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White, patriarchal and Christian: White House’s vision for the National Museum of American History
A surprise 162-page report released on 4 July reveals the Trump administration’s efforts to shape US history and culture through the Smithsonian
New Museum names Massimiliano Gioni as new director
The longtime artistic director takes the helm at the recently expanded New York institution
Gang steals jewellery worth €4.5m from Lalique Museum in France in 11-minute heist
Three masked men broke into the museum in the early hours of Sunday morning and stole 27 crystal pieces, according to the local prosecutor
Buckingham Palace doubles number of paintings on display in rehung picture gallery
Works from the Royal Collection by Vermeer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian and others are on show, some for the first time in decades
Ukraine gives its troops a handbook on protecting cultural property
The guidelines aim to make international laws readily accessible to soldiers on the ground, and reflects Ukraine's experience in the war against Russia
Art market
Man jailed as Sotheby’s due diligence foils antiquities fraud
Andrew Crowley, based in Bristol in the UK, has been sentenced for trying to sell statues with forged provenance documents through the auction house in London
Can a Riga fair foster a new generation of collectors in Latvia?
The Baltic state is bidding to bolster its nascent art market
19th century bronze Laocoön leads London Old Master auctions, selling for £13.6m at Sotheby's
Work achieved the second highest price ever for a pre-Modern sculpture at auction, while Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of Wellington sold for an artist record £9.7m at Christie's
Latin American commercial art space to launch in London this October
Founded by the Brazilian collector Flavia Nespatti, Antesala in Fitzrovia will combine selling shows of Latin American artists with an advisory and public programme
Why one season of successful auctions won't transform the art market
While impressive results in New York and London suggest buoyancy at the very top end, further news of closures and downsizing illustrates the soaring costs facing bricks-and-mortar galleries
Museums & Heritage
New Museum names Massimiliano Gioni as new director
The longtime artistic director takes the helm at the recently expanded New York institution
White, patriarchal and Christian: White House’s vision for the National Museum of American History
A surprise 162-page report released on 4 July reveals the Trump administration’s efforts to shape US history and culture through the Smithsonian
The Nevada Museum of Art puts sustainability at its core
Since its foundation in 1931, the institution has promoted climate action across all its activities
Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect
Numerous heritage sites were among the 58,000 buildings destroyed by the deadly twin earthquakes last month
When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers
The Neue Galerie’s merger with the Met—the world’s fourth-largest museum—serves as a recent example of a smaller US institution uniting with a larger neighbour
Exhibitions
Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective’s sprawling Arles installation offers haunting world view
The collaborative show 'Correspondences' at Luma Arles in France marks the first major European presentation of the film works
Raven Halfmoon brings her giant doubles to Ballroom Marfa
The Oklahoma-based artist’s first travelling exhibition lands in Donald Judd’s West Texas
New York exhibition fundraising for Venezuelan earthquake relief efforts
More than 200 works on view at Henrique Faria Fine Art are on offer to raise funds for emergency aid in Venezuela through the World Central Kitchen
‘Even sewing a button can be subversive’: Ai Weiwei opens vast new show in Manchester
The Chinese activist-artist's exhibition, titled ‘Button Up!’, at Factory International’s Aviva Studios also features a reenactment of his incarceration in 2011
‘Chicano art is American art’: Cheech Marin on celebrating Latino art and the connections between art and activism
As he approaches his 80th birthday, the comedian and collector revels in watching people interact with the art at his namesake museum in Riverside, California
Books
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
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
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
July Book Bag: from a selection of US folk art to a closer look at the work of YBA Gary Hume
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Diary
Nicholas Cullinan portrait goes up at his former employer, London's National Portrait Gallery
Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Cullinan, now the director of the British Museum, is now on permanent display at the gallery
London Library, a favourite haunt of the art and literary crowds, celebrates its 185th birthday
The historic lending library has an extensive collection, including a large selection of art books
Art Basel Diary: Kanye's Greek goddess, a wheelie good read and the ultimate plunge pool
Plus The Art Newspaper dives with the ducklings and art critics just got fluffier
Art Basel Diary: The universe’s first interdimensional artist, Hockney homages and natty gnashers
Plus princess throws some fade and airport show takes off
Art Basel Diary: mouse in the house, Kanye at Unlimited, and Cattelan's banana gets supersized
Plus: P•P•O•W's stand stays hydrated and Katharine Grosse's fabulous football
Opinion
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
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
Obituaries
Remembering Desmond Morris, the Surrealist painter and zoologist who explored the artistic abilities of apes
Morris's eight decades at the easel left him among the last of the original Surrealists
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
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A brush with… Pio Abad—podcast
Pio Abad 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 Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern, the Brexit effect, a Renaissance tarot deck—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern in London, speaks to Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law on the impact of Brexit ten years on, and discusses the Renaissance-era Visconti-Sforza Tarot, on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
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.
Epstein files reveal Leon Black as a key Van Gogh buyer
The New York collector acquired five of the artist’s works, including a landscape worth over $60m
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”
'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