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
NewsArt theft
Police seeking Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace
Man arrested after 18-carat lavatory was removed in the early hours of the morning
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
Latest in Podcast
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
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
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
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
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
PreviewLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo at the Louvre: an exclusive first look at this year's biggest blockbuster
We reveal the research and science behind the monograph exhibition exploring the Renaissance painter's artistic evolution
PreviewBiennials & festivals
‘Post-industrial’ Biennale de Lyon to examine shifting social and economic experience of the region
As the largest edition of the biennial expands into an abandoned factory, we also roundup new festivals sprouting up around the world
NewsUnited States
Sackler family agrees to give up 'entire value' of Purdue Pharma in bid to settle opioid cases
But state attorneys general predict an imminent bankruptcy filing as settlement talks break down
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Lack of space at the British Museum sees major loan of Assyrian collection to Getty
Since the closure of a basement gallery in 2006 there is little room to store the whole collection
NewsAntony Gormley
Antony Gormley criticises huge carbon footprint of the art world—but admits he is part of the problem
British sculptor says there is no doubt that art fairs are "a profligate use of resources”
NewsArt market
Sean Scully to take over Picasso’s Château de Boisgeloup
Sprawling exhibition marks Irish artist’s first with Almine Rech gallery
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Why it is vital to promote cultural inclusion at New York's institutions
The arts sector must engage in constant dialogue with communities, says the city's commissioner of cultural affairs
BlogActivism
Artists confront ‘neo-fascist’ plague in performance in New York
The performance responds to the policies of Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump
NewsArt fairs
Bada sells majority stake in Chelsea fair to Masterpiece founders
The event will be renamed The Open Art Fair and will launch in March next year
NewsArt dealers
Banksy's former agent quits gallery world citing snobbery and the death of subculture
Steve Lazarides leaves Lazinc in Mayfair to pursue solo projects
CommentRestitution
Icom Kyoto 2019 conference: key takeaways from the decolonisation and restitution panel
Discussion argued for community empowerment, new skillsets, and focus on contemporary colonialism
NewsInternational Council of Museums
Vote on Icom's new museum definition postponed
Decision over the controversial update was made at the general assembly in Kyoto on the weekend
NewsMuseums & Heritage
The William Blakes that got away—and why
As the Tate Britain show opens, we reveal the inside story of the Tate’s failure to acquire 19 watercolours from a portfolio that turned up in a Glasgow bookshop
PreviewExhibitions
Verrocchio's first major US survey to delve into his role in shaping the High Renaissance
The artist is best known as Leonardo’s teacher, but an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington aims to highlight his own technical accomplishment and inventiveness
PreviewExhibitions
Drawing, singing, sleeping, eating, changing costumes: Nikhil Chopra’s nine-day campout at the Met
Moving from gallery to gallery like a nomadic traveller, the performance artist-in-residence will morph into a series of personae
NewsObituaries
Francisco Toledo, renowned Mexican artist and activist, has died, aged 79
Known for powerful imagery rooted in his native Oaxaca, he was also a cultural benefactor
NewsLaw
Families express frustration over trial outcome in California's Ghost Ship fire
Acquittal for one man and deadlock on another shifts focus to pending civil lawsuit
News
Washington, DC mayor's office attempts to take control of the city Arts Commission's collection
Staff members found their keys to the city's Art Bank abruptly deactivated as tensions rose between Mayor Muriel Bowser and the commission
NewsEnvironment
Jeppe Hein's ‘breathwork’ is headed to the United Nations headquarters
The project will be launched on the heels of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York
NewsBauhaus
'Black box' dedicated to Bauhaus opens in Dessau
Museum celebrates the German design school in the city most closely associated with founder Walter Gropius
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Helen Beard's sexually fluid paintings to Helene Schjerfbeck's unique Nordic Modernism
NewsControversies
Nazi design exhibition at Dutch museum braces for protests
The show called Design of the Third Reich features the Volkswagen Beetle and Riefenstahl’s films
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh's suicide: Ten reasons why the murder story is a myth
All the evidence suggests it was the artist who fired the fatal shot
NewsArt crime
Art Recovery International calls on Icom to step in and investigate 'stolen' Reynolds painting on show in Japan
The portrait was allegedly stolen from the home of a menswear magnate in 1984
PreviewExhibitions
From blasphemer to bookworm: Paris show reframes Francis Bacon's later works
Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on the artist’s post-pope period, which has received less critical examination
AnalysisCommercial galleries
Mega-galleries pick up the pace in the race for space
Commercial galleries continue to expand in Manhattan despite steep real estate costs
AnalysisArt market
East Asian unrest plays in Art Jakarta's favour
Fair is benefitting from Indonesia's burgeoning economy as well as cancelled Singapore fairs
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Rubin Museum's meditation on “power” to the Costume Institute's celebration of camp
NewsAuction houses
Sotheby’s shareholders approve $3.7bn sale to telecoms tycoon Patrick Drahi
With an overwhelming 91% of shareholders in favour, the publicly traded auction house will go private after three decades on the New York Stock Exchange
ReviewExhibitions
Christian Marclay communes with Snapchat in a barrage of sounds and images at Lacma
Visitors undergo a chain of experiences generated by engineers’ algorithms
NewsClimate Change
V&A director Tristram Hunt defends sponsorship from fossil fuel companies
The former Labour MP sides with Science Museum group's director Ian Blatchford in saying companies such as BP can 'be part of the solution' to climate change
NewsExhibition
Dora Maurer: 'a lack of market was positive for my work'
White Cube announces representation of the Hungarian avant-garde artist with an exhibition of paintings from the past 30 years
NewsFunding
Funding for culture to rise by 4.1% according to UK government's spending review
Treasury says there will be “over £300m to support the UK’s world-class national museums and galleries” in 2020-21
NewsAustralia
Can Australia support two new Aboriginal art museums?
Proposals for Alice Springs and Adelaide have political support but concerns have been raised over competing projects and lack of Indigenous involvement
PreviewCosmoscow
Russia's only international art fair tackles tricky topics
Cosmoscow's public programme will explore 'the crisis of faith in expertise' in the art market
PreviewCommercial galleries
Private view: must-see gallery shows opening in September
New commercial gallery shows—from Baroque blackness in Chicago to flying saucers in London
BlogIn the frame
V&A Rapid Response Collecting unit acquires the Tampax menstruation cup
NewsNational Gallery
Filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi is National Gallery's latest artist in residence
Initiative is part of London gallery’s developing Modern and contemporary art programme
BlogIn the frame
Lounging UK politician Jacob Rees-Mogg sends Twitter collagists into a spin
NewsRestoration
Monumental Veronese painting—once cut into 32 pieces by Austrian soldiers—to undergo fourth restoration
Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021
BlogDiary of an art historian
National Gallery should be ashamed of how it treated its educators
Court documents reveal that the museum took little action to rectify the education team's employment status
AnalysisArt crime
Seller beware: how to avoid being duped by an artful dodger
Timothy Sammons misled clients over sales of works by artists including Picasso
NewsArt market
US-China trade war expands to books and maps as increased tariffs hit art imports
Trump's newly increased tariff of 15% on Chinese goods now applies to the antiquarian trade, further affecting dealers and auction houses
NewsExhibitions
Bare necessities: would you brush up against naked performers to get inside Marina Abramovic’s 2020 London show?
Artist's famous nude performance—first done with Ulay—to be recreated in her retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts next year
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?
Ben Luke