
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
In an era of stretched public coffers and cuts, endowments can offer financial resilience and independence. But they are likely to prove out of reach for smaller museums, which may find it hard to accrue donations for longer-term projects
The recent nomination of Khaled el-Enany will be put to a vote on 6 November
Gallaccio's series was commissioned by the UK Government Art Collection, as part of the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award
Opening next March, the revamp will increase the number of galleries from four to seven as part of the museum's Future Plan development programme
Speaking to ‘The Art World: What If…?!’ podcast, Glenn Lowry also discussed plans for a new museum directors leadership initiative, and delivered his verdict on his successor
The Danish-Icelandic artist, who also launched a permanent public art piece in the UK this week, took a block of ice from Greenland to Rome
The work, which is located at Gunnersbury Park Museum, relays the stories of individuals involved with humanitarian assistance
The newly announced initiative follows the popular City of Culture scheme, which has been running since 2013
The digital project, which was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presents looted objects in 3D form
The Chinese artist, whose exhibition ‘Gunpowder and Abstraction 2015-25’ is currently on show at the London gallery, has been accused of ‘cultural violence’ in Tibet
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s London show encourages visitors to make difficult choices related to real-world issues
The Chicago-born artist has been speaking ahead of a major show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
The Re: assemblages symposium will bring together artists, scholars and publishers “to collectively rethink African and Afro-diasporic archives as living, contested and future-shaping spaces”
Nominees for the £25,000 award were selected on the basis of what the judges felt to be the strongest and best exhibitions of the past year
The portrait of the artist's lover Dora Maar goes under the hammer with an estimate of €8m
Jennings was selected for the project by the UK government, which has announced a provisional construction budget of up to £46m
The Beijing-born artist and activist has recently spent time near the front line in Ukraine and is unveiling a major new commission in Kyiv—a large-scale installation responding to armed conflict—as well as a site-specific intervention made from Lego on a Ukrainian train
More than 50 artists and cultural figures, many of them based in Israel, have signed the letter
The group of sub-postmasters will work with the museum to tell their own stories, in their own words
Speaking at the recent Art Business Conference, Tristram Hunt also called for a reversal of changes to inheritance tax policy and for art's return to school curriculums
The now separate paintings, ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’ and ‘Two Figures’, were once part of the same work
Fifty sculptors will split the funds, which are given against the backdrop of the UK's cost-of-living crisis and funding cuts across the culture sector
The centres opens on 13 September at the V&A East Storehouse, and mines a vast archive to explore the musician’s artistic processes, networks and influences
Together the institutions will launch a project focused on the production and exhibition of new works by international artists
“A Second Life”, which will include the famous sculpture “My Bed”, will open at Tate Modern in February 2026
The work at London's Royal Courts of Justice was revealed by the street artist on Instagram
Nicholas Cullinan says that French and UK experts will guide every stage of the loan
Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire
The works, “David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy” and “Portrait of Joanna Leigh, Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd” are from the estate of Jacob Rothschild
We speak to Ben Luke about his book drawn from The Art Newspaper podcast, which includes 25 insightful interviews with key figures such as Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson