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

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

Book Clubfeature

‘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

Loansnews

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