NewsAnish Kapoor
Man hospitalised after falling in Anish Kapoor installation
The work at the Serralves museum, which includes a gaping hole, is part of the artist's first institutional show in Portugal
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
MoMA and union reach new contract agreement after months of negotiations
"The museum shifted its position substantially", says union boss
ReviewAbstract art
What debt does mid-century American abstract painting owe to Monet?
Exhibition in Paris attempts to draw connections between the Impressionist and Pollock, Rothko and friends—with mixed results
NewsExhibitions
Tate's Ophelia heads down under for blockbuster Pre-Raphaelite show in Canberra
Australia deepen ties with the London museum as trove of masterpieces travels to the National Gallery of Australia for first time
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Kittens, poodles and nudes: Martin Eder’s 'beauty in filth'
Letting it all hang out: exhibitions in Paris and London focus on suspended sculpture
Picture this: Fotografiska photography venues in the pipeline for London and New York
Snap! Tourists come to blows over perfect selfie spot at the Trevi Fountain
International Cat Day scoop: pawprints found on kitten-loving Klimt’s print
ReviewDonald Judd
Settling into Donald Judd’s demanding furniture
A show at SFMoMA reminds a critic of his past experience with Judd and his creations
NewsPublic art
Frieze sculpture piece marks sixth anniversary of South African mining massacre
Haroon Gunn-Salie’s installation of 17 headless men represents victims of Marikana shootings
NewsVenice Biennale
Martin Puryear to represent US at Venice Biennale
The Madison Square Park Conservancy will organise the installation for the US pavilion
NewsPublic art
Anger over plans to 'banish' suffragette statue from Parliament to remote Regent’s Park site
Proposal to move Emmeline Pankhurst sculpture comes months after new Millicent Fawcett work was unveiled to celebrate centenary of female suffrage
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Why arts journalism matters: because art matters
Traffic believes the US and UK ivory sale bans are ‘vital elements in the international response’ to poaching
Returning looted African art is as urgent as giving back works stolen by the Nazis
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing—is the system in need of reform?
NewsArchitecture
'This was no accident', says architect Renzo Piano about Genoa bridge collapse
Italy lacks effective site diagnosis, he tells Italian newspaper La Repubblica
NewsCommercial galleries
Artist withdraws work from gallery group show inspired by Peter Sellers brownface film
An op-ed criticising the exhibition for its dismissal of the movie's racist overtones has prompted some reflection
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
'A deeper source of truth than appearances': Antony Gormley on Joseph Beuys
Michelangelo: The Art Newspaper's editor talks about a British treasure
BlogIn the frame
Letting it all hang out: exhibitions in Paris and London focus on suspended sculpture
BlogLinda on the loose
An Outsize Dose of Gilbert & George
Grandiosity runs wild in the duo's vast retrospective at Luma Arles.
NewsBuilding projects
Tadao Ando designs Chicago art space dedicated to architecture and socially engaged work
The inaugural show at Wrightwood 659 will focus on Ando and Le Corbusier
NewsMarina Abramovic
‘We’re all in the same boat’: Marina Abramovic poster angers Italian right-wing politician
Trieste deputy mayor Paolo Polidori calls image commissioned for sailing regatta “political propaganda”
NewsPublic art
How a chain-link mosque at the Vancouver Biennale became a community hub
Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem's installation stands as an example of cultural exchange as diplomatic tensions break out between Canada and Saudi Arabia
NewsOld Masters
Heading home: early Rubens masterpiece returns to the artist's Antwerp studio for the first time
The work, lent by Art Gallery of Ontario ahead of a major travelling show on the artist, will undergo research at the Rubenshuis
NewsArt market
Sotheby’s in deal to sell estate of hip-hop pioneer and graffiti artist Rammellzee
Auction house is enlisting dealers and curators to promote the legacy of the polymath who is believed to have cursed his collection
NewsCensorship
Facebook censors artist's work criticising male-dominated society because it features naked breasts
The social media giant also deleted her comments and friends
ReviewExhibitions
David Wojnarowicz was a poet, a fighter, a hustler, a survivor
The many sides of a complicated artist are explored with the freshness, polish, and insight in the Whitney Museum’s retrospective
InterviewVideo, film & new media
‘I like the liberation of film’: the photographer and experimental film-maker Duane Michals explains why he prefers moving pictures
The 86-year-old artist is showing three new short films at DC Moore Gallery in New York
NewsConservation
Conservation starts on Liverpool’s Neolithic stones
The Calderstones are being studied, recorded and restored before their reinstallation
ReviewExhibitions
Nicholas Galanin remixes Native American identity at Phoenix’s Heard Museum
The artist, who is of Tlingit and Unangax descent, confronts the traumatic past in deeply affecting ways but does not wallow in it
NewsArt market
Sotheby’s earnings take a hit as demanding consignors and guarantors squeeze its commission margin
Just two paintings significantly damaged the auction house's bottom line in the second quarter
NewsExhibitions
Surrealism in the digital age: Beirut exhibition looks at new wave of 20th-century art movement
Show at Lebanon's Aishti Foundation is last in a trilogy exploring its vast private collection before its first solo presentation of Albert Oehlen
BlogIn the frame
The art of laughter: first show at South London Gallery’s new Fire Station venue is comical
NewsArt market
David Zwirner appoints curator-cum-Instagram-influencer as its first online sales director—why?
Elena Soboleva to head up the virtual gallery and expand its collector base as galleries embrace selling art digitally as an 'evolution of the walk-in business'
ReviewExhibitions
John Akomfrah digs into history’s darkness at the New Museum
The British film-maker’s first US museum survey at the New Museum shows that he is one of the most forceful and stirring artists of the day—and one of our best social archaeologists
NewsArt market
Leaked document on EU import licensing proposals is deeply concerning, say dealer associations
IADAA and CINOA argue that compromise amendments to contentious new cultural goods regulations are still too stringent and ill-defined
NewsConservation
Turkey's Göbekli Tepe: is this the world’s first architecture?
Scholars say the organisation needed to build the 12,000-year-old temple may mark the beginnings of class society and patriarchy
NewsSocial issues
US Planned Parenthood campaign includes artists Shirin Neshat and Carrie Mae Weems
The Unstoppable initiative includes an online exhibition of works by ten female artists and writers
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Nico, 1988: the twilight after the spotlight
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s drama depicts the grim final years of the singer-songwriter
BlogIn the frame
Humour in the age of Trump—and far before it—explored at Washington, DC's National Gallery
NewsBiennials & festivals
The Carnegie Museum announces first round of commissions in the 57th Carnegie International
The artists El Anatsui, Tavares Strachan, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Park MacArthur and many others will participate in the longstanding contemporary art show
NewsCollectors
Found guilty in 1995 of embezzling investors’ money, Roberto Polo resurfaces in role of art benefactor in Spain
Toledo government hopes for “El Greco” effect from this 15-year loan of late 19th- and 20th-century works
NewsConservation
Tate restores colour and depth to John Nash painting
The picture is on display in Tate Britain's show Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
NewsCommercial galleries
Radical performance artist Ulay to show rarely seen works in London exhibition
Marina Abramovic’s ex-partner has signed up with Richard Saltoun gallery
PreviewExhibitions
Playtime: how artists have been unleashing their inner child this summer
From superhero action figures to Chianti-infused treasure hunts and poolside art, exhibitions are exploring the importance of play
NewsConservation
A 19th-century bikini from Iran goes on show in the UK in time for the summer
The garment was conserved for the Holburne Museum's exhibition of objects collected by the “intrepid” traveller Ellen Tanner
BlogIn the frame
Simon de Pury puckers up and Marina talks Trump—but Helga Davis steals the show at the Watermill summer gala
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Cologne archaeologists unearth oldest library in Germany
The foundation walls contain niches used to store scrolls
NewsExhibitions
Black Power and Shirin Neshat take centre stage at the Broad in 2019
LA museum will be last stop for Tate Modern's acclaimed Soul of a Nation show examining race relations in the US
Biennials & festivals
Five must-see shows and events at Edinburgh Art Festival
From Shilpa Gupta's voices of silenced poets to Rembrandt in all his glory
NewsAppointments & departures
Charles Saumarez Smith to leave Royal Academy of Arts to become senior director of Blain Southern
Secretary and chief executive of the London museum says he wanted to go “at a time of obvious strength and success”
NewsDiary of an art historian
Diary of an art historian: at last, some common sense for the abolition of image fees
Birmingham Museums Trust takes the lead and places images in the public domain, but who will follow?
NewsExhibitions
A realist cult classic, The Fullbright Triptych, goes on view in Nevada
Simon Dinnerstein's rarely seen masterwork is the centrepiece of a travelling show
CommentPolitics
Why arts journalism matters: because art matters
Even in arts journalism, one can see the effects of President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric against the press
Helen Stoilas