The tapestry will be displayed at the British Museum from September 2026, as part of a bilateral season of culture between the UK and France

A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement

The German blue-chip artist will show more than 250 works at Fondation Louis Vuitton from October

One show presents works by over 200 artists, while another focuses on protests across the UK

The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi

Gallerists are varied in how they are approaching the popular month for travel during a period of softer demand

The painting, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, was sold during Christie's £55m Old Master sale in London tonight, alongside works by Constable, Willem Key and Gerrit Dou

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution

Civil servants felt frustrated after Prime Minister John Major returned the 13th-century artefact 30 years ago, newly released papers reveal

The constitutional law scholar Heather K. Gerken will oversee the Ford Foundation, a $16bn philanthropic entity with an eye towards social justice

Roland Rudd made the comments in relation to the new endowment fund Tate announced last week

The two artefacts are being restituted as part of the museum's closure of its Benin gallery, which had been donated by the billionaire collector Robert Lehman

Other landmark shows of First Nation artists this summer include Duane Linklater at Camden Art Centre and Santiago Yahuarcani at the Whitworth

The show launched in Paris to claims that it was a tainted exercise in queering the French artist

London centre for innovation and contemporary art will feature work by Tai Shani, Nick Ryan and Gaika during “Step Inside 25 Weekend”, alongside a pop-up basketball installation, drawing workshops and an immersive disco experience

The art event takes place across the northern UK city this month

Protestors are taking high personal risks with the aim of affecting policy and corporate responsibility to make clear the scale of the looming climate catastrophe

Axing the Arts Council and the many other arm’s-length bodies overseen by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes more sense, argues Bendor Grosvenor

David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction

“With the return of an emboldened Trump administration, our communities are facing a sustained campaign of hostility and a chilling rollback of civil rights”

As founder of the influential Galerie Ulysses in Vienna, he established a market for the work of Austrian and German artists in the US as well as championing architects and designers

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the homelessness charity Shelter

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

Inspired by a visit to Naoshima art island in Japan, a US collector has commissioned a compelling group of site-specific installations

The polymathic, multifarious, South African artist plays creative games with scale, indoor and out, in "The Pull of Gravity", a multi-decade survey at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

In the UK, Hauser & Wirth, Messums, Willoughby Gerrish and other galleries have embraced the potential of unique rural sites

The Duke of Richmond launches a non-profit 70-acre home to contemporary art on his estate to offer all ages the educational and health benefits of art, in a seasonally shifting plot of South Downs woodland

Our round-up of the latest art publications

An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

A revised edition of a 2020 book looks at the problems associated with a "white, male and middle class" cultural arena in the UK

The publication on a 17th-century shipwreck reveals transatlantic connections and the complexities of underwater archaeology

New analysis considers the artists’ common cause as champions of landscape alongside their renowned differences

The often violent history of public statues and museum collections—including that of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum—is told in this biographical book that energises and exasperates in equal measure.

The Louvre and the National in Edinburgh loaned works by the 18th-century artist

The annual fundraising bash drew a throng of famous guests, with the artist Grayson Perry and the actor Isla Fisher also among them

Apple supremo Jony Ive joins Claudia Winkleman and Martha Kearney on the museum's board

"Point Blank" exhibition features 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022

The media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) increasingly sees his interactive video sculptures—one of which goes on show this month at the SXSW London festival and another at The Shed in New York—and social media posts as public art

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

The California institution is one of the top five museums for social media growth in the world in the past year. We spoke to the museum's director of digital and social content strategy