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Arts Council England announces changes to funding plans amid independent review

Developments at the public funding body are expected to impact almost 1,000 arts and culture organisations

Smithsonian museum removes label referencing Trump impeachments

The label had been added to a display at the National Museum of American History about checks on presidential powers in 2021 following Trump's second impeachment

Revealed: how a secret rescue operation helped preserve Syria's heritage

Across the last decade, thousands of archaeological artefacts have been smuggled to safety by NGOs

Ancient treasures stolen in Dutch museum heist may yet be saved

Prosecutors have revealed evidence that suggests three golden armbands and a €4.3 million helmet—belonging to the Dacian civilisation—have not been melted down

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

Art market

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

With two fairs and a new festival, Aspen art scene is reaching new peaks

Famous for its high-end ski resorts, the Colorado town has become a major arts destination

Works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Reena Saini Kallat to go on sale as Frieze Sculpture returns to London

The 13th edition will open in September, coinciding with Frieze London and Frieze Masters

US Senators propose anti-money-laundering legislation for the art market

The Art Market Integrity Act proposed by a bipartisan group of US lawmakers would bring US regulation in line with Europe and the UK

Rethinking public art and remembering Koyo Kouoh: inside the Experimenter Curator's Hub 2025

The 14th edition of the Kolkata forum invited leading curators from across the world to debate key issues in the field

Museums & Heritage

Metropolitan Museum trustee among victims of deadly Manhattan shooting

Wesley LePatner, a senior managing director at the investment firm Blackstone, was elected to the Met’s board in February

French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects

The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September

500km-long Indigenous pilgrimage route in Mexico joins Unesco World Heritage list

Mexico’s first inscription of a living Indigenous tradition highlights Wixárika cultural traditions following decades of advocacy

Comment | From restitution to confronting authoritarian regimes, here are five ways museums can be more ethical

Gareth Harris, author of ‘Towards the Ethical Art Museum’, shares advice on how museums can ethically navigate increasingly tumultuous times

Tate reveals the main reason for its lower attendance figures

The museum group has shared internal research with The Art Newspaper that indicates one key demographic shift

Exhibitions

‘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

Folkestone Triennial 2025 review: environmental catastrophe—but also hope, joy and a jolly salamander

The sixth edition of the sprawling exhibition on the English coast includes sculptures, immersive installations and films by 18 artists

Right royal style: 90 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s fashion to go on show at Buckingham Palace

The late monarch's wedding and coronation dresses will form part of a 200-piece exhibition at the King's Gallery, opening in Spring 2026

Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

Jane and Louise Wilson’s work will go on show at site of Roman temple in the heart of London

Millais treasure trove goes on long-term loan to Scottish gallery

The Raphaelite figure's great-grandson has loaned over 150 works on paper

Opinion

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

Comment | Why it’s wrong to shame those protesting against fossil fuel funding

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

Is the art world’s big summer break a thing of the past?

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

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

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

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

Rocket Man Jacky Tsai’s interstellar adventure

Rocketship painter puts Chinese moon goddess in the heavens

Not mad about Modigliani: Johnny Depp’s movie about art maverick mauled by critics

“Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness” has so far received some scathing reviews

G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize

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Danae Stratou wins G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize 2025

The Greek sculptor, known for her land art installations, has created a new permanent installation inspired by the mysterious Phaistos Disc

In partnership with G&A Mamidakis Foundation

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

Book reviews

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

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

A biography of Turner and Constable that goes beyond the stereotypes

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

Dan Hicks's new book is a personal take on the cultural politics of collecting

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.

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.

The Royal Academy’s Kiefer-Van Gogh show offers a soaring spectacle

Nearby, the White Cube gallery is also displaying homage works by the German artist, more than 60 years after he hitchhiked in Vincent’s footsteps

The Week in Art

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

Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg—podcast

We speak to Jafa and Leckey about their forthcoming London exhibition, ask Alemani about the US-based biennial—whose title this year was inspired by a film by Godfrey Reggio—and zone in on a landmark dance collaboration

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A brush with… Rudolf Stingel — podcast

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

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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

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