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Louisiana State Museum reaccreditation decision delayed until June 2027

After years of controversies, the organisation that oversees Louisiana’s ten state museums will have to wait until next year for the American Alliance of Museums’ ruling

Lauren Strohabout 9 hours ago

Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York’s Guggenheim Museum

The longtime director of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC, will return to the Big Apple after 12 years away

Elena Goukassianabout 11 hours ago

Greece introduces new law to tackle art forgery

A new registry of experts is being assembled in a bid to tackle counterfeits and prevent damage to art

Riah Pryorabout 22 hours ago

London’s V&A launches webpage exploring provenance of its objects

The new collections hub page speaks to an “institutional commitment to accountability and transparency”, the museum’s director Tristram Hunt said

Gareth Harrisabout 19 hours ago

The art of technology jostles for position in venues both new and historic

New and old institutions in New York, pop-up show of video art in Los Angeles and moving-image artist’s archive crystallise the unique pressures that come with showing and preserving art made with recent technologies

Expo Chicago 2026

A renewed focus on rigour and connection at Expo Chicago

The fair’s 2026 edition is the first to be helmed by new director Kate Sierzputowski, who has widened its institutional outreach through local and regional collaborations

Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair

Gabriella Angeletiabout 18 hours ago

‘The subject demanded a more restrained approach’: Carlos Rolón on revisiting the 1966 uprising in Chicago's Humboldt Park

The Chicagoan artist’s solo exhibition at 65Grand documents the Puerto Rican community, where he lives, through intricate, monochrome drawings, found material sculpture and more

Artists respond to the continuing toll of colonialism in the Americas

A landmark show at Wrightwood 659 features works by more than 35 contemporary Latin American artists

Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo

The fate of the 4,000 objects—including works by Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Martin Puryear and Edra Soto—remains unclear

Art market

A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran’s artists

Shiva Zahed Gallery, which opened in February, will focus on contemporary artists—but war in Iran poses a major obstacle, even after the announcement of a ceasefire

London galleries Edel Assanti and Emalin both announce expansions

While Edel Assanti's second space will join a cluster forming in St. James's, Emalin will take over the Helmet Row location formerly occupied by Modern Art

Melanie Gerlis2 days ago

Robilant and Voena gallery founders part ways to start separate ventures with their children

After 22 years in partnership dealing in Old Master, Modern and contemporary art, dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena will form independent firms with the next generation

Anna Bradyabout 21 hours ago

Art Cologne heads to the beach with revived Mallorca edition

Nearly two decades after its short-lived debut, the venerable German fair returns to Palma’s newly energised art scene with a strong showing of local galleries

Judge rules dealer David Nahmad must return $30m Nazi-looted Modigliani

The case was decided in New York after 11 years of court battles

Museums & Heritage

Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York’s Guggenheim Museum

The longtime director of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC, will return to the Big Apple after 12 years away

Elena Goukassianabout 11 hours ago

Louisiana State Museum reaccreditation decision delayed until June 2027

After years of controversies, the organisation that oversees Louisiana’s ten state museums will have to wait until next year for the American Alliance of Museums’ ruling

Lauren Strohabout 9 hours ago

Did the US Holocaust Memorial Museum self-censor to preempt Trump’s wrath?

Two former museum employees point to quiet changes related to programming and language that they think are decidedly telling

London’s National Gallery announces architects for new £350m wing

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House

Native Americans created dice more than 12,000 years ago, study finds

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe

Exhibitions

Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor

The first major US exhibition of the conceptual artist in more than five decades presents his multi-sensory work and habit of making and remaking as “very, very today”

Ben Lukeabout 18 hours ago

Philadelphia art museums celebrate America's 250th anniversary with blockbuster two-venue show

Sweeping exhibition will include more than 1,000 works by US artists, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and pieces of decorative art

Dale Berning Sawaabout 21 hours ago

George Costakis, collector and saviour of Soviet avant-garde art, celebrated with Athens exhibition

The anniversary show features works by Malevich, Popova and more, which Costakis rescued from potential oblivion

New York’s Jewish Museum opens Paul Klee exhibition without its centrepiece

The German artist's "Angelus Novus", once owned by Walter Benjamin, remains at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem due to war-related flight suspensions

Visitor Figures 2025

The Art Newspaper’s Visitor Figures survey is conducted annually, and is the foremost authority on the attendance of art museums worldwide

Exclusive | The world's 100 most visited art museums in 2025: new venues a big hit with visitors

Our annual survey shows that some of the world’s most venerable institutions are still struggling to attract the number of visitors they had before Covid, but there is enthusiasm for new museums, and in regions such as Asia and Latin America

Irreconcilable differences: Canadian cultural tourism to the US experiences a steep decline

A significant number of Canadians are shunning their neighbours to the south, a phenomenon felt most acutely by smaller museums and those along the border

National Museum of Korea Seoul sees a surge in visitor numbers

According to our 2025 Visitor Figures survey, the Seoul location of the museum is attracting more international guests

How museum funding in Denmark has become reliant on visitor numbers

Danish government reforms have resulted in increased funds for museums, but some question the equity of grants based on footfall

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Opinion

Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US

Expanded version of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (Hear) Act in the US fundamentally alters the legal landscape for both claimants and current owners

Comment | All hail the rise of the art internship

Against a backdrop of a contracting job market for graduates, initiatives such as the Sotheby’s Institute’s fellowship programme are supporting the next generation of art industry experts

Comment | Climate change is forcing tough choices—how much heritage can we save before it is too late?

As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever

Comment | Art is more than its original context

The place where we observe a work of art—and the feelings we have—play a crucial role in our experience

Comment | Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder

Exhibitions pairing Munch with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maria Lassnig provide opportunities to subvert the established order

Obituaries

Obituary | Umberto Allemandi, visionary publisher who founded 'Il Giornale dell’Arte', has died aged 88

The editor built an international network of publications—including 'The Art Newspaper'—that transformed cultural journalism

Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90

Beyond his famous chair design, Friedeberg created a singular world of ornament, architecture, and irony

Liliana Angulo Cortés, director of Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, has died, aged 51

Angulo’s work was devoted to decolonising the museum, anti-racism and reparation with a special focus on diversifying narratives to include more Black and Indigenous voices

Renowned gallerist Marian Goodman has died, aged 97

The dealer was known for her support of conceptually challenging artistic practices, and credited with bringing key European figures like Gerhard Richter and Marcel Broodthaers to the US

Remembering Gathie Falk, Canadian artist whose singular practice sparked comparisons to Surrealism and Pop art

Shaped by the austerity of her Mennonite upbringing and the bustling Vancouver art scene of the 1960s and 70s, she developed a playful, poignant and exacting visual language

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.