NewsGerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter to donate works for a room devoted to his art in new Berlin museum
Announcement comes after the German artist turned down proposals for his own museum in Cologne
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Scattered over 12 islands, Japan’s Setouchi Triennale offers poignant reflections of local life by the sea
Triennial features more than 200 sculptures and installations scattered across a dozen islands in the region
NewsMuseums
What exactly is a museum? Icom comes to blows over new definition
As 50-year-old statement is overhauled, feuds over new description could "seriously weaken" the International Council of Museums
NewsKashmir
Kashmir lockdown traps artists headed for Kochi residency
Two students from the University of Kashmir are unable to leave the state following government imposed restrictions on movement and communication
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Liverpool World Museum used facial recognition technology on visitors to Terracotta Warriors show
Privacy group condemns move but the museum says people were made aware of the surveillance measures
NewsSmuggling
Stolen artefacts from 'prolific art smuggler' returned to India
Objects are reportedly linked to antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor who is facing criminal charges in the US
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NewsMuseums & Heritage
Survivors and victims’ families oppose plans for a $40m museum at site of Pulse shooting
The group says fundraising efforts to turn the Orlando nightclub into a tourist destination would be better spent on survivors’ care
NewsConservation & Preservation
New York Public Library shores up its marble lions
Two-month conservation effort for the sculptures follows a public appeal to donors
NewsIstanbul Biennial
Istanbul Biennial shifts to waterside warehouse after asbestos scare
New Antrepo 5 venue announced after curator says visitors could have been at risk
NewsConservation
Isenheim altarpiece restorers invite visitors in
Laser imaging comes to aid of restoration of 16th-century paintings and sculptures
NewsAi Weiwei
Puccini gets political: Ai Weiwei to direct opera in Rome about Hong Kong crisis
The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year
Latest in Video
Art heaven or hell? Museum’s epic £15m tunnel brings to life Dante’s Divine Comedy
How Dada inspired William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load
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NewsArtists
Robert Indiana’s caretaker allowed him ‘to live in squalor and filth’ despite artist having $13m in the bank
Jamie Thomas is accused of stealing more than $1m and 100 works of art from the late artist in new court filing
ReviewMedieval art
Glam rock: alabaster was not medieval England's 'poor man's marble' new book finds
Used in high status projects and throughout the continent, Kim Woods's detailed study challenges misconceptions of the carving rock's status
NewsConservation & Preservation
San Francisco school board votes to preserve but conceal a controversial mural
Its 4-3 decision reverses an earlier vote to paint over a 1930s work that some parents and board members found racist and damaging to students
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Construction on Notre Dame pushed back to 19 August as steps taken to decontaminate site from lead
Construction had been expected to start a week earlier, but new safety measures for the protection of workers are still being tested
NewsArt market
Trump delays tariffs on Chinese goods until December—but not for art and antiquities
New 10% tax will come into force on 1 September and apply to all works originating from China, regardless of where they are imported from
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
'Immersive experience' at London's National Gallery to reveal secrets of Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks
X-rays showing artist's original composition reveal that angel and Infant Christ were positioned higher up
NewsHong Kong
As crisis deepens, activists stage pro-democracy exhibition in Hong Kong
Show at WMA Space tells the “story of HongKongers” through protest ephemera
ReviewBooks
A clever book for clever people: Marina Warner's sensitive artist essays dimmed by too many words
The brilliance of the scholar's examination of artists such as Paula Rego and Sigmar Polke is evident despite name dropping and verbose language
NewsPublic art
Vancouver mural memorialises First Nations’ aide to stranded Indian immigrants
The work was unveiled as the name of a Conservative politician behind the Komagata Maru incident was removed from the federal building on which it is painted
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Historians bake sourdough bread with yeast that could date to ancient Egypt
The loaf, made with yeast extracted from an artefact at the MFA Boston, could provide valuable insight into ancient civilisations
NewsMuseums
London mayor Sadiq Khan supports proposal for new slavery museum in the capital
Liverpool slavery museum keen to collaborate on project highlighting UK’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
ReviewBooks
The scientific brotherhood: Pre-Raphaelite art put under the microscope
The Victorian artist group explored the connections between art and scientific observation to enhance art’s moral purpose
NewsArt market
For African artists, it pays to be female
Four women top the auction market for African art as collectors look to 'fill gaps in the market'
NewsPerforma
Performa 19 to explore the influence of the Bauhaus School on live performance
The biennial includes around 20 new commissions by artists such as Kia LaBeija and Ed Atkins
NewsDiscrimination
Wheelchair user blasts Olafur Eliasson show at Tate Modern over rampless work
After consulting with the Danish-Icelandic artist and technicians, Tate says installation “cannot be made safely accessible for wheelchair users”
NewsHastings Contemporary
Victor Willing's life, work and tumultuous relationship with Paula Rego explored in first UK retrospective
New documentary by Willing’s son will also form part of Hastings Contemporary's reassessment of the forgotten artist
NewsMuseums
UK national museums lent almost half a million objects around the world last year
Most were scientific materials, but 69,000 went to cultural venues
ReviewBooks
New catalogue presents virtuosity of Neo-Classicist goldsmith Luigi Valadier
Alvar González-Palacios’s book on the Italian decorator is a peak in his distinguished career
NewsExhibitions
In highly personal portraits, an artist speaks up for his native Baltimore
Painted before Donald Trump disparaged the city, Derrick Adams's new works celebrate family life there
NewsObituaries
Greek sculptor Panayiotis Vassilakis, known as Takis, has died at 93
The self-taught artist explored magnetic field energy in his kinetic works, admired by Duchamp and the American Beat poets
NewsObituaries
Nancy Reddin Kienholz, artist and partner of Ed Kienholz, dies age 75
The pair created provocative installations about American society, race and sex
NewsActivism
Mural in Santa Fe underscores violence against Indigenous women
The work holds weight in New Mexico, which has the highest rate of violent crimes against Native American women in the US
NewsHong Kong
Ai Weiwei sends research team to Hong Kong as demonstrations continue
Speaking to the BBC, Chinese dissident artist says West is unlikely to interfere and he has 'no trust in Britain at all'
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Ceramicist Magdalene Odundo shines in solo Sainsbury Centre show
NewsRachid Koraichi
Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi builds cemetery for drowned migrants
Though the site is due to open next spring, Koraichi has already had to bury 56 anonymous bodies to relieve overcrowding in existing local cemeteries
News
Lawyers for teenager accused of throwing boy from tenth-floor of Tate Modern seek psychiatric reports
Defendant remains in custody until trial in February
BlogIn the frame
In homage: Kara Walker’s silhouette of Toni Morrison for The New Yorker
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the relationship between humans and nature at the Cooper Hewitt to love and unity at the Ford Foundation
NewsExhibitions
Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch joint show on its way to London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Exhibition first opens at Norway’s new Munch Museum, where Emin’s giant bronze The Mother will be permanently installed outside
NewsRestitution
Growing pressure on the British Museum as Jamaica is latest government seeking return of objects
Spokeswoman for the London museum says it has not been officially approached by the country over the return of the two objects made by the Taíno people in its collection
BlogDiary of an art historian
Did the buyer of the Salvator Mundi get played—or did we?
What better way to boost its star power than by making it "disappear" for a few months?
BlogIn the frame
“We’re just so crazy in love with her”: Smithsonian acquires Vogue cover image of Beyoncé
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Into the cluttered maze of a packrat photographer
“Jay Myself” captures an artist and collector in his overflowing six-storey home
NewsObituaries
Kamal Boullata—Palestinian master of abstract art and Arabic calligraphy—dies, aged 77
Jerusalem-born artist who lived 50 years in exile was a pioneer of the hurufiyya movement and one of the first to write about Palestine's art history
NewsLooting
Over 18,000 cultural goods seized and 59 arrested in trafficking sting
Multi-national operation organised by Europol involved police forces from 29 countries
ReviewBooks
Fit for a king: book lays out the vast scale of the Orléans collection
The second Duke of Orléans’ assembly of his famous art collection may have been a covert preparation for seizing the throne of France
NewsCensorship
Artists wade into row over Japanese triennial dedicated to freedom of speech
More than 70 participants including Candice Breitz and Tania Bruguera have signed a statement demanding reopening of Aichi Triennale's exhibition
News US politics
African American leaders object to erasure of controversial school mural in San Francisco
Local figures defend portrayal of the nation’s blemished early history
BlogDiary
Mega collectors raise $2.3m at Aspen Art Museum's annual ArtCrush benefit
But politics and philanthropy are the hot topics of conversation below the surface
NewsArt the Arms Fair
Trigger warning: Guerrilla Girls among artists protesting against London arms fair with parallel show
Art the Arms Fair's inaugural 2017 exhibition saw a work by Banksy sell for £205,000 to benefit anti-war campaigns
NewsArt market
Fourth Sotheby’s shareholder files lawsuit in bid to block $3.7bn sale to Patrick Drahi
Auction house says such litigation is “routine in the US”, with deal expected to be completed by the end of the year
NewsCensorship
Long-running Facebook battle over censored Courbet painting gets happy ending
Social media giant pays out after closing French teacher's account for posting photo of the Origin of the World
ReviewExhibitions
Unfinished quarters of a Bavarian palace create a striking backdrop for contemporary art
Imaginatively curated, the fourth edition of the Königsklasse exhibition is as monumental as the Herrenchiemsee Palace in which it is installed
News
Teenager charged with attempted murder after six-year-old boy is ‘thrown’ from tenth floor of Tate Modern
Metropolitan Police are exploring mental health as a line of inquiry
NewsAncient Egypt
Golden touch up: King Tutankhamun's coffin undergoes first ever restoration at new Grand Egyptian Museum
Famous Ancient Egyptian artefact transferred from Luxor tomb to Cairo for delicate conservation work ahead of museum opening
NewsPhotography
Huge photos of school children to appear on London billboards as part of Steve McQueen’s Tate initiative
The outdoor exhibition across the capital is a forerunner to the filmmaker’s Year Three Project at Tate Britain
NewsOuter Space
Work by an African artist to be launched into space to highlight effects of global warming
Piece will be fixed onto nose of an Ariane 5 launcher that will be collecting data on climate change's impact on Africa
BlogIn the frame
Blow-up Tina Turner comes to Margate in time for the Turner Prize
NewsBauhaus
Art Institute of Chicago show traces the Bauhaus’s legacy in 20th-century textile art
The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”
BlogIn the frame
Turrell's Skyspace at MoMA PS1 is back on view
NewsJMW Turner
Export bar placed on Turner's masterpiece The Dark Rigi
The watercolour painting, considered one of the artist's finest works, was sold to a private collector in 2006
BlogIn the frame
Has Garage Cat been abducted by aliens? Moscow museum's feline friend is missing
AnalysisCathedral of Notre Dame
New law regarding Notre Dame says restoration must preserve its 'historic, artistic and architectural interest'
But attempts in the senate to ensure it will look as before the fire were dropped from the final version
NewsHong Kong
Hong Kong's cultural workers defy government pressure to hit streets in protest
Several thousand civil servants, including many from state-backed arts institutions, come out in support of ongoing pro-democracy protests
NewsMuseu Coleção Berardo
Berardo museum stays open in Lisbon despite uncertainty over future of ‘Portuguese Saatchi’s’ collection
Portuguese government has stepped in and seized art assets following protracted legal battle, press reports say
NewsInterviews
In the rescued Johnson archive, poignant images from black American history
How four institutions swooped in to acquire four million images
NewsRestoration
Delicate seven-year restoration of altarpiece finally completed at London's National Gallery
The 16th-century work The Virgin and Child with Saints is now back on show in the museum
NewsFreeports
Freeport debate rages on after UK government commits to establishing ten vast storage facilities
Labour MP Owen Smith calls the tax-free zones “self-storage for art thieves”
CommentVenice
Don’t believe what you read in the papers: Venice won't lose its cruise ships any time soon
A lack of a long-term plan combined with the economic benefits brought by the luxury liners means a cruise ship ban will take long to implement
Anna Somers Cocks