Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend

The entertainment company’s former chief executive has signed a deal reportedly worth $200m to acquire the leading art fair and media brand

The partnership with Lucy Liu marks an effort to expand the steadfast Lower East Side gallery’s network of younger buyers and international audiences

The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection

Taggart says the expansion further downtown is to represent more contemporary artists and appeal to younger collectors

Sales analyses show a clear reversal in growth trajectory as the top end continues to cool

In addition to keeping the Liberal party and Mark Carney in power, Donald Trump's threats are leading collectors and institutions to prioritise Canadian art through shows and acquisitions

Sotheby’s will sell the works from collection of Gladstone, who died last year, and more than a dozen pieces from Luxembourg’s New York home

Commentators have criticised the choice of Wolfram Weimer to succeed the Green party minister Claudia Roth because he lacks a background in the arts

The incident raises questions about security in open-storage museums

Judges including comedian Phil Wang and artist Rana Begum selected the Beamish Museum to join four other spaces on the Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist

In a new blog post, a scholar in Anglo-Saxon nudity doubles down on his belief that the mystery appendage is a phallus, not a scabbard

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration

The museum reported that 570,537 tickets were purchased for the show, which closed in April

The late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st century

The exhibition at the Fondation H in Antananarivo includes the British Nigerian artist’s 6,000-book installation The African Library

The Trump administration has taken aim at numerous arts bodies. Elizabeth Larison, the director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship, argues they need to remain steadfast in their missions—and consider strategies for survival

After three years spent critiquing the art world's response to the climate crisis for this column, Louisa Buck takes stock of what's been achieved—and what remains to be done

A true critical consensus about the merits of different stages in an artist's journey is rarely possible

Long overlooked or stereotyped, African contemporary art is finally receiving global attention, writes Wim Pijbes, former director of the Rijksmuseum

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, including Andrea del Verrochio, to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space

Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again

Icon’s first major intervention since 1931 brings back original colours

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

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in refining the outcomes

With “Le Monde Selon L’IA”, the Paris media art centre takes a broad look at work made using both analytical AI and generative AI

Some institutions have ditched their accounts in protest, while others have chosen to “quiet quit” and stopped posting on the Elon Musk-owned platform

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner talks about his comprehensive new biography spanning from 1900 to today

This journey through the UK’s publicly funded arts carefully averts its eyes from the many signs of crisis

The publication about the Guyanese-born artist includes diary entries and several works that have been photographed for the first time

Nicholas Olsberg’s publication offers a learned analysis of the architect’s work, which includes Oxford’s Keble College and central London’s All Saints church

This “alternative” history navigates the medium through artists on the margins, as well as established practitioners

The Gateshead sculpture was dressed up in a Newcastle United football shirt for the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, drawing fans to the site when the team won 2-1 against Liverpool

The monarch will unveil one of his own drawings in a special exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Royal Drawing School

Sales of Joe Biden’s son’s artworks have nosedived since his father left office

Maurizio Cattelan was among those papped—all for charity

The Belgian businessman co-founded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

During her 19-year tenure as its director, she turned a sedate institution into a vibrant tribute to the culture of 18th-century France

The sale of “The Singing Butler” at Sotheby’s in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect