Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Scotland pulls out of next year’s Venice Biennale

Citing the present economic situation, the arts body Scotland + Venice has withdrawn from the event—although Scottish arts figures hope the decision will not mark "a full stop"

Artist condemns anti-LGBTQ laws passed by Ugandan parliament including death penalty

Leilah Babirye—who fled to the US in 2015—slams legislation which also introduces sentences of up to 20 years for "the offence of homosexuality"

Hong Kong is back with bang: Art Basel returns and M+ museum makes waves

Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women

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Art Basel Hong Kong fully reopens after four years—and Asian buyers are out in force

The opening day saw a steady stream of sales to private collectors and institutions in the region

Abu Dhabi seeks to make waves with first major art biennial

The first "direct commission" unveiled by Public Art Abu Dhabi is a multimedia crashing wave display by the Seoul-based collective d’strict

First Saudi, now Seoul: Centre Pompidou confirms latest move of global expansion

Paris-headquartered museum brand will open its South Korean outpost in 2025

Hong Kong added to East Asian tour of masterpieces from London’s National Gallery

Exhibition featuring Titian and Van Gogh will travel to Hong Kong Palace Museum following stops in Shanghai and Seoul

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Bridget Riley is bringing the colours of ancient Egypt to Rome with a major ceiling painting commission

Riley will transform the barrel-vaulted ceiling at the British School at Rome with a palette of bold colours based on ancient Egyptian iconography

Stick 'em up! Ai Weiwei invites you to give the middle finger in new online art project

So far targets on the platform developed in collaboration with Avant Arte have included landmarks, political buildings and even artworks

Six key jobs culled at London’s Whitechapel Gallery—including three curatorial posts

New director defends overhaul in wake of rising energy costs and Arts Council funding cuts

Centre Pompidou to open contemporary art museum in Saudi Arabia

The Paris institution's latest outpost is part of drive to rebrand the Middle Eastern state

Football's coming...to Manchester International Festival (with a little help from soccer player Juan Mata)

This summer's edition will also feature Yayoi Kusama’s monumental inflatables at Factory International's new building

Phyllida Barlow—British sculptor who found global fame after retiring from teaching—has died, aged 78

Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations

Revealed: Rome's new €100m culture masterplan

The National Roman Museum's director Stéphane Verger shares the radical new plans that will revamp four landmark museum and heritage sites in Italy

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Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display

Mauritshuis currently has 170 works on display as part of its “My Girl with a Pearl” initiative while Vermeer’s masterpiece is on loan

Art history sleuths reunite mother with husband and son in 17th-century Flemish portrait

Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years

Climate change, a Gothic cathedral and champagne cellars: Eva Jospin takes on latest Ruinart commission

Promenade[s], an installation made mainly from cardboard and inspired by the landscape around Reims, will be shown at art fairs worldwide over the next year

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From Hogarth to Hockney, artists struck by puppy love are celebrated in four recent canine-themed books

Ahead of a new show of dog portraits at London's Wallace Collection, we round-up some publishing treats for you to paw over

Henry Moore Foundation provides financial lifeline for UK artists during cost of living crisis

Rapid response funding provides "relief" in the face of soaring bills, artists say

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Extract | When the Picasso was almost knocked off the wall during a blockbuster show

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dealer who has given 1,677 works to create new French museum does ‘not expect a dime from the donation’

Conditions outlined for gift from Claude and France Lemand for new museum at the Arab World Institute in Paris

Archaeologists discover ancient tunnel at Great Pyramid of Giza that may lead to King Khufu’s tomb

The international team of scientists used radiography and endoscopy techniques to peer inside the structure

Russian or Ukrainian? Museums update Kazimir Malevich's nationality

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now describes the abstract painter as Ukrainian, while The Met reclassifies other painters who were born or worked in the country

Bellini show in Paris brings together a cocktail of influences and challenges some previous hangovers

The curators of a new exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André will demonstrate how recent research is helping us see the work of Giovanni Bellini and his circle in a new light

'AI will become the new normal’: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industry

Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value