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‘You can’t be burdened by a legacy’: James Taylor-Foster on his vision for Hong Kong's Para Site as it turns 30

The new executive director says Hong Kong’s longest-running independent art space must widen access while rethinking what an independent institution can do in a transformed cultural landscape

Daniel Szehin Ho24 minutes ago

The wild world of Cathy de Monchaux revealed in exhibition at Paris's Palais de Tokyo

The artist who stormed onto the art scene in the early 1990s is only now getting her dues

Louisa Buckabout 1 hour ago

Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist

Five pieces by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari, taken in the same heist last December, remain missing

Mercedes Ezquiagaabout 18 hours ago

How has a famous group of 2,000 year-old Chinese rock paintings remained so vibrant? Because it was made with blood, new research says

Murals at Unesco World Heritage Site Zuojiang Huashan in southern China were made using animal blood and blood from childbirth, according to researchers

Hadani Ditmarsabout 2 hours ago

Comment | Archaeology can offer lessons for future space colonies—but we must protect existing lunar heritage first

A new study reveals how island archaeology could guide future colonists to Mars, Jupiter and beyond, however the traces of past endeavours are at risk

Garry Shawabout 2 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

Four works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicily museum

The heist, which included several San Gregorio altarpiece panels, occurred on Saturday while the town was celebrating Assumption Day

Gareth Harrisabout 22 hours ago

Human skull featuring elaborate mosaic ornamentation repatriated to Mexico

Likely reassembled in modern times, the skull was returned by the Netherlands following a grassroots campaign; it will go on display at a community museum in Oaxaca

Chinese museums ordered to strengthen emergency protocols following blackouts and incidents of overcrowding

Issues at the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi'an and the Zhejiang Museum have prompted the National Cultural Heritage Administration to put out a notice

Stolen Cezanne, Matisse and Renoir paintings recovered in Italy

The works had been taken from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near the city of Parma in March

Camden Art Centre director Martin Clark to step down and lead Towner Eastbourne

The museum director will move from London to the East Sussex institution ahead of the development of its new outpost in the South Downs National Park

Art market

Frieze Seoul to move to new venue from 2027

The fair will move to Dongdaemun Design Plaza for its 2027 edition as its current home is redeveloped

Lee Cheshireabout 19 hours ago

Buyers sue London's Alison Jacques gallery over cancelled sale of Monica Sjöö paintings

Yoed and Natasha Anise’s first-ever art purchase unravelled after the artist’s estate allegedly decided they are not sufficiently serious collectors

‘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"

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

Exhibitions

The wild world of Cathy de Monchaux revealed in exhibition at Paris's Palais de Tokyo

The artist who stormed onto the art scene in the early 1990s is only now getting her dues

Louisa Buckabout 1 hour ago

At the Venice Biennale, collateral exhibitions embrace the possibilities of digital art

Both AI-generated art and digital art have had a tough time lately, but the 61st Venice Biennale offers the digitally-minded some work to feel good about

A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness

The most comprehensive show of the artist since the 1970s brings together more than 100 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Hurvin Anderson commission to feature in ‘Beyond Bayeux’ exhibition spotlighting contemporary British tapestries

The work, made for the sexcentenary of Oxford's Lincoln College, will be shown alongside other artist-designed tapestries woven at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh

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

Books

What’s it like organising the Venice Biennale? Former curators dish the dirt

Robert Storr speaks about his tenure in this exclusive extract from Massimiliano Gioni’s new book of interviews with biennale artistic directors

The author of a new book on Lavinia Fontana’s erotic art reveals all

The Italian scholar Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo tells us about new discoveries and why the Bolognese painter was an innovator in her field

A gripping account of the hunt for the treasure-laden San José shipwreck

A new book details the obsessive quest to find the sunken ship and, following its discovery, the various claims to the ship's billion dollar cargo

Five must-read books on Pan-Africanism and art

The best publications about the subject, from a collection of Surrealist writing to a survey of pioneering architects—selected by Elvira Dyangani Ose and Adom Getachew

‘An important moment for me’: artist Oliver Beer’s cave-themed project wins over a reluctant Rufus Wainwright

Oliver Beer persuaded the star to take part in his Resonance Project, which involves singers to responding to the acoustic frequencies in a prehistoric painted cave

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

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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 | 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

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

Obituaries

Mary Heilmann, fearless colourist and singular abstract painter, has died, aged 86

A Californian through and through, but based in New York for most of her life, she took lessons from ceramics, design, Post-Minimalism, hard-edged abstraction and more, synthesising them into something wholly her own

Benjamin Suttonabout 24 hours ago

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

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

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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

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