Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

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

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‘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

Awardsnews

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

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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

How the UK can be a cultural superpower: think tank puts forward arts policies for new Labour government

The Fabian Society has proposed actions including introducing a tourism charge and organising a review of Arts Council England

Awardsnews

Shortlist announced for Artes Mundi 11, the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize

The 11th edition, which will be presented at venues across Wales, sees six artists nominated for the £40,000 prize

Fondation Cartier reveals plans for new Paris space designed by Jean Nouvel

The French architect will modernise the historic site, which is due to open next year near the Louvre

‘Will it cause reputational damage?’: British Museum director discusses controversial BP donation

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Nicholas Cullinan also mulls over the Parthenon Marbles and recent thefts scandal

A Banksy work has been stolen in London—again

Two men have appeared in court charged with burglary following the theft of a version of 'Girl with Balloon'

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Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo

Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine

Human rights groups call on Iran's government to end 'systematic persecution of artists'

On the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, Artistic Freedom Initiative’s new report uncovers human rights abuses following the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising

‘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