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Two arrested after Picasso painting targeted by protestors at London's National Gallery
Members of campaign group Youth Demand covered the painting with an image of a Gazan mother and children
Security guards at London's Science Museum and Natural History Museum to strike over pay
The workers, who will start the action at the end of this month, say they are treated as “second-class employees”
Nazi-looted Monet returned to heirs after the FBI traces it to New Orleans
Missing for more than 80 years, the 1865 pastel will be handed over in a ceremony today after the couple who bought it relinquished it voluntarily
Artist-designed billboards opposing Donald Trump and supporting Kamala Harris go up in battleground states
The campaign, organised by the non-profit People For the American Way, includes images by Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Kass, Alyson Shotz, Christine Sun Kim, Hank Willis Thomas and others
Bone of contention: Rijksmuseum and Church disagree on final resting place of Dutch privateer's remains
A bone and lock of hair apparently belonging to Piet Hein have been in storage at the Dutch museum for centuries—now there are calls to have them returned to his grave
Frieze London 2024
The top stories, gossip and shows from this year's edition of Frieze London and Masters
Galleries at Frieze London buoyed by better-than-expected preview day sales
Against a background of a gloomy economic and political outlook, most dealers reported brisk business as the fair opened
'I did think it was a bit weird when they asked me': rocker Billy Childish turns Frieze London into his studio
The artist and musician set up his easel at Lehmann Maupin’s stand to paint live alongside his two children
Acquisition funds get first pick at Frieze London
Curators select works by under-represented groups for Tate, while Art Council Collection purchases focus on early-to mid-career artists
Frieze London diary: the yolk's on Sarah Lucas, the (sort of) masked drummer, and Marc Spiegler gets on his bike
Plus: fair hits the small screen and Smell-O-Vision makes a comeback at Tate Modern
'It’s always important to have constructive dialogue': Gaza-focused works get prime spot at newly designed Frieze London
At the Experimenter stand, Bani Abidi is showing subtle pieces inspired by the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war
Art market
Sunny £13.2m 1960s David Hockney brightens Sotheby's Frieze week evening sale
The small 23-lot contemporary art auction last night realised a total of £37.5m
Lucian Freud's Ria leads Christie's Frieze week evening sale at £11.8m
Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap June sales
Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists
Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today
Freewheeling Art Jakarta unphased by political protests
Domestic abuse allegations against an originally participating artist cast a shadow over the latest edition of the Indonesian fair this year
‘It’s a little bit of a testing period’: inaugural Atlanta Art Fair opens with buzzy VIP turnout
Dealers hope the city’s first art fair will help Atlanta artists build a bigger collector base
Museums & Heritage
Charli xcx will play DJ set at New York's Storm King Art Center
The Von Dutch singer will visit the sculpture park's rolling hills to preview her new remix project
Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia
Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa
Plans for Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey are revived, in a new space
The hotly debated Jersey City satellite of the venerated Parisian institution appears to be back on the books after it was "paused indefinitely" in June
$3.9m restoration project breaks ground in Brooklyn to preserve remnants of a 19th-century free Black community
Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration
Ancient throne room of powerful Moche woman discovered in Peru
The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” is one of two elaborately decorated spaces archaeologists recently uncovered at Pañamarca
Exhibitions
Five not-to-miss PST Art shows at Los Angeles galleries
From the atomic to the astronomic, and the natural to supernatural, these exhibitions make the most of the Getty’s sweeping science-meets-art agenda
What a catch! Italian artist trio to serve up fish market performance in New York
After an inaugural outing in Milan last year, Canemorto is transforming an East Village gallery into an irreverent market for handcrafted fish art
New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections
Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project
Art festival in Norway embraces the sounds of the Arctic Circle
At the Lofoten International Art Festival, music and sound art complement a majestic landscape of fjords and mountains
PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives
From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation
Book Club
‘The artist the critics love to hate’: the colourful life of sports star painter and Playboy illustrator LeRoy Neiman
We speak to the author of a new biography that reassesses the legacy of the “hustler” artist who rubbed shoulders with celebrities
An expert’s guide to Helen Frankenthaler: five must-read books on the Abstract Expressionist
All you ever wanted to know about Frankenthaler, from a seminal monograph to the story of the bohemian world that forged her—selected by the curator and writer Douglas Dreishpoon
In Pictures | Artist billboards across America tell a story of US politics today
Ahead of the November presidential election, a new book by the For Freedoms organisation brings together the topical and political posters that it has commissioned since 2016
October Book Bag: from a publication about money in art to tales of London art market rogues
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Diary
Lady Gaga makes the Mona Lisa smile in Joker movie promo
Paris museum plugs forthcoming 'Madman' show in canny marketing move
Artist Glenn Ligon blasts Janet Jackson over 'nasty' Kamala Harris comments
The pop star re-ignited a row over the presidential candidate's heritage
Barbed art critic Brian Sewell is back—in AI form
The late writer known for his poison pen will make an appearance in a new London magazine
The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again in New York
Luna Luna, featuring a carousel by Keith Haring and David Hockney's enchanted forest, is travelling to The Shed
Monet is back in Vogue thanks to editor’s makeover
Edward Enninful is partnering with the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie to create prints inspired by the artist
Opinion
The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity
All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing
The case for a cross-border approach for recovering Europe's Nazi-looted art
If governments are committed to the Washington Principles, they should create a co-ordinating body
Ten years on from the genocide, Yazidi culture is still absent from Western museums
Institutions have a moral duty to better represent the persecuted Kurdish religious minority
Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer
Rachida Dati has been reappointed as France's culture minister—but does she have the will to protect heritage?
The debacle over the commissioning of Notre-Dame's stained-glass windows highlights the politician's propensity to ignore expert advice
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill — podcast
Celebrating the “negative joy” of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill
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.
Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes
A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway
Books
The life and art of Mabel Nicholson: new volume tells of the career catastrophe of domestic bliss
How lovingly raising her artistic family cost an artist of “tensile strength” her own fame
Two publications show how, in Caspar David Friedrich's world, mankind is puny against nature’s power
The German artist's work is pored over in two hefty tomes, one a smart overview, the other a comprehensive guide
'Go, thou, and do likewise': a field guide to Britain’s stone circles delivers both scholarship and romance
An authoritative and engaging read for fans of the UK's mute monoliths—be they academic or sentimental
Five of the best art books hitting the shelves this autumn
Our literary editor Jacqueline Riding selects some of the tempting titles that are scheduled for publication over the coming months
Take a romp through Ancient Rome’s great buildings with this handy (almost) pocket-sized book
Ostensibly a guide to the city's top 50 sites, a new publication by Paul Roberts offers far more
Obituaries
‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80
Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs
Derek Boshier, British Pop artist widely known for his collaborations with David Bowie, has died, aged 87
Boshier’s work was often critical of US politics and consumerism
Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur
The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation
An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists
The artistic director of Serpentine, recalls 35 years of friendship and collaboration with the cultural impresario who was one of the most important curators of the second half of the 20th century
Remembering Alain Delon, screen idol and dedicated art collector, who has died aged 88
A personal memoir recalling the French actor’s “serious case of collectoritis” that saw him acquiring works by Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Géricault and Georges Braque
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with…Sonia Boyce — podcast
An in-depth interview with the Golden Lion-winner, discussing her shift to social practice, the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and how William Morris’s wallpaper designs have made their way into her work
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.
Artist on trial for website satirising Icelandic company’s alleged role in the Fishrot scandal
Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson’s spoof of the Samherji Group’s website featured a prominent apology, seemingly acknowledging its alleged role in the Namibian fishing scandal
Refik Anadol Studio reveals plans for world’s first museum of AI arts
Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district
Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer
Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
What if women ruled the world? The Art Newspaper takes part in summer celebration of Judy Chicago at the Serpentine
The London art world came out in force to celebrate the American visionary's exhibition “Revelations” and to enjoy a tech-powered interaction with her quest to create a world where power is equally shared