Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse
The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site
Jenny Saville and Edvard Munch headline 2025 programme at London's National Portrait Gallery
The gallery will also bring Cecil Beaton’s fashion photography and cult magazine The Face to the fore
'Not just the oldest, but the biggest': Alain Dominique Perrin on what to expect from Fondation Cartier's new gallery
Due to open in late 2025, the foundation's president hopes the new Palais-Royal location will draw around a million visitors each year
The ‘Paris effect’: big-name collectors and a strong start to sales at Art Basel’s French edition
Galleries and buyers rise to the occasion of the fair's debut at the Grand Palais
Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No 10 Downing Street
In a major re-hang, scenes from Rego’s mural Crivelli’s Garden have appeared in place of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh
British Library slowly resuming service after cyber-attack
One year on, around 1,000 manuscripts are available online again
Painting protests cause 'enormous stress for colleagues at every level', say UK's national museum directors
An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council says "demonstrations now need to be taken away from our museums and galleries"
New UK arts minister: 'I am passionate about people being able to make a career out of art'
In front of a crowd at Frieze Masters, Chris Bryant MP discussed funding, culture wars and the importance of education
'Our artists are lights in the dark': as war rages in Lebanon, Beirut's galleries find refuge at Frieze
Although their spaces at home remain closed, two Lebanese galleries are showing work at the London fair
UK’s largest artist residency programme launches £7m fundraising campaign
The Delfina Foundation in London, which has hosted more than 450 artists and curators, hopes to secure its base and continue its programmes
Paintings by Charlotte Johnson Wahl, mother of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, reflect her time in a psychiatric hospital
An exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind will “lift the lid” on subjects rarely spoken about a decade ago
'This is the antithesis of Brexit discourse': artist Es Devlin unveils 50 refugee portraits in a London church
'Why are we opening our hearts and doors and schools to Ukrainians, but not to Afghanis and Somalians and Syrians?', asks the designer known for her stage sets
Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted
Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'
How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week
As government aims to put the arts at the heart of the curriculum, an Art UK project is teaching children how to 'cope with today’s image-saturated world'
'Untenable': UK Arts Society chiefs and trustees resign following internal opposition to reforms
A new governance structure was rejected by 70% of voting members at an extraordinary general meeting
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
‘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
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
Pucker up: Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at Surrealist hub in West Sussex
Monthly public tours will reveal one of the UK’s most prestigious collections of Surrealist art, featuring works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington
Stuffed animals, Superman and communing with spirits: the wacky world of Mike Kelley explored in Tate Modern survey
The London institution is the third stop for the four-venue touring exhibition of the late American artist
Three arrested after Just Stop Oil protestors throw soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers—again
Activists who took part in a similar stunt at London's National Gallery in 2022 were jailed earlier today
Protestors who poured soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers sentenced to prison
The incident, which took place at the National Gallery in 2022, will see Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland serve two years and 20 months respectively
Major UK art prize awarded to Royal Academy schools student
Prizewinner Jame St Findlay receives £30,000 and a show at Claridge’s ArtSpace
‘Art is the opposite of war’: amid a new wave of bombardment, Beirut's culture professionals remain defiant
Israeli airstrikes have led to gallery and museum closures, but artists and gallerists are determined to continue their work
London’s revamped Warburg Institute courts a broader audience
Home to a unique collection smuggled out of Nazi Germany, the institute will show temporary exhibitions alongside Edmund de Waal’s library of exile
Repatriation of objects is on the government’s agenda, says UK culture secretary
Lisa Nandy's apparent support for repatriation reform has been welcomed by the head of London's Victoria and Albert Museum
‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening
The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna
Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection
The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring
Caravaggio’s Cupid heads for London
The provocative painting of Roman god of desire will travel from Berlin in 2025
Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities
The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico