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Sprawling contemporary art centre Large opens on island near Paris
The non-profit, which will open with a show riffing on the island’s automotive history, is focused on promoting the French art scene
De Kooning sets European record but still falls flat at muted Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale
Works by Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter were also among those that failed to hit their presale estimates
US-Italian curator Francesco Bonami appointed artistic director of Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture
Bonami aims to “catalyse artistic energy” and “search for the best projects” for the institution, which is funded by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation
François Pinault to launch permanent display of his collection at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi
The billionaire collector’s decision means the prestigious temporary exhibition programme at the palazzo is coming to an end
Brazil’s Centre Pompidou outpost delayed until 2029
Originally due to open in 2027, then 2028, the project in the southern state of Paraná, where the government changed in the recent election, has been further delayed
Frieze London 2026
News and analysis from on-the-ground at the fair and across London this week
Frieze Masters balance shifts towards Global South
More non-Western art is represented at this year’s edition, along with galleries from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia
Frieze London Diary: A dinner dance with a twist, Barbie gets the blues and Grayson Perry’s feline showstoppers
Plus: artists educate at National Gallery and the hedonist returns
Modernists brought into the mix at 1-54 Contemporary African art fair
New historical strand responds to a wider surge of institutional attention
In pictures: boundary-pushing works in Frieze London’s Focus section
Our pick of the works from the fair’s section dedicated to solo presentations by young galleries
‘I like to take time to understand the work and its maker’: collector Helen Sunderland-Cohen on what she has bought and why
The London-based lawyer, who oversees two cartography-based collections as well as her own personal art collection, tells us why she does not covet any museum works
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.
Revealed: How Vincent van Gogh’s brother Theo gave Monet his first exhibition in London
In 1889 the critics were rapturous, but the paintings dismally failed to sell
Museums & Heritage
Ancient shipwreck found off Turkey may be the world’s oldest
Discovery of remains of 4,500-year-old ship reveal new evidence about Early Bronze Age trade routes
Comment | The Bayeux Tapestry should prompt a conversation about the environmental war we are living through
The British Museum can use its historic show as an opportunity to explore what lies ahead for institutions as a result of the climate crisis
British Museum’s chair optimistic on possible alternating display of Parthenon Marbles in Athens and London
The chair of the museum’s board of trustees told a Greek newspaper he would “like to reach an agreement” for a rotating display in Athens and London, but Greek authorities remain opposed
As art’s health benefits become even clearer, hospital curators get organised
Participants at a symposium in Arkansas shared examples of best practice in the burgeoning discipline
Mexican military retreats from plans to build enormous museum in a popular park
Following widespread opposition, including from Mexico City’s mayor, the plans to build a sprawling military museum in Bosque de Chapultepec are on hold while authorities seek an alternative site
Art market
Collection of Monsoon founder Peter Simon becomes highest value single-owner collection ever sold at Christie's London
Led by a Nazi-looted Kandinsky, the heavily guaranteed 20/21 Century evening sale made £178m in total
Peter Nagy—Nature Morte gallery founder who transformed Indian contemporary art market—has died
The artist-dealer launched the careers of some of India’s greatest art stars working today
Malaysia’s contemporary art scene gains momentum with a new fair and nonprofit space
Kuala Lumpur's inaugural Art KL and the opening of Muara Arts will boost the country's burgeoning sector
Comment | Why the Great Art Transfer is an empty promise
A forecast generational shift in art ownership is fuelling a new sales pitch—but buying art as an investment remains a gamble
Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction
More than 60 artists have donated work including Genieve Figgis, Alvaro Barrington, Joshua Donkor and Sanya Kantarovsky
Exhibitions
New documentary celebrates women pioneers in performance art
‘Acting Like Women’ is a deep dive into Los Angeles art and activism of the 1970s and 80s
Henry Chalfant’s legendary archive of New York graffiti goes on show for first time in Northern Europe
The photographer who documented the city’s subway art discusses what happens when underground culture becomes big business—and the importance of graffiti in the era of Donald Trump
Venice Biennale closing celebration to feature aria from artist Tammy Nguyen’s first opera
Commissioned and produced by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the work explores nationhood and freedom
Roll up, roll up! Exhibitions celebrate the splendour of the circus and the artists it inspired
Shows at Paris’s Musée de Montmartre and the Hepworth Wakefield celebrate the big top's enduring influence on artists
‘I see the Turbine Hall as a sound vessel’: artist Tarek Atoui on his Tate Modern commission
The Lebanese artist and composer has created a sonic installation incorporating bespoke instruments that respond to Tate Modern’s vast atrium
Diary
Head to Paris to see Renoir masterpiece, suggests Eurostar—but the work is in London
The Impressionist’s ‘Dance at the Moulin de la Galette’, owned by the Musée D’Orsay, is on view at the National Gallery until January 2027
Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?
The reported acquisition of a work suggests that the London museum is revising its opinion of the late artist
London National Gallery benches migrate to Wadsworth Atheneum to continue supporting tired art lovers’ bums
Leather seating from London's National Gallery has crossed the Atlantic to Connecticut
Jean-ius portraiture: Nan Goldin collaborates with fashion house Acne Studios
The US artist and activist is helping the Stockholm brand celebrate its 30th anniversary in style
Sylvie in Paris? Netflix star to lead weekend rehang at this year's Art Basel Paris
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, best known to Anglophone audiences from the hit series Emily in Paris, will ‘art-direct’ the French fair's Oh La La! rehang programme
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco di Giorgio—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks with art market editor Kabir Jhala in the Frieze London tent, visits the new Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, and discusses a Quattrocento bronze relief at the Frick Collection.
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry, a nearly 70m-long embroidery telling the story of the Norman Conquest, has returned to England for the first time since it was made nearly 1,000 years ago, going on view in a special exhibition at the British Museum. To mark the occasion, here is a curated selection of our stories on the treasured work
British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry
Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos
Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?
Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public
Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF
A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show
‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition
Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech
Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry
As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with... Gabriel Orozco—podcast
Orozco talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
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
Historic building in old Danish artist colony transformed into luxury hotel
CORI Hornbaek Hotel, just outside Copehagen, brings together brings together contemporary art, Mediterranean élan and the local speciality—hygge
‘An inexhaustible source of inspiration’: how the spirit of jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger lives on at Tiffany & Co
The jewellery house and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris are partnering to restore thousands of the designer's sketches and personal documents
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
Art on Location
Art on Location offers a special focus on outdoor art experiences, with news, features and archive content covering public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology
‘These are party houses aren't they?’ Why Britain's stately homes are opening up to contemporary art
Showing works by artists including Tracey Emin and Phyllida Barlow over the summer is helping to attract new audiences and bolster income for historic buildings
Sun, sea, sand—and art: luxury hotel in Crete commissions works in response to the island
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation has taken on the challenge of putting outdoor art in scorching Mediterranean conditions at the Minos Palace Resort
From beavers to basketball hoops: a new public art trail opens in Toronto
The Lassonde Art Trail is part of a $1bn redevelopment project to revitalise the city's relationship with its waterways
Books
‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters
A collection of the artist’s correspondence provides fascinating new insights, from his domestic life to acquisition negotiations
Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato
“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life
New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists
The study explores how Valleyer-Coster cultivated an elite clientele in a turbulent France while navigating the pressures placed on women artists
Royal Academy book looks at Richard Dadd beyond the themes of madness and murder
Jennifer Higgie’s new novel meanwhile takes a very different approach to the life and legacy of the English artist, who spent much of his life in psychiatric institutions
Meet Alan Dunn, the New Yorker cartoonist who put Modernism in its place
A new book explores how Alan Dunn poked fun at 20th-century American architecture over this five-decade cartooning career
Opinion
Comment | Arts and culture belong in disaster recovery
The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts
Comment | The Brooklyn Museum’s manga exhibition reveals the opportunities and challenges of tackling a global phenomenon
The Japanese art form has a fervent and wide-reaching community around it, which the New York museum has incorporated in its process
Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces
Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction
Comment | It's high time philanthropy was decentralised
Charles Asprey has shown courage and imagination by donating works to the tiny and remote Pier Arts Centre, instead of one of the UK’s prestigious London-based institutions
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
Obituaries
Lucia Laguna, Brazilian painter of verdant and fragmented cityscapes, has died, aged 85
Laguna, who only started painting after retiring from her teaching career, started to achieve success when she was in her 60s
Peter Max, artist who achieved ubiquity marrying Pop art and psychedelia, has died, aged 88
A celebrity in his own right who also created riotous portraits of many famous and powerful people, Max made images that became inseparable from the legacy of the Summer of Love and countercultural movement
Geles Cabrera, the pioneering Mexican sculptor, has died, aged 100
Through her sinuous approach to the human figure, Cabrera forged a distinctive sculptural language and challenged conventions
Remembering Sliman Mansour, a defining figure of Palestinian art
Through his art, Mansour was a pioneering force of Palestinian cultural resistance
Christian Bernard, founding director of Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, dies aged 76
Over a four-decade career, the French art critic and curator profoundly influenced contemporary art institutions in Switzerland and France




























































