Cristina Ruiz

A heritage site far, far away: Star Wars film puts Irish island monastery in the spotlight

Local businesses want to extend access to island Skellig Michael to accommodate eager fans, but preservationists fear that crowds will threaten the medieval ruins and sea bird colonies

A heritage site far, far away: Star Wars film puts Irish island monastery in the spotlight

Local businesses want to extend access to island Skellig Michael to accommodate eager fans, but preservationists fear that crowds will threaten the medieval ruins and sea bird colonies

What do we really know about Islamic State’s role in illicit antiquities trade?

Experts at London symposium warn against misinformation and lack of evidence

Bruce Munro’s light installation to illuminate Ayers Rock

British artist wants to recapture joyful moment of camping near the Australian landmark with his fiancée

Marc Quinn and White Cube part company after more than 20 years

The British artist is the first that London dealer Jay Jopling ever worked with in 1991

Artnews

Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world

Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office

Africa’s top collector returns ancestral works to Angola

Sindika Dokolo bought back masks from owners to get the pieces home

Trevor Paglen dives deep into the system

Off the coast of Florida, the artist finds the fibre-optic cables tapped by the NSA

Collectors support El Salvador

US artist Mark Dion visits local artists as part of new exchange programme

It’s cave art, but not as we know it

Allora & Calzadilla install 1960s Dan Flavin light piece in the Puerto Rican jungle

Rain Room to quench Sharjah’s thirst for art

Edition will go on permanent display in United Arab Emirates from autumn 2017

Elmgreen & Dragset’s skinny dip in Miami Beach

Duo create one of six new works at convention centre

Anish Kapoor in talks to stage Havana show

Galleria Continua, which represents the artist, is opening a space in Cuba

The art fair the Istanbul Biennial wanted to squash

Art International opens today, but not everyone is celebrating

Lawnews

Büchel’s Venice mosque to stay shut

Court won’t hear case until Biennale ends

Lawnews

Collectors vs art advisers: the trouble with verbal contracts

The Maleki case exposes the perils of mixing business with friendship in the art world

William Kentridge plans epic frieze for River Tiber

South African artist will incorporate pollution in 550m-long work

Marlene Dumas to paint Dresden altarpiece

Work to replace war-damaged fresco from 1910

Why private museums founders are coming under fire

Within shiny new Fondation Louis Vuitton, collectors are criticised over “narcissistic” vanity projects

You can never have too much of a good thing

Certain installations have star status—shown in multiple museums, they have often attracted long queues. But what makes them so compelling?

Artnews

‘All art is essentially 
a Rorschach test’

Marlene Dumas warns that you’ll miss a lot if you search for too much autobiography in her paintings

Marlene Dumas to paint Dresden altarpiece

Work will replace a fresco painted by Osmar Schindler in 1910 and badly damaged during the Second World War

Yaruba prince to build museum for his Lagos collection

Pan Atlantic University will provide the land for Prince Yemisi Shyllon's institution

Billionaire collector puts Kiev museum on hold

Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian billionaire who has run a private gallery in Kiev since 2006, has shelved plans to build an “iconic” new museum in the city. “Now is not the time to build in Ukraine,” he tells The Art Newspaper. In 2011, Pinchuk revealed that he was planning to hire a top international architecture firm to create a “landmark building” in Kiev within five years. But Russia’s military incursion into the country has halted his ambitions, at least for now. It has also hit his business hard. Pinchuk’s pipe manufacturing company, Interpipe, currently has no revenue from Russia, once its main market, according to Forbes.

Barbra Streisand to donate a major portrait to Lacma

Sony emails reveal museum’s negotiations over actor's painting by Singer Sargent as well as Ann Ziff's collection

It’s official: Christoph Büchel’s Venice Biennale mosque is closed to the public

Icelandic commissioner responds with statement saying biennale is no longer the place for free expression