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Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years—purchasing bronze installation for £176,500
The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it
New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday
Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession
Having to ‘strive to survive’ holds no fears for new Geneva gallery
L’Appartement opens this October with an exhibition of sculptures by Takis and Yves Dana
Marlborough Gallery building goes up for sale for more than £25m
The gallery folded earlier this year and is in the process of dispersing its art inventory
Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo
Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine
Art market
Paul McCarthy throwing out vast installation no institution or collector stepped in to preserve
Last year, the artist put his 2013 installation “WS White Snow” on show in a Los Angeles warehouse in hopes of finding a long-term custodian
Over 50% of gallerists have a poor work-life balance, with those in the US most acutely affected
A new survey reveals that fewer than half of gallery employees feel like their lives are well-balanced
Bonhams will move New York headquarters to historic site on Billionaires' Row
The auction house is expected to relocate its New York operation to 57th Street by the end of 2025
Larry Gagosian and Peter Doig join forces in ‘unique collaboration’
The British painter, who left his longtime dealer Michael Werner last year, is curating a show at Gagosian's New York gallery in November
A rarely-seen Whistler portrait and a sculpture inspired by quantum physics: our pick of the September sales
Plus, a painting by a key figure of Modern Indian art and a newly discovered work by Ben Enwonwu
Museums & Heritage
The biggest threats to heritage sites worldwide? War, urbanisation, tourism, climate change and lack of funding
According to World Monuments Fund, the top issue varies widely depending on geography
Medieval Carcassonne laid bare in spectacular restoration
Visitors gain panoramic view of historic French city from upper ramparts after €5m restoration makes full circuit walkable
New repatriation documentary chronicles Indigenous groups’ struggles to recover artefacts from collectors and museums
The Canadian documentary “So Surreal: Behind the Masks” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
Noguchi Museum fires three employees for failing to comply with ban on overtly political dress
The firings come after museum leaders disciplined several employees who refused to remove their keffiyehs, traditional scarves often worn as a sign of support for Palestinians
In Belarus, freedom of expression for writers and artists remains a dream
While reportedly nearly 1,400 political prisoners, including 163 cultural figures, remain behind bars, the government stages cultural events whose prime purpose is to bolster the regime and its autocratic leader
Exhibitions
Lisbon exhibition seeks to highlight ‘the reality of the African diaspora’ while looking to the future
Works by April Bey, Gabriel Massan and others will highlight the creative possibilities that come from the sharing of ideas between different African cultures and others across the world
Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show
The survey of the American Mexican sculptor and printmaker will show how activism and art went hand in hand
Refik Anadol's AI tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák takes the stage in Washington, DC
The work, on view this month at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Reach Plaza, is “not about replacing or erasing him, about remembering him”, Anadol says
Brutalism meets art in São Paulo pop-up exhibitions
Homes designed by Ruy Ohtake and Chu Ming Silveira are the co-stars in annual show coupling contemporary art with architecture and design
Largest Morandi exhibition in almost 20 years to open in New York
The show, organised by the Italian dealer Mattia de Luca, coincides with the 60th anniversary of the artist’s death
Book Club
My five-year-old could do that! The impact of childhood on the work of artists
A new book gathers together anecdotes from artists' early years and looks at how these formative experiences shaped their careers
An expert's guide to Impressionism: five must-read books on the art movement
All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from tomes on how society shaped Impressionism to a deep dive into how the paintings were actually made—selected by curators Kimberly Jones and Mary Morton
September Book Bag: from the importance of colour in Mesoamerican cultures to a collection of famous artists’ sketchbooks
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Katherine Parr: power, patronage and the first full-length portrait of an English queen
In this exclusive extract from a new book about Henry VIII’s six wives, the art historian Suzannah Lipscomb writes about “perhaps the greatest artistic patron of them all”
Obituaries
‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80
Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs
Derek Boshier, British Pop artist widely known for his collaborations with David Bowie, has died, aged 87
Boshier’s work was often critical of US politics and consumerism
Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur
The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation
An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists
The artistic director of Serpentine, recalls 35 years of friendship and collaboration with the cultural impresario who was one of the most important curators of the second half of the 20th century
Remembering Alain Delon, screen idol and dedicated art collector, who has died aged 88
A personal memoir recalling the French actor’s “serious case of collectoritis” that saw him acquiring works by Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Géricault and Georges Braque
Opinion
Ready for the art-world reckoning?
The Readying the Museum group has created a blueprint to help institutions address inequity within their own walls—and to make the public, rather than trustees, their key priority
Sasha Skochilenko: I just happened to be the winner of the ‘Hunger Games’
The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Why cultural destruction is such a dangerous military tactic
A landmark report shows how attacks on heritage can cause “psychosocial, economic, and other types of harm”—but laws need to go further
From the courts to the British Museum—it’s time to stop hiding from the realities of climate breakdown
A reluctance to acknowledge hard facts is playing into a one-sided narrative around Big Oil—and the consequences are far reaching
Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI?
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
Books
'Go, thou, and do likewise': a field guide to Britain’s stone circles delivers both scholarship and romance
An authoritative and engaging read for fans of the UK's mute monoliths—be they academic or sentimental
Five of the best art books hitting the shelves this autumn
Our literary editor Jacqueline Riding selects some of the tempting titles that are scheduled for publication over the coming months
Take a romp through Ancient Rome’s great buildings with this handy (almost) pocket-sized book
Ostensibly a guide to the city's top 50 sites, a new publication by Paul Roberts offers far more
Who really was John Soane? The man and manifesto behind the magnificent house museum
Former museum director Bruce Boucher’s room-by-room account of the architect’s collection takes far readers beyond the catalogue
‘Viscerally real’: a Caravaggio painting provides inspiration for a newly translated novel
The Italian scholar Alessandro Giardino posits his theories about the Baroque artist’s Seven Works of Mercy in fictional form
Diary
Elizabeth II or Mrs Doubtfire? New statue of late queen goes viral
The controversial effigy by Anto Brennan shows the monarch with her corgis and husband
Mystery on Downing Street: did PM really 'get rid' of No. 10's Thatcher portrait?
UK prime minister Keir Starmer reportedly finds the portrait of the late leader ‘unsettling’
Trump posing with my book is ‘comical’, says Andres Serrano
The artist on how the former president might not be in on the joke
Loving La La land: Steve Martin to collaborate on show paying homage to Los Angeles
The Hauser & Wirth exhibition is set to embrace Hollywood comedy royalty
Where is Salvator Mundi? In storage in Geneva—apparently
Could the long-lost work end up in a Saudi museum run by ex-British Museum chief?
Green is the New Black
In this monthly column, our correspondent Louisa Buck looks at how the art industry is responding to our climate and ecological crisis
Green is the new black | How can artists effectively respond to the climate crisis? Introducing a new toolkit from Gallery Climate Coalition
The new document gives tips on the different ways in which artists can make a positive impact on the environment—with sections including materials, exhibition and display, and activism
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.
Bucolic Van Gogh riverscape with royal connections set to become the artist’s most expensive Paris work
“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst in Paris — podcast
What’s behind the troubles facing auction houses and galleries? Plus, Sasha Skochilenko recounts her experience of being arrested—and incarcerated—in Russia, and the story behind a 1937 Surrealist painting by Ernst
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
Podcast | A brush with… Arthur Jafa
An in-depth interview with the filmmaker and sculptor, discussing his eye for systemic and historic inequity, and how Anne Imhof and Mahalia Jackson have influenced his practice
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.
US artists score victory in landmark AI copyright case
A federal judge in California has blocked an attempt by several AI companies to have portions of a copyright case dismissed
Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
What if women ruled the world? The Art Newspaper takes part in summer celebration of Judy Chicago at the Serpentine
The London art world came out in force to celebrate the American visionary's exhibition “Revelations” and to enjoy a tech-powered interaction with her quest to create a world where power is equally shared
Stellar eclipse: pioneering light and sound art duo NONOTAK prepare for first London solo show
Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto will present three installations at a warehouse space in south London
Art-world social media specialists are on the rise—but is the sector really ready for digital success?
Museums are addressing a lack of in-house expertise in creating digital content by hiring from a growing pool of social-savvy freelancers