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Yemen deals with cultural heritage challenges after years of civil war
Renewed momentum is helping to alleviate the issue—and women are playing a key role
British Museum director responds to pushback after Jewish Culture Month event postponed
The museum rescheduled a May lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah upon learning that a significant number of participants intended to disrupt the event
Gone bananas: Cattelan's Comedian stolen from Centre Pompidou-Metz exhibition
The duct-taped banana installation was swiftly restored after its "perishable element" went missing on Saturday afternoon
Show celebrates legacy of the art school in Benton End—which counted Lucian Freud among its students
London’s Garden Museum explores the home of the East Anglian School
Museum acquisitions round-up: a double-sided print by Kirchner and one of the most depicted Black models in pre-20th century art
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Art market
Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums
New York’s marquee auctions made record figures for established names, but precious few by young artists. Meanwhile, struggling gallery sector is impacting primary contemporary market
Tiwani Contemporary, gallery dedicated to African art, ceases operations after 15 years
Due to "wider market uncertainties", the London- and Lagos-based dealership that helped launch the careers of Joy Labinjo and Gareth Nyandoro has closed
How Warsaw has become a new capital of collecting
A buoyant economy and increasing internationalism is benefitting the art scene of Poland's biggest city
Why artists' works held in storage can be seized when a gallery goes bust
Artists in the UK are poorly protected when it comes to insolvencies
Bad moon rising: AI debate erupts over ‘colourised’ version of a classic Ansel Adams photo
The photographer’s estate has accused the dealer James Danziger of leveraging an unauthorised AI-generated piece to push a commercial venture to colourise other artists' works
Museums & Heritage
Getty Center reveals details of upcoming campus renovations
In addition to replacing its famous tram, the museum will build a more inviting waiting area at the bottom of the hill and a new welcome hall at the top
French project uses AI to visualise how climate change will affect heritage sites
The tool in development analyses photographs and audio as well as meteorological and material data to create an augmented reality model
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts gifted collection of nearly 2,000 photographs
The gift, from the foundation established by the late collector Howard Stein and his wife Janet, boosts the museum’s photography holdings as it plans to open new galleries dedicated to the medium in 2027
Heir says Cezanne watercolour in Basel show was lost due to Nazi persecution
The 1888 work depicting Montagne Sainte Victoire was on loan to the Fondation Beyeler’s Cezanne exhibition, which closed Monday
Whitney Museum workers rallied outside fundraising gala amid contract negotiations
Guests arriving at the recent Whitney Gala were greeted by members of UAW Local 2110 handing out pins and flyers as they seek their second labour contract
Exhibitions
The 2026 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
Many patterns emerge across the 56 participants’ works, from an interest in complicating our understandings of US history and interventionism, to new approaches to looking at and making images
Show celebrates legacy of the art school in Benton End—which counted Lucian Freud among its students
London’s Garden Museum explores the home of the East Anglian School
Artist-brothers’ Kennedy Center project aims to unite the US in divisive times
National Scrollathon, an exhibition by Steven and William Ladd at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, represents 10,000 Americans of “every age, background, political affiliation, orientation, race”
Los Angeles’s new Hospital of Emotions pop-up gives artists keys to the asylum
Artists have transformed 80 spaces in a defunct hospital for the city’s latest immersive installation
London's Royal Society of Arts launches new annual summer exhibition
Sales from the show will be split between participating artists and the organisation's social impact work
Books
Book reveals how Chintz—India’s precious textile pattern—became a precolonial global export
The little understood art form is explored in the collected essays of 12 leading scholars
Shoot and branch: new photography book highlights the enduring majesty of trees
"Trees of Great Britain and Ireland" offers a handsome insight into early 20th-century botanical photography
‘A remarkably tenacious motif’: the many faces of Marilyn Monroe revealed in new book and show
Different artists’ takes on the film star are explored ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London
Pleasure, parody and propaganda: rethinking the art of illustration in a new history of the genre
From a ninth-century Chinese frontispiece to Marxist magazine covers, this rich tome explores the power of illustration and the ways in which we read such images
An expert's guide to Tracey Emin: five must-read books on the British artist
The best Emin publications, from her searingly honest autobiography to a collection of revealing snapshots—selected by the Tate’s assistant curator Jess Baxter
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper Johns in Bilbao—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke discusses the disruptions to plans for a new Smithsonian women's museum in Washington DC, speaks with artist Oliver Beer and musician Rufus Wainwright on their recent collaboration, and learns about a painting by Jasper Johns on show at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
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.
A century ago, Tate borrowed five Van Goghs to inaugurate its new 'modern foreign' galleries
Lent by British private collectors, the Van Goghs subsequently went abroad—except for a fake, which is now in a castle in Wales
Opinion
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
Comment | The flaws in the plan to charge entry to British museums
The end of free universal museum entry risks deterring visitors and creating a two-tier system
Comment | Flourishing markets beyond the big three will benefit the art ecosystem—and the planet
Regions outside of the US, UK and China have grown their share from 17% of business in 2015 to 24% in 2025, according to report
Comment | Degenerate art all over again? Nazi attack on Modern art is not far away from trends in today’s world
When it comes to art, Trump is an utter vacuum—he makes the Nazis look like great connoisseurs, says author John-Paul Stonard
Comment | The slopification of political art
Artificial intelligence has made it incredibly easy to create pointed visuals in response to crises in real time, but the resulting videos and images have little poignancy or staying power
Diary
Hole in one: artist-designed mini golf course heads to London
British artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will design the ninth hole on this summer's putt-putt course in Battersea
Mexican film-makers to co-host Serpentine Summer Party
Co-host Salma Hayek Pinault may be best known to the art world for her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Frida Kahlo
Fashion figure Jordan Roth wows in collage at the Venice Biennale
Having just taken on the Met Gala as a "living sculpture", the multi-disciplinary artist came to Venice later in the week for a compelling performance
How sweet it is: chocolate Russell Crowe at the Malta Pavilion
A chocolate gladiator features in Valletta-based artist Charlie Cauchi's film and accompanying installation in the Arsenale
Nature is healing? Seagull lays eggs in the Giardini during Venice Biennale preview
The new mother may have upstaged some of the artwork on show
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with... Andrew Cranston—podcast
Andrew Cranston talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
The Art of Luxury
A magazine, published twice per year by The Art Newspaper, exploring how grande marque fashion, jewellery, travel and lifestyle interact with artists, the art market and the museums and heritage sector
'A work of conceptual art': Belmond launches new Art Deco-inspired train dining car
The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior
Hotel and art hub Casabianca opens on Italy's Lake Como
From Jannis Kounellis to Anselm Kiefer, a very personal art collection, asssembled by the De Santis family, is now on view in the 1930s villa
Artist Bouke de Vries creates sculptural porcelain bottles for Dries Van Noten perfume
London-based Dutch artist uses reassembled broken china fragments to create five unique vessels
Van Cleef & Arpels cashes in on lucrative secondary market for vintage jewellery
The jewellery designer's Heritage Collection presents rare 20th-century creations
'It’s like the natural world. Nothing lasts forever': Tadashi Kawamata on creating his temporary sculptures
The Japanese artist takes the simplest of materials to make his powerful installations
Obituaries
The art world remembers Valie Export, Austrian pioneer of feminist performance art
Best known for daring audiences to face and feel the female body on her own terms, the performance artist died in Vienna on 14 May at 85 years old
Remembering Pat Steir, one of the 20th century’s late-blooming great artists
The painter made gravity her collaborator, transforming poured oil paint into one of the defining gestures of late 20th-century abstraction
Georg Baselitz, German artist who turned figurative painting on its head, has died, aged 88
Baselitz’s death comes on the eve of a major exhibition of his latest paintings at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini concurrent with the Venice Biennale
Obituary | Umberto Allemandi, visionary publisher who founded 'Il Giornale dell’Arte', has died aged 88
The editor built an international network of publications—including 'The Art Newspaper'—that transformed cultural journalism
Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90
Beyond his famous chair design, Friedeberg created a singular world of ornament, architecture, and irony