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‘An incredible instinct for contemporary art’: Doris Lockhart, the overlooked figure behind the Saatchi collection, has died aged 88

Lockhart, who was the ex-wife of Charles Saatchi, is widely credited with recognising and boosting postwar US art and the Young British Artists

Gareth Harris and Louis Jebbabout 3 hours ago

Four years on from the Taliban takeover, Afghan women are asserting themselves through art

Having lost many opportunities and rights under the new leadership, women are finding in miniature paintings, abstract textiles and more an important means of expression

Cyrus Najiabout 8 hours ago

Climate protestors install Anish Kapoor work on North Sea gas platform

The action by Greenpeace makes “BUTCHERED” the first artwork to be exhibited in such a location

Joe Wareabout 7 hours ago

Forged Picasso prints sold at Stuttgart auction recovered as part of international police operation

The replica etchings are among more than 100 fake contemporary works of art that have been seized by Italian authorities since 2022

James Jacksonabout 9 hours ago

Analysis of ancient string writing device upends understanding of Inca hierarchy

A study of human hair woven into a 500-year-old khipu concluded that its creator had eaten a diet associated with low-ranking individuals

Garry Shawabout 10 hours ago

Art market

Christophe de Menil, art patron and heiress to the Menil Collection's founders, has died, aged 92

As the firstborn daughter of the Franco Texan de Menils, Christophe grew up to continue the family's legacy of arts patronage

‘Everyone's suffering right now’: New York and Los Angeles gallery Clearing will close

Olivier Babin tells The Art Newspaper that high overhead costs and the market slowdown made the business unsalvageable

New York gallery Kasmin will close this autumn as leadership launches new venture, Olney Gleason

The Chelsea gallery staged more than 350 shows during its 35 years in operation

Sotheby’s returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure

After the Indian culture ministry intervened to halt a sale of the Piprahwa gems, Sotheby’s has sold the trove to a Mumbai conglomerate

Can Hauser & Wirth's new Palo Alto space achieve what its rivals failed to?

Gagosian and Pace packed up shop in the Bay Area—now Hauser & Wirth is the latest mega-gallery to give Silicon Valley a go

Museums & Heritage

Giuseppe Verdi's dilapidated villa ‘not as bad as it seems’, claims Italy's culture minister ahead of restoration

Alessandro Giuli's comments have been rejected by the country's media and political opposition, who says the former museum is in a state of serious disrepair

James Imamabout 8 hours ago

Rediscovered David Wojnarowicz mural could disappear from view again

The late artist and activist’s mural in Louisville, Kentucky, was long assumed to have been destroyed and might disappear again soon

More than 200 geoglyphs discovered in Nazca Desert with help of AI

The newly found Nazca Lines include depictions of human sacrifice and a priest carrying a human head

Maria Luisa del Ríoabout 24 hours ago

Gas found in space could help repair damage to Old Masters, say researchers

Conservators discovered that lead white on these important works was deteriorating at an “alarming” rate. Could oxygen from the Earth's orbit be the solution?

Lost Maya stronghold against Spanish conquest discovered in Mexican jungle

Believed to be Sac Balam, the last stronghold of rebellious Lacandon Ch’ol Maya, the site sheds light on colonial resistance and Indigenous survival strategies

Alton Yanabout 22 hours ago

Exhibitions

Lament for much-loved squirrel to go on show in London exhibition

The Bethlem Museum of the Mind will display the poem as part of the show ‘Between Sleeping and Waking: Hospital Dreams and Visions’

'Abstract art is universal': Nanette Carter on her new career survey at the Wexner Center for the Arts

The artist speaks about what drives her practice in anticipation of a solo exhibition in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, spanning 50 years

British Art Show names Ekow Eshun as curator for upcoming 10th edition

Staring in September 2026, the contemporary art exhibition will tour five UK cities including Swansea and Sheffield

Manifesta announces location for 2028 edition

The nomadic art biennial will head to a new country for its 17th edition

‘Even late in life, recognition is possible’: photographer Paz Errázuriz opens long overdue UK retrospective

The 81-year-old image maker, known for documenting marginalised communities in Chile, recently opened a show at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes

Opinion

Comment | US museums are finally going bilingual: here's why it matters

In the past few years, art institutions across the country have been making a concerted effort to provide information about their collections and exhibitions in languages other than English—and it's a step that's worth celebrating

Time for a survey? New programme provides museums with advice on long-term sustainability

The human-resources, talent and recruiting agency Verge helps institutions reach their long-term goals through a bit of introspection

Comment | Conversations about Crimea’s fate should start with one group—the Crimean Tatars

Supporting Ukrainian sovereignty must include protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples like the Crimean Tatars, whose land, rights and cultural memory have long been a target of aggression, writes Elmira Ablyalimova-Chyihoz

Comment | As artists rage over changes to WeTransfer’s terms of service, here's why the company is now in its villain era

Our data has been up for grabs for years, but for many the prospect of AI being trained on users’ files was a step too far

Comment | Now is the time to fight for US arts funding

The Trump administration’s defunding of the arts has more than symbolic significance

Book reviews

A poetic vision of Blake and his legacy to match that of its subject

Philip Hoare has created his “version of a Blake print”, a complex book to dive into and get lost in

An expansive monograph of Celia Paul paints a portrait of a single-minded, singular artist

The book explores how the British artist's mother was her most trusted sitter and Paul's thoughts on Lucian Freud’s depictions of her during their relationship

A tome accompanying the Lahore Biennale is a celebration of authenticity

This comprehensive reader on the second edition in 2020 considers how the independent-minded institution is placing Pakistan’s artists in an international context as well as helping them thrive in a complex political environment

Why sociologists believe that culture might be bad for you

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

New book delves into submerged stories of an elusive Spanish galleon

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

Obituaries

Robert Wilson, experimental playwright, director and artist, has died, aged 83

Over a six-decade career, he created elegantly stylised performances and images with collaborators including Marina Abramović, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga

Remembering Thomas Neurath, who brought single-minded energy and intellectual bravura to leading the publishers Thames & Hudson

The managing director of one of the most admired imprints for illustrated art books, who has died aged 84, was a master of the integration of text and pictures with a beatnik streak and a desire to democratise access to the arts

Remembering Peter Phillips, the pioneering British Pop artist, who has died, aged 86

The Birmingham-born artist, who drew on the city’s industrial iconography in his 1960s breakthrough work, was closest among his British contemporaries to the US Pop Art scene

Remembering John Sailer, the gallerist and champion of Austrian art, who has died, aged 87

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

Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

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

Book Club

Illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins on dealing with violent imagery and finding ways of ‘showing the impossible’

Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches mediums for different books

An expert’s guide to Edvard Munch: five must-read books on the Norwegian Expressionist

The best publications to learn all about the artist, from a renowned novelist's essay to a comprehensive catalogue raisonné—selected by the Munch museum curator Trine Otte Bak Nielsen

Arshile Gorky’s experience as an immigrant to the US and the painting that defined it

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

Art on Location 2025

A special focus on the latest outdoor art experiences, including public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology

‘Creating their own ecosystem’: Arts Council gives backing to collaboration between artists in rural Gloucestershire

The Hide, an artist retreat in the Cotswolds, southwest England, with an annual sculpture showcase, is a grassroots project that is gathering momentum

Anna Brady17 July 2025

London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis

Vivienne Schadinsky, artist-in-residence at OmVed Gardens, in north London has used the two-acre plot as a “living laboratory” to make ink paintings, films, sculptures and prints devoted to beans and their ecology

Hannah McGivern15 July 2025

Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show

Opening in May 2026, thirty works will be dotted around the 320-acre Unesco World Heritage site

Gareth Harris9 July 2025

Towering ambition: the Swiss artist Not Vital's Alpine playground

The multidisciplinary artist mixes nature, architecture and art to grand effect at his foundation’s three locations: a castle, a sculpture park and a 17th-century house

Annabel Keenan8 July 2025

The magic of Troy Hill—a series of unique whole house art installations in Pittsburgh

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

Helen Stoilas4 July 2025

‘Anish Kapoor, let him out’: satirical protest campaign claims a man is trapped inside the Chicago Bean

A group of black-clad protesters recently gathered at “Cloud Gate” to raise awareness and call for the release of the man they claim lives inside the sculpture

Want to take a peek at the UK prime minister’s art collection?

Special tours of No.10 Downing Street are due to take place next month, as part of the popular Open House festival

Saatchi Yates raises a glass to London

The gallery has launched an exhibition dedicated to the capital, featuring artists including Jenny Saville and Peter Doig

Bums, boulders and biscuits: Jeremy Deller’s street party brings arty revelry to central London

The finale of the artist’s ‘Triumph of Art’ project involved performances and participatory projects that invited people to have fun—and speak out

Farewell, Jerry Gogosian—or is it?

The social media satirist behind the popular digital persona told The Art Newspaper she was eyeing up new art world projects—but she may not be leaving Insta just yet

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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.

Technology

News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.

How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The American artist, whose work is currently on show in New York, makes the invisible impacts of technology visible

Technologyinterview

‘It is not good or bad’: in a frantic age, Beeple seeks a more nuanced take on technology

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

Football great Lionel Messi chooses favourite goal for Refik Anadol to transform into an AI portrait for charity

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

Technologyfeature

Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

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

An inside track on the Huntington’s rapid social media growth

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