Photo London makes play for China after selling 25% stake
Top photo fair divests shares to World Photography Organisation, which launched Shanghai Photofairs in 2014
Storm Eunice damages UK heritage sites and forces museums and galleries to close
Cultural sites turn away visitors while iconic architecture is “shredded to pieces” by storm
'My blood is my legacy': Joël Andrianomearisoa on representing Madagascar at the 2019 Venice Biennale and opening a museum in his hometown
Ahead of shows in Cape Town and Marrakech, the Malagasy artist reflects on how both his island country and his adoptive home, Paris, have shaped his practice
'We are under the water, but we can dream': Inside Madagascar's first contemporary art centre
Ambitious new gallery Hakanto Contemporary sets out to boost art scene of island nation—but with many of its residents experiencing the effects of devastating floods, is culture really top of their list?
State of the unions: why US museum workers are mobilising against their employers
With the arts sector increasingly vulnerable in the wake of the pandemic, a new breed of digitally optimised worker is emerging
As a highway looming over a historic Black community in New Orleans faces renewal, artists evoke its history
The hulking Claiborne Expressway that bisects Tremé, a seat of New Orleans culture, has been a source of inspiration and concern—explicitly and implicitly—for generations of artists
New Twitter safety rules banning non-consensual imagery branded 'a declaration of war against photojournalists'
Social media giant will now delete published images and videos that violate a person's privacy—a move that could prove detrimental to news reporting
Behold the man: forgotten film by artist who lived through Auschwitz will go on show in Tel Aviv
Pioneering film is part of the first major retrospective of Maryan, the Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor now newly celebrated in death
NFTs IRL: Seattle to be home to first museum dedicated to blockchain art
New institution will include exhibitions about digital art, as well as QR codes for visitors to view NFT works
Artist Andres Serrano debuts film placing Capitol attack footage in context of US’s violent history
Serrano’s debut film montages the footage created by Capitol attackers with earlier recordings, creating a portrait of a nation at war with itself
Acquisitions round-up: Tate buys Hew Locke's airborne flotilla ahead of his major new commission in March
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Guggenheim director awarded huge pay increase during sweeping pandemic lay offs
Despite cutting 11% of staff, the museum’s director Richard Armstrong appears to have effectively received a 40% pay increase in 2020, listed as "deferred compensation"
Frederick C. Baldwin, co-founder of Houston’s FotoFest, remembered for championing 'global vision' of photography
Baldwin, who has died at the age of 92, was a “shining example of generosity” driven by his experience of the Civil Rights Movement
Priceless literary manuscripts once thought lost are acquired by British library consortium
The privately owned Honresfield Library, which includes manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, was due to be scattered to global buyers at a Sotheby's auction before a British consortium stepped in
Ghostly photographs of the Virginia swamp once used by escapee slaves win Prix Pictet
Sally Mann's images of the Great Dismal Swamp gutted by wildfire "epitomise the great fire of racial strife in America"
Museums and heritage in 2021: pandemic woes and African treasures
We look back on a year of museums commandeered as Covid-19 vaccine centres, masterpieces sold as NFTs and much talk over the Benin bronzes
Portugal’s process for Venice Biennale selection accused of violations against leading artist
Curator of Portuguese pavilion says Grada Kilomba's application to represent the country was swung by a jury member who delegitimised her experience of racism
Archive of James Van Der Zee, once-ignored chronicler of Harlem, acquired by the Met
Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum
David Adjaye plans slavery museum in Barbados as new republic severs ties with Britain
Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade
MOCA North Miami hosts huge retrospective for Auschwitz survivor forgotten by art history
Show includes never before seen works by the prolific painter Maryan whose career went far beyond the Nazi atrocities he witnessed
Northern Irish activist collective wins Turner Prize 2021 with a ‘pub without permission’
Array Collective was picked from shortlist of activist art groups, while show questions whether the future of British art belongs in galleries or museums
Our pick of exhibitions to see during Art Basel in Miami Beach
From an overdue retrospective devoted to the Jewish painter Maryan to little-known installations by Betye Saar
Jimmie Durham, artist-activist who made work on Native American themes, has died aged 81
American artist who self-identified as Cherokee and advocated for Indigenous rights through his work, has passed away in Berlin
Paris Photo proves that photography is now a woman’s game
Contemporary explorations of femininity that extend beyond the male gaze headline the fair’s latest edition
Acquisitions round-up: photography trove is Czech Republic's largest art donation in decades
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Robert Frank’s seminal series 'The Americans' to be reissued after $1m grant
Foundation set up by Frank in memory of his late daughter has donated funds to New York publisher Aperture to create a contemporary edition of "tragically relevant" photobook
Vancouver Art Gallery will put largest-ever cash donation to a Canadian art museum toward new building
New gallery by Herzog & de Meuron to be built in Vancouver’s Larwill Park after consultation with artists from Indigenous groups
Museums unite to fight near record levels of antisemitism
A recent symposium in New York looked at how institutions can come up with new and innovative strategies for countering misinformation
Major art space and residency programme opens in Angolan capital of Luanda
The Nesr Art Foundation, a philanthropic enterprise by the family behind Webcor Group, intends to counter under-representation of African art
Italian photographer dropped from prize after accusations he identified rape survivors in India without consent
By publishing full names alongside images, Marco Gualazzini stands accused of breaking child protection laws and putting his subjects in danger