As Iceland braces for the winter, museums lobby for more storage
Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril
As the Fagradalsfjall volcano threatens Iceland, an art biennial in Reykjavik explores societal collapse
Sequences features works that meditate on the unseen forces that dictate the outcome of our lives
A petri dish for an art ecosystem that went global: Iceland remembers influential Klink and Bang space 20 years on
Funded by the tiny Nordic nation’s then thriving financial sector, the exhibition venue was an incubator for creative talent from Ragnar Kjartansson and Olafur Eliasson to Sigur Rós and Björk
Raac and ruin: museums search for unsafe concrete—but can they afford repairs?
Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material
Climate activists attack Velázquez's ‘Rokeby Venus’ at the National Gallery in London
Two Just Stop Oil Activists targeted the work as a protest against new UK gas and oil licences, just over a century after the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the same painting in 1914
'Gaza' spray-painted on world's oldest cultural institution dedicated to the Holocaust
The director of the Wiener Holocaust Library in London described the vandalism as “an action that can only make sense to antisemites and their enablers”
The Imperial War Museum restores John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, revealing original colour palette
The restored painting will be there to welcome visitors to the new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries, which opens on Remembrance Sunday
Major Daido Moriyama retrospective in London highlights his early, influential experiments
The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition explores how the artist railed against tradition as post-war Japan turned its focus towards the West
Icom releases first public statement on Gaza war
Comments come four days after Icom Israel demanded that the Unesco-affiliated museum organisation condemn Hamas as terrorist organisation
Israeli museums publish urgent appeal for International Council of Museums (Icom) to condemn Hamas violence
Representatives of museums including the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art also call for the organisation to recognise Hamas as a terrorist organisation comparable to the so-called Islamic State
Veteran cartoonist sacked by The Guardian over depiction of Netanyahu
Steve Bell's unpublished drawing of the Israeli prime minister shows him performing surgery on his own stomach, which has drawn parallels with the antisemitic 'pound of flesh' trope
Ragnar Kjartansson work that was withdrawn from show at Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture goes on sale at Frieze
The work was deaccessioned after the artist cancelled the exhibition in protest at the war in Ukraine
Economic turmoil in China hits the country’s commercial galleries
Though the wealthiest collectors remain untroubled by recent jolts to the economy, many galleries and younger collectors are being hit hard
London's mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to build new artist studios
Khan spoke at Frieze about plans to partner with other stakeholders across the public and private sectors to build 71,000 sq. m of affordable workspaces by 2026
‘Emotional masterpiece’: Rembrandt’s tribute to his blind father goes on sale at Frieze Masters
Rembrandt is said to have created the painting of the blind Tobit, which is on sale for £24m, a year or two before his father died
Qatar Museums fly Palestinian flag in the aftermath of Hamas attack on Israel
Sheikha Al-Mayassa shared images on social media of the Palestinian flag projected on the façades of the Museum of Islamic Art and the National Museum of Qatar
The biggest museum shows to see around London during Frieze week
From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances
Exclusive: UK shadow culture secretary to map out first national infrastructure plan for the arts
In an interview ahead of the Labour conference, Thangam Debbonaire also promises action on artist visas, copyright law and artificial intelligence
New rental scheme promises to reduce carbon footprint of art shipping by 90%
As record temperatures continue to be recorded, a new company has pledged to end the "make-use-destroy" system that museums and galleries use to ship art worldwide
London's Courtauld Gallery closes after ‘tragic event’ leads to fatality
Police are not treating the event as suspicious. The gallery will remain closed until Friday 6 October
Kerry James Marshall donates his first portrait of a living person to Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
The American artist has given a painting of Harvard academic Henry Louis Gates Jr., who spoke at the unveiling of the US Supreme Court attempts to "roll back the clock" on affirmative action
Tate Modern launches new commission for experimental artists
The Infinities Commission will support “immersive projects that sit outside conventional artistic categories”, with the inaugural edition launching in performance space The Tanks in spring 2025
Restored Turkish bath reopens to the public as site for art and respite
The Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, which will open in Istanbul in September after a 13-year restoration and excavation, will operate once again as a traditional Turkish bath and also as a contemporary art space
Unesco adds 13 new sites to World Heritage List as Riyadh committee session enters second week
The committee voted to protect ancient sites in China, Iran, the West Bank and along the historic Silk Road, but Venice was not included
Royal College of Art vice-chancellor announced as new chair of the British Council
Paul Thompson will have a full in-tray when he takes over, as the organisation has suffered from a significant funding shortfall in recent years, leading to staff strikes
Claude Ruiz Picasso, the artist’s son and manager of the Picasso estate, has died
The management of one of the world's most valuable art collections has now been passed to Paloma Ruiz Picasso, the last of Pablo Picasso's four children
National Gallery London in 'ongoing police incident' after man scales roof
Police are attempting to "make contact" with a man photographed on the edge of the central London gallery's roof
'More than 1,500' artefacts were stolen from British Museum, internal investigation reportedly reveals
A Unesco antiquities trafficking expert says the theft is "probably the worst case so far"
British Museum antiquities thief alleged to be veteran curator Peter Higgs
Higgs, who was sacked earlier this year, is alleged to have sold uncategorised items from the museum's collection on eBay as early as 2016
British Museum imposes 'emergency security measures' after staff member allegedly steals priceless artefacts
The museum in London is reckoning with a huge security breach after admitting that jewellery and gems dating back millennia had been removed from its storeroom without detection