NewsCrime
Number of art thefts in Italy plummets—partly thanks to drones
New report by special police force finds increase in security and surveillance technology has dissuaded dealers in stolen art
NewsOpenings
Home truths: east London's museum of domestic life emerges from lockdown after £18.8m makeover
Museum of the Home reopens on 12 June with double the public space in its 18th-century almshouse buildings
AnalysisArt market
Tokyo aims to take art trade crown from Hong Kong
Can reforms to Japan’s onerous tax system allow Tokyo to replace Hong Kong as the leading art trade hub in Asia, as it was during the “bubble period” of the late 1980s?
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Centre Pompidou plans to open a satellite museum in Jersey City in 2024
The venue, the French institution’s first in North America, will exhibit borrowed works and serve as an “art laboratory”
NewsAmerican Museum of Natural History
Shine bright: American Museum of Natural History unveils a years-long revamp of its prized gems and minerals hall
Visitors are encouraged to bring their own flashlight for the full optical experience
NewsCanada
Haida artist Tamara Bell installs 215 shoes on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential school
The work has become a community shrine and gathering space for mourners after the remains of children as young as three years old were discovered last week using ground-penetrating radar
NewsArt market
Bonhams consignor withdraws looted Nepalese sculptures from auction
The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site
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Don’t trash talk museums at this perilous time: we must adapt—not throw away—our cultural heritage
Why are there so few black-owned galleries in London?
Inflation is soaring in the US and UK—here's what it means for the art market
Will gallery weekends replace art fairs?
It took 300 years for the art world to recognise Artemisia Gentileschi—now NFTs are reinforcing the bias towards Western male artists
Is Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci? Amid the current flurry of ill-informed controversies, let us turn to the science
Has Venice really banned cruise ships? It appears not
How a new digital art market could mimic the traditional one—including in bad ways
Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu’s greatest work is much loved by the art market—but it should mean more to art history too
Why culture is key to Hong Kong’s future as a world city
Why we are projecting First Nations art on the Sydney Opera House
Is there loot lurking in your collection? Find out—before someone else does
A feeble congress and the raising up of poetry in Cuba
In our current dystopian art market, the pervasive and persistent Damien Hirst may well have the last laugh
NFTs and the 'Art' world: panic and possibility
Boo to NFTs! Hang on, think of no customs fees
The world of art fairs is going to change for good—and only the better-funded fairs will survive
How the art market turned upside down—in one month
How museums can ethically invest their money
EU proposes tough new laws on antique ivory trade—despite lack of evidence it leads to modern-day poaching
Here is what you can do to help Myanmar's beleaguered artists
The art market is 'high risk' for money laundering, so ignore new regulations at your peril
Britain stole the royal, sacred Benin Bronzes from Nigeria—so why is Germany leading their return?
The looming legal and regulatory questions NFT collectors and sellers should prepare for
The 'Ledbury Titian' discovery begs the question: who should we trust when it comes to art attribution?
Pandemic anniversary: the things museums should learn from our plague year
Freelance workers are the backbone of the art world—but how are they expected to survive on a pittance?
Six reasons why Gamestop couldn’t happen in the art market
'Autism made me an art historian. But museums must do more to welcome disabled and neurodiverse communities'
'Where is the champion within UK government for a vigorous, independent visual arts sector?'
The NFT craze encapsulates the absurdity of the art world—and its obsession with authenticity
Risky business: how new US sanctions regulations will actually impact the art market
Museums have hastily cut their staff to save money—what will happen when visitors return and they need them back?
Sotheby's brought to you by Bulgari—product placement at auction has arrived, with limitless potential
Arts researchers can help America overcome its toughest challenges
'Looking just gorgeous': Granddaughter of $80m Botticelli's former owner on living with the masterpiece
Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?
Should post-Brexit UK get rid of the Artist’s Resale Right?
Tearing down troubling statues is not lying about our history—it is removing impediments to truth
Could 2021 be the year of the African museum?
How will US money laundering crackdown actually impact the art market? A lawyer explains
A Covid-19 silver lining? Let’s not return to family-unfriendly art business as usual
Auction houses have finally entered the Amazon age—and I’m addicted
As 2021 beckons.... I crave new art in the new year more than ever
'Museums had better not be planning for a return to the status quo'
Art could have dwindled into insignificance in the upheaval of this year—instead it endured
How art world leaders can embrace new money laundering regulations and create a 'think risk' culture
California needs a plan to restart the arts
Asian art market flies in the face of coronavirus
Gabrielie Finaldi: 'What is the National Gallery if you can’t visit and you can’t see the pictures?'
'Humboldt Forum must have a clear policy that only objects of proper provenance can be used'
The art trade benefits from the UK's low import duty. What will happen to it after Brexit?
Provenance: the Trojan horse that can make or break a work of art
A new kind of museum is emerging—here's what the future holds
The turn of the screw: will tighter regulations impact the art market?
Pastures new: why some top gallery staff are moving on from longtime jobs
Finally, rebel experts come to the rescue of Unesco’s failing World Heritage programme
People see only 'silver tits' and 'bouffant pubes' now—but I predict Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture will become widely admired
Fifty years on, Unesco’s convention against illicit trafficking of cultural artefacts still shines bright
Is the UK seeing the emergence of a ‘Godfather approach’ to arts funding?
Philip Guston show: 2022 opening is welcome news but confusion still remains
A message of hope from David Hockney for Lockdown 2: 'Remember, they can't cancel the autumn either'
Why culture is so important in the time of coronavirus
Portrait of Tracey: how Emin's cancer diagnosis hasn't stopped her from being an artistic dynamo
A flood of art? The market issues around museum deaccessioning
Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal
'Another yawning gap': radical London Print Studio closes its doors
Exhibitions need a perfect storm to succeed—but shows opening during Covid-19 are getting a disappointing drizzle
Baltimore Museum of Art curators respond to deaccessioning criticism
Confronting the allure, and the dangers, of 'fake heritage'
Why vote? To protect those who cannot
I finally went to see some art—and caught Covid-19
‘Uniquely egregious’: The disturbing precedent of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s deaccessioning plan
Visionary leaders, big business and the digital boom: 30 years that changed museums
Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting
For the arts, there’s only one choice in this election
The only way is ethics: US museums should not neglect provenance research in the funding crisis
Done right, selling museum pieces can work—but probably not with Michelangelos
Philip Guston drew Richard Nixon's face as a hairy scrotum and phallus—what would he make of President Trump?
Gatherings are taboo in the Covid-19 world, so where does that leave experiential art?
Art unions need to agitate beyond worker contracts
How to save Venice: a five-point plan by a leading citizen
Banksy’s activism is his greatest work
'We cannot build a truly globalised art world without China'
'Be commercially minded or lose future funding': UK government's threat puts museums in peril
Why we should be concerned about President Erdogan turning museums into mosques
Remembering the beautiful melancholy of Matthew Wong
National Trust restructuring plans are ‘one of the most damaging assaults on art historical expertise ever seen in the UK’
Business can and should help the arts through this crisis
'Museums need to press the reset button and become more radical'
The problem with Marc Quinn's Black Lives Matter sculpture
'When the politics change, so must the statues'
Photographs are the monuments of our online visual culture
'If a person of African descent wants a career in the arts—well, good luck'
Can the art market be an ally in the fight for racial equality?
We need to talk about guarantees. And art loans
No rest for the frazzled for many in the art world
If we want more artists like Khadija Saye, we need to give young BAME people the help they need
US needs monuments celebrating African American history, not Confederate statues
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Michael Armitage's electric paintings on bark cloth to a group show on syncopation
NewsMuseums
Raphael Cartoons at Victoria and Albert Museum serenaded by live orchestral performance
The London museum’s newly refurbished Raphael Court plays host to a “visual album” of classical pieces on film
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Louise Bourgeois at The Jewish Museum to Sam Durant’s High Line Plinth commission
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh 'immersive experiences': a guide to the global battle now reaching London
Presenting a vivid insight into Vincent’s art, Van Gogh Alive opens today in Kensington Gardens
InterviewCao Fei
'Chinese audiences know my name but not my work': Cao Fei on her first major solo show in her home country
Exhibition Staging the Era at Beijing's UCCA includes a working Cantonese canteen at one end and a replica of a 1950s Beijing cinema at the other
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Classicist Mary Beard on the infamous Roman emperor Nero
Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago
'Art is our spiritual oxygen': new shows to see in London and New York
New York auctions: has the art market roared back to life?
Climate disaster: photographer Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon
Return to La La Land: art is back in California
Kusama-rama: Yayoi exhibitions open in London, New York and Berlin
Winner: The Art Newspaper's podcast The Week in Art is named Best Special Interest Podcast
Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows
A brush with... Do Ho Suh
Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist?
Has the drop in visitors changed museums forever?
Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last
The results are in: the real impact of Covid-19 on the art market
UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market
'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum
Stonehenge: could a road tunnel ruin the ancient site?
The fight against Putin: artists on the frontline
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New normal for Old Masters: Botticelli's record online sale and new AI research on Leonardo's Salvator Mundi
A brush with... Charles Gaines
What will Biden-Harris do for the visual arts?
A brush with... Tal R
The white supremacist art at the heart of the US Capitol
A brush with... Tracey Rose
A brush with... Rachel Whiteread
2020: the year in review
A brush with... Roni Horn
Brexit: how will it change the art market?
A brush with... Christina Quarles
Contemporary public art: who is it for?
A brush with... Ragnar Kjartansson
Is the future of museums in Africa?
Revisiting the Thanksgiving myth: the Mayflower and the Wampanoag, 400 years on
Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz
US election: How Trump’s presidency has affected the arts
Has coronavirus helped unmask the real prices of art?
The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19?
What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race?
Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates
Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives
Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The Royal Academy of Arts’s Covid-19 conundrum
This is America: Grayson Perry on race and class
Berlin: still a magnet for artists?
Cancelled: should good artists pay for bad behaviour?
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Virginia Commonwealth University launches programme dedicated to the art of podcasting
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Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer
What will culture be like in the next decade?
Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers?
Hong Kong: has the new law 'destroyed' the art scene?
The destruction of Australia’s ancient Aboriginal heritage
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
What to do about problematic statues?
How to visit a gallery during a pandemic
Let’s talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege
Houston, do we have a problem? The verdict on early museum openings in Texas
Raphael: as great as Leonardo and Michelangelo?
Is the future of the art market online?
Exclusive: Marina Abramovic on performance art post-pandemic
Can new tech recreate the hand of an Old Master?
Sophie Matisse retraces her great-grandfather's footsteps for emotional BBC film
The end of the blockbuster? Museums in a post-pandemic world
Donald Judd 101: the great artist in depth
Art theft: are museums safe under lockdown?
Can the art market weather the coronavirus storm?
Saving the art world’s self-employed amidst the coronavirus crisis
Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China
Fill your ears with art: the top culture podcasts to listen to during the coronavirus lockdown
Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of 'the most beautiful pictures in the world'
Remembering Ulay. Plus, how coronavirus cancelled Art Basel in Hong Kong
Surrealism: what was Britain's role?
Shirin Neshat on why Frida Kahlo is one of her favourite artists
Who owns the Parthenon Marbles?
Does Los Angeles want a big art fair?
Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting
The story of a fake Gauguin at the Getty
2020: art market issues and big shows
2019: the year in review
Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy
Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami
Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship
John Lennon wanted Hitler on cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
Anselm Kiefer on why size matters
Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction 'gigaweek'
Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US
From 'piecemealing' medievalist to TV darling: how Janina Ramirez is championing slow media about culture
Gunpowder, treason and plot: how artists have captured fireworks throughout history
Special: Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett
Dread Scott’s slave revolt reenactment. Plus, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Leonardo at the Louvre: the spectacular show and the Salvator Mundi no-show
MoMA special: our verdict on the museum opening of the year
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Leilah Babirye's blowtorched trash sculptures of queer Ugandan royalty come to London
Forced to flee Uganda after being outed as a lesbian in the press, Babirye's show at Stephen Friedman Gallery addresses the legacy of British colonialism
NewsExhibitions
Street artist Futura unveils his biggest-ever work in Hong Kong shopping mall
Sneaker crowd turns out in force to see the New York-based artist's six-metre tall rocket surrounded by alien figures
NewsArt market
Art Basel confirms it is happening this September IRL—but with some caveats
Collectors are told they must be fully vaccinated or supply a negative Covid-19 test in line with Swiss government regulations
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Carroll Dunham: You have to love painting to try and subvert it
During a new show at Galerie Max Hetzler, the American artist discusses the archetypal nudes in his canvases and his "uptight and conservative" attachment to painting
NewsConservation & Preservation
Neglected corners of US history: National Trust for Historic Preservation designates 11 most endangered places
Places range from Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah site where Chinese railroad labourers stayed
BlogExhibitions
Camp resistance: Tina Takemoto’s video Looking for Jiro explores the queer experience during Japanese internment
BlogThe Insiders
Turn on, tune in, drop art: Pioneer Works new Broadcast media platform blends science and culture
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Minneapolis Institute of Art announces over $19m in gifts, including funds for a diversity officer, Latin American curator and deputy director
Museum, under pressure to embrace equity while facing revenue losses, says the money will shore up its endowment and operating budget
ReviewBooks
A master class in activism: What artists today can learn from ACT UP’s responses to the Aids crisis
A new book by Sarah Schulman describes how the radically democratic and fast acting group grabbed the public’s attention and held politicians and institutions accountable
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Pressure mounts for Italy to buy Torlonia marbles—world's finest collection of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands
As a landmark exhibition in Rome draws to a close, government's plans for long-hidden group of ancient sculpture remain unclear
NewsVenice
Museum chiefs—and Mick Jagger—say Venice must be saved as cruise ships are set to return to lagoon city after 18-month break
Signatories of the open letter supporting ten point-plan to save La Serenissima also include the artist Anish Kapoor and The Art Newspaper's founding editor Anna Somers Cocks
NewsRestitution
Belgian experts frustrated at 'lack of initiative from museums and government' call for restitution of colonial-era acquisitions
New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size
NewsArt market
Galleries: London's oldest shopping mall needs you
Burlington Arcade has 12 empty units and its owners want art businesses to help fill them
PreviewExhibitions
Sky’s the limit: how Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought
The Nebra Sky disc, the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos, will be one of the star artefacts in an exhibition exploring Unětice culture and its far reaching links
NewsCorita Kent
Hallelujah! Former studio of 'nun-turned-artist' Corita Kent designated historic cultural landmark
The Hollywood studio where Kent made works challenging social injustice in the 1960s was due to be demolished to make room for a parking lot
NewsUnion organising
Whitney voluntarily recognises a union local, sparing employees the need to organise a vote
From curators to porters, more than 180 workers are involved in the effort as labour campaigns multiply among US art institutions
BlogThe Insiders
Why artist Eileen Agar’s 'womb magic' speaks to our times
While a major retrospective of her work has just opened at the Whitechapel Gallery, her feminist influence can be seen in a range of exhibitions across London
NewsLand art
Nevada Museum of Art launches year-long focus on Land Art in the high desert
The museum has also announced the forthcoming programming for its triennial Art and Environment Conference
NewsTeotihuacan
Mexican authorities halt illegal development near Teotihuacán
It is unclear who is behind the construction of the ecotourism park, which resulted in the destruction of at least three unexplored archaeological mounds
NewsStatues
Imperialist statue must go: defying college's decision, more than 350 Oxford University academics demand Cecil Rhodes be removed
Oriel College's plan to keep the sculpture of "racist" 19th-century British mining magnate "does not reflect the Oxford we represent", say staff in a letter
NewsUyghur
China's destruction of Uyghur cultural property evidence of 'genocidal intent', UK MPs declare
Members of Parliament send warning to China ahead of motion to acknowledge human rights abuses against minorities in Xinjiang region
NewsTulsa Race Massacre
Calls for reparations lead the commemoration of Tulsa Massacre
US President Biden acknowledged during visit that "some injustices are so heinous… they cannot be buried"
News
Stand by your man—or don’t: Ragnar Kjartansson will dissect the patriarchy of pop music at the Guggenheim for Independence Day
Women and non-binary musician will perform non-stop love songs in the museum’s rotunda over the holiday weekend
NewsLaw
French heir renounces title to Nazi-looted Pissarro painting found in Oklahoma
The Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep will return this summer to the University of Oklahoma, which will seek a French partner for future exchanges
NewsMuseums & Heritage
After warnings that a third of US museums could close, a survey indicates that just 15% are at significant risk
Poll conducted in April yields optimism that financial fallout from the pandemic will be less severe than feared
NewsPublic art
Martin Roth’s posthumous project to turn an abandoned upstate building into a living ‘plant concert’ is nearly complete
The City Club in Newburgh could open to the public with a large-scale “magical garden” installation at the end of June
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Door still open to Hermitage Barcelona after city council calls for revised project
Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house
PreviewExhibitions
Hannah Wilke’s work laid bare at the Pulitzer Art Foundation
Nearly 120 works by the pioneering feminist artist who used her body as a central focus of her work are on view in St Louis
NewsGreece
The Art Newspaper network launches Greek edition
Joining our publications in the UK, the US, Russia, China, France and Italy, The Art Newspaper Greece publishes its first edition today
NewsCommissions
From a huge Janus to a giant worm: seven site-specific sculptures spring up along the English coast
The Waterfronts commissions, by artists such as Michael Rakowitz and Katrina Palmer, have been created in collaboration with organisations like Turner Contemporary and the Folkestone Triennial
NewsExhibitions
‘For every Malcolm, you need a Martin’: England rugby player Maro Itoje presents exhibition on Black histories missing from UK curriculum
Sports star says he aims to ‘show a fuller picture’ of African history with London gallery show
BlogDiary
Taking root—Es Devlin’s urban forest unveiled at Somerset House
NewsVenice Architecture Biennale
Kenyan caves and ancient Mesopotamian boats: Venice Architecture Biennale proposes solutions to impending global housing crisis
Hashim Sarkis's central exhibition touches on the fate of the planet at a time of climate change and Covid-19
FeatureHeritage
Special investigation: Declassified satellite images show erasure of Armenian churches
Covert destruction of Armenian-Christian heritage in Azerbaijan’s autonomous republic of Nakhichevan has been exposed in recently surfaced Cold War spy imagery taken by the US in the 1970s, published here for the first time
NewsEgypt
First the Louvre's pyramid, now the actual Pyramids—JR to create show-stopping project in Egypt
Street artist hints he might make a photo collage at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site as part of exhibition organised by Art D’Egypte
NewsThe Art Newspaper Live
What now? How London’s gallery scene can survive in a post-pandemic world. Sign up for our live online talk on 3 June
We're looking at the full effect of Covid-19 on the commercial sector and the ways to protect against it. Featuring Sadie Coles, Bomi Odufunade and Jeremy Epstein. Moderated by Louisa Buck. Sponsored by Crozier
PreviewExhibitions
Stuck in a loop: curator Helen Molesworth organises group exhibition Feedback at The School in Kinderhook
Inspired by an audio piece by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, and her own memories of high school, the show looks at the repeating cycles of American history and culture
NewsMonuments
Colston returns—controversial statue of slave trader to go on show in Bristol museum
Visitors to M Shed display asked to give feedback about the future of the sculpture
NewsEconomics
Biden wants to boost culture funding to historic levels as part of $6 trillion budget proposal
If Congress approves, the National Endowment for the Arts in particular would see its 2022 budget go up to $201m—the highest amount of government funding since its inception
NewsRepatriation
US hands over two stolen ancient lintels to Thailand after retrieving them from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Dating from the ninth and tenth centuries, the objects are thought to have been looted from sacred sites in the late 1960s
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From 5,000 years of Iranian art and culture to Black female resistance and the domestic sphere
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
World’s oldest war memorial may have been identified in Syria
The White Monument at Tell Banat contains the bones of what are believed to be around 30 dead soldiers, posed as if they fell in battle
NewsRace
The Greenwood Massacre, America’s ‘single worst incident of racial violence’, is remembered 100 years on
The historic example of domestic terrorism, when white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses, finally gets due recognition
NewsObituaries
Arturo Luz, one of Asia’s most influential modernists, has died in Manila, aged 94
A key figure in Filipino neo-realism, Luz also co-founded and directed many of the country's leading art spaces
AnalysisArt market
From sneakers to Pokémon cards: here are five of the hottest collectibles
With baseball cards selling for $5.2m each and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet making $2.9m, people will collect anything if its rare and makes them nostalgic
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
India’s 'vaccine prince' has a Van Gogh landscape in his living room
Adar Poonawalla, who runs the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccine producer, claims to have the finest collection of European art in the sub-continent
NewsPalermo
'The city is ours, not the Mafia’s': public art project in Palermo unites community against organised crime in Sicily
Four commissions, including a 30-m high mural of a Mafia-assassinated judge, have been unveiled in the southern Italian city
NewsDiscoveries
Eerily life-like marble skull—hidden in plain sight in a German castle—was made by Bernini for the Pope, research reveals
Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden
NewsExhibitions
Tino Sehgal to unveil open air 'live encounters' piece in the gardens of Blenheim Palace
Thirty participants will enact "moments of connection" in the setting of the 18th-century Oxfordshire stately home
NewsOpenings
MaXXI L'Aquila hopes to kickstart cultural revival in earthquake-damaged Italian city
New branch of Rome's national contemporary art museum opens next week in a restored 18th-century palace
NewsDesign
Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel to reopen in Hudson Yards—without higher barriers
Visitors will have to come in groups, and buy tickets that will help pay for more security, after three suicides at the site
NewsObituaries
Eric Carle, author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died, aged 91
The artist’s early life in Germany exploring nature and the devastation and malnutrition his family experienced during the Second World War add personal poignancy to his later children’s books
NewsJulie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu donates major painting to Art for Justice Fund
The auction is estimated to raise $3m to $4m to support efforts to end mass incarceration
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Guadalupe Maravilla at Socrates Sculpture Park to Nina Katchadourian at Pace
NewsLondon
Arts charity to open pop up in Mayfair selling works during London Gallery Weekend
Contemporary Art Society will launch temporary exhibition space on 4 June with pieces by artists including Lubaina Himid and Roger Hiorns
NewsSpiral Jetty
Surge in visitors to Spiral Jetty through the pandemic leads to plans for more amenities and ecological awareness
The famous Land Art site in Utah became a popular destination, with more than 700 cars logged at the site in one day
NewsArt market
Simon Lee Gallery announces worldwide representation of Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce
Boyce says bringing people together for her Venice commission has been like a “gargantuan puzzle”
BlogDiary
Did someone say reunion? The one where The Art Newspaper features in an episode of Friends
NewsFunding
Germany pledges €2.5bn in aid for cultural events
The funding, available for small events from 1 July, will also include cancellation insurance for large events planned from September
FeatureBook Club
In Pictures | Kara Walker's private archive of works on paper published in new book
The publication is released ahead of an exhibition of the US artist's works at the Kunstmuseum Basel this summer
PreviewExhibitions
The David and Goliath of art collections team up—London’s National Gallery loans nine works to Southampton
Maverick museum chief Kenneth Clark helped shape the Southampton City Art Gallery's collection
NewsConservation
Twelve down, one to go: epic restoration of 16th-century, English tapestries nears completion after 20 years
Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project"
Newsreopenings
Smithsonian will reopen its remaining 10 museums on a staggered schedule starting next month
Venues in Washington, DC and New York will require masks and many will have reduced hours
NewsConservation & Preservation
Woolworth Building in San Antonio, a landmark in civil rights history, is spared from demolition
1921 former dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum
NewsArt market
Artists will not be subject to anti-money laundering regulations, UK Treasury says
After lobbying from art organisations, government has made last-minute decision that creators who sell their work direct to clients will not be classed as "Art Market Participants"
PreviewDenver Art Museum
Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger find creative ways to collaborate through the pandemic in Denver Art Museum show
How do you crowd-source art without the crowd? The Indigenous artists explore communal art-making traditions amid the isolation of last year
NewsAppointments & departures
Too woke? National Trust chair Tim Parker steps down
Rebel group of members planned to depose heritage chief following row over controversial research into charity’s historic ties to slavery
NewsAppointments & departures
Laurence des Cars will be the first woman to lead the Louvre in its history
A seasoned director with an emphasis on the social role of museums, she replaces Jean-Luc Martinez as the Louvre's president-director on 1 September
AnalysisMuseums & Heritage
What it's like to visit museums now—and how Covid-19 has fundamentally changed them long term
Coronavirus restrictions have dramatically altered the visitor experience, but the changes run deeper than mask-wearing and one-way systems
CommentArt market
Inflation is soaring in the US and UK—here's what it means for the art market
When prices rise, investors often buy art to lower risk and increase returns. But the market's buoyancy may be short-lived, as experience tells us
NewsUnions
Brooklyn Museum employees seek to form a union bargaining unit
The labour chapter would represent 130 curators, conservators, front-desk staff and others
NewsArchitecture
President Joe Biden removes Trump appointees from US Commission of Fine Arts
The all-white all-male board members are believed to have been responsible for a controversial order that mandated a Neoclassical style for all federal buildings, which Biden also revoked
NewsDesign
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect known as the ‘Queen of Green’, has died, aged 99
Responsible for green spaces that still provide respite to city dwellers around the world, the designer saw her profession as a kind of healing art
NewsExhibitions
Acclaimed Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Zanele Muholi shows end at Tate next week—but both are coming back
After runs punctuated by Covid-related delays, the exhibitions at Tate Modern and Tate Britain will return after their international tours
Newsdiversity
Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?
We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences
NewsObituaries
Tair Salakhov, leading painter and 'father of new Russian art', has died aged 92
The Azerbaijani-born artist was one of the Soviet Union's most notable creatives during Khrushchev's cultural thaw
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Germany launches African museum exchange programme to discuss returning looted objects
New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution
NewsMuseums & Heritage
San Diego’s arts institutions cry out as mayor maintains 50% reduction in city funding into 2022
Prolonging the pain will not help the culture sector—a formerly $1bn industry that supported 36,000 full-time jobs—bounce back, leaders say
NewsProtest
Plywood boards used to shutter New York shops are transformed into canvases for local artists
The Plywood Protection Project has given five artists material to create new public works in each borough
NewsCuba
Cuban artists ask Museum of Fine Arts to remove their work from display while Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara remains in government custody
The San Isidro Movement founder was forcibly taken to a Havana hospital in early May eight days into a hunger strike protesting the government's clampdown on artist's rights
NewsAppointments & departures
Culture professionals react to Tony Hall quitting as National Gallery chair amid BBC Princess Diana scandal
John Kingman, the London museum's deputy chair, will temporarily step into the role
NewsFourth Plinth
Powerful acts of defiance including a skull rack that will disappear in the London weather among Fourth Plinth proposals
Nicole Eisenmann, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles and Paloma Varga Weisz are presenting their plans for Trafalgar Square in an exhibition at the National Gallery
NewsSoviet art
Campaigners fight to preserve monumental Soviet-era murals in Ukraine
Victor Arnautoff’s large-scale 1960s mosaics on public buildings in Mariupol are threatened by neglect and a “decommunisation” campaign
NewsSaudi Arabia
The fight to save Saudi Arabia’s Modern architecture
The reaction to the destruction of Al Rabooa mosque highlights changing attitudes to the conservation of Modernist and post-Modernist buildings in the kingdom
NewsParis
Gaping hole opens up under Eiffel Tower in French artist JR’s new illusion
Paris trompe l’oeil piece launches ahead of vast exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London next month
CommentUK politics
Don’t trash talk museums at this perilous time: we must adapt—not throw away—our cultural heritage
Cultural institutions—like religious buildings—can be spaces of good and harm, we cannot simply denounce their histories as one or the other, says museum director Nicholas Thomas
Nicholas Thomas