Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Hear them roar: Peter Doig and Ai Weiwei make tiger rugs for charity initiative
The profits of the sale will go towards tiger conservation efforts in countries including Bangladesh and China
Arts group takes on Polish government over political interference in cultural institutions
US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative will challenge in EU court the Polish government, saying it is “suppressing free and open artistic expression”
'Everyone will be far poorer': England's art organisations respond to 'short-sighted and foolish' national funding cuts
Learning and community outreach programmes under threat as Arts Council England funding shift wreaks deep financial damage on institutions
Value for money? UK’s ‘Brexit’ festival organisers justify £120m cost of public funds with audience of 18 million
The National Audit Office will release detailed data on the eight-month "Unboxed" event next week
Climate activists target billionaire François Pinault's private collection in Paris
Demonstrators poured orange paint over the US artist Charles Ray's Horse and Rider
Artists protest against human rights abuses in Qatar as Fifa World Cup opens
Andrei Molodkin and Jens Galschiøt have created works highlighting the deaths of workers who helped build tournament stadiums in the gulf state
Historic London foundry that made Big Ben's bells could be saved from hotel development
The digital heritage preservation company Factum Foundation and conservation group Re-Form Heritage plan to buy the site and hold it in perpetuity as a working foundry
Mass protest against Iran's human rights abuses staged at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Protesters gathered at Lacma to mark the Zahedan massacre as well as draw attention to the suppression and imprisonment of protesters and activists
Mark Hallett appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London
He joins from Yale University's Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and will now oversee the next phase of the Courtauld's £57m redevelopment project
Activists 'severely underestimate the fragility' of objects: 92 museum directors speak out against climate protests
The signatories of the open letter include the directors of the Musée du Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art
Unboxed festival under new management as chief Martin Green joins Eurovision
Anticipated audience figures for event dubbed the Festival of Brexit will be released later this month
Following attacks on masterpieces in Italy and Spain, are eco activists winning the argument?
Goya works at the Prado and a Van Gogh painting in Rome were recently targeted
Benin bronzes online database goes live with details of thousands of looted artefacts
"Digital Benin" catalogue gathers together information on objects stolen from the Kingdom of Benin and now held in collections around the world
Italy's Uffizi Galleries forced to stay shut over public holiday due to staff shortage
Culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano criticises museum for not opening on the Monday before All Saints Day but director Eike Schmidt says government must step in to find "reinforcements"
Oil sketch in Dutch museum could be by Rembrandt, says art historian
The work, housed at The Hague's Museum Bredius, will now undergo further study by Rijksmuseum experts
American billionaire's Cycladic antiquities collection unveiled in Athens as Greece and Metropolitan Museum of Art reach agreement
The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024
Berlin museum unveils new Shirin Neshat banner in solidarity with protesters in Iran
Following the death of Mahsa Amini in September, the museum and art world have been called on to address the worsening human rights situation in the country
‘Everything has a price’: estate agent lists historic foundry that once cast Big Ben's bells
Latest chapter in troubled history of foundry sees it put up for rent—and possible sale
Q&A: Osei Bonsu on his book about artists shaping the contemporary African art scene
The curator has brought together the work of 50 artists from across the continent for his new book African Art Now
Digital Art Week comes to London with editions planned for Paris, Lisbon, New York, Miami, Seoul and Tokyo
Backed by crypto art denizens and web3 startups, the inaugural edition brings six free events to the capital
Artist Bones Tan Jones on how a six-day walk from London to Stonehenge inspired them to make their own huge monolith
The exhibition "Tunnel Visions" at Queercircle explores the threat of urbanisation and pollution
Missed it in Venice? See it in Margate: Sonia Boyce’s Golden Lion exhibition tours to two UK venues
The award-winning installation will be shown next year at Turner Contemporary before travelling to Leeds Art Gallery and will also be explored in the BBC art series Imagine
Protest for Mahsa Amini—who was killed by Iran's morality police—staged at New York's Guggenheim Museum
An anonymous collective unfurled banners proclaiming “Women, Life, Freedom” from the top of the institution's rotunda
In Germany, climate activists throw mashed potato at most expensive Monet painting sold at auction
The protestors from Letzte Generation took inspiration from a recent stunt that saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers doused in soup
UK art centre saves Lowry's football painting from falling into private hands—and makes artist's auction record
The £7.8m work will remain on public display in Salford thanks to a charitable donation
Mimosa Echard wins France’s most prestigious contemporary art prize
The multi-disciplinary Paris-based artist wins the €35,000 Prix Duchamp award for mixed-media waterfall installation
Tracey Emin donates brain sculpture for Parkinson’s UK auction
An exhibition open to the public in London's Piccadilly will bring together the art from top UK artists before the works go under the hammer at Christie's
London preview opens Windows onto Microsoft mogul’s soon-to-be auctioned art collection
Works from tech giant co-founder Paul Allen's estate go on sale at Christie's New York next month
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers covered in tomato soup by eco activists
The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises
Surging demand for African art brings new galleries to 1-54 fair in London
As auction sales soar, 14 galleries are showing at this year’s contemporary African art fair for the first time