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‘Hope within the ruins’: Gaza's culture workers on rebuilding after the ceasefire

As the truce between Israel and Hamas takes hold, Gazans begin to focus on reconstructing their homes and heritage

Sarvy Geranpayehabout 4 hours ago

Cultural resistance to Trump begins to form, with artists leading the charge

As president attempts to reshape US society, nationwide campaigns and protest projects are taking root

Helen Stoilas1 day ago

Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opens epic Gerhard Richter retrospective

The 93-year-old German artist is showing 275 works, from his breakthrough photographic paintings of the 1960s to last year’s ink-cloud drawings

J.S. Marcusabout 11 hours ago

Cultural issues define the Greens and Reform, so what are their arts policies?

Zack Polanski, the new UK Green Party leader, has big plans for the culture sector, while Reform’s Nigel Farage is giving little away

John-Paul Stonardabout 11 hours ago

Tony Fitzpatrick, indefatigable artistic polymath from Chicago, has died, aged 66

A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more

Ruth Lopez1 day ago

Frieze London 2025

Your daily dispatches from Frieze London, a round-up of today's top stories, gossip and shows from the fair and beyond

Young at art: inside Frieze London's Focus section

Our pick of the best stands in the section devoted to galleries up to 12 years old

Ben Luke33 minutes ago

Sound and vision: artists take to the decks for Peter Doig’s Serpentine show

The painter’s latest exhibition includes a vintage sound system, through which Doig and a roster of his famous friends, including Brian Eno and David Byrne, will play their favourite tracks

Ben Lukeabout 2 hours ago

‘Wear layers and chic waterproof shoes’: Cherry Cheng on the art she collects, the London food she loves and how she survives Frieze week

The perfumer who began her career in the art world describes two very different dining experiences and why she keeps returning to a portrait in the Musée d’Orsay

Lee Cheshireabout 2 hours ago

Tanoa Sasraku: ‘I don’t see that the work needs to live forever’

The multimedia artist has been experimenting with techniques, including using a sunbed, to create works that change and decay at a pace that mirrors human ageing

Phin Jenningsabout 2 hours ago

‘Like a carefully choreographed performance’: meet the logistics professionals who bring art fairs to life

From re-assembling a baby T. rex skeleton and digging a hole in Regent’s Park to wrangling a kinetic credit-card snaffler, no challenge is too great

Aimee Dawsonabout 2 hours ago

Art market

Remembering Sylvio Perlstein, the Belgian art collector and jeweller, who died aged 94

Perlstein—whose family fled from Antwerp to Brazil to escape the Nazis—was a great collector of avant-garde art and was friends with some of its leading figures

Frieze to launch Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026

A deal struck with the emirate's department of culture will see the brand take over the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair

As censorship rises, is there a future for truly political, truth-telling art?

Amid geopolitical instability around the world the market is looking to “safe” works—and artists are searching for new spaces to speak out

Art Basel names 87 galleries taking part in inaugural Qatar fair

Strong interest has resulted in the the fair having upwards of 50% more participants than anticipated, organisers say

Learning from the past: how historical tariffs have impacted the art market

As data from the last 150 years show, a market that thrives on free trade will have to diversify to survive

Exhibitions

Tasmania’s remote Unconformity festival navigates a harsh landscape in more ways than one

Artists at this year’s event—opening at a difficult time for many in Australia’s art sector—are drawing on the qualities of the ravaged location

These artists want your help distracting fossil fuel executives

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily empower visitors to fight climate change

With Ruth Asawa, MoMA is set to open its biggest show ever by a woman artist

But the museum is not promoting the show that way—and might not even have registered its record-breaking size

An exhibition in New York City takes on censorship in the art world

As political art becomes increasingly subject to censorship in Trump's America, the free speech-focused organisation Art At A Time Like This organised a poignant show

‘I want to haunt people’: Palestinian artist's London exhibition interrogates myth, history and the erasure of heritage

Opening as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect, Dima Srouji's show shares stories of a lifetime under occupation

Museums & Heritage

Extravagant Munich museum dedicated to Symbolist Franz von Stuck to reopen after €13.5m renovation

The Museum Villa Stuck’s opulent interiors have had new life breathed into them—and the influential artist’s collection has been rehung

J.S. Marcus1 day ago

After 550 years, a fabric found in a Norwich bishop’s tomb is recreated

Tiny silk fragments from a ceremonial robe have been pieced together to recreate the sumptuous red and purple fabric

Aimee Dawson1 day ago

Barcelona to get new Carmen Thyssen museum—with around a quarter of its space devoted to retail

Plans for the museum, located in the former Comèdia cinema, have attracted criticism from the city’s left-wing politicians

British Museum seeks £3.5m to keep rare gold pendant—with ties to Henry VIII’s daughter—in the UK

The Tudor Heart, discovered by a metal detectorist in 2019, is the only object of its kind surviving from the British monarch’s reign

The Week in Art

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A brush with… Christopher Wool—podcast

Christopher Wool 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 their lives and work

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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.

Book reviews

Martin Parr steps out from behind the camera lens in informal autobiography

An intimate and chatty biography gives the artist space to reflect on his career in photography and the practice’s evolution

From royal visitors to extortionate eBay sales: new book offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vermeer blockbuster

A collection of essays about the Rijksmuseum‘s show also fascinating insights into the struggle for loans and what accompanying research revealed about its 17th-century subject

Pontormo, Vasari and Michelangelo take leading roles in this 16th-century whodunnit

Novelist Laurent Binet weaves a compelling tale of Renaissance Italy with this art historical murder mystery

In a new biography, Vanessa Bell is cast as the Bloomsbury Group's leading light—and as central to 20th-century visual culture

This evocative tale makes a compelling case Bell, who made inroads as an artist and designer at a time when this was rare for women

Euan Uglow monograph offers a fresh perspective through memoirs, papers and contributions

The book also includes myriad accounts of the British artist's inspirational teaching techniques

Opinion

Comment | The anniversary exhibition industrial complex

Two years ago, museums fell over themselves marking 150 years since Pablo Picasso’s death. This year, they are doing the same for Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But who is it all for?

Comment | Executive odour: Trump’s fervour inspires more flag burning

Trump’s order attempting to criminalise the burning of the US flag has led to defiant actions from artists and activists

Comment | Bristol's Spike Island has become an environmental beacon—here's why it makes financial sense for others to follow suit

Investing in meaningful action on the climate emergency can seem daunting for smaller, cash-strapped outfits, writes Louisa Buck, but it pays off in more ways than one

Comment | The British Museum Ball will celebrate the things that connect us

The inaugural British Museum Ball will raise funds for the institution’s overseas collaborations, the BM’s director says, while emphasising the importance of the historic collection’s global reach

Comment | Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’ sparked my love of art. Let's give others the chance to find their own way in

The arts education crisis in the UK risks holding the young back from discovering what visual culture can teach us about self-expression, empathy, open-mindedness and more

Obituaries

Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87

In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives

Remembering Robert Redford, the Hollywood star with the sensibility of a struggling painter

Redford, an Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of the Sundance Institute, died yesterday at his home in Utah

Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98

Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire

Giorgio Armani, designer who changed how museums engage with fashion, has died aged 91

As well as for his iconic designs, Armani will be remembered for his broad cultural legacy

Sylvain Amic, ‘open spirited’ head of Musée d'Orsay, has died aged 58

His death was announced on Sunday by the French culture minister, Rachida Dati

Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month

Actor Sharon Stone is up for the Women in Art Prize

The movie star will compete against 24 other finalists including Bianca Raffaella

An eye for art: new US ambassador installs blue-chip collection at palatial UK residence

Warren Stephens has brought works by Cézanne, Renoir and Edgar Degas to London

‘Anish Kapoor, let him out’: satirical protest campaign claims a man is trapped inside the Chicago Bean

A group of black-clad protesters recently gathered at “Cloud Gate” to raise awareness and call for the release of the man they claim lives inside the sculpture