BlogIn the frame
Pick up an artist-designed protest sign for New York's climate strike
BlogDiary
On the Road to Marfa with Elmgreen and Dragset
The duo recently visited their Prada Marfa installation for the first time since the work’s unveiling in 2005—and we joined them on the road trip
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Art films worth seeing at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
Claes Bang takes the lead in two art dramas, while Cunningham dances through the decades
InterviewSantiago X
Native American artist Santiago X on rebuilding Indigenous cities, one mound at a time
The forgotten history of Indigenous mound building will be reclaimed at this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial
NewsBiennials & festivals
Work of art advertised on Airbnb lets visitors stay for free in the Arctic Circle—but there’s a twist
The installation by Czech artist Kateřina Šedá is part of the Lofoten International Art Festival in Norway
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Not just a tortured soul: new show shines light on Van Gogh's humour and friendships
Den Bosch exhibition features rarely exhibited documents revealing the artist's personal relationships
Latest in Podcast
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
NewsExhibitions
Nate Lowman’s new works to focus on Las Vegas mass shooting
Series of paintings at David Zwirner London are based on crime scene images released by police
NewsArt market
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NewsKhadija Saye
Grenfell victim Khadija Saye's salvaged images to be sold for charity at Victoria Miro
Most of the late artist's work was lost in the tower block fire in 2017, but nine surviving prints will be sold in aid of education programme in her honour
NewsRestitution
Namibian artefacts travel home in Berlin museum research project
But return of the objects permanently to Namibia is not the immediate goal, says Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
PreviewExhibitions
LA show delves inside the mind of Betye Saar
The Lacma exhibition will show how the US artist’s works develop over decades from initial sketchbooks to finished assemblages
ReviewPhotography
Diversity drives Unseen Amsterdam as 19 new galleries arrive
New artistic director Marina Paulenka takes the reins of the annual photography festival this year
Latest in Video
Podcast sneak peek: how actor Timothy Spall captured the essence of Britain's beloved L.S. Lowry
Art heaven or hell? Museum’s epic £15m tunnel brings to life Dante’s Divine Comedy
How Dada inspired William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load
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Exclusive: Damien Hirst channels Jackson Pollock for latest works
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Rozzers and Rastas: Denzil Forrester unveils Brixton underground station commission
NewsObituaries
Gianfranco Gorgoni, photographer of Land Art and the New York avant-garde, has died, aged 77
The photographer, first known for his intimate portraits of artists, was later renowned for his monumental images of art in remote places
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Park Service report warns that Trump's border fence could harm archaeological sites
Experts worry that artefacts would be in peril if a 30-ft-high steel barrier is built
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this weekend
The West Coast gallery season opens with its own slate of must see shows, from Tala Madani's scatological depictions of motherhood to Kenny Scharf's jabs at consumerism
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the LMCC’s Art Center inaugural season to William Powhida’s watercolour memes
NewsMiddle East
Tate's huge 'Guernica of the Arab world' is recreated in tapestry so it can travel the world
Dia al-Azzawi's Sabra and Shatila Massacre has been commissioned by a Lebanese art foundation as an "archive of history"
NewsArt market
Pre-Columbian auction in Paris goes ahead in face of protest from Guatemala and Mexico
Although one Mayan relief was withdrawn, the Mexican government condemned the "illegal" sale but auctioneer Millon defends it as "perfectly legitimate"
PreviewExhibitions
Albertina’s Albrecht Dürer drawings enjoy a rare outing
Exhibition will bring together Vienna museum’s collection with key loans from European institutions, as well as unveiling a raft of new theories
FeatureArt & Design 2019
Chicago Architecture Biennial reckons with displacement, privation and segregation
Artists’ works address a history of colonialisation and marginalisation and its impact on contemporary urban realities
NewsOpenings
Norwegian sculpture park does the Twist with Bjarke Ingels extension
Kistefos's dramatic new exhibition gallery also functions as a panoramic bridge
NewsAustrian politics
Austrian election campaign turns forest art stadium into political battleground
Unveiled earlier this month, Klaus Littmann's tree installation is Austria's biggest ever public work of art
BlogIn the frame
Unmasked! 3D picture of Banksy (from the back) sells at Sotheby’s
ReviewBooks
'The guardian of Vincent’s legacy': new biography details devoted life of Van Gogh's sister-in-law Jo Bonger
Bonger's encounter with Trotsky and her tireless effort to preserve the artist's work are explored in the new book by Hans Luijten
PreviewExhibitions
Thoroughly modern Maharaja: how an Indian prince amassed one of the world’s greatest Modern design collections
Paris exhibition includes furniture by Eileen Gray, sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and photographs by Man Ray
PreviewExhibitions
Michelangelo drawings head (Mid)West for Cleveland show
The exhibition, which includes a preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, will also travel to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
PreviewArt fairs
Strong, diverse and on the ascent: new fair and galleries add to Chicago's booming commercial art scene
Growing momentum in the Windy City is drawing in talent from across the US and around the world
NewsConservation & Preservation
Getty plans sweeping $100m initiative to promote the world’s cultural heritage
Projects will range from exhibitions about the classical world to conservation and excavations and a book about “heritage and mass atrocities”
NewsDavid Hammons
Whitney Museum breaks ground on public installation by David Hammons
The museum celebrated the project, due to be completed in 2020, with a NYPD fireboat performance and specially commissioned jazz composition
NewsMuseums
Costs soar for Berlin’s planned Museum of the 20th Century
New estimate puts potential cost at €450 million versus previous estimate of €200 million
BlogIn the frame
New installation tosses up courtroom outfits of fake heiress Anna Delvey
NewsPrizes
Mona Hatoum and William Kentridge among international recipients of £100,000 Japanese art prize
The Praemium Imperiale Award will be presented in Tokyo in October
NewsRestoration
Restorers discover shield fragment is 1,700 years old, making it the oldest German panel painting
Researchers at the Landesmuseum in Halle found fragments of paint on the ancient wooden object
BlogIn the frame
Power—and pesos—to the people, as 'artivism' project travels around New York’s East Harlem
NewsArt fairs
'It was painful, it was hardship': Marina Abramovic on her ill-fated, epic walk towards Ulay across the Great Wall of China
Three decades after the artists made the journey, in the dying throes of their relationship, PhotoFairs Shanghai is showing the work for the first time in the country
NewsConservation & Preservation
Probing nine paintings, conservators in Amsterdam unlock Chagall’s secrets
Research project at the Stedelijk Museum sheds light on some of the artist’s techniques
NewsEducation
Free arts education programme started in Harlem expands to major US cities
ProjectArt fills a void in the American public school system, adding initiatives in New Orleans and San Francisco this autumn
NewsClimate Change
Columbia University launches year-long programming on climate change
Artists such as Olafur Eliasson will participate in the university’s Year of Water initiative
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Laser scan may one day aid Notre Dame’s restorers
A 2010-12 effort to map every inch of the cathedral could help the post-fire reconstruction
NewsPublic art
Officials reject reports of permanent Prince Philip statue for London's Fourth Plinth
Mayor of London’s office says contemporary art series will continue with Heather Phillipson sculpture planned for 2020
NewsProtest
Ai Weiwei was not 'thrown out' of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, artist confirms
Activist was demonstrating in support of workers' rights in the face of cost-cutting at the museum
NewsExhibitions
Simon Starling tells the tale of a Turin car tycoon and his Old Master sliced in half
Exhibitions in Glasgow and Turin explore legacy of Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli
FeatureCollectors
Feeling the pinch: why the middle-class collector is a dying breed
The Vogels filled their modest apartment with contemporary art, but wage stagnation has seen the professional-classes squeezed out of this overheated market
NewsArt theft
'I wish it was a prank': Maurizio Cattelan on the surreal theft of his golden toilet
Man arrested after 18-carat lavatory was forcibly removed from Blenheim Palace
NewsArt market
Xenophobic attacks prevent Nigerian galleries exhibiting at Art Joburg
Nigerian artist Sheila Chukwulozie makes her voice heard with protest piece at the fair
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Middle East think-tank opens art gallery in Washington, DC
New space for Modern and contemporary art from the Arab world will put on five exhibitions a year
NewsMusée du Louvre
Bad bedfellows? French politician blasts Louvre over partnership with Airbnb
Paris deputy mayor Ian Brossat says that teaming up with the online rental giant is “disastrous and shocking”
PreviewArt & Design 2019
The year ahead in design: all the key dates you need
The biggest biennials, fairs and exhibitions over the next 12 months
NewsArt & Design 2019
Form and (dys)function: new objects question the role of 'usability' in design
Artists at London Design Festival are taking a swipe at the foundations of Modern design
NewsExhibitions
Faena Festival aims to spiritually awaken Miami Beach
The second annual arts festival explores spirituality and ritual
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met’s first façade commission to Jean-Marie Appriou’s surreal equines
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week
From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots
FeatureArt & Design 2019
London Design Festival: meet the designers pushing us to take action on the world's big issues
We take a look at artists tackling environmental and social issues through large-scale, experimental works
NewsGiuliano Ruffini
Old Master fakes scandal: warrant issued for dealer Giuliano Ruffini as painter Lino Frongia arrested
Suspect has been jailed in northern Italy over case that has embroiled major international museums and dealers
NewsMusée du Louvre
Louvre to train refugees as tour guides with funds from Saudi foundation
Supported by undisclosed donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies, French museum’s newly renovated Islamic galleries reopened this week
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
New discoveries: Paul Signac painted watercolours of Van Gogh’s asylum
Signac, who offered to fight a duel over the Sunflowers, pays homage to his Dutch friend
BlogIn the frame
Hillary Clinton reads her infamous emails at the Venice Biennale
NewsRussia
Pushkin State Museum to take control of nine contemporary art centres across Russia
Handover from Russian culture ministry is expected to be completed in early 2020
NewsArt fairs
Paris fair struggles to move on from forged furniture fiasco
Criminal investigation launched three years ago into Parisian dealers at La Biennale continues to diminish confidence in the event's integrity
NewsClimate Change
Art world impact just 'a drop in the ocean': Istanbul biennial curator takes on climate crisis
Nicolas Bourriaud examines the Anthropocene in 16th edition of the exhibition and says the “real issue is mass tourism"
NewsObituaries
Vancouver street photographer Fred Herzog has died, age 88
The German-born Canadian captured a view of the city that has since been lost, but he did not receive major recognition until late in life
NewsPolitics
Tom Watson, deputy Labour leader, wants to put 'creativity back at the heart of our classrooms'
Politician also says Brexit will have 'disastrous' consequences for creative industries
InterviewMaurizio Cattelan
'Art's most high-profile provocateur' Maurizio Cattelan on his new Blenheim Palace show
Known for this dangling horse and gold toilet, the Italian artist's exhibition is in the unlikely setting of Winston Churchill's birthplace
BlogIn the frame
The Moaning Lisa? Pornhub commissions exhibition in LA
NewsArt market
Is this $30m portrait the 'last Botticelli'?
Painting will be exhibited at Frieze Masters next month, after a "style of Botticelli" sleeper sold for over £6m at Zurich auction in June
NewsBuilding projects
Oakland’s ‘museum of the people’ launches $85m capital campaign
Renovation aims to reflect the demographic diversity of the birthplace of the Black Panthers
CommentMuseums & Heritage
It's back to school for the art world—here's why you shouldn't just rush to the blockbusters
From William Blake at Tate Britain to Gauguin at the National Gallery, London's museums are opening their biggest exhibitions this month—but how much are you really able to enjoy them?
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Reem Fadda takes the reins at Abu Dhabi cultural foundation—but where is the emirate's Guggenheim?
Historic culture centre in UAE re-opens after 10 years with survey of trailblazing woman artist Najat Makki
NewsObituaries
Robert Frank, the foreigner who framed America in photographs, dies aged 94
Swiss-born photographer, best know for his series The Americans, had a wide and enduring impact on photography
NewsPhotography
Germany plans photography archive to preserve 'visual memory of our society'
Culture minister Monika Grütters enlists international experts to help create a central institution but critics question necessity and feasibility
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Making the Art Institute of Chicago a more inclusive place is about more than just architecture
The museum’s director James Rondeau on why the institution is bringing Barcelona architects Barozzi Veiga on board to rethink the whole campus
James Rondeau