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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
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
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
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
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
Diary
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
Justin Sun goes bananas for $Trump cryptocurrency
Art-eating crypto mogul is back in the news
G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize
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
July Book Bag: from a monograph of Vincent Namatjira’s headline-grabbing portraits to a book of Chinese art heists
Our round-up of the latest art publications
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
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
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
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
‘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
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