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Iranian galleries close amid protests and communications blackout

Uncertainty has gripped life and art in Iran as unrest continues—Trump's threats of military intervention, meanwhile, have ramped up tensions

Sarvy Geranpayehabout 10 hours ago

Kochi Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari steps down as president

The artist and curator has resigned from his position at the Kochi Biennale Foundation citing “pressing family reasons”

Kabir Jhalaabout 5 hours ago

‘It’s madness’: David Hockney blasts plans to loan Bayeux Tapestry to UK

The artist says he is concerned about the “physical and environmental risks” posed by sending the work to the British Museum

Gareth Harrisabout 11 hours ago

Trump eyes site near National Mall for ‘Garden of American Heroes’

The location, although not yet official, would legally require the project to undergo a rigorous review process and receive congressional approval

Rare work by Edgar Degas among £59.7m haul of art donated to UK public collections in exchange for tax benefits

Works by Ben Nicholson, Vanessa Bell and Bill Brandt were also among works given to the nation in 2024-25 to settle £39.3m worth of tax

Gareth Harrisabout 3 hours ago

Art market

Lehmann Maupin takes permanent space in Mayfair’s No. 9 Cork Street

It is the first year-round tenant in the Frieze-run central London gallery hub

Melanie Gerlisabout 9 hours ago

Luhring Augustine co-founder steps down to pursue philanthropy

Roland Augustine helped start the influential Chelsea gallery more than 40 years ago

More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television

The sale at Bonhams comes just two months after Ross’s auction record was shattered in another charity auction

‘Creative, provocative, controversial’: Truth Social ads for Nazi-owned art spark heated debate

The gallery behind the adverts has huge holdings of art associated with the Third Reich, and has loaned works to major museums

Mumbai Gallery Weekend looks beyond the city's historic art district

The event's 14th edition is co-led by two dealers with spaces far from the gallery hub neighbourhoods of Colaba and Fort

Museums & Heritage

Rijksmuseum announces plans for €60m sculpture park

The site, which will feature work by artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore, is expected to open in the autumn—though planning permission is yet to be confirmed

Senay Boztas1 day ago

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery removes wall text mentioning Trump’s impeachments

The museum said the change of labels and portraits is in preparation for an overhaul of its popular permanent gallery “America’s Presidents”

Why is the French government spending millions on art no one sees?

Two recent reports have raised questions about why the Centre national des arts plastiques has never exhibited a quarter of the works in its care

Newly discovered Roman villa may be Welsh town's own ‘Pompeii’, archaeologists say

Found beneath the town of Port Talbot, the structure is the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales

Exhibitions

South Africa’s Venice Biennale artist appeals to president after pavilion cancelled by minister

Gabrielle Goliath’s video-based project Elegy was pulled by Gayton McKenzie, seemingly over a planned Gaza-related segment

The road to ‘Fridamania’: how Frida Kahlo became a global phenomenon

A new show will explore the Mexican artist's complex personality and her rise to fame over the past 50 years

Constanza Ontiveros Valdésabout 10 hours ago

From 10,000 pennies to a Beatles record haul, the obsessive work of Rutherford Chang heads to Beijing

The “near frightening rigour” of the post-conceptualist artist is celebrated at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

A taster of the British Museum's Hawaii show in three objects

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Alice Christophe. With an introduction by Gareth Harris

Ai Weiwei’s first India solo exhibition to open in New Delhi

A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India

The Year Ahead

Fair behemoths bet on Gulf plus new, bigger venues for Independent—a quick look at art fairs in 2026

Art Basel and Frieze are expanding in the Middle East while Art Cologne is reinstating its Mallorca edition

Venice, Sydney, Gwangju: the most interesting biennials to visit in 2026

Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year

Art market 2026 predictions: underwhelming rebound and another Frieze fair

Our columnist gazes into her crystal ball to spot the major trends—from London regaining its lustre to AI fatigue—that are set to dominate the trade over the coming 12 months

Books

How an artist and a writer forged a frank friendship—and a book

The author Olivia Laing and the painter Chantal Joffe tell us about collaborating on a new book detailing their creative exchanges

New book tells the tale of David's ‘Death of Marat’ through the eyes of a lifelong admirer

Art historian’s dissection of famous work is as much about the painting as his decades-long obsession with it

An expert’s guide to the Gothic: five must-read books on the topic

The best recent publications about the subject, from a book following the rebuilding of Notre-Dame cathedral to a Batman comic set in Barcelona—selected by the museum director and curator Annabelle Ténèze

Opinion

Let’s celebrate the new arrivals in the public domain, for auld lang syne

Copyright changes bring New Year cheer for fans of Léger, de Staël and Hepworth

Comment | Dave the Potter finally becomes a complete artist

Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now

Comment | After a market shake up in 2025, it's time to create a right-sized art trade

From collaboration to consolidation, some dealers are adapting to a changing market that many agree should not return to its previous peak

Comment | The worlds of analogue and digital art may be splintering

At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”

Obituaries

Kathleen Goncharov, influential curator who helped many artists ‘realise their dreams’, has died aged 73

Alongside her work at organisations such as New York’s Just Above Midtown gallery and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida, Goncharov was also an artist

Remembering Erik Bulatov, the Soviet artist who reframed propaganda

The pioneering painter was known for his luminous skies and loaded slogans on power, space and freedom

Arnulf Rainer, a revolutionary figure in postwar Austrian art, has died aged 96

The Baden-born artist, known for addressing the trauma of the Holocaust, was a founding member of the influential Galerie nächst St Stephan

Ceal Floyer, an artist known for her minimalist, playful works, dies aged 57

The Pakistan-born, British artist rose to fame in the 1990s with her “concise humour and profoundly understated visual language”

Remembering Frank Gehry, legendary architect of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Toronto-born architect, who reshaped global skylines with his sweeping, seemingly unfinished creations, has died, aged 96

The Week in Art

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

The Year Ahead 2026: the big exhibitions and the key museum openings—podcast

From the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, New York, The Art Newspaper's editors look ahead to next year's biggest stories

A brush with... podcast

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

A brush with… Luc Tuymans—podcast

Luc Tuymans 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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly, David Clack and Aimee Dawson

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.

Van Gogh shows in 2026: America, Japan and the Netherlands

Must-see exhibitions coming this year include ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ in Philadelphia and ‘Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ in Amsterdam

Sweet Jesus—Trump auctions off a Christ painting made in ten minutes

Work was created live by Vanessa Horabuena at Mar-a-Lago New Year’s eve bash

We are all in the gutter but Banksy’s Christmas kids are looking at the stars

The same work has appeared in west London and under the Centre Point tower in the city centre

Spirited art—Sharon Stone looks to the afterlife for her latest paintings

For her new Rogues Gallery series, the film star says she channelled spirits from across the centuries

Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

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