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‘It's offered me such great joys’: gallerist Kamel Mennour to give Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne 180 works by leading artists 

Anish Kapoor and Zineb Sedira are among the artists whose work is represented on the provisional list

Vincent Noceabout 10 hours ago

New art fair Arrival brings collectors to the bucolic Berkshires

Gallerists and artists from around the US have set up shop at the Tourists hotel in North Adams, Massachusetts

Barbara Reinaabout 2 hours ago

Kim Sajet, director of US National Portrait Gallery whom Trump tried to fire, resigns

Sajet said it was “not an easy decision” but “the best way to serve the institution I hold so deeply in my heart”

Benjamin Suttonabout 1 hour ago

Security guards at three major London museums secure pay rise after months-long dispute

Guards at the Natural History, Science and Victoria & Albert Museums—all of whom are employed by an external contractor—will now earn a base salary in line with the London Living Wage

Philippa Kellyabout 8 hours ago

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

The Art Newspaperabout 4 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

National Endowment for the Humanities staff dwindles as two-thirds of workforce laid off

Around 100 workers at the US federal agency were let go on Tuesday, following orders from the Trump administration

Torey Akersabout 24 hours ago

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

The new space in Dobong-gu district has been billed as country's first public museum dedicated to photography

Lisa Moviusabout 11 hours ago

Donald Judd campus in Marfa, Texas added to US's National Register of Historic Places

The Minimalist bought and modified more than a dozen buildings in Texas in the 1970s, using them as studios and galleries for his sculptures and transforming a small city into the art-world pilgrimage site it is today

Peruvian government reverses decision to shrink Nazca Lines site by nearly half

After outcry from civil servants and environmentalists, the Ministry of Culture has walked back a decision that might have left the famed geoglyphs more vulnerable to mining

Torey Akers1 day ago

Art market

Security guards at three major London museums secure pay rise after months-long dispute

Guards at the Natural History, Science and Victoria & Albert Museums—all of whom are employed by an external contractor—will now earn a base salary in line with the London Living Wage

Philippa Kellyabout 8 hours ago

Art Basel exhibitors will show ‘the most ambitious works’ despite economic headwinds

Amid a drop in global sales and looming US tariffs, when Art Basel opens next week it will appeal to emerging collectors with a brand-new Premiere section for ultra-contemporary work, says the fair's director

Have we reached peak painting?

In a digital age, painting may seem quaint, but its appeal endures, among artists, scholars and collectors

More than 200 galleries are signed on for The Armory Show's next edition

The fair’s September 2025 edition will include a new design sector and have a focus on artists from the American South

Is Ari Emanuel getting a good deal with his purchase of Frieze?

The entertainment company’s former chief executive paid a reported $200m for the art fair and media brand—a sum which has raised eyebrows

Exhibitions

Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed medieval manuscript

The 15th-century prayer book, commissioned by the Duc de Berry, is on display at the Condé Museum

Peggy Guggenheim's influential—and short-lived—London gallery to be celebrated in new show in Venice and at London's Royal Academy

Among the highlights in the exhibition opening at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice next year will be a painting created by a teenage Lucian Freud

Liverpool Biennial 2025 digs deep into its city’s foundations with ‘Bedrock’ theme

The works on show in this year’s sprawling art festival explore the many aspects that make up Liverpool’s character, from its physical structure to the foundational values of its communities

At Kunsthalle Praha, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung are reunited in art, as they were in life

The artist-soulmates are the subjects of a new exhibition, opening in Prague on 5 June

‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’: Georg Baselitz incorporates his wheelchair into his art

The mobility aid has become a creative accessory for the artist, whose latest exhibition is on display at Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Appointments

Caroline Roux appointed as editor of The Art Newspaper’s Art of Luxury magazine

Since its launch in October 2023, Art of Luxury has published market-leading coverage of how artists and the visual arts interact with the world of jewellery, fashion, travel and lifestyle

Obituaries

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

Remembering Pope Francis, for 12 years head of the Catholic church and proprietor in trust of the Vatican's library and art collections

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

Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

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

Saudi Cultural Development Fund – Nama' Accelerators

In partnership with Cultural Development Fund

Saudi Arabia helps cultural businesses reach global audiences

The kingdom has expanded support for its handicrafts sector with a new business accelerator and a showcase at Selfridges London

In partnership with Cultural Development Fund

Opinion

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

Comment | When it comes to tariffs, here's why the art market should be grateful to a long-retired US congressman

A 1988 amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, secured by Howard Berman, could stop art imports being hit by Trump's tariff hike

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

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

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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

The Art Newspaperabout 4 hours ago

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

The Art Newspaperabout 10 hours ago

‘The new Napoleon’: collector urges Elon Musk to buy his Bonaparte trove

Could the 100-item lot be enough to distract the controversial billionaire from his current spat with President Donald Trump?

Film star Adrien Brody puts his heart into his art—but it's not enough to keep criticism at bay

‘The Pianist’ star's new works have, to say the least, divided art world commentators

Rijksmuseum to display 200-year-old condom featuring half-naked nun

The 20 centimetre contraceptive was most likely made from a sheep’s appendix

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.

With the help of conservators, one of Van Gogh’s finest Arles landscapes will be heading to Japan

A rare 1929 photograph captures the scene: Vincent’s much-loved Langlois Bridge, shortly before it was destroyed

Martin Baileyabout 5 hours ago

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

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

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

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