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Meta and YouTube’s recent losses in youth social media addiction cases may put artists and activists at risk

Recent rulings in California and New Mexico against the social media giants seem to promise greater accountability, but in practice they may erode free and creative expression online

Emma Shapiroabout 16 hours ago

Tate Britain and Turner Contemporary take their eco-missions beyond the gallery walls

The London museum is building a sustainable garden while the Margate institution has launched a biennial summit exploring our oceans

Louisa Buck11 minutes ago

Green tuff, the stone that shaped Oaxaca’s historic centre, receives international heritage designation

Recognition by the International Union of Geological Sciences highlights how stone can reveal and preserve a city's material history

Constanza Ontiveros Valdésabout 16 hours ago

New York City’s oldest library refreshes its historic home

The 272-year-old New York Society Library’s patrons have included the likes of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton

Allison C. Meierabout 13 hours ago

Helen Cammock removes film criticising Winston Churchill from London's National Portrait Gallery following complaint

‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says is inaccurate

Gareth Harrisabout 21 hours ago

Art market

Picasso painting recovered in French drug raid was stolen ‘opportunistically’, police source says

The portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was reportedly discovered during a search of a house in the town of Champigny-sur-Marne

Vincent Noceabout 21 hours ago

London's ailing June art season is heating up, thanks to homegrown efforts

Beleaguered by Brexit, this year, record auctions and a promising crop of fairs and events are helping to boost the week

Anna Brady1 day ago

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”

Caroline Roux2 days ago

Ten years after Brexit vote, art market rules remain as messy as ever

The piecemeal approach to repealing and replacing EU regulations highlights the lack of a coherent policy

Coffin plate of ‘the injured Queen of England’ heads to Treasure House Fair

According to dealer Martyn Downer, the silver plate of the exiled monarch could be “the only coffin plate of a Queen of England that will ever be on the market”

Museums & Heritage

Restoration work is completed at one of Paraguay’s oldest churches

After almost eight years of work, the San Lorenzo Mártir church in Altos is back to its former glory

Smithsonian women’s museum launches augmented reality experience after congressional setback

‘Unhidden Heroines’ pairs important women in US history with monuments on the National Mall commemorating men of their time

Crystal Bridges, fresh off major expansion, hires Courtenay Finn as next chief curator

Finn, previously the chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, starts at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary in August

Benjamin Suttonabout 11 hours ago

Lacma's inaugural art parade celebrates new building and Los Angeles creative community

Artists and performers of all kinds flocked to Wilshire Boulevard for the city's first Art Parade

Guerrilla-style museum tours reveal the history of climate change through art and heritage in Philadelphia

The tours created and led by the artist and curator Aislinn Pentecost-Farren are part of the ArtPhilly 2026 festival

Exhibitions

Morgan Library exhibition offers a visionary view of the history of Tarot

The New York show, inspired by J.P. Morgan's fascination with the dark art, will include readings for visitors

J.S. Marcus25 minutes ago

Comment | Visiting Venice this year reminded me of the crushing power of painting

From Old Masters like Tintoretto to contemporary Kantarovsky, the medium's brilliance shines across the city

‘Artists need to be able to advocate for their own work’: new guide advises artists on navigating censorship

The free digital resource, from the National Coalition Against Censorship, comes as artists navigate an increasingly censorious cultural landscape

New documentary goes behind the scenes of Rashaad Newsome’s biggest project

In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory

Zooming in on the Dutch street photographer Ed van der Elsken

The artist chronicled Amsterdam life in the 1970s

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A brush with… Anne Imhof—podcast

Anne Imhof talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

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Books

An expert's guide to Marina Abramović: five must-read books on the performance artist

The best Abramović publications, from an intimate memoir to a collection of the artist’s aphorisms—selected by the curator Shai Baitel

Mystery, controversy and the butterfly’s sting: James McNeill Whistler book aims to dispel the fog around his legacy

The unashamedly partisan book by Daniel E. Sutherland also looks at the science behind Whistler’s nocturnes

Mapplethorpe nudes, the NEA and the birth of America’s culture wars

We speak to the writer Isaac Butler about his book revisiting the battles over censorship and public funding in the US during the 1980s and 1990s

How Andy Warhol’s textile and fashion work influenced his art

Three key takeaways from a new book that looks at the artist's designs for shop awnings, advertising illustrations, screen-printed clothes and more

Constable, an artist for all seasons: a rich study reveals how his art and life were shaped by the weather's yearly cycles

The 250th anniversary of John Constable’s birth has seen a flurry of publications about the great painter and his work

The Week in Art

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

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.

Opinion

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

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

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

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”

Caroline Roux2 days ago

'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

Obituaries

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

Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56

Best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and its award-winning film adaption, Satrapi died in Paris on 4 June from “sadness” following her husband's recent death

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

Widely known by her online alter ego Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein had come to prominence through her memes and critiques of the art world

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

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