NewsPolitics
Poland’s right-wing government accused of hijacking prize-winning museum
Heated dispute over European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk taking place in the aftermath of the killing of the city’s mayor, Paweł Adamowicz
NewsContemporary art
Artist installs mirror into panel of famous Ghent Altarpiece for new project
Kris Martin says his addition to the Flemish masterpiece turns observers into “just judges”
NewsMuseums
Russian man strolls through Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery in thong underwear
The latest bizarre incident at one of Russia’s most important institutions was an “unsanctioned performance” according to the museum
NewsArt law
The Hague’s art arbitration court to open in April
But it remains an open question whether the trade will accept the new court’s decisions
BlogIn the frame
From Veronese to Isaac Julien—art therapy at a leading London hospital
NewsRestitution
London museum returns emperor's hair—taken by a British officer as a war trophy—to Ethiopia
The two locks will be buried at the monastery where emperor Tewodros' body was interred
Latest in Comment
Ancient antisemitic tropes are resurfacing—it is time to uncover the myths
Tribute to Marella Agnelli—doyenne of high society
Should galleries adopt the Tinder approach?
Art in sensitive times
Vexed issue of vetting: force for good or conflict of interests?
NewsNazi loot
German cathedral returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master to heirs
Dutch Square is one of many paintings Bavaria returned to the families of the looters instead of the original Jewish owners after the war
PreviewExhibitions
Emma Kunz and the art of healing: drawings used in rituals come to London
Serpentine Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of the mystical Swiss artist’s work
FeatureArt market
Dubai's Alserkal Avenue launches arts foundation
The not-for-profit will commission works and offer residencies and educational programmes to promote artistic development in Dubai
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
Ninety years on, MoMA rediscovers its radical soul
New York museum's rotating rehang will emphasise diverse permanent collection to celebrate the “pluriverse” of art
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Powerful, political and pungent: Mike Nelson's Tate Britain commission
NewsExhibitions
'It's not about shock value': Russian artist skins, eats and performs sex acts on dead animals in the name of art
New exhibition in Italy shows videos from Petr Davydtchenko's past three years living exclusively off road-kill
Latest in Podcast
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
Bonus podcast: Dorothea Tanning show comes to Tate Modern
PreviewExhibitions
St. Louis show sniffs out why Egyptians smashed noses
Exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores how Pharaohs and Christians alike went in for vandalising and “killing” icons
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Greenwich's Painted Hall reopens with day beds for visitors to admire 'England's Sistine Chapel'
Two-year restoration of James Thornhill's dizzying Baroque interior was the largest open-access conservation project in Europe
FeatureAuctions
Going, going, gone online: Europe's auction houses go digital
Online-only auctions may tend to focus on the lower end of the market, but they are key to expanding clientele. We survey ten auction houses to find out their strategy
BlogIn the frame
Peter Blake paints Glastonbury titan Michael Eavis
NewsArt market
Historic Bernheim-Jeune and Fine Art Society galleries shut up shop
A sign of the times, two of London and Paris’s oldest firms closed their premises in the traditional art heartlands of the cities
NewsLaw
US Supreme Court declines to review a challenge to the National Gallery's ownership of a Matisse
Grandchildren of muse depicted in 1908 painting exhaust their US appeals
Latest In the frame
From Veronese to Isaac Julien—art therapy at a leading London hospital
about 2 hours agoPeter Blake paints Glastonbury titan Michael Eavis
More of Dior: Designer of Dreams show extended at V&A
New York to build monuments to four more female trailblazers
Tomorrow’s world: Young Collector Award at JustMad fair encourages budding buyers
AnalysisArt market
From tribal art to Old Master paintings, taking the market's temperature at Tefaf Maastricht
As the Dutch fair opened its 32nd edition, we spoke to exhibitors across four sectors about the state of the market
NewsPrizes
Caravaggio in the flesh at The Art Newspaper Russia’s annual prize ceremony
Actors, musicians, dancers and a famous Moscow film director, combined with lighting wizardry, celebrate the Russian art world
NewsArt crime
London dealers embroiled in Ezra Chowaiki fraud scheme over $1.2m Chagall painting
Fresh complaint seeks the return of the work allegedly sold by the disgraced Manhattan dealer under false pretences
NewsSponsorship
London's National Portrait Gallery drops £1m grant from Sackler Trust
Mutual decision comes amid growing controversy over trust's links to Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a prescription painkiller linked to the opioid crisis
NewsEconomics
Trump wants to axe the NEA. Yes, again.
The administration points to private fundraising like crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter as a better way to support the arts
Latest in Video
Inside the Chinese art market: The Art Newspaper meets Kejia Wu
about 2 hours agoBeyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
'A deeper source of truth than appearances': Antony Gormley on Joseph Beuys
NewsObituaries
Matisse expert and archivist Wanda de Guebriant has died, aged 69
The only authorised authenticator of the artist’s work started her 40-year career as an assistant to Matisse’s daughter, Marguerite Duthuit
NewsObituaries
Experimental film-maker Barbara Hammer dies, aged 79
The pioneer of lesbian film became an advocate for medical aid in dying
PreviewArt fairs
From a change in sponsorship to new directorship, Art Dubai prepares to open after year of upheaval
Co-directors Pablo de Val and Chloe Vaitsou reshuffle the fair's layout and focus on art from the Global South with guest stars from Latin America
NewsTate
'State decline, spawning vanity and inequality': Mike Nelson's Tate Britain show offers bleak portrait of UK
Artist sourced defunct industrial machines online for new installations, reflecting “an eating away of ourselves”
NewsOpenings
Basrah Museum unveils three new galleries in Saddam Hussein's former palace
Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia rooms open with support from UK government's Cultural Protection Fund
NewsObituaries
Obituary: Lamia al-Gailani, the archaeologist who brought new life to the looted Basrah museum
She was a key figure in the post-war re-establishment of Iraq’s antiquities museums
NewsPolitics
Ukrainian nationalists target lecture at Kiev arts centre as far-right activity rises
Protesters accused of leaving behind swastika graffiti at talk organised by Izolyatsia arts centre
NewsBiennials & festivals
Authorities cancel activist youth festival in Russia's Far East
Officials raise concerns that the festival was promoting an LGBT agenda
InterviewOkwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor on making sense of 'a global landscape that again lies shattered and in disarray'—archive, 2015
1 May 2015: The Nigerian curator's exhibtions in the Giardini and Arsenale of the Venice Biennale promise to be the most topical Venice show of recent years
NewsConservation
Stolen in 1985, a recovered de Kooning will undergo conservation treatment
University of Arizona Museum of Art will send its painting, damaged by the thief, to the Getty
BlogDiary
Praise and plaudits for Studio Voltaire as it gears up for major expansion
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the collaborative creations of the Chicago Imagists at Goldsmiths CCA to the reopening of John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor
NewsObituaries
Okwui Enwezor, curator of Documenta and Venice Biennale, has died aged 55
Enwezor inspired a global, inclusive view of art history
NewsArt market
Bid me up before you go-go: sun goes down on George Michael’s art collection at Christie’s
Buyers have faith in Tracey Emin who leads the white glove, YBA-heavy sale, but Damien Hirst’s market continues to soften
CommentObituaries
Tribute to Marella Agnelli—doyenne of high society
The art collector and museum founder who married into the Agnelli dynasty was a woman of charm and intelligence
NewsArt market
Powerful collectors open up in Tefaf Maastricht's Chinese art market report
New study, released today, covers 40-year history of the country's market and reveals many private art museums run at a loss
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Discoveries under the floorboards of Van Gogh’s bedroom in Brixton
Mysterious papers were found during the restoration of the south London house in Hackford Road where the Dutchman lodged
NewsOpenings
Lost features of John Soane’s dream country home Pitzhanger Manor restored
Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house
PreviewExhibitions
Ilya Repin remains the provocateur in Moscow show
Visitors of a certain age may well be shocked to find that ultimately the Russian artist loathed the Bolsheviks as much as he did the tsars
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a meditation on power to female sexual awakening
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Kaywin Feldman shatters the glass ceiling at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
During her first week on the job, the new director reveals her aspirations for the museum
NewsCornelius Gurlitt
Signac painting in Gurlitt hoard identified as Nazi loot
Restitution discussions with descendants of Jewish owner are underway
BlogDiary
Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss among star-studded guest-list at London National Portrait Gallery gala
The 450-strong guest list spanned fashion royalty in the form of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, to actual royalty from Princess Beatrice to the Duchess of Cambridge, who is an NPG patron
NewsRestitution
Culture ministers from 16 German states agree to repatriate artefacts looted in colonial era
Joint declaration is “a statement of historical responsibility,” says Culture Minister Monika Grütters
NewsOpenings
Milton Keynes gallery expansion wants to ‘make people think again’
MK Gallery's new £12m building is inspired by utopian 1970s heyday of England’s maligned New Town
NewsFunding
New £150,000 grant to ‘embolden’ museums goes to Whitworth and Van Abbemuseum
Award from Outset Partners will support Arte Útil project to queer collections and work with local communities
NewsRestitution
Dutch museums take initiative to repatriate colonial-era artefacts
Rijksmuseum opens talks with Sri Lanka, ethnology museums publish guidelines
PreviewExhibitions
Grandmaster flash of the Mediterranean—Joaquín Sorolla comes to London's National Gallery
The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour
PreviewArt market
Asia Week’s 10th anniversary brings classic and contemporary offerings
Our picks of highlights from commercial galleries participating in the event
NewsMcMullen Museum of Art
Boston College mascot identified as Meiji bronze
The monumental bronze eagle was donated in 1954 by a gardener who inherited it from a diplomat and collector
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Hiroshi Sugimoto to redesign Hirshhorn's sculpture garden
The renovation taps into the spirit of the founding architect, Gordon Bunshaft
CommentArt market
Should galleries adopt the Tinder approach?
Dealers face a difficult marketplace and industry leaders say “engagement is the currency of the 21st century”
NewsShutdown
Counting the cost of the longest government shutdown in US history
The shutdown dealt a blow to federally-funded museums, with disappointed visitors, furloughed staff, disrupted exhibitions and lost revenue that “can never be regained”
NewsAppointments & departures
Terra Foundation’s transformational leader Elizabeth Glassman to step down
During her two-decade tenure, the Terra closed its Chicago museum and turned its attention to grant-making and collaborations
NewsMuseums
Major museum designed by V&A Dundee's architects to open in Turkey
Odunpazari Modern Museum designed by Kengo Kuma, which will show the collection of architect Erol Tabanca, will open in the university city of Eskişehir in June
NewsBob and Roberta Smith
Bob and Roberta Smith protests Hertfordshire County Council's decision to auction off art collection
Works by Carel Weight and Julian Trevelyan are among those to be sold at Cheffins auction house
NewsLiu Ye
Liu Ye announced as David Zwirner's first Chinese artist following gallery's Hong Kong expansion
Zwirner plans to hold a solo exhibition of Liu's work in New York next year
NewsDisasters & destruction
Tributes pour in for Italian marine archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa who died in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
He was was an expert on the battle of Egadi of 241BC
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Austrian exhibition to reveal story of Wolfgang Gurlitt, art dealer for the Nazis turned museum director
Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz confronts the legacy of its controversial first director, cousin of Hildebrand Gurlitt
NewsAuction
Van Ham to auction 4,000 contemporary works from SØR Rusche collection
Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s
NewsDiary of an art historian
Perhaps even a Leonardo copy shows you’re rich and cultured
A version of the Mona Lisa by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci recently sold at Sotheby's for $1.69m
NewsPublic art
Michele Oka Doner finds fertile ground as the New York Botanical Garden’s new artist in residence
The Miami-born, New York-based artist known for her richly botanical works hints at “raves” and a departure from the expected kind of art installation as she digs in to the 250-acre landscape
NewsChina
Is Budi Tek's Yuz Museum branching out?
The Indonesian-Chinese collector, who is behind the Shanghai institution, recently partnered with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
InterviewArtists
Picasso biographer John Richardson dies, aged 95
We recently spoke to the art historian about his new book focusing on his extraordinary life, his homes and his eclectic personal collection
NewsArt market
Jean-Claude Juncker dismisses claims that freeports are ‘systematically used to commit fraud’
European Commission president rebuffs German MEP Wolf Klinz's demand for a proper investigation into the management of Le Freeport Luxembourg
CommentThe Jewish Museum
Ancient antisemitic tropes are resurfacing—it is time to uncover the myths
New exhibition in London shows negative ideas around Jewish people have a long history, in which artists have played their part—and continue to do so
Abigail Morris