Leonard Blavatnik moves down and Denise Coates up amid tax changes that could affect the philanthropic landscape

Staff reductions, budget cuts and grant cancellations at the NEA, NEH and IMLS have left state and local organisations seeking alternative support

Film-maker Lucio Castro’s new feature, “Drunken Noodles”, is set in part in a Manhattan gallery and just premiered in Cannes

100 years since the artist’s birth, there are exhibitions, commissions—and even an actual birthday party

The 36 medalists will be honoured at a reception during Art Basel’s Swiss fair

Women rescued Christie’s otherwise quiet 21st century evening sale in New York, which also set a new auction high-water mark for Simone Leigh

Works from the estate of Barbara Gladstone and the home of Daniella Luxembourg—plus a litter of Lichtensteins—energised 15 May marquee auction of post-war and contemporary art

The auction brought in a hammer total of $44.2m, just below Phillips’s low estimate for the night and exactly in line with last November’s equivalent sale

The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US nearly 80 years ago

Many of the antiquities being returned were looted from northern Peru in the 1960s and 70s

The deal centres on the ancient Incense Route trading hub of Dadan in northwestern Saudi Arabia

Kunstmuseum Basel is analysing the work, which has been in its collection since 1945 and may have been painted by the artist's friend, Ky-Dong Nguyen Van Cam

The Neo Ancients festival in the small Gloucestershire town of Stroud featured artists whose works have a more "pastoral" approach towards art production

Around 150 woven works by artists around the globe tell the story of abstraction through a new, craftier lens

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration

As the Getty wraps up its third edition of this initiative, it is time to address a persistent problem

While physically defending their country, Ukrainian artist’s work provides oxygen for urgent issues that demand attention and dialogue, writes Björn Geldhof, the artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv

Michael Armitage, for example, had his first show at David Zwirner three years after being signed to the gallery

As London’s National Gallery launches its “once-in-a-lifetime” rehang, Ben Luke asks: what is the right shade behind the art?

The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour

As London’s National Gallery launches its “once-in-a-lifetime” rehang, Ben Luke asks: what is the right shade behind the art?

The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection

A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, including Andrea del Verrochio, to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space

Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again

Icon’s first major intervention since 1931 brings back original colours

Maurizio Cattelan sheds light on his famous golden toilet and that duct-taped banana

A new exhibition includes the fictional masterpiece ‘Boy With Apple’, which appeared in the Anderson classic, ‘the Grand Budapest Hotel’

Last night the star—and subject of a recent, monkey-themed biopic—unveiled works that seem to strip away any last remaining filters

The New York museum’s former security head admits to taking the street artist's work after it was illicitly hung on the wall in 2005

The essential guide now includes colour photographs of 95 works

The new study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his time

A new volumes details a chance meeting that liberated art scholars Francis Haskell and Larissa Salmina in very different ways

Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and subverting traditional assumptions about the female body

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

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in refining the outcomes

With “Le Monde Selon L’IA”, the Paris media art centre takes a broad look at work made using both analytical AI and generative AI

Some institutions have ditched their accounts in protest, while others have chosen to “quiet quit” and stopped posting on the Elon Musk-owned platform

Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations

Our round-up of the latest art publications

All you ever wanted to know about artists' books on the eve of a major exhibition at London’s Warburg Institute—selected by the show's co-curator Arnaud Desjardin

The forensically researched volume on the British artist's oil paintings offers a depth of scrutiny that he himself was famous for

Artist, who also ran museums and institutions in Russia, was best known for his monumental sculptures, including a 30m-high memorial to victims of 9/11 in the US

The Belgian businessman co-founded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

During her 19-year tenure as its director, she turned a sedate institution into a vibrant tribute to the culture of 18th-century France