NewsNational Gallery
Conservative party donor John Booth appointed chair of London's National Gallery
Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview
NewsMuseums
Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong sets new opening date for long-delayed Abu Dhabi museum
New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says 'we can re-centre where the stories of art are told'
NewsArt Basel 2021
Unlimited—Art Basel’s section for large works—opens to visitors with a rainbow jacuzzi, a spooning couple and a house made of bread
Curator Giovanni Carmine walks through highlights among the 62 supersized installations presented at the fair
NewsExhibitions
France launches Islamic art shows across 18 cities to combat rising Islamophobia
The Louvre-led government initiative aims to shatter clichés and encourage a deeper understanding
PreviewExhibitions
Impressionist and Modern masterpieces collected by the Morozov brothers finally go on show in Paris
Exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton—including works by artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse—aims to emulate 2016's Shchukin blockbuster
NewsAcademy Museum of Motion Pictures
New Academy Museum to tell a more honest Hollywood history
Opening next week, the Los Angeles museum dedicated to the history of cinema will include reimagined displays on diverse stars and “less than proud” moments
NewsMuseums & Heritage
K-Pop superstars BTS help present gift from Korean government to the Metropolitan Museum
The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Through animation and home videos, three films in Toronto try to retrieve a lost Jewish past
The features Charlotte, Where Is Anne Frank, and Three Minutes – A Lengthening give an afterlife to some of the victims of the Holocaust
NewsGeorge Floyd
A painting created outside the Minneapolis courthouse during the final moments of the George Floyd murder trial will be put up for auction
MSNBC host Chris Hayes said on air he would buy picture, which was inspired by the Derek Chauvin murder conviction, if it were to ever come up for sale.
AnalysisArt market
Young, monied and keen to gamble on art: the super power of Asian collectors
Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online
FeatureBooks
Book extract | The story behind Van Gogh's portrait of Doctor Gachet's daughter in the Kunstmuseum Basel
In this adapted extract from his new book Van Gogh’s Finale, Martin Bailey examines the portrait of Marguerite Gachet in the Kunstmuseum Basel
FeatureMuseums
Is Zurich the new Basel?
With the extension of the Kunsthaus, now Switzerland’s largest art museum, the city has taken a ‘quantum leap’
InterviewA brush with
'I was always fascinated by the paintings of Goya': Philippe Parreno on his new video work at the Beyeler
The French-Algerian artist discusses how Goya’s Black Paintings provided inspiration for his latest piece in Switzerland
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's eye: Hans Furer
The Basel-based collector tells us what he's bought and why
NewsExhibitions
Basel's Beyeler Foundation scores coup for Goya show
Exhibition dedicated to the Spanish artist opens next month with a display of 75 paintings including a prized painting from Madrid’s Prado museum
NewsArt Basel 2021
Galerie Nagel Draxler presents ‘Crypto Kiosk’ of NFTs at Art Basel booth
The satellite fair Photo Basel is also offering digital photographic NFTs for sale
NewsArt Basel
Is Art Basel eyeing up a new fair location?
Art Basel has lent expertise to Art Week Tokyo, but does this indicate further involvement?
PreviewExhibitions
Pissarro, the ‘hidden leader’ of Impressionism, reassessed at the Kunstmuseum Basel
This major exhibition comprises nearly 200 works by the multicultural artist who remained an outsider in Paris despite his central role in the movement
ReviewBooks
First monograph on Rana Begum reveals artist's refined language of Minimalist abstraction
Timely new book explores how Begum's approach to her multifaceted work defies any simple categorisation
NewsDiscoveries
Did this mysterious Dutch painter inspire Vermeer?
The story of enigmatic artist Jacobus Vrel will be told in an exhibition scheduled for 2023 and in a book published this month
PreviewArt market
From a cashmere coated console to a leafy Lalanne chair: Design Miami/Basel director chooses her highlights
The fair may be smaller than usual this year but Jennifer Roberts says she has never known the collectible design market to be in such rude health
CommentMuseums & Heritage
The cancelling of the Genoese art loan show Superb Baroque is a sad day for the National Gallery in Washington, DC
Can another museum with a commitment to broaden Americans’ exposure to great art, including pre-contemporary works, take up the show?
CommentArt market
Women in the arts are winning the battle for equal employment—but they haven’t yet won the war
The latest UBS Art Basel report finds that top jobs are finally going to women—even at the mega galleries
BlogDiary
Drink up—Olafur Eliasson creates new wine-tasting pavilion for Californian vineyard
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Marina Abramovic takes London by storm with a trio of shows
NewsMexico
Mexico attempts to halt German auction of Pre-Colombian artefacts
More than 70 works designated as national heritage are due to be sold in Munich on 21 September
News US politics
Percent for art programme to expand into Los Angeles county’s unincorporated areas
A civic ordinance in effect from October sets aside 1% of building projects for arts and culture programmes
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2021
CCA Derry~Londonderry: a lifeline for artists in isolation on both sides of Ireland's border
The Centre for Contemporary Art filled the lockdown gap with online conversations and social media takeovers
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2021
Experience Barnsley: a crowdsourced museum in Yorkshire shows how culture can help in the pandemic recovery
The gallery located in the town hall is a true “museum of and for the people”
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2021
Firstsite: bouncing back from past controversies to become a vital community hub
The Colchester art gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary this year
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2021
Thackray Museum of Medicine: one of the world’s first mass vaccination hubs documenting Covid-19 history
The Leeds institution is making—and collecting—history
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2021
Timespan: a remote museum in the Scottish Highlands that support its vulnerable village through Covid
The cultural centre has international ambitions if it wins the £100,000 prize
CommentArt Fund Museum of the Year 2021
Against all the odds, the UK’s museums are beacons of inspiration
Museum of the Year 2021 celebrates the sector’s triumphs in the face of adversity, says Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and jury chair for the £100,000 prize
PreviewExhibitions
Picasso Blue Period blockbuster to finally open in Toronto early October
The show, delayed because of Covid, focuses on three works painted by the “insanely ambitious” artist during a low point in his early career
InterviewMikhail Piotrovsky
'Putin's been my person since the 90s': ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections, Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky talks politics
The outspoken museum chief is leading the St Petersburg ticket of United Russia, the pro-Putin ruling party, in national parliamentary elections this weekend
PreviewExhibitions
Must-see institutional shows during Art Basel
From unseen drawings from Kara Walker's personal archives to a fresh take on Camille Pissarro as the leader of the Impressionists
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Adam Pendelton's colossal recaps of the past year at MoMA, to Objects of Common Interest's minimalist designs at the Noguchi Museum
InterviewArt fairs
Real-life Art Basel prepares to return—and steps down from its ivory tower
Arranging the event amid a shifting pandemic has been fraught with risk—but it is a risk worth taking, says global director Marc Spiegler
NewsArt market
Genevan prosecutor dismisses Dimitry Rybolovev's case against art dealer Yves Bouvier—but feud between the two billionaires is not over yet
Russian art collector had sued for double dealing and will now appeal decision, while Bouvier plans to launch $1bn countersuit for damages—and write a tell-all book
NewsMuseums & Heritage
A sneak peek at France's first cultural venue celebrating stained glass
The Cité du Vitrail will open in the medieval town of Troyes in spring 2022, but preview tours are running this weekend for the European Heritage Days
PreviewBiennials & festivals
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the city becomes a community landscape
Projects and site-specific installations have been brought into six neigbourhoods, taking local needs into account
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
New Van Gogh discovery: first version of despairing man that was bought for £6—and then hidden away for more than a century
The artist titled the drawing "Worn out" in English because he wanted to work for a London publisher
NewsArt and health
Healing Arts programme comes to New York with a two-month schedule of events
Artist commissions, expert discussions and film premieres will take place in the city, starting and ending with a pair of symposia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
NewsAppointments
'Musée d’Orsay can no longer be a tourist factory': Christophe Leribault named new director of Paris museum
Leribault will oversee a major redevelopment of the Musée d’Orsay over the next decade
NewsMyanmar
Myanmar’s artists face growing hardship as Covid returns and military tightens grip
As junta strengthens hold over country, the economy crumbles and a brutal new wave of the virus takes its toll, the artistic community is in crisis
NewsArt market
Ethiopian gallery Addis Fine Art to open space in London
One of the few Black-owned galleries in London, the space will open with a show of Nirit Takele in October as the gallery takes part in Frieze London for the first time
NewsHeritage
Unesco report reveals extent of Russian threat to Crimean heritage
Since the annexation in 2014, Russia has been persecuting the Tatar population and appropriating monuments
NewsArtists
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara named an ‘icon’ of 2021 by Time magazine
The Cuban artist and activist is joined on the publication’s list of 100 Most Influential People by Barbara Kruger and Mark Bradford
NewsAppointments
Nadine Dorries named UK culture secretary
The right-wing politician, who appeared on the TV programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, replaces Oliver Dowden
NewsSuperflex
Superflex to send climate-conscious message during 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York
The Danish art collective will show one work on the façade of the international agency's Manhattan headquarters next week
AnalysisArt market
Despite legal crackdowns, unpaid internships are still rife in the art world
Historically marginalised groups are being kept out of an industry that expects people to work for free in order to get a foot in the door
InterviewPrizes
'India is an example of fascism unchecked': Jameel Prize-nominated activist Sofia Karim on her samosa packets of solidarity
The London-based artist's Turbine Bagh project shines light on human rights abuses across South Asia
NewsRestitution
Looted African works that France has promised to return to Benin will be shown in Paris museum for one last time
The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October
NewsArt market
The rise of Paris: Larry Gagosian opens third gallery in the French capital
US dealer launches new space with giant Alexander Calder sculpture in the Place Vendôme
InterviewArt market
New Miart director Nicola Ricciardi on rebuilding an art fair from scratch as the pandemic rumbles on
Ricciardi was previously artistic director of Turin's OGR art centre which was used as a hospital for Covid-19 patients last year
NewsNFTs
Dread Scott's NFT 'White Male For Sale', a critique on slavery, to be auctioned off at Christie’s Post-War to Present sale
The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block
NewsFaith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold to get her first New York retrospective at the New Museum in 2022
The exhibition will span six decades and explore Ringgold as both an artist and political activist
NewsPrizes
James Turrell and Sebastião Salgado among international recipients of £400,000 Japanese art prize
Japan Art Association drew up the all-male winners list for award dubbed ‘Nobel Prize for the Arts’
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Pop goes pastoral: Sarah Lucas and friends take over rural theatre with multilayered group show of female imagery
NewsPrizes
Sculptor Nairy Baghramian awarded 2022 Nasher Prize
The $100,000 award for sculpture recognises the Berlin-based artist's evocative explorations of the body through sculpture
FeatureBook Club
In Pictures | Behind the scenes of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work wrapping the Arc de Triomphe
A new book looks at the detailed preparations and 60 years of planning behind the work being unveiled in Paris
NewsClimate Change
'Now is the time': UK artists and galleries unite for climate campaign to mark COP26 conference
Conservation charity WWF and curatorial collective Artwise call on art world to raise funds and awareness for climate action
NewsArt market
‘Opera is boring’: Marina Abramovic’s cinematic ode to soprano Maria Callas opens in London
Belgrade-born performance artist discusses recasting opera for a younger generation, how the diva label is “dubious” and why sex is better post-menopause
PreviewExhibitions
From art that's barely there to Alicja Kwade’s heart: what to see at Berlin Art Week
The German capital is awash with exhibitions, performances and events after a quieter edition last year
InterviewArtist interview
Ibrahim Mahama: ‘I use crisis and failure as the primary material in my work’
On the eve of a new London show, the Ghanaian artist discusses how he is turning a disused food silo in his homeland into a cultural centre
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Timothée Chalamet kicks off the Met Gala with a flag-inspired collaboration with street artist JR
The actor debuted a new performance and installation in the Breuer building, before protestors crashed the party at the Costume Institute’s annual celebrity fundraiser
NewsPeru
Peru’s heritage gets a new $125m home
Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts
NewsAppointments
Emma Lavigne named chief executive officer of the Pinault Collection
Former head of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris replaces Jean-Jacques Aillagon
NewsArt market
'A collector in dealer's clothes': Sotheby's to sell the collection of Richard L. Feigen
The sale of the New York dealer, who died earlier this year and was once a vocal critic of auction houses, will feature works from the 14th to 20th centuries
NewsFunding
British Council—the UK's international organisation for cultural relations—winds down in 20 countries
Covid impact on commercial income has led to cost cutting, organisation says
NewsNFTs
‘We have no doubt NFTs are art’: after selling tokenised Leonardo, Hermitage plans exhibition of born-digital works
Russian museum will look beyond the market hype to address deeper questions about "the specific possibilities of this medium", says contemporary art curator Dimitri Ozerkov
ReviewBooks
Squatters, desert cults and climate protestors: new book surveys the architecture of anarchist settlements
From geodesic domes in South Colorado to the Calais Jungle in Europe, this provocative work studies 60 structures that were built according to values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and self-organisation
PreviewExhibitions
Rediscovering the East London Group: the part-time, working-class artists who depicted the capital between the wars
A new show in Southend-on-Sea aims to shine a light on the realist painters who fell into obscurity as tastes changed after the Second World War
NewsArt education
After UK government slashes arts education funding it is now offering £10m extra cash—for a lucky few institutions
A select group of 16 specialist colleges, including the Royal College of Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art, have been given a lifeline
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Hello Kitty, meet Louis Wain: a new film portrays the eccentric life of a cat painter
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the ill-fated Victorian illustrator who can be thanked—or blamed—for the rise of the feline in popular culture
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Rembrandt blockbuster draws 42,000 visitors to National Gallery of Canada
The response in Ottawa “shows people crave experiencing visual arts in person”, director Sasha Suda says
NewsBiennials & festivals
Prospect New Orleans to stagger openings and delay gala after Hurricane Ida
The event, launched in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, has been impacted by another major climate disaster
ReviewExhibitions
Emerging art exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Rose Nestler's bizarre barre class to fireworks and goldfish cast in resin at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
NewsArt fairs
'Exactly what we needed': Armory Show returns to New York in a new, modern location
Despite travel bans and complications, many galleries from oversees had a presence, giving the first major US fair since the pandemic a truly international tone
NewsAppointments
Klaus Biesenbach named director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary museum is to be led by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
BlogDiary
Is it by the master? Audience delivers verdict on Salvator Mundi at 'The Lost Leonardo' UK premiere
NewsArt market
The future’s bright: Millennials help art market stage post-pandemic recovery
Art Basel-UBS report reveals that employment has stabilised and gallery sales are up 10% in first half of 2021
NewsPrizes
Sung Tieu's film on sonic warfare, nausea and the legacy of the Cold War wins 2021 Frieze Artist Award
The Berlin-based artist will have a solo booth with Emalin at the London fair
NewsArt market
Christie's to sell €5m Chardin painting for the first time in nearly 200 years
Descendants of François Marcille will sell 27 paintings and drawings from his collection in Paris this November, including Woman Drawing Water from a Water Urn
NewsThefts
French decorative art stolen from 17-century country home in Sussex—for second time
Police appealing for information after five items, including a pair of Sèvres vases and a clock with a bronze figure of Apollo, were taken from Uppark on the South Downs
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Where was Van Gogh originally buried? We still don’t know
In an extraordinary scene, reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Vincent’s skull was held aloft and moved in 1905
NewsRestitution
Maqdala treasures looted by British troops returned to Ethiopia in 'largest single restitution'
At the ceremony in London, the Ethiopian ambassador renewed calls for museums to return Maqdala objects
NewsPrizes
Winner of 25th Deutsche Börse prize announced
Chinese artist Cao Fei's Serpentine exhibition Blueprints recognised as prophesying the effects of the pandemic
InterviewBook Club
‘Caravaggio was a major-league asshole’: the long tradition of scandal in art
According to Noah Charney’s new book, infamy in the art world—be it contrived drama to drum up publicity or genuine artistic rivalry—is as old as art itself
NewsArt market
Sotheby's wins 'dogfight' to sell $600m art collection of Harry and Linda Macklowe
Auction house will sell the 65 works, including $70m works by Rothko and Giacometti, in two standalone sales in November and next May
AnalysisArt market
Photo London returns as 'an act of resistance'
Diverse interpretations of portraiture and themes of isolation and containment loom large at first physical photography fair since the onset of the pandemic
NewsJohannes Vermeer
First Cupid, now a wine glass? More revelations emerge from restored Vermeer painting in Dresden
Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain
AnalysisArt market
Eye of the Collector tries out new fair format in a neo-Gothic setting
The no-stands format of the London event in Two Temple Place is a refreshing change, although some visitors found the lack of labels confusing
FeatureBook Club
Extract | How the colours in ancient Pompeian frescoes ‘spoke’ to Mark Rothko
A new book by the art historian Ben Street attempts to demystify how we look at art and argues for reacting instinctively to what we see
NewsArt market
Jeff Koons reveals he is making NFTs, details plans for his Pace Gallery shows and remembers his hotel rendezvous with Salvador Dalí
The Balloon Dog sculptor spoke to The Art Newspaper as he announced a new art collaboration with BMW
NewsMuseums
Brussels doctors prescribe museum visits to treat Covid-19 stress
Research “has proven that art can be beneficial for health, both mental and physical,” the city’s head of culture tells a Belgian newspaper
BlogBook Club
September’s book bag: US land protests, English country houses and a feminist history of photography
Our roundup of the latest art publications
FeatureThe Armory Show 2021
When the present does not add up, artists look to the future
Artists' forward-looking visions are at the centre of this year’s Armory Focus section, as well as several exhibitions and projects in New York in the coming year
NewsSeptember 11
'A thunderstorm of ash and cloud': Artists remember 11 September
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, artists reflect on how the event has impacted their work
CommentDiary of an art historian
'The art in Spain stays mainly off the plane': grim Brexit news from the art buying frontline
I've learned the new politically motivated lessons about art shipping the hard way—so you don't have to
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