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Key player in Norval Morrisseau forgery ring pleads guilty
James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking
Trump dances with Jeffrey Epstein in new National Mall sculpture
A new anonymous, satirical art piece aimed at the US President has found its way into the White House's orbit
‘We are sleepwalking into an intolerable state of affairs’: Mark Wallinger unveils anti-fascist work at Glastonbury Festival
Turner Prize winner's maze installation is part of a group show that takes aim at anti-immigrant rhetoric and rising authoritarianism
Exhibition in Abu Dhabi marks collaboration between Korean and Emirati institutions
An exhibition of Korean art this summer at Manarat Al Saadiyat will be followed by a show of Emirati art in Seoul this winter
Miami arts organisations face existential crisis amid funding collapse
Cuts in federal, state and county funding—sometimes to nil—are pushing South Florida’s arts ecosystem to the brink
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
Art market
A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy
Ed Dolman, Brett Gorvy, Patti Wong and Phillip Hoffman have formed a management firm to advise top-level clients as industry enters new era
Treasure House Fair hopes to be the flagship summer event London desperately needs
The third edition of the "heir" to Masterpiece London opens tomorrow at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, with a diverse group of 72 exhibitors spanning antiquities to contemporary art
Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale
The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market
Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner
The small landscape painting was consigned to a Toronto auction house a decade ago, but had not been seen since 2021
As art market regulations tighten, international dealer association calls for 'unity' across trade
Cinoa's new president hopes for a more co-ordinated approach as game-changing legislation comes into effect
Museums & Heritage
Vancouver Art Gallery to lay off around 30 employees
The layoffs come amid a $23.4m deficit in the last fiscal year and represent around 20% of unionised employees
Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden to be preserved after about-face by New York mayor
Mayor Eric Adams has sought to demolish the Soho sculpture park in order to build affordable housing for seniors
Open-air museum that recreates 1950s Britain wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North was commended for "remarkable attention and passion of its staff"
English Heritage chief steps down after a turbulent 18 months in post
Nick Merriman oversaw a controversial restructure of the UK historic site charity
Tate launches US-style endowment fund, with aim of raising £150m by 2030
The new fund, announced at a star-studded gala yesterday, has raised £43m so far
Exhibitions
Taste test: artist-made desserts will be shown (and eaten) in New York gallery’s one-night exhibition
The Lower East Side gallery Olympia has invited 33 artists to participate in “CAKE”, an ephemeral show and fundraising feast
‘A dialogue about rationality and irrationality’: Ai Weiwei to present new installation in Ukraine
The Chinese artist’s work, which is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci illustrations, will be housed in a former Soviet-era exposition hall in Kyiv
US billionaire Howard Buffett and Ukrainian Railways team up to create ‘art train’ exploring war-time resilience
The train—which is due to travel across Ukraine—features photographs Buffett took during his 19 trips to the country between 2022 and 2025
The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show
The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art includes works by artists such as Dia al-Azzawi, Jewad Selim and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs convey the force of mankind’s reordering of the environment
A retrospective at the International Center of Photography in New York chronicles more than 40 years of the artist’s work
Opinion
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
Comment | Let’s not get rid of the UK’s culture department—let's fix it instead
Axing the Arts Council and the many other arm’s-length bodies overseen by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes more sense, argues Bendor Grosvenor
Comment | Most forms of environmental protest are no longer possible—that's where the power of images comes in
David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction
Comment | In the Trump era, LGBTQ+ communities and culture need support
“With the return of an emboldened Trump administration, our communities are facing a sustained campaign of hostility and a chilling rollback of civil rights”
Comment | Are museums ‘guilt tripping’ their visitors? No, they aren’t doing enough
Engaging with the difficult histories behind objects has deepened, not dampened, my experiences at cultural institutions—and the fact it is different for everyone is a good thing
Diary
A Siri-ous app-ointment: iPhone designer joins British Museum board of trustees
Apple supremo Jony Ive joins Claudia Winkleman and Martha Kearney on the museum's board
Knockin’ on Halcyon’s door: Bob Dylan's latest artworks on show in London gallery
"Point Blank" exhibition features 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022
A real head Turner: pub offers free drink to walkers exploring artist's London
The walking trail celebrates the 250th anniversary of the artists birth—although the exact date of his birthday remains something of a mystery
Sotheby's aims for supersonic sale with Elizabeth Peyton portrait of Gallagher brothers
The painting goes to the block ahead of Oasis's much anticipated reunion tour later this summer—perfect timing, some might say
Party time: Cate Blanchett, Beth Ditto, Lily Allen and more light up glitzy Serpentine summer bash
The annual fundraising bash drew a throng of famous guests, with the artist Grayson Perry and the actor Isla Fisher also among them
Obituaries
Nick Hedges, photographer who changed the way we see homelessness, has died aged 81
Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the homelessness charity Shelter
Post-Minimalist sculptor Joel Shapiro has died, aged 83
Best known for his looming, stylised figures assembled from wood beams, Shapiro changed the language of Minimalism with a distinctly personal flair
Sebastião Salgado, photographer of the planet’s margins, dies at 81
The Brazilian documentarian was internationally known for his panoramic photographs of humanity surviving on the edge and for his work as a campaigning environmentalist
Tracey Emin and Ai Weiwei pay tribute to BBC broadcaster Alan Yentob
BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series
Remembering Koyo Kouoh, one of the most influential curators in the global art world, and one of its most original thought leaders
The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale
Book Club
Rain, insomnia and finding a model: how Morocco challenged and changed Matisse
The author of a new book, Jeff Koehler, tells us about the French artist’s fruitful but sometimes tricky sojourns in Tangier
June Book Bag: from the cool influence of Ice Age art to the story of Arshile Gorky’s early years in the US
Our round-up of the latest art publications
An expert’s guide to Postmodernism: five must-read books on the movement
All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from a pivotal novel to a book on how Postmodernism “shapes all aspects of contemporary life”—selected by The Cosmic House director Eszter Steierhoffer
‘Cultural innovation comes from the margins’—tales of artists pushing boundaries in 1960s New York
The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono
The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece
Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations
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
Book reviews
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.
New book explores how Rome’s ruins have resonated in art and literature over centuries
A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures
Extended from one volume to three, the new ‘Taste and the Antique’ expands on four centuries of interactions with sculpture
The essential guide now includes colour photographs of 95 works
A new ‘anti-biography’ rips apart the myth of Leonardo as a solitary genius
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
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