Sydney's next edition

Low, who is the creative director of Factory International in Manchester, will lead the artistic team for the prominent Australian biennial’s 26th edition

Artists’ monumental hot dog sculpture, now with patriotic toppings, returns to Times Square

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding

A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk

Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv

Art market

Trump administration’s new tariff regime exempts art and antique imports from most countries

After the US Supreme Court struck down the White House’s previous tariffs, Trump and his trade representative have imposed new tariffs of 10% or more on around 80 countries

Daniel Grant2 days ago

The Artists Information Company, the UK's largest artists’ membership organisation, relaunches as Artists Now

Founded in 1980, the organisation has also developed a Green Manifesto to guide artist members toward a more environmentally responsible practice

Art Dealers Association of America's fair returns after one-year hiatus with a leaner line-up

The New York fair is coming back to the Park Avenue Armory with 63 exhibitors after a 'strategic pause', as executive director Kinsey Robb says the focus is on value for galleries rather than scale

Appeals court sides with Jeff Koons in copyright-infringement dispute over ‘Made in Heaven’ series

The lawsuit was brought by the artist Michael A. Hayden, who created a sculpture that appears in some of the images from the series

Gus the T-Rex sells for a record $50.1m at Sotheby’s

One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m

Curating for the new No. 10 North: six art suggestions for the UK's prime minister

As Andy Burnham opens a new office in the city of Manchester, we offer up some suitably northern works for the walls

Banksy statue in central London could become permanent as Westminster council deliberates

The statue, which has drawn hordes of onlookers, will remain in St James's for at least the next few weeks, with the council aiming to make a decision on its longevity by the end of summer

Music, Fashion, Film—Photography? Charli xcx image acquired by London's National Portrait Gallery

The portrait of the pop star, who released her latest album earlier this month, can be found in the museum's History Makers space

Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end

What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film

Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics

Books

A new biography looks at how Michael Andrews shifted from slow burner to innovative creator

The School of London artist, equally at home in Soho society and rural Scotland, was also a noted painter of celebrities

The worst of us: a philosopher’s guide to the world’s most depraved art

The academic Daisy Dixon discusses her new book investigating the art that has provoked outrage over the centuries

How novelists continue to be inspired by artists

Several books out this summer use art as a springboard—we speak to some of their authors

Joseph Beuys was ambitious, ‘perhaps to the point of megalomania’, says a new book about the German artist

A new reading of the life and work of Beuys is no hagiography, seeing Beuys as someone who was fiercely determined and created myths about himself

An expert’s guide to Gustave Courbet: five must-read books on the French painter

The best Courbet publications, from a comprehensive monograph to a look at how he was “a skilful media strategist”—selected by the curators Sonja Pizonka and Anna Brohm

Opinion

Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration

Comment | Why should artists stay in cities like London and New York when financial pressures are making it harder than ever?

Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention

Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself

Since the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections have continued to expose art's vulnerability to politics

Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfall

The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes

Obituaries

Betye Saar, assemblage artist who reframed racist and sexist imagery, has died, aged 99

The legendary Los Angeles artist reframed charged images and objects, embraced printmaking and developed elaborate, transporting installations

Helen Stoilasabout 23 hours ago

Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractions

Over six decades, the artist developed a distinctive sculptural language in Venezuela and beyond

David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the “Young Contemporaries” exhibition in London in 1961

Remembering Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of kinetic art

The Argentine-born, Paris-based artist, who died at age 97, had been hoping to attend the opening of his retrospective at Tate Modern next week

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