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Royal Ontario Museum acquires collection of nearly 600 Arab textiles and artefacts

The collection was assembled by the textile historian Widad Kamel Kawar and significantly bolsters the Toronto museum’s holdings of materials from the region

Hadani Ditmarsabout 8 hours ago

Mauritshuis able to keep its Rembrandts following legal dispute

A court ruled that the Dutch museum does not need to return a bequest of 25 paintings to a donor's heirs

Senay Boztasabout 8 hours ago

New documentary captures two art critics at a turning point

“House of Criticism”, which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, offers an intimate view of the lives and work of Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz

Anni Irishabout 3 hours ago

Getty launches art-focused meditation podcast

Each episode of Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation (or Ommm) spotlights a different work from the museum’s collection, followed by a guided mindfulness exercise

Angella d'Avignonabout 7 hours ago

Frankenthaler Foundation awards $4.5m across 83 institutions in latest round of climate grants

The 2026 grants bring the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative’s investment to over $21.8m in funds given to 295 institutions since the programme’s launch in 2021

Annabel Keenanabout 7 hours ago

Art Basel 2026

News, analysis and more from across the art fair and beyond, including The Art Newspaper’s on-the-ground coverage

The Basel legacy of the late Venice Biennale curator Koyo Kouoh

A new fellowship in memory Kouoh, who tragically died in 2025, will support emerging curators, writers and cultural practitioners with funding from Art Basel

Aimee Dawsonabout 5 hours ago

Nairy Baghramian: ‘Who wants to be established? I want to remain emerging’

The Iranian German artist, who won a medal in the 2025 Art Basel Awards, discusses the work she has created for the Messeplatz, and why she wants it to have an “afterlife” after the fair

Florence Hallettabout 5 hours ago

Labour of love? Exploring women’s relationship with machines and work

Museum that honours the famous kinetic artist Jean Tinguely turns its attention to the often undervalued role of women in the workplace, through a show of films, paintings and other pieces by 36 artists

Florence Hallettabout 5 hours ago

Exhibition examines new vocabulary that gave same-sex desire a place in art

Kunstmuseum Basel show traces the early history of queer art and artists, from the time the word “homosexual” was coined

Gareth Harrisabout 5 hours ago

'I bought a portfolio of prints with the money I earned from my paper route': Joop van Caldenborgh on the art he collects and why

The Dutch collector, whose Museum Voorlinden is celebrating its tenth anniversary, tells us about missing out on a Louise Bourgeois spider and swimming in the Rhine

Lee Cheshireabout 5 hours ago

David Hockney (1937-2026)

A selection of articles from our archive featuring the late British artist.

David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the “Young Contemporaries” exhibition in London in 1961

David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist

We talk to David Hockney about Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which broke an auction record this week, selling at Christie's New York for $90.3m with fees. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

David Hockney on self-confidence

To mark the British artist's birthday today, we release behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, in which he describes where he gets his innate sense of assurance from

David Hockney follows in Van Gogh’s footsteps, painting fleeting spring blossom

Martin Gayford’s book pays tribute to Britain’s greatest living artist before an exhibition at London’s Royal Academy

a blog by Martin Bailey

David Hockney: 'Abstraction in art has run its course'

"The world is very beautiful, but human beings are quite mad," says the British artist

Behind-the-scenes videos

Art market

Asian antiquities are gaining a younger following—will it last? 

Sales are booming as Millennial and Gen-Z collectors are taking a shine to historical artefacts

Vivienne Chowabout 10 hours ago

‘It's a work of art’: rare, cloth-bound first edition of Wuthering Heights to be auctioned at Christie’s

The book, estimated at up to £600,000, is the first original edition to appear at auction in more than a century

Independent 20th Century adds 75% more exhibitors as it moves to the Breuer Building

The fair's first edition at Sotheby’s landmark Madison Avenue home will feature an expanded roster of international galleries

Comment | As Pace slashes business, could shrinking be the next growth model?

Constant expansion and rising prices in the primary market necessary for a mega gallery are "unfixable", says chief executive Marc Glimcher

Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show

Giacomo Manzù: The Artist and his Dealer explores the decades-long relationship between the Italian artist and Rosenberg's father

Museums & Heritage

New York’s oldest museum votes for democracy with new wing

The New York Historical’s $175m project will house gallery spaces, library stacks, a conservation studio and the forthcoming American LGBTQ+ Museum

Fred Voonabout 1 hour ago

Russian drone attack on Ukraine damages several cultural sites

A monastery in Kyiv was set ablaze by a missile strike in the latest offensive against the country, with residential buildings also targeted

Government-funded mobile museum to tour national collections across England

Co-sponsored by arts charity Art Explora, the new mobile museum aims to increase access to the UK's Government Art Collection and works from other partner institutions

Gareth Harrisabout 10 hours ago

Construction of Trump’s Washington, DC arch could put archaeological sites at risk

There are more than a dozen documented archaeological and historic sites within one mile of the proposed arch location, according to a new report, and additional undocumented materials may be present

‘Marks that speak across time’: rock carvings and drawings discovered in Oman

A newly discovered archaeological site has revealed a massive rock face covered in art that is believed to be ancient

Exhibitions

Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’

With a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Turner Prize-winning artist—known for his monumental creations and use of rich pigments—explains why he continues to be drawn to feminine imagery, how rituals are important to his art, and what it is like working with the blackest black

Louisa Buck1 day ago

In museum first, MFA Boston pairs prized vessels by Paul Revere and enslaved artist David Drake

As part of a revamp of its galleries devoted to early American art, the museum is installing a clay jar by an enslaved artist alongside a bowl made by a hero of the US Revolutionary War

Jori Finkel1 day ago

Glasgow International 2026 offers reminder of city’s cultural power at a challenging time

The latest edition of the art festival brings together potent work by artists both local and global across more than 30 venues

Louisa Buck1 day ago

Artist Scott Burton honoured in new sculpture at New York’s Aids memorial

Oscar Tuazon’s new commission for the New York City Aids Memorial revisits Burton’s final public work

Edvard Munch’s chocolate factory series shines a light on the public artist he wanted to be

An exhibition in Oslo shows how the Norwegian artist hoped to build on the Freia chocolate factory frieze with even more ambitious work

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A brush with... Lisa Yuskavage—podcast

Lisa Yuskavage talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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Books

Book reveals how Chintz—India’s precious textile pattern—became a precolonial global export

The little understood art form is explored in the collected essays of 12 leading scholars

Shoot and branch: new photography book highlights the enduring majesty of trees

"Trees of Great Britain and Ireland" offers a handsome insight into early 20th-century botanical photography

‘A remarkably tenacious motif’: the many faces of Marilyn Monroe revealed in new book and show

Different artists’ takes on the film star are explored ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London

Pleasure, parody and propaganda: rethinking the art of illustration in a new history of the genre

From a ninth-century Chinese frontispiece to Marxist magazine covers, this rich tome explores the power of illustration and the ways in which we read such images

An expert's guide to Tracey Emin: five must-read books on the British artist

The best Emin publications, from her searingly honest autobiography to a collection of revealing snapshots—selected by the Tate’s assistant curator Jess Baxter

Influential art world figure Joe Hage moves from the shadows to take top billing

The founder of Heni art services is behind a major Barbara Hepworth show at London's Courtauld Gallery

Jarvis Cocker’s ‘hodge podge’: Pulp frontman to curate art exhibition

The English musician will co-organise a show at the UK's Hepworth Wakefield next year

Hole in one: artist-designed mini golf course heads to London

British artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will design the ninth hole on this summer's putt-putt course in Battersea

Mexican film-makers to co-host Serpentine Summer Party

Co-host Salma Hayek Pinault may be best known to the art world for her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Frida Kahlo

Fashion figure Jordan Roth wows in collage at the Venice Biennale

Having just taken on the Met Gala as a "living sculpture", the multi-disciplinary artist came to Venice later in the week for a compelling performance

The Week in Art

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

Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Pan-Africanism through a travelling exhibition now open at the Barbican in London, and speaks to researcher Daisy Fancourt on art and health. For the Work of the Week, digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses a colourful Barbara Hepworth sculpture.

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison

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.

Van Gogh’s wheatfields ‘under turbulent skies’

Did these panoramic landscapes foreshadow the artist’s untimely death?

Opinion

Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself

Since the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections have continued to expose art's vulnerability to politics

Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfall

The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes

Comment | The flaws in the plan to charge entry to British museums

The end of free universal museum entry risks deterring visitors and creating a two-tier system

Comment | Flourishing markets beyond the big three will benefit the art ecosystem—and the planet

Regions outside of the US, UK and China have grown their share from 17% of business in 2015 to 24% in 2025, according to report

Comment | Degenerate art all over again? Nazi attack on Modern art is not far away from trends in today’s world

When it comes to art, Trump is an utter vacuum—he makes the Nazis look like great connoisseurs, says author John-Paul Stonard

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

'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

Hotel and art hub Casabianca opens on Italy's Lake Como

From Jannis Kounellis to Anselm Kiefer, a very personal art collection, asssembled by the De Santis family, is now on view in the 1930s villa

Artist Bouke de Vries creates sculptural porcelain bottles for Dries Van Noten perfume

London-based Dutch artist uses reassembled broken china fragments to create five unique vessels

Van Cleef & Arpels cashes in on lucrative secondary market for vintage jewellery

The jewellery designer's Heritage Collection presents rare 20th-century creations

Obituaries

Remembering Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of kinetic art

The Argentine-born, Paris-based artist, who died at age 97, had been hoping to attend the opening of his retrospective at Tate Modern next week

Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56

Best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and its award-winning film adaption, Satrapi died in Paris on 4 June from “sadness” following her husband's recent death

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

Widely known by her online alter ego Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein had come to prominence through her memes and critiques of the art world

The art world remembers Valie Export, Austrian pioneer of feminist performance art

Best known for daring audiences to face and feel the female body on her own terms, the performance artist died in Vienna on 14 May at 85 years old

Georg Baselitz, German artist who turned figurative painting on its head, has died, aged 88

Baselitz’s death comes on the eve of a major exhibition of his latest paintings at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini concurrent with the Venice Biennale

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