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A gallery's new island residency in the Philippines focuses on sustainability and the local community
The first cohort of artists participating in Silverlens's residency will use materials found on Kopiat Island to create public art installations
Austrian government to propose law on returning museum objects acquired in a colonial context
Calling out the injustice of colonialism and following it up with "serious debate and concrete actions" is Austria’s responsibility, says culture secretary
As politicians look away, we need artists like Steve McQueen more than ever
The British artist invited dozens of MPs to view his film about Grenfell Tower at London's Serpentine Galleries, but most only showed up after subsequent guilt-tripping
Los Angeles inaugurates three new art-filled metro stations
The city’s newest underground train stations are home to permanent commissions by eight artists including Andrea Bowers and Ann Hamilton
National Portrait Gallery reopening
A director's tour of the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery in London
Nicholas Cullinan shows us around the new-look museum after its three-year closure
Gender balance redressed as Tracey Emin creates new 'every woman' front doors for the National Portrait Gallery
The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum
Stormzy, Doreen Lawrence and Lucy Bronze: National Portrait Gallery reopens with a focus on the new faces of Britain
After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population
Show of unseen Paul McCartney photographs—taken at the height of Beatlemania—will help relaunch London’s National Portrait Gallery
Refurbished museum has also announced shows of female photographers Yevonde, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron and will see the return of David Hockney
Exhibitions
A maritime museum shifts its focus to ocean health
The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis Rockman
Carrie Mae Weems: the photographer recreating and reframing famous historical moments
Ahead of her largest European show to date, the artist tells us why her early work focused on her family and how she grew to embrace large-scale installation
Henry Moore Institute rediscovers the German artist Egon Altdorf, who 'detested the commercial art world'
Many of the works to be exhibited have never been shown before and were salvaged by his son from Altdorf’s studio
First official Banksy show in over a decade will be open all night at weekends—unless you ‘show up appearing to be very intoxicated’
Phones will also be banned in the exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow
Art market
Fashion designer Paul Smith to sell his Banksy at Bonhams
The 2004 work Congestion Charge has a high estimate of £1.8m in the 29 June auction
Wool you look at that: rare set of François-Xavier Lalanne sheep net $1.3m at Bonhams New York
Buyers flocked to Lalanne’s famous sheep and helped ramp prices up past the auction house's estimates
Gagosian appoints new director for Switzerland
Andreas Rumbler will be tasked with uniting the mega-gallery's Swiss spaces "under a common vision"
Gustav Klimt's last portrait has highest estimate ever put on a painting in Europe at over £65m
Lady with a Fan (1917) was last sold for $11.6m in 1994 and will be offered at Sotheby's in London on 27 June
Perrotin in talks to sell 60% stake to real estate investor to fuel growth
Founder Emmanuel Perrotin will retain a 40% stake in the international contemporary art gallery that he founded in 1990, but Colony IM will provide a capital injection and "corporate infrastructure"
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Africa rising: the TV show capturing a continent of creativity
Plus, the Liverpool Biennial, and Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch
Museums & Heritage
Gender balance redressed as Tracey Emin creates new 'every woman' front doors for the National Portrait Gallery
The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum
For India's biggest private collector, David Adjaye designs his 'most advanced museum concept' yet
The architect's vision for the new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi, opening 2026, honours India's multiple cultures and religions at a time of heightened nationalist politics
Germany has the most private contemporary art museums in the world, new report reveals
According to the art collector data company Larry's List, the burgeoning private museums sector now comprises 446 institutions worldwide, 111 of which have opened since 2016
Previously free, some UK museums are starting to charge as cost of living crisis bites
The principle of free admission to museums is being eroded, as entry fees are introduced to balance budgets
Diary
Arise Joe Scotland—Studio Voltaire supremo bags a King’s Birthday honour
Joe Scotland is made an MBE while Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld and Andrew Bolton at the Met are also recognised
Comedian Joe Lycett’s painting of lounging Gary Lineker in LA hangs in the Royal Academy
His bust Chris was shown in the 2018 Summer Exhibition
Visitors gripe over missing Girl with a Pearl Earring
Masterpiece was returned to the Mauritshuis in March
Taylor Swift’s cat painting pops up in New York museum show
Museum of Arts and Design exhibition is a feast for Swifties (namely devotees of the Shake It Off singer)
Books
Paul Goesch, the Gläserne Kette member murdered by the Nazis, reappraised in new book
The visionary but misunderstood German architect was a proto post-Modernist
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with… Phyllida Barlow
We sat down with the late artist earlier this year to discuss her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Nevelson to Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art & Technology
News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.
Artist Refik Anadol brings climate crisis to a scorching Basel with AI-generated glacier installation
Glacier Dreams is being projected on the façade of Theater Basel this week
Blockchain platforms promise resale royalties and provenance tracking for physical artworks
After NFT boom, blockchain technology is increasingly being used to help solve art industry's practical problems
What's the score in a reputation economy? How the art world gets paid (or doesn't)
New technology, and old-world online reviews, have an impact on accounts and accountability in the art market
Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG
Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology
From Frank Stella to the quilters of Gee's Bend: how Artists Rights Society is working in the world of NFTs
An NFT drop with Stella was the debut for ARS's digital platform, Arsnl. Now it brings bold patterns to the blockchain with a show of NFTs generated by the coder artist Anna Lucia working with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama
Obituaries
Silvio Berlusconi, politician and early proponent of 'culture war' rhetoric, has died, aged 86
The outspoken leader of three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011 was often publicly critical of contemporary art and architecture projects in Italy
Françoise Gilot, artist whose prolific career transcended early relationship with Picasso, has died, aged 101
Gilot, whose distinctive figurative paintings span eight decades, infamously dumped the famous Spanish artist
Remembering Vivan Sundaram, one of India’s leading artists and a champion of the country’s post-independence visual culture
Grounded in the political activism of the 1960s, he wove cultural history, social biography and labour politics into monumental installation art
Remembering Barry Humphries, art lover, artist and creator of Dame Edna Everage, who has died, aged 89
Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors
'The real departure will occur on its own, in its own time': pioneering artist Ilya Kabakov has died, aged 89
The chronicler of life in the Soviet Union was known for his "total installations", including a devastated room in a Communist apartment
Book Club
Purple-nosed dogs, a haemorrhoid ‘cure’ and a sunken fleet: a history of dyes as colourful as its subject
Four excerpts from a book by Lauren MacDonald exploring the myths and origins of familiar colours
Q&A: Jeremy Deller tells us about demystifying his work and why he had to ‘interfere’ with his new book at the last minute
The UK artist explains the thought process behind the publication and the joy of “putting in crazy chapter headings”
June book bag: from a record of Richard Wright’s ephemeral paintings to a monograph of Manal AlDowayan's participatory works
Our roundup of the latest art publications
The art of fiction: how Salvador Dalí’s Toreador inspired my crime novel
A story set in Barcelona plays with the "mirror image" aspects of the Spanish artist's work
Media
Dynamite Doug podcast is a pioneer in ‘looted heritage’ genre—but not its peak
The programme offers a compelling narrative for art crime beginners but more depth is needed when it comes to colonial repatriation
'TikTok, TikTok… It’s time the art world stopped being so uptight and joined the world's most entertaining app'
Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform
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.
How Van Gogh inspired his artist friends to exchange self-portraits
But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin’s painting arrived at the Yellow House