More than $500,000 worth of art traded hands free of charge last week with a contract that makes collecting more accessible and helps ease artists’ burden of storing old work

The Raphaelite figure's great-grandson has loaned over 150 works on paper

PhotoIreland, the organiser of Ireland’s longest-running photography festival, has set up its first permanent exhibition space

The exhibition is auction house’s third dedicated to Middle Eastern art, part of a strategy to support the region

It is the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction

Founder and dealer Adam Lindemann says he will return his focus to his personal art collection

Held in collaboration with Grosvenor Gallery, the Modernist selling show sees the auction house tap into this burgeoning region

The Egyptian artist has selected a curatorial theme for the fair's first Middle Eastern show, to which more than 50 galleries will bring solo presentations

The beloved 1937 complex, which hosted millions of visitors on the National Park’s North Ridge, has fallen victim to the ongoing Dragon Bravo Fire

Staying open can mean coping with security service raids, harassment, verbal attacks by lawmakers and an exodus of staff

Up to 550 jobs could be axed at the charity as part of a bid to save £26m, despite rising visitor numbers

Momin, who has a long-standing relationship with the Whitney Museum and previously led the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, will start her role in September

An exhibition at the Munch museum in Oslo shows how the artist’s fascination with medicine, bodies and mental illness was reflected in his art

Shows by Peter Fischli, Bas Smets and Wael Shawky explore reflection, urban ecologies and the mythology of Pompeii

The 56th edition of the photography festival asserts the medium’s disobedient streak

Our selection from the sprawling festival in the south of France

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

Gallerists are varied in how they are approaching the popular month for travel during a period of softer demand

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

David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction

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

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

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

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

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

Inspired by a visit to Naoshima art island in Japan, a US collector has commissioned a compelling group of site-specific installations

The polymathic, multifarious, South African artist plays creative games with scale, indoor and out, in "The Pull of Gravity", a multi-decade survey at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

In the UK, Hauser & Wirth, Messums, Willoughby Gerrish and other galleries have embraced the potential of unique rural sites

Our round-up of the latest art publications

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

A revised edition of a 2020 book looks at the problems associated with a "white, male and middle class" cultural arena in the UK

The publication on a 17th-century shipwreck reveals transatlantic connections and the complexities of underwater archaeology

New analysis considers the artists’ common cause as champions of landscape alongside their renowned differences

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.

From Ed Sheeran to Adrien Brody, it seems big names can't stop picking up their paint brushes

UK government official said that trees should be planted on Cerne Abbas Giant's sizeable member

The Louvre and the National in Edinburgh loaned works by the 18th-century artist

The annual fundraising bash drew a throng of famous guests, with the artist Grayson Perry and the actor Isla Fisher also among them

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

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

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