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Credit Suisse’s art partnerships up in the air after emergency UBS takeover

With a major art collection and multiple museum sponsorship deals, the collapse of the defunct Swiss bank is likely to have ramifications for the art world

Florida school principal fired for showing students Michelangelo's 'pornographic' David sculpture

Tallahassee Classical School's principal, Hope Carrasquilla, was fired following parental complaints her Renaissance curriculum was too risqué

Turmoil at First Republic could jeopardise the bank’s art world sponsorships

The San Francisco-based bank is a corporate partner at museums across the US

'A place for us to show our living journey as artists': Gilbert & George opening London art centre

The artists reveal they will soon have a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London at the opening of their permanent exhibition space

Art market

Phillips unveils new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong, promising investment in local scene after 'difficult' few years

The opening of the 52,000 sq ft Kowloon space kicked off the city's first international art week since Covid restrictions lifted

Hong Kong heiress sues gallery over alleged £500,000 Banksy fraud

Karen Lo says the dealer Pearl Lam never followed through with her purchase of a well-known painting by the secretive British artist

Art Basel Hong Kong fully reopens after four years—and Asian buyers are out in force

The opening day saw a steady stream of sales to private collectors and institutions in the region

Bracelet worn by Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock film could bring $4.5m at Christie’s

The diamond and ruby bracelet is part of an auction of the jewellery collection of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Hong Kong is back with bang: Art Basel returns and M+ museum makes waves

Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women

Hosted by Ben Luke and Aimee Dawson. With guest speaker Gareth Harris. Produced by David Clack and Julia Michalska
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Museums & Heritage

Tel Aviv Museum of Art partially closes in support of Israel's 'day of paralysis'

Israel's oldest art museum joins nationwide protests against government's contentious new laws, in what arts philanthropist Batia Ofer describes as a "fight for our democracy"

Just what the doctor ordered: masterpieces from Milan museum brighten up hospital

Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera have been blown up and pasted in high definition on the walls of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano to improve patients' well-being

More than 1,000 objects in the Met’s collection linked to alleged traffickers and looters, investigation finds

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

Workers at New York's Hispanic Society will go on strike just as museum completes six-year renovation

Unionised workers at the museum cite stagnant wages, inadequate contracts and unsustainable workloads as just some of the problems at the world-class collection

Marina Loshak steps down as director of Moscow’s Pushkin Museum in latest high-level Russian departure

The well-respected director has been replaced by Elizaveta Likhacheva, the current head of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture

Exhibitions

Olafur Eliasson puts climate change front and centre in Qatar exhibition and desert installation

The artist’s first solo show in the Gulf region presents sculpture, photography and more at the National Museum of Qatar, as well as 12 open-air pavilions at a nature preserve

Yuki Kihara: the photographer upending the cultural legacy of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings

Ahead of her show at Sydney's Powerhouse Ultimo, the Japanese-Samoan artist tells us about the importance of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and how she created a third-gender paradise

Degas and Manet’s ‘mix of friendship and rivalry’ chronicled in major new show

Despite disagreements and a spot of canvas slashing, it was one of the most significant relationships in art history—as a new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris demonstrates

Gian Maria Tosatti tells us why he used gold, rust and charcoal for his new works unveiled in Milan

The Italian artist, who represented his country at the 59th Venice Biennale, has an exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca

Obituaries

Remembering Phyllida Barlow, one of the most significant, and original, British artists of recent years

The sculptor, erudite and irreverent, was known for the power and scale of her site-specific installations

Remembering Balkrishna Doshi, artist, teacher and father of modernist Indian architecture, who has died, aged 95

Innovative architect was at heart of rebuilding independent India, a protégé of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and winner of the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

Remembering Richard Verdi, art historian and long-time director of the Barber Institute, who has died, aged 81

An inspirational teacher, charismatic museum director, Poussin scholar and curator, he was working to the end

Rafael Viñoly—museum 'starchitect' who believed in experience over aesthetics—has died, aged 78

Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings

Remembering Norman Dilworth, a champion of Concrete Art, who has died, aged 92

The Wigan-born sculptor became attuned to the modern movement in Europe after making his name with construction-based reliefs and sculptures in Britain

Spotlight on Vermeer

As the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam stages the most comprehensive Johannes Vermeer exhibition ever mounted (10 February-4 June), we bring together our top coverage of the Dutch Old Master and the latest news from the once-in-a-lifetime show.

Ten essential artworks to see in Amsterdam

Heading to the Vermeer blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum? Here are some other unmissable masterpieces in the Dutch capital

The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★

A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph

The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues

As the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing

Vermeer reality TV show brings back to life painter's missing masterpieces

A hit in The Netherlands, "The New Vermeer" challenges artists to recreate works from a wide variety of materials—including Lego

Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

As the "unmissable" show opens at the Rijksmuseum we talk to the curators, the museum's director and artist Alvaro Barrington

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Careers at TAN

We're hiring! Associate Digital Editor, London office

The Art Newspaper is looking for an experienced digital editor to join its London team

The Art Newspaper is looking for a Senior Editor, Museums (New York)

An exciting opportunity has opened up for a talented art journalist to join our US team

Books

Book review | The tale of a magnificent boat with a violent colonial history

This account of the theft of a South Seas cultural treasure by German colonists in the late 1800s reveals a series of atrocities

Green is the New Black

In this monthly column, our correspondent Louisa Buck looks at how the art industry is responding to our climate and ecological crisis

Gallery Climate Coalition discourages potential greenwashing by members

Partners of the organisation are now rewarded for adhering to its decarbonising and emission-cutting guidelines

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Adventures with Van Gogh

Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.

How Van Gogh’s 'Terrace of a Café at Night'—with its starry sky—was inspired by a friend’s painting

The work’s dramatic colour contrast echoes a Parisian street scene by Louis Anquetin, now on show at London’s National Gallery

Book Club

From Hogarth to Hockney, artists struck by puppy love are celebrated in four recent canine-themed books

Ahead of a new show of dog portraits at London's Wallace Collection, we round-up some publishing treats for you to paw over

An expert’s guide to Hokusai: four must-read books on the Japanese artist

All you ever wanted to know about Hokusai, from a history of The Great Wave to a novel about the artist's daughter—selected by the curator Sarah E. Thompson

Extract | When the Picasso was almost knocked off the wall during a blockbuster show

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Don’t delete art! Project documenting censorship on social media launches manifesto

New campaign hopes to convince companies like Facebook and Instagram to bring artists into the content moderation process

'AI will become the new normal’: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industry

Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value

What are DAOs? How blockchain-governed collectives might revolutionise the art world

Egalitarian and democratic, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations are powerful collecting forces with the potential to reshape the industry

Five ways ChatGPT could help the culture sector create social media content

AI chatbot software has made waves by creating convincingly human speech and text—could it transform communications in the arts?

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A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with... Amy Sillman

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Maria Lassnig to Gertrude Stein

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The Year Ahead: 2023

After three years of uncertainty, the outlook for the art world in 2023 seems bright—and The Art Newspaper is excited to bring you this guide to the year ahead, including the best exhibitions, fairs and biennials worldwide.