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Hundreds protest far-right government's removal of objects from Colombia's national museum

President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered that dozens of objects related to LGBTQ+ rights and feminism be taken down from displays at the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá

Mercedes Ezquiagaabout 2 hours ago

All six of Edward Hopper’s early oils, long thought to be original works, revealed to be copies

In an exclusive extract from his new Edward Hopper biography, Louis Shadwick tracks down the original works—many reproduced in popular periodicals of the time, with instructions for copying—that formed the basis of all Hopper’s oil paintings before he enrolled in art school

Louis Shadwickabout 12 hours ago

Major London museums join forces for new South Asian arts festival

The nine-day event will take over South Kensington's cultural quarter next summer, bringing together artists from India and its diaspora

Joe Wareabout 10 hours ago

Hilma af Klint painting could break artist's record next month in Stockholm

Abstract works by the Swedish artist are rare to auction, but Ser III No.5 from 1920 will be sold at Bukowskis next month estimated around $600,000 to $800,000

Anna Bradyabout 12 hours ago

Legal troubles and family feud keep Klimt portrait off the market

The unfinished painting’s mysterious origins were further complicated by a family betrayal during the Second World War and, now, competing claims

Catherine Hickleyabout 11 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

Sprawling contemporary art centre Large opens on island near Paris

The non-profit, which will open with a show riffing on the island’s automotive history, is focused on promoting the French art scene

British Museum’s Red Ball sparks Energy Embargo for Palestine protests

While protests occurred outside the ball, the museum announced an anonymous £30m donation toward its masterplan redevelopment project

Gareth Harris1 day ago

US-Italian curator Francesco Bonami appointed artistic director of Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture

Bonami aims to “catalyse artistic energy” and “search for the best projects” for the institution, which is funded by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation

Brazil’s Centre Pompidou outpost delayed until 2029

Originally due to open in 2027, then 2028, the project in the southern state of Paraná, where the government changed in the recent election, has been further delayed

François Pinault to launch permanent display of his collection at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi

The billionaire collector’s decision means the prestigious temporary exhibition programme at the palazzo is coming to an end

Art market

Collection of Monsoon founder Peter Simon becomes highest value single-owner collection ever sold at Christie's London

Led by a Nazi-looted Kandinsky, the heavily guaranteed 20/21 Century evening sale made £178m in total

Peter Nagy—Nature Morte gallery founder who transformed Indian contemporary art market—has died

The artist-dealer launched the careers of some of India’s greatest art stars working today

Malaysia’s contemporary art scene gains momentum with a new fair and nonprofit space

Kuala Lumpur's inaugural Art KL and the opening of Muara Arts will boost the country's burgeoning sector

Comment | Why the Great Art Transfer is an empty promise

A forecast generational shift in art ownership is fuelling a new sales pitch—but buying art as an investment remains a gamble

Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction

More than 60 artists have donated work including Genieve Figgis, Alvaro Barrington, Joshua Donkor and Sanya Kantarovsky

Exhibitions

Exhibition highlights overlooked William Morris collection and his collaborations with women makers

Fitzwilliam Museum show in Cambridge displays drawings, paintings and designs acquired by Sydney Cockerell, a friend and private secretary of the English designer

Maev Kennedy1 day ago

New documentary celebrates women pioneers in performance art

‘Acting Like Women’ is a deep dive into Los Angeles art and activism of the 1970s and 80s

Henry Chalfant’s legendary archive of New York graffiti goes on show for first time in Northern Europe

The photographer who documented the city’s subway art discusses what happens when underground culture becomes big business—and the importance of graffiti in the era of Donald Trump

Venice Biennale closing celebration to feature aria from artist Tammy Nguyen’s first opera

Commissioned and produced by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the work explores nationhood and freedom

Roll up, roll up! Exhibitions celebrate the splendour of the circus and the artists it inspired

Shows at Paris’s Musée de Montmartre and the Hepworth Wakefield celebrate the big top's enduring influence on artists

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.

Before banana fame, Maurizio Cattelan made ends meet delivering letters—and sperm

The mischievous artist has revealed an early CV with some (re)productive roles

Head to Paris to see Renoir masterpiece, suggests Eurostar—but the work is in London

The Impressionist’s ‘Dance at the Moulin de la Galette’, owned by the Musée D’Orsay, is on view at the National Gallery until January 2027

Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?

The reported acquisition of a work suggests that the London museum is revising its opinion of the late artist

Jean-ius portraiture: Nan Goldin collaborates with fashion house Acne Studios

The US artist and activist is helping the Stockholm brand celebrate its 30th anniversary in style

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco di Giorgio—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks with art market editor Kabir Jhala in the Frieze London tent, visits the new Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, and discusses a Quattrocento bronze relief at the Frick Collection.

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison
Sponsored by Getty

The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry, a nearly 70m-long embroidery telling the story of the Norman Conquest, has returned to England for the first time since it was made nearly 1,000 years ago, going on view in a special exhibition at the British Museum. To mark the occasion, here is a curated selection of our stories on the treasured work

British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry

Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos

Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?

Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public

Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF

A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show

‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech

Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry

As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with... Gabriel Orozco—podcast

Orozco talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects

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

Jewellers Buccellati create collection inspired by Venetian lace-making

Called Serenissima, the jewels use finely wrought metals to capture the art of the lace makers found on the island of Burano

Historic building in old Danish artist colony transformed into luxury hotel

CORI Hornbaek Hotel, just outside Copehagen, brings together brings together contemporary art, Mediterranean élan and the local speciality—hygge

‘An inexhaustible source of inspiration’: how the spirit of jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger lives on at Tiffany & Co

The jewellery house and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris are partnering to restore thousands of the designer's sketches and personal documents

Mexican chef brings spirit of Frida Kahlo to Tate Modern pop up restaurant

Santiago Lastra is combining a love for the artist and his home cuisine in London this summer

From the Hamptons to Saint-Tropez: design fairs PAD and Nomad follow the sun

Nomad co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte describes the fair as “a resort concept”

Art on Location

Art on Location offers a special focus on outdoor art experiences, with news, features and archive content covering public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology

‘These are party houses aren't they?’ Why Britain's stately homes are opening up to contemporary art

Showing works by artists including Tracey Emin and Phyllida Barlow over the summer is helping to attract new audiences and bolster income for historic buildings

Sun, sea, sand—and art: luxury hotel in Crete commissions works in response to the island

The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation has taken on the challenge of putting outdoor art in scorching Mediterranean conditions at the Minos Palace Resort

From beavers to basketball hoops: a new public art trail opens in Toronto

The Lassonde Art Trail is part of a $1bn redevelopment project to revitalise the city's relationship with its waterways

Books

‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters

A collection of the artist’s correspondence provides fascinating new insights, from his domestic life to acquisition negotiations

Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato

“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life

New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists

The study explores how Valleyer-Coster cultivated an elite clientele in a turbulent France while navigating the pressures placed on women artists

Royal Academy book looks at Richard Dadd beyond the themes of madness and murder

Jennifer Higgie’s new novel meanwhile takes a very different approach to the life and legacy of the English artist, who spent much of his life in psychiatric institutions

Meet Alan Dunn, the New Yorker cartoonist who put Modernism in its place

A new book explores how Alan Dunn poked fun at 20th-century American architecture over this five-decade cartooning career

Opinion

Comment | Arts and culture belong in disaster recovery

The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts

Comment | The Brooklyn Museum’s manga exhibition reveals the opportunities and challenges of tackling a global phenomenon

The Japanese art form has a fervent and wide-reaching community around it, which the New York museum has incorporated in its process

Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces

Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction

Comment | It's high time philanthropy was decentralised

Charles Asprey has shown courage and imagination by donating works to the tiny and remote Pier Arts Centre, instead of one of the UK’s prestigious London-based institutions

Comment | A trip to Venice this year offered thought-provoking reminders of past art disputes

From a contested Richard Prince to the disputed Veroneses, La Serenissima remains one of the best places to see works of art formerly at the centre of legal controversies

Obituaries

Lucia Laguna, Brazilian painter of verdant and fragmented cityscapes, has died, aged 85

Laguna, who only started painting after retiring from her teaching career, started to achieve success when she was in her 60s

Peter Max, artist who achieved ubiquity marrying Pop art and psychedelia, has died, aged 88

A celebrity in his own right who also created riotous portraits of many famous and powerful people, Max made images that became inseparable from the legacy of the Summer of Love and countercultural movement

Geles Cabrera, the pioneering Mexican sculptor, has died, aged 100

Through her sinuous approach to the human figure, Cabrera forged a distinctive sculptural language and challenged conventions

Remembering Sliman Mansour, a defining figure of Palestinian art

Through his art, Mansour was a pioneering force of Palestinian cultural resistance

Christian Bernard, founding director of Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, dies aged 76

Over a four-decade career, the French art critic and curator profoundly influenced contemporary art institutions in Switzerland and France

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