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Museum of the City of New York opens new centre for social activism
The Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism’s inaugural exhibitions focus on activism in the Big Apple and the living cultures of the Lenape
Phoenix Art Museum receives $5m gift for new Sri Lankan and South Asian art galleries
The local philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran hopes his gift will deepen cultural understanding of the region and elevate its art
British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours
Some ticket holders have reportedly queued for up to two hours to enter the blockbuster exhibition, while others have been turned away
Comment | ‘Britart’ started well in the 1990s—but it soon became as bad as Britpop
Can Tate Britain's new show escape nostalgia and knock down the monstrous mythologies surrounding the Young British Artists?
How an EU-funded research programme has been future-proofing art conservation
GoGreen has brought together experts from 13 institutions to explore sustainable methods—testing some out on a 1906 Tiffany dish
Museums & Heritage
How Turkey is racing to save Gallipoli’s vanishing shipwrecks
A recently launched project called Deep Heritage aims to slow the disintegration of dozens of warships sunk off Turkey's coast during the devastating First World War campaign
Matronage over patronage: the Prado and Rijksmuseum team up to research women rulers’ impact on art
The collaborative project will explore the women of Habsburg Empire and include an exhibition at the Amsterdam museum in 2029
Nine Swiss museums to investigate provenance of thousands of objects from Cameroon
The research project has been awarded £91,000 in federal funding for 2027–28
Strongest El Niño in decades threatens Peru’s adobe heritage
Authorities are scrambling to protect more than 10,000 coastal archaeological sites as experts accuse them of insufficient planning despite warnings
Doubts over financial sustainability of Brussels’s new Kanal museum cloud upcoming opening
The managing director Yves Goldstein will step down immediately after the opening in November due to “a difference of opinion” over the institution‘s future
Art market
Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership
Recent US lawsuits, including a row over underpricing, reveal weaknesses in the market
Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction
The painting, discovered in an estate sale in Michigan this summer, set a new auction record for Abercrombie at a Freeman’s sale in New York
$450m Impressionist collection—including a potentially record-breaking Van Gogh painting—to be sold at Sotheby's New York
Five of the works from the Blaquier-Arrieta collection go on show in London today as part of an international tour ahead of the sale in November
Untitled Art, Houston taps into a city where artists can thrive
The second edition of the fair highlights Houston’s galleries, collectors and institutions, while artists point to affordability, strong connections and a spirit of experimentation
‘The struggle creates genius’: as it grows and matures, Atlanta Art Fair spotlights the city’s hard-working artists
The fair’s third edition, its largest yet, saw a bevy of sales in its opening hours, primarily in the four- and five-figure range
Exhibitions
Grounding ourselves: new exhibition in London explores our complex relationship to the earth
“Listening to the Earth” at Drawing Room brings together ten artists who work with the earth as both subject and material
Exhibition at New York's Met examines how Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock's relationship enriched their art
A new show argues that the Abstract Expressionist power couple could never have made their groundbreaking works without each other’s support
Latest edition of Portland triennial offers powerful projects but lacks a cohesive theme
The New York-based curator Lumi Tan has brought together 28 artist projects that are captivating yet disparate for the Converge 45 triennial in Oregon
Iván Argote—the artist behind the infamous pigeon sculpture for New York's High Line—to debut permanent installation in Italy
This month, the Colombian artist will unveil his site-specific sculpture in an ancient Piedmontese town, as well as a solo gallery show in London
Copenhagen's Glyptotek is thinking about the Roman Empire with new ancient fashion exhibition
Exhibition at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes sensational loans—and some added colour
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.
The story behind the record-price Van Gogh up for auction in November
“Blossoming Chestnut Trees”, which has been hidden away for over 60 years, is being sold by Sotheby's for the Blaquier-Arrieta family of Argentina
Diary
Sylvie in Paris? Netflix star to lead weekend rehang at this year's Art Basel Paris
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, best known to Anglophone audiences from the hit series Emily in Paris, will ‘art-direct’ the French fair's Oh La La! rehang programme
Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare
London exhibition will examine the life of the crime fiction writer and how she created her most famous characters
When Dolly met Andy: a snapshot of the country music legend’s impact on artists
From Warhol to Annie Leibovitz, the late Dolly Parton was an inspiration to artists over her long career
Somebody to Love at the V&A as Freddie Mercury's costumes going on view
Eight of the Queen frontman's costumes will be exhibited in the free 'Splendid Things' display at the South Kensington museum
‘An important moment for me’: artist Oliver Beer’s cave-themed project wins over a reluctant Rufus Wainwright
Oliver Beer persuaded the star to take part in his Resonance Project, which involves singers to responding to the acoustic frequencies in a prehistoric painted cave
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Renoir and Love in London, political storm around Kanal in Brussels, Ronald Moody—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke previews a new Renoir exhibition at London's National Gallery, learns about the controversy around the opening of Kanal in Brussels, and explores a sculpture from 1938 by Jamaican-born artist Ronald Moody
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry, a nearly 70m-long embroidery telling the story of the Norman Conquest, has returned to England for the first time since it was made nearly 1,000 years ago, going on view in a special exhibition at the British Museum. To mark the occasion, here is a curated selection of our stories on the treasured work
British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry
Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos
Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?
Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public
Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF
A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show
‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition
Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech
Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry
As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with… Sunil Gupta—podcast
Sunil Gupta talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Art on Location
Art on Location offers a special focus on outdoor art experiences, with news, features and archive content covering public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology
‘These are party houses aren't they?’ Why Britain's stately homes are opening up to contemporary art
Showing works by artists including Tracey Emin and Phyllida Barlow over the summer is helping to attract new audiences and bolster income for historic buildings
Sun, sea, sand—and art: luxury hotel in Crete commissions works in response to the island
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation has taken on the challenge of putting outdoor art in scorching Mediterranean conditions at the Minos Palace Resort
From beavers to basketball hoops: a new public art trail opens in Toronto
The Lassonde Art Trail is part of a $1bn redevelopment project to revitalise the city's relationship with its waterways
Books
New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists
The study explores how Valleyer-Coster cultivated an elite clientele in a turbulent France while navigating the pressures placed on women artists
Royal Academy book looks at Richard Dadd beyond the themes of madness and murder
Jennifer Higgie’s new novel meanwhile takes a very different approach to the life and legacy of the English artist, who spent much of his life in psychiatric institutions
Meet Alan Dunn, the New Yorker cartoonist who put Modernism in its place
A new book explores how Alan Dunn poked fun at 20th-century American architecture over this five-decade cartooning career
A bonanza of Bayeux Tapestry books to accompany the blockbuster British Museum exhibition
There is plenty to read about the medieval masterpiece as it returns to England for the first time in almost 1,000 years
September Book Bag: from Don McCullin’s powerful Vietnam images to a behind-the-scenes dive into Paula Rego’s studio
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Opinion
Comment | It's high time philanthropy was decentralised
Charles Asprey has shown courage and imagination by donating works to the tiny and remote Pier Arts Centre, instead of one of the UK’s prestigious London-based institutions
Comment | A trip to Venice this year offered thought-provoking reminders of past art disputes
From a contested Richard Prince to the disputed Veroneses, La Serenissima remains one of the best places to see works of art formerly at the centre of legal controversies
Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?
An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts
Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building
A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration
Comment | Why should artists stay in cities like London and New York when financial pressures are making it harder than ever?
Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention
Obituaries
Lucia Laguna, Brazilian painter of verdant and fragmented cityscapes, has died, aged 85
Laguna, who only started painting after retiring from her teaching career, started to achieve success when she was in her 60s
Peter Max, artist who achieved ubiquity marrying Pop art and psychedelia, has died, aged 88
A celebrity in his own right who also created riotous portraits of many famous and powerful people, Max made images that became inseparable from the legacy of the Summer of Love and countercultural movement
Geles Cabrera, the pioneering Mexican sculptor, has died, aged 100
Through her sinuous approach to the human figure, Cabrera forged a distinctive sculptural language and challenged conventions
Remembering Sliman Mansour, a defining figure of Palestinian art
Through his art, Mansour was a pioneering force of Palestinian cultural resistance
Christian Bernard, founding director of Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, dies aged 76
Over a four-decade career, the French art critic and curator profoundly influenced contemporary art institutions in Switzerland and France
The Art of Luxury
A magazine, published twice per year by The Art Newspaper, exploring how grande marque fashion, jewellery, travel and lifestyle interact with artists, the art market and the museums and heritage sector
‘An inexhaustible source of inspiration’: how the spirit of jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger lives on at Tiffany & Co
The jewellery house and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris are partnering to restore thousands of the designer's sketches and personal documents
Mexican chef brings spirit of Frida Kahlo to Tate Modern pop up restaurant
Santiago Lastra is combining a love for the artist and his home cuisine in London this summer
From the Hamptons to Saint-Tropez: design fairs PAD and Nomad follow the sun
Nomad co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte describes the fair as “a resort concept”
'A work of conceptual art': Belmond launches new Art Deco-inspired train dining car
The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior





















































