NewsDeaccessioning
Baltimore Museum of Art calls off sale of Warhol, Still and Marden after outcry
Last-gasp decision after talks with the US museum directors association comes hours before a Sotheby’s auction
NewsArt market
Ancient Greek bust of Hercules dug up in a garden will now appear in virtual reality at Tefaf Online
ArtAncient has created a VR experience of the marble bust to enliven the digital version of the now-cancelled New York fair
NewsArt market
Giacometti, De Chirico and Alfa Romeo cars lead Sotheby's $283m New York sales after major museum works abruptly pulled
Following weeks of controversy, the Baltimore Museum of Art withdrew two paintings just hours before the auction while many other works sold near low estimates
PreviewExhibitions
See 150 years of fashion in 60 minutes at the Met
The museum has drawn on the writings of Virginia Woolf, and the theories of Charles Baudelaire and Henri Bergson, to create a disruptive timeline of fashion
News US politics
Living monuments of Trump’s failures arrive in Washington ahead of the election
The Trump Statue Initiative, a guerrilla troupe of performers, have satirized the darkest moments of the presidency
NewsDroit de suite
Souls Grown Deep Foundation will give living artists a 5% royalty when collection works are resold
The initiative aims to address historic discrimination against artists of colour, who often gain recognition—and market value—later in their careers
NewsFrieze New York
Frieze New York relocates to non-profit institution The Shed for 2021 edition
Global director Victoria Siddall says it is a time “for creativity, flexibility and collaboration” as fair is reduced by more than two-thirds
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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?
Institutions need to follow artists’ lead to make a material impact on the world
What’s the ideal post-pandemic art market? One that's no longer a Disneyland for the rich
Oxford Economics report: an emergency fund for the UK creative sector 'needs to come soon'
Museums will need ethical funders all the more after the coronavirus crisis
Who are the art market's virtual winners?
Museums are about to reopen—but should they?
Eight ways museums could make the most of the coronavirus crisis
Edward Colston monument: 'UK must face the truth of what helped it become a mighty power'
Dread Scott: America God Damn
The Art Newspaper's statement on the Black Lives Matter movement
What sort of art will we want after the pandemic ends?
Must London always win? National Gallery of Scotland cancels Titian show for all the wrong reasons
The US has a big racism problem and the art world is not helping
After Covid-19, museums need to plan ‘must see’ exhibitions instead of blockbusters
Why I made a mountain of fortune cookies in my little London flat during lockdown—all in the name of art
Our mission is to be Miami’s art museum—that’s why we spent $145,000 to buy works from local galleries
Art museums should use their endowments to help battle climate change
Why the Association of Art Museum Directors’s move on deaccessioning matters so much
After years of sanctions and political upheaval, the pandemic is a new hurdle for the fragile Iranian art scene
Auctions are like dating: you can do it online, but sparks only fly in the flesh
Britain's young artists had a hard time before the pandemic. What will happen to them now?
Selling art online? Here are the legal pitfalls to avoid
'Being an art historian now is easier and more productive than it’s ever been'
When this is all over we must reimagine the infrastructure of the arts
Why we cancelled the 2020 FotoFocus Biennial and dispersed its $800,000 budget as arts grants
Auctions: what will change, post-Covid-19?
'Politicians have failed us': Michael Craig-Martin's thoughts from isolation
UK artists deserve a New Deal
Greetings from a museum leaving lockdown: lessons from Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
Museums must adopt new models to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
‘I’ve always been wary of big business’: Paula Cooper on weathering adversity and building better social systems
Notes from the lockdown: Making a situated museum in Queens
A message from... Yayoi Kusama: 'Let us joyfully sing this song of a splendid future'
'We are all Surrealists now': how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
Pope Francis, his crucifix and the Virgin Mary: miraculous or merely traditional?
Don't let your guard down: three things you can do now to protect your art during the pandemic
Mourning a ‘golden' exhibition season curtailed by coronavirus
Don’t forget to support our artists, the chroniclers of such crisis
Will coronavirus-related cancellations spell the end of ‘fairtigue’?
Please send help: a letter to the Getty Trust
Tristram Hunt: 'When the lights come back on, our museums will need support'
US artists need a federal bailout now
The BBC fights back with 'Culture in Quarantine' against the UK government’s plan to destroy it
Letter from Spain: Arco exhibition centre is now a coronavirus hospital
'The real ideological war has just begun and Covid-19 is only the starting point': Ai Weiwei on China's response to the outbreak
Letter from the editor
A message from...Shirin Neshat: 'We will get through this'
Letter from Italy: the churches—open, but without services—are the only place to see art
With the coronavirus shutdown, smaller heritage sites such as the Mary Rose face a fight for survival
A message from...David Hockney: 'Do remember they can’t cancel the spring'
The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Museum top brass are losing the oil money plot
Letters to the editor | Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?
Patrick van Maris is leaving Tefaf after five years: but has he left the fair in too much flux?
Death of a wannabe 'mega' gallery—was the closure of Blain Southern an outlier or the canary in the mine?
It is time to support Sudan’s artists in their fight for democracy
Where is the West? Art world should be supporting China during coronavirus crisis
Why I'm working with the South Korean boyband BTS on an art project
‘Art history is a global discipline’
Condo’s grassroots collaborative spirit is infectious
Don't be angry that Tate's 'Head of Coffee' gets £39,500—be mad that salaries in both hospitality and the arts aren't higher
Brexit: what's next for the UK art market?
Doubly lost: why the Salvator Mundi's failure to show up at the Louvre is to be greatly regretted
Millennials—monsters, or saviours of the art market?
NewsMuseums
Tate suspends curator for publicly criticising its decision to delay Guston show
Mark Godfrey has been disciplined after posting a long statement on his Instagram account describing postponement as "extremely patronising to viewers"
InterviewElmgreen & Dragset
Smartphones, Foucault and anti-fascist tapestries: Elmgreen and Dragset on their biggest cultural influences
The subversive artist duo tell us about their favourite books, music and poetry
NewsRussia
US and Russia 'leave aside the politics' to restore Raphael frescoes
A grant of over $100,000 has been given from the US to St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum for the maintenance of three 16th-century school of Raphael works
NewsArt schools
Sydney bucks trend for marginalisation of drawing at art schools with new National Centre for Drawing
Opening on 4 November, the centre, which is part of the city's National Art School, is modelled on the the Drawing Centre in New York and London’s Drawing Room
NewsDeaccessioning
US Association of Art Museum Directors sends a warning note to its members on deaccessioning
As works head to market, organisation reminds members that its relaxed rules were not adopted to “incentivise” art sales
BlogRoyal Academy of Arts
Royal Academicians band together to release portfolio of prints made in the midst of lockdown
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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?
A brush with... Rashid Johnson
A brush with... Chantal Joffe
A brush with... Jenny Saville
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
Agnes Denes: environmental art pioneer. Plus, Rembrandt-Velázquez and De Hooch
Mark Bradford addresses modern-day xenophobia through Greek mythology and a Motown classic
Frieze week: Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig, Melanie Gerlis, Hettie Judah
Special: is art education in crisis? Featuring Bob and Roberta Smith
Museum ethics. Plus, the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Tate's William Blake blockbuster. Plus, Pace and the New York gallery boom
Tim Spall on playing L.S. Lowry. Plus, an exclusive interview with Chris Ofili and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Podcast sneak peek: how actor Timothy Spall captured the essence of Britain's beloved L.S. Lowry
Top of the Pods: David Hockney and other modern British mavericks
Top of the Pods: The best of the Venice Biennale
Top of the Pods: Leonardo—the Salvator Mundi saga
Top of the Pods: video artists in the spotlight
Top of the Pods: Artemisia Gentileschi and the forgotten female Old Masters
In memoriam: Karsten Schubert in conversation with Michael Landy
Top of the Pods: climate crisis with Olafur Eliasson, Justin Brice Guariglia and Anna Somers Cocks
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol, as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
Top of the Pods: experts on Van Gogh in the asylum and his early life
Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show
Vermeer's hidden cupid, the Prado's Dutch-Spanish show, plus Helen Cammock
David Smith in Yorkshire. Plus, the works that inspired leading artists
Art Basel and William Kentridge
How Dada inspired William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load
Painting, identity and injustice: Howardena Pindell and Oscar Murillo
The rise of the mega-dealers, plus artists take over the Guggenheim
Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top
Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial
Venice Biennale special: our review. Plus, how much longer will the city survive?
Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend
How did Salvator Mundi go from $1,000 to $450m? Plus, the tragedy of Van Gogh's only love
The Notre Dame fire: what happens next? Plus, Cold War Steve
From Despair to The Scream: the genesis of Edvard Munch’s most famous work
What inspired Munch's Scream? Plus, the Shed
Sackler sponsorship: take it or leave it? Plus, museum visitor figures
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Richard Lin and the Met’s World Between Empires
David Bailey in focus, plus Picasso biographer John Richardson remembered
Wham! The George Michael auction and the YBA market. Plus, Sharjah Biennial
Carolee Schneemann, the Armory Show and Venice Biennale curators
Rembrandt special: the complete artist
Hunk of burning love: the naked selfie of the Elizabethan age
NewsFilms
Rising white supremacy tackled in online film festival with works by John Akomfrah and Yinka Shonibare
Goodman Gallery launches video programme today—and you can exclusively watch Yinka Shonibare's Addio Del Passato on The Art Newspaper website this Friday
PreviewExhibitions
Inaugural Asia Society Triennial to finally open with new programming following the pandemic and BLM protests
New triennial in New York aims to highlight the contribution of the fastest-growing demographic in the US, with exhibitions, events and a little inspiration from Yoko Ono
NewsDeaccessioning
Sotheby's sale of Israeli museum artefacts delayed after government pressure
Criticism in Israel reached an apex when President Rivlin called for the state to prevent the London auctions
NewsAugmented reality
Place Michael Eden’s intricate sculpture in your own home with The Art Newspaper’s new AR app feature
View museum-worthy works in your surroundings with a click of a button
NewsBiennials & festivals
Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and John Akomfrah among artists condemning Thai state violence against democracy protestors
Almost half of the artists participating in the Bangkok Art Biennale opening this week have expressed "support for the struggle for democracy"
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Artemisia at the National Gallery in London
The artist’s first major UK exhibition uses dramatic spaces and biographical detail to bring her career into closer focus
InterviewArt market
'If you miss the train, don’t chase it, there will be another one': Ann Getty on collecting
Shortly before she died in September, the art collector, interior designer and philanthropist spoke about cranes with personality and buying what you love
NewsLaw
Germany’s arguments to toss Guelph Treasure case raise concerns from US lawmakers
In Supreme Court filings, the country claims the sale of a valuable collection at a deep discount during the Nazi-era did not violate international law
InterviewFacebook
What's happening to free will and human agency? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to artist Jeremy Hutchison on Instagram today
On an Instagram Live chat, Hutchison wants to quiz the social media leader about algorithms and whether users on his platforms will get paid
News US politics
Chicago students help Jenny Holzer get out the vote
Young citizens, many of them voting in their first presidential election, provide phrases to be shown on LED billboard trucks across the city
BlogThe Buck stopped here
'Boris u r a poo!': nation's children submit letters to prime minister for exhibition at London's Foundling Museum
NewsArt crime
Man tries to take artefact from Louvre—just two weeks after being charged for the same crime at Quai Branly
Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, fined €1,000 earlier this month, will go to court again later today
NewsJohannes Vermeer
Blockbuster Vermeer exhibition—including restored 'hidden Cupid' painting—announced at Dresden's Semperbau
The show promises to be “one of the most spectacular” in the newly renovated museum's history
NewsMuseums
Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie to open after six-year renovation with Calder exhibition
Mies van der Rohe’s steel-and-glass building is undergoing modernisation by David Chipperfield, including new air-conditioning, security, lighting and visitor facilities
NewsArmenia
Armenian monuments in line of fire in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Unesco accused of turning a blind eye to destruction of heritage sites, as bitter skirmish between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the disputed territory drags on
BlogBook Club
An expert’s guide to J.M.W. Turner: four must-read books on the British painter
All you ever wanted to know about Turner, from a “rollicking read” of a biography to a “picture book with a point”—selected by the Romantic period painting specialist David Blayney Brown
NewsDeaccessioning
Assailing leadership, two former board chairmen say they are rescinding $50m in planned gifts to Baltimore Museum of Art
Two artists also step down as board trustees amid turmoil over plans to deaccession three paintings
NewsLaw
US Supreme Court and its impact on the arts: 1990-2020
From freedom of speech trials to Holocaust restitution cases , the country’s highest court regularly weighs in on issues that affect the art world
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From a chilling show on Arctic culture to Polly Morgan's gorgeously repellent serpentine sculptures
NewsPolitics
As constitutional showdown nears, 'artivism' abounds in Chile
The country's artists and galleries are using their platforms to press for social change and support protestors
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
News US politics
Shepard Fairey—creator of famous Obama 'Hope' poster—makes new Time cover image ahead of US election
For first time in 100-year history, magazine replaces logo with the imperative to vote
NewsBeauford Delaney
Covid-19 delays long-planned documentary on Black Abstract Expressionist painter Beauford Delaney
The Tennessee-born artist, part of the Harlem Renaissance before settling in Paris, was largely neglected during his lifetime
NewsBanksy
An AI bot has figured out how to draw like Banksy. And it's uncanny
GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
In a moving letter, Van Gogh complains about quarantine after his forced removal from the Yellow House
New exhibition at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is a unique opportunity to see Vincent’s correspondence, normally locked away in a vault
NewsIndia
Indian museum hopes to reconcile bitter saga of sectarian conflict near disputed holy site
A planned mosque and cultural centre will celebrate the syncretic culture of Hinduism and Islam in the northern city of Ayodhya
NewsDeaccessioning
Sale of more than 250 works from Jerusalem's Islamic art museum raises ethical questions
Israeli museum professionals fear deaccessioning auction could set a dangerous precedent
ReviewBooks
Charting a Life: MacDonald Gill, who designed the inscriptions that form an egalitarian monument to the British and Commonwealth fallen of two world wars
The first biography of ‘Max’ Gill reveals the versatile talent of an artist who was a master of lettering and murals and a standout mapmaker-artist
NewsAuctions
The Royal Opera House's David Hockney painting sells for £12.8m at Christie's amid deaccessioning debate
The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations
NewsDeaccessioning
Responding to outcry, Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning decision
“The greatness of the BMA’s collection does not live within three individual paintings,” she says as the sale of a Warhol, Still and Marden approaches
NewsAmerican art
Oklahoma museum receives vast archive related to 'Black Wall Street' and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Gilcrease Museum has also received a $300,000 grant to conserve and digitise the ephemera collection "so that these atrocities would not be forgotten"
NewsClosures
Marian Goodman to close London gallery
The New York-based art dealer will instead launch a project initiative in the city, with no permanent space, starting next autumn
NewsPrizes
Deana Lawson, photographer of highly staged tableaux, wins the Hugo Boss Prize
The artist, the first photographer anointed, will receive $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim
NewsNew York
Art programme that keeps minor offenders out of court at risk of defunding
New York City might pull the budget for Project Reset, which has helped 4,500 people stay out of the criminal justice system and find a second chance through art
NewsControversies
Madrid's Prado museum accused of misogyny in open letter after misattributing work to female artist
Uninvited Guests exhibition has "been done from a misogynistic point of view and still projects the misogyny of the 19th century,” says one signatory
NewsArt market
Revealed: sellers of £7.6m Banksy were London collectors who provided venue for artist's 2005 Crude Oils exhibition
As part of the deal, Roland and Jane Cowan acquired the faux Impressionist canvas from the artist—it sold last night at Sotheby's
NewsMuseums
Mondrian’s heirs file US suit to recover four paintings worth $200m from a German museum
The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum
NewsProtests
Art X Lagos fair supports frontline photographers in Nigeria who are documenting anti-police brutality protests
Images capturing unrest will be shown during the next edition of the fair
FeatureBook Club
In Pictures | The eve of a US presidential election through the eyes of William Eggleston
A newly republished book by the renowned Memphis photographer documents the Deep South in the run-up to the 1976 election
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Mummified llamas, sacrificed to the gods by Incas, uncovered by archaeologists in Peru
The animals still had their ritual adornments, including necklaces and long, colourful tassels hanging from their ears
NewsArt market
Miami Beach launches residency programme to help artists and businesses in lieu of Art Basel tourism revenue
The initiative encourages property owners to lend their vacant spaces for free and offers $2,500 stipends to artists—but they may still need to pay rent
ReviewResidencies
New York artists find second chance in Governors Island residency programme showcase
The free residencies were part a multi-organisation initiative to replace the annual artist-run Portal art fair and other cultural programming cancelled due to Covid-19
NewsLaw
Sackler family to pay $225m in civil settlement with US government
The deal with the Department of Justice, which also includes guilty pleas and a $8bn fine against Purdue Pharma, does not prevent future claims against family members or company executives
NewsJacob Lawrence
Missing for decades, a Jacob Lawrence painting surfaces in response to a Met exhibition
A visitor makes the connection between the artist’s Struggle series and a work in a neighbour’s home
NewsArt market
Sotheby's to offer monumental Giacometti bronze in rare 'sealed bid' sale with a minimum bid of $90m
Last sold at auction for $4.9m, offers will be reviewed ahead of the auction house's contemporary and Impressionist and Modern art evening sales on 28 October in New York
NewsArt market
Asia Now fair swoops up would-be Fiac exhibitors
Paris fair makes up for lack of Asia-based exhibitors with some blue chip galleries who were meant to be participating at the larger, cancelled fair
NewsPrizes
Actor Russell Tovey to judge 2021 Turner Prize
Award's exhibition moves to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the year-long UK City of Culture 2021 festival
NewsRestitution
Black Lives Matter movement is speeding up repatriation efforts, leading French art historian says
Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago
NewsMuseums
Attacker sprays oil in Berlin museums, damaging sarcophagi, sculptures and frames
Sixty-three objects were sprayed with an oily liquid on 3 October at the Pergamon, Neues Museum and Alte Nationalgalerie
CommentSackler family
Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal
The family behind Purdue Pharma is poised to buy their way out of liability once again
NewsAuctions
Phillips London sets new records for Emily Mae Smith and Portia Zvavahera in £26.3m contemporary evening sale
While the top lot of the night—a fiery self-portrait by George Baselitz—struggled to meet its low estimate, a bidding war broke out over Dana Schutz's painting of a bright orange Trump
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge launch public art exhibition showing portraits of a nation in lockdown
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Plans ‘in the trash can’: remote learning forces US college museums to get creative
Closures, postponements and sharp reductions in programming prompt soul-searching—and innovation—among institutions
NewsGustav Klimt
Stolen Klimt painting—buried for 20 years—to go back on show at Italian museum
Discovered by the gardener at the Ricci Oddi gallery last year, Portrait of a Lady will be the star of a series of exhibitions on the much-loved artist
NewsAppointments & departures
'We are not a suburb of Paris': incoming director of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts champions a North American identity
Stéphane Aquin is taking over after Nathalie Bondil’s controversial dismissal
NewsContemporary African Art
Kapwani Kawanga wins Duchamp Prize with installation referencing African independence
Paris-based artist's work recreates flower arrangements that featured at diplomatic events connected to independence ceremonies in African countries
NewsFunding
Chicago non-profit 3Arts awards $150,000 to three women artists
In its largest round of grants ever, the arts club turned artist funder has created a new “Next Level” series of prizes
Newscoronavirus
New York lawmakers to discuss the economic impact of Covid-19 on cultural institutions
"The arts and cultural sector has been especially hard hit," says Senator José Serrano
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Massive ancient cat image discovered among Peru’s Nazca Lines
The 2,000 year-old earth carving could be the oldest geoglyph ever found
NewsAppointments
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts appoints new director
Stéphane Aquin faces the challenge of restoring stability after Nathalie Bondil’s disputed removal
BlogThe Buck stopped here
'Gorgeous, repellent, savagely erotic': Polly Morgan slithers into our subconscious at London's Bomb Factory
PreviewExhibitions
From the streets to the studio: show explores how Basquiat, graffiti and hip-hop culture stormed the art world in the 1980s
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston includes works by Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kool Koor and Lady Pink
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Oklahoma to honour Native American art in new $175m museum
More than 25 years in the planning, First Americans Museum opens with new commissions and objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
InterviewThe Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper turns 30: how has the world of art publishing changed?
Current editor Alison Cole talks to founding editor and long-time editor-in-chief Anna Somers Cocks about the origins of the newspaper, the fundamentals of its journalism and the challenges the visual arts world has faced
FeatureVideo, film & new media
Take five: Steve McQueen quintet crowns an art-centred London Film Festival
Turner Prize winner’s series led a programme that celebrated the electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and explored an unlikely allegiance of artist and criminal
NewsArt crime
Criminal claims 13 works from legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist are hidden in a Dublin house
BBC4 documentary—released today—unpicks theory that the stolen art was shipped to Ireland
InterviewExhibitions
Cecily Brown: ‘I’m trying to understand what England means to me’
With her delayed show now open at Blenheim Palace, the British-born painter explains that she is as likely to be inspired by childhood comics as historic battle scenes
NewsClimate Change
Season for Change launches four £10,000 artist commissions to support climate action
The project will support works centred around underrepresented communities in the climate movement
NewsArt fairs
ArtRio forges ahead, making it the first major event to take place in Brazil since the pandemic began
Marking the fair's tenth anniversary, a live event with limited ticketing for collectors continues even as Covid-19 cases climb
AnalysisAmerican art
'Comatose' pre-war American art market gets a digital jolt
Forced online due to Covid-19, this year's American Art Fair boasts more exhibitors as auction houses see new records set for late 19th century works
PreviewElection 2020
Bureaucratic but not boring: exhibition explores the visual history of US election ballots
With early voting already underway in the 2020 presidential election, a show at New York's Cooper Union reveals the "power of design in our civic process"
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Liu Xiaodong's portraits of wealthy Chinese immigrants to the Royal Academy's delayed Summer show
CommentClosures
'Another yawning gap': radical London Print Studio closes its doors
Art world pays tribute to vital public space that served community organisations as well as artists including Lucian Freud, Billy Childish and Shezad Dawood
FeatureBook Club
Judge a book by its cover: Centre Pompidou looks at Henri Matisse through a literary lens for new show
One of the most expansive museum surveys on the French artist in 50 years will present his book and magazine designs—and even some of his own writing
NewsMail art
Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe want your postcards for democracy
The artists have launched a mail art project to support USPS and mail-in voting efforts
NewsMuseums & Heritage
An invitation to sponsor a tile: keeping a roof over Jane Austen’s village home
Donations have poured in from all over the globe since the museum appealed for aid
NewsDeaccessioning
Former trustees and donors ask state to block sale of three important works by the Baltimore Museum of Art
Letter asks Maryland attorney general and secretary of state to investigate planned deaccessioning of a Warhol, Still and Marden
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Coveted Van Gogh bouquet to be sold at Sotheby's New York, valued at $18m
Chequered past: from the Bear Skin to the Nazis, a once-restituted painting is now coming up for auction
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Howardena Pindell's first video work in 25 years at The Shed to a cyclical series of Salome-inspired sculptures by Luke Ivy Price at Ki Smith Gallery
InterviewMarina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic TV: five-hour takeover will teach you everything you need to know about performance art
As well as her new Sky Arts programme, the artist's mixed reality work The Life will be sold at Christie’s this month, with an estimate of £400,000-£800,000
NewsDeaccessioning
Brooklyn Museum steams ahead on deaccessioning
After netting $4.2m for a Cranach, the museum plans to sell off works by Monet, Dubuffet, Degas, Miró and Matisse
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Félix Fénéon at the Museum of Modern Art
A collaboration between New York and Paris explores the dealer who championed both Neo-Impressionism and home-grown terrorism
NewsArt market
Fancy a free Takashi Murakami work? Perrotin gallery launches art treasure hunt in Paris
French gallery is hiding 20 valuable works in the empty nave of the Grand Palais—and the public have 48 hours to find them and take them home
CommentArt Market Eye
A flood of art? The market issues around museum deaccessioning
A flurry of museum pieces is heading to auction, but will there be enough buyers for them?
Georgina Adam