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Newly discovered standing stones in France shed light on the ancient megalith builders

Archaeologists in Carnac, northwest France, have used aerial drones to identify previously unknown stones buried beneath the surface

Garry Shaw26 minutes ago

Earthquake damages Colombia’s tallest church

A 7.4-magnitude quake caused a tower to collapse at the beloved Manizales Cathedral

Graciela Ibáñezabout 16 hours ago

Bottoms up: vast Roman shipwreck filled with ancient wine amphoras discovered near Sicily

“Extraordinary site” could reveal “interesting story about trade routes”, maritime archaeologist David Gibbins says

J.S. Marcusabout 22 hours ago

‘Stopping while ahead’: London gallery Sid Motion to shut after a decade

Eponymous founder says she is winding up "while the programme and finances are still intact"

Anny Shawabout 23 hours ago

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

Alexander Hermanabout 22 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

Remains of colonial hospital and church discovered in Lima’s historic centre

Walls, floors, human burials and 18th-century tiles have been uncovered in what was once the Hospital and Church of the Holy Spirit in Peru

Comment | What happened to George Lucas’s vision of a museum for ‘the people’?

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s new admission and membership fees are tone-deaf and self-defeating

UK Ministry of Justice spent more than £85,000 removing Banksy mural from the Royal Courts of Justice

According to the BBC, Westminster council has also spent around £60,000 on security measures for a statue the street artist installed in central London in April

Gareth Harris2 days ago

Uffizi Galleries in Florence announce ‘unprecedented’ €50m revamp

The programme will include the redesign of displays, the creation of new exhibition space and the installation of new lighting systems

Office block developers fight with heritage campaigners over London’s historic Square Mile

The Liverpool Street railway hub and 1 Silk Street are two of the latest contested developments in the heart of the capital, where new skyscrapers are clamouring to be built

Exhibitions

Treasures from Ancient Egypt’s ‘Golden City’, and the stories of the people who made them, revealed in San Francisco show

Twenty artefacts from Pharaoh Amenhotep III's abandoned city, discovered on Luxor’s west bank in 2021, are part of the exhibition at the de Young Museum

Artists visualise environmental fragility and resilience on New York’s Governors Island

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems

Low Kee Hong chosen to curate Biennale of Sydney's next edition

Low, who is the creative director of Factory International in Manchester, will lead the artistic team for the prominent Australian biennial’s 26th edition

Artists’ monumental hot dog sculpture, now with patriotic toppings, returns to Times Square

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding

A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk

Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv

Art market

Gagosian exits locations in Basel and London's Burlington Arcade

The closures are the latest mega-gallery real estate downsizes this summer

‘Art-world summer camp’: the Aspen Art Fair prioritises immersion over expansion

The boutique fair is attracting increasingly ambitious exhibitors while leaning into the mountain town's distinctive character

Trump administration’s new tariff regime exempts art and antique imports from most countries

After the US Supreme Court struck down the White House’s previous tariffs, Trump and his trade representative have imposed new tariffs of 10% or more on around 80 countries

The Artists Information Company, the UK's largest artists’ membership organisation, relaunches as Artists Now

Founded in 1980, the organisation has also developed a Green Manifesto to guide artist members toward a more environmentally responsible practice

Art Dealers Association of America's fair returns after one-year hiatus with a leaner line-up

The New York fair is coming back to the Park Avenue Armory with 63 exhibitors after a 'strategic pause', as executive director Kinsey Robb says the focus is on value for galleries rather than scale

Curating for the new No. 10 North: six art suggestions for the UK's prime minister

As Andy Burnham opens a new office in the city of Manchester, we offer up some suitably northern works for the walls

Banksy statue in central London could become permanent as Westminster council deliberates

The statue, which has drawn hordes of onlookers, will remain in St James's for at least the next few weeks, with the council aiming to make a decision on its longevity by the end of summer

Music, Fashion, Film—Photography? Charli xcx image acquired by London's National Portrait Gallery

The portrait of the pop star, who released her latest album earlier this month, can be found in the museum's History Makers space

Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end

What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film

Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics

Books

New novel on Gertrude Stein paints a partial picture

A fictionalised account of an essayist’s exploration of the writer tells us more about contemporary women than the star quality of its protagonist

Rachel Kubrickabout 22 hours ago

A new biography looks at how Michael Andrews shifted from slow burner to innovative creator

The School of London artist, equally at home in Soho society and rural Scotland, was also a noted painter of celebrities

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

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

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A brush with… Katharina Grosse—podcast

Katharina Grosse 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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Opinion

Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration

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

Obituaries

Betye Saar, assemblage artist who reframed racist and sexist imagery, has died, aged 99

The legendary Los Angeles artist reframed charged images and objects, embraced printmaking and developed elaborate, transporting installations

Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractions

Over six decades, the artist developed a distinctive sculptural language in Venezuela and beyond

David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the “Young Contemporaries” exhibition in London in 1961

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

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.

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

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’s exuberant ‘Tarascon Stagecoach’ will go on show in New York

The masterpiece, alongside 62 other works given by the Pearlman family, is coming on tour from Los Angeles

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

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