Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Modern artinterview

Interview magazine editor and Warhol confidant Bob Colacello opens new show on Pop art heyday

The photographer speaks with us about his intimate images of the famed artist, how he got the coveted New York media job and his "diehard" Republicanism

Reina Sofía Museum and Whitworth Gallery appoint new directors

The art historian Manuel Segade will join the Madrid institution while Tate international art curator Sook-Kyung Lee takes the reins in Manchester

Vermeer blockbuster officially breaks record at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

The recently-closed exhibition drew 650,000 visitors in its four month run

Lootnews

‘Easily recognisable fakes’ among artefacts repatriated to Italy from the US

Forged objects have been identified among the 60 antiquities returned amid much fanfare earlier this year

A new show exploring Bloomsbury Set's impact on fashion to launch expansion of group's Sussex retreat

Southover House in Lewes will house personal items owned by Virginia Woolf and Duncan Grant this autumn and may lead to a dedicated gallery

Memorial to peace activist Brian Haw to stand opposite London's Imperial War Museum

The campaigner began protesting the Iraq war outside the Houses of Parliament in 2001 and remained camped at the site until his death in 2011

Controversial monument to Queen Elizabeth II needs donors

Massive sculpture by Simon Hitchens, criticised by local campaign group, is three times the size of Antony Gormley’s 'Angel of the North'

All change at Tate Britain after first rehang in a decade

Alex Farquharson, the director of Tate Britain, opens up on the thinking behind a top-to-bottom reassessment of the largest collection of British art in the world

Major Willem de Kooning exhibition to open during Venice Biennale 2024

Gallerie dell’Accademia show will explore how Italy shaped the late artist’s vision

Saudi Arabia announces two new major museums as part of AlUla heritage site

An institution for contemporary art and another dedicated to the incense trade route are the first "cultural assets” launched as part of the region's 15-year plan

Michelangelo's David blocked from Scottish ad campaign

Glasgow's Barolo Restaurant will run posters with the sculpture visible only from the waist up after artwork with the masterpiece in full-view was rejected

Iranian women artists facing repression find platform at Frieze New York

Dastan Gallery's stand hosts works by five artists that interweave the personal and the political

Commemorating King Charles III's coronation: nine artists commissioned by UK government to create works

One of the chosen artists, Cornelia Parker, describes her encounters with anti-monarchy protestors

Indian government challenges British newspaper report that it is making 'largest repatriation claim' against UK

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"

French curator Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale

The South Korean exhibition has come under fire for its Park Seo-Bo art prize which has now been abolished

Paris's Centre Pompidou to shut for five years as part of major renovation project

The institution will be closed for its own 50th anniversary—but will work with the city's museums, including the Louvre, to stage projects during the period

Philippe Regnier. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris
Art marketpreview

Taipei Dangdai capitalises on dedicated local collectors

The fourth edition of the art fair opens this week with 90 galleries, 70% of which have premises in Asia

Woman's best friend too: Dublin show on trailblazing Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana puts dogs centre stage

Numerous spaniels featured in the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition are likened to Paris Hilton's chihuahuas by show's curator

Are we more prudish about Michelangelo’s David in 2023 than we were in 1564?

The ousting of a Tallahassee principal after school children were shown images of the famous Renaissance sculpture reveals a rather zealous mindset

Art Explora opens applications for €50,000 cultural project prize

Last year’s winners include the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla in Spain and Projekt Europa theatre company in the UK

President Macron stands up for artists after vandalism of controversial Miriam Cahn painting

French leader says defacing the work, which will remain on show at the Palais de Tokyo, is "attack on values"

Pillar of Shame sculpture seized by police in Hong Kong

Work commemorating Tiananmen Square tragedy is confiscated as part of "incitement to subversion" case

'The time of begging for stolen loot is over': Cambridge University master gives UN speech saying tone has shifted in restitution debate

Sonita Alleyne was appointed Master of Jesus College in 2019—the year the institution announced the UK's first repatriation of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Italynews

Artists take aim at Italy’s attack on same-sex parents’ rights

As the country's far-right government cracks down on LGBTQ rights, public artworks are popping up in protest

James Imam. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris

Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum in talks to send back Parthenon marble pieces to Greece

Greek minister says move gives restitution discussions with British Museum "momentum"

New Istanbul Modern museum finally unveiled after five-year construction

Major new contemporary art space designed by Renzo Piano opens ahead of key elections

Book Clubfeature

Opera singer Peter Brathwaite tells us why he reinterpreted Black portraiture using household items

In his book inspired by the Getty Museum Challenge, Brathwaite recreated portraits by artists such as Georges Trubert and Sonia Boyce