PreviewThe Year Ahead 2020
New museums and major expansions opening in 2020
From Tutankhamun's new king-sized home in Cairo to Munch's sleek space in Oslo, here is our pick of the big openings this year
NewsMuseums
Tate privacy battle over viewing platform 'snooping' goes back to court
Claimant says she feels “completely exposed” in her apartment overlooked by the museum
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum exhibition to challenge 'salacious stereotypes' around Tantra
Major show will unpick ancient Indian philosophy made famous by Sting’s “eight-hour lovemaking session” claims
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Kehinde Wiley’s reimagining of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Brooklyn Museum to Luhring Augustine and Sam Fogg’s collaborative show on Gothic art
NewsDerek Jarman
Artists rally to save Prospect Cottage, the house of late filmmaker Derek Jarman
Art Fund leads the initiative to raise the £3.5m needed to purchase the Kent cottage
NewsAppointments
BBC head Tony Hall joins London's National Gallery to lead board of trustees
Hall will leave his top media job in the summer to take up the unpaid position at the museum
NewsControversies
Luanda Leaks: Isabel dos Santos—who owns vast African art collection—accused of making her $2.2bn fortune by exploiting Angola
Dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo own around 3,000 works by artists including William Kentridge and Zanele Muholi
NewsAcquisitions
UK fails to save painting of 'paramount importance' as Getty export licence is granted
Recently rediscovered 18th-century work by artist Joseph Wright of Derby was bought by the Los Angeles museum in March last year
NewsPablo Picasso
Caught smuggling Picasso on his yacht, Spanish billionaire collector gets €52m fine and 18 months in prison
Jaime Botin, of the Santander dynasty, did not have a permit to export the painting
NewsSaudi Arabia
Desert X AlUla—the inaugural art biennial in a historic Saudi Arabian valley—announces participants
Wael Shawky, Superflex and eL Seed are among the artists who will base works on the ancient history of the region
NewsCrime
Released but still under investigation: Russian couple embroiled in fraud scandal
Igor and Olga Toporovsky linked to controversial show of Russian avant-garde works in Ghent
NewsExhibitions
Cecily Brown will fill grand birthplace of Winston Churchill with images of broken Britain
UK artist says exhibition at Blenheim Palace is a timely opportunity to examine the country's current tumult
NewsFrieze
Frieze shake-up: former media boss chosen as company's first CEO
Changes are afoot with both the fairs and the magazine as majority shareholder Endeavor make plans for the future
NewsVenice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani appointed artistic director of the 2021 Venice Biennale
The High Line and Art Basel Cities curator is the first Italian woman to hold the position
NewsArt education
'Taking us back to the dark ages': UK-Europe exchange programme Erasmus hangs in the balance
Art history academics speak out as impending Brexit deadline threatens European partnership
NewsInstagram
What if 19th-century artists had used Instagram? asks Musée d’Orsay's new artist-in-residence
French illustrator and painter Jean-Philippe Delhomme will post a new image on Paris museum's Instagram account every week for a year
NewsDisasters & destruction
National Gallery of Australia closes due to bushfire smoke around Canberra
Director says that decision was taken to protect public and works
NewsPreview
Matisse birth anniversary marked by blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou
Rarely seen works show how the modern master combined text and image
NewsControversies
Russian collecting couple arrested in Belgium
Igor and Olga Toporovsky linked to controversial show of Russian avant-garde works in Ghent
NewsVandalism
Picasso painting of Dora Maar vandalised at Tate Modern
Conservation team assesses the defaced work; man is charged with criminal damage
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2020
Art on a Finnish island and Manifesta in Marseille: our guide to the brightest biennials and festivals in 2020
Prospect.5 commemorates the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its all change as Liverpool Biennial gets a new director
NewsPublic art
Image mocking Australian Prime Minister's Hawaiian holiday raises A$50,000 for fire service
Scott Marsh’s mural on a wall in Sydney was painted over
NewsAwards
UK New Year’s Honours 2020: awards for ceramicist Magdalene Odundo and artist David Shrigley
Turner prize winner Steve McQueen made a knight; museum chief Tim Marlow and curator Ann Gallagher also recognised
NewsExhibitions
Radical performance artist Ulay gets a solo show at Stedelijk Museum
In the years before and after his collaboration with Marina Abramović, he created important works, curators say
NewsArtists
Oh no he isn't—artist turns into "panto" horse to highlight absurdity of UK political situation
Roland Carline has modified his exhibition at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
NewsExport policies
UK buyer sought for £8m Gainsborough masterpiece barred from export
Pastoral landscape sold at Sotheby’s was once owned by Royal Holloway college
NewsAppointments
Olympic games supremo Martin Green to lead 2022 post-Brexit UK festival
Conservative government wants £120m event to “celebrate all four nations’ offer to the world”
NewsBanksy
Banksy buyer seeks new location for Season’s Greetings mural
Talks with local officials in Port Talbot about a new urban art centre have stalled
NewsQueer art
Queer icon Tom of Finland's homoerotic drawings come to London
Late Finnish artist's first major UK show will include unseen works from the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Elizabeth Peyton's historically contextualised portraits to a jarring installation on queer existence
NewsChristo and Jeanne-Claude
Sixteen works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude donated to Pérez Art Museum Miami by artist’s lawyer
The donation, worth $3m, makes the museum's Christo collection the fourth largest in the US
NewsControversies
Artist defends anti-racism football campaign that uses images of monkeys
Italian football league—which commissioned the paintings made by Simone Fugazzotto—have now apologised saying they are "inappropriate"
NewsMuseums
Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery to transform nightclub into new art venue
Karla Black survey will fill both spaces, including former fruit and veg warehouse next door
NewsUK politics
Artists react angrily to Tory landslide result in UK general election
Issues raised include environmental crisis and future of the Labour party
NewsDiscoveries
Stolen 'Klimt' found hidden in a wall will take a month to authenticate, officials say
Gardener discovered the painting behind a metal plate on an exterior wall at Italy's Ricci Oddi gallery
NewsAppointments
Rebecca Salter elected president of London’s Royal Academy—the first woman in its 251-year history
The printmaker replaces Christopher Le Brun who stepped down after eight years in the post
NewsAppointments & departures
Frieze LA director Bettina Korek appointed chief executive of Serpentine Galleries
Los Angeles art veteran takes the reins at the London institution in its 50th anniversary year
NewsAcquisitions
Permanent a-peel: $120,000 banana will enter museum collection
Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Get your shine on at Art Basel in Miami Beach
There is plenty to keep magpie collectors happy at the fair
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Ebony G. Patterson gets the citizens of Miami Beach’s vote
City council selects work through new Legacy Purchase programme
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Mira Lehr: Still playing with fire
The artist made waves in the 60s by championing women artists; at 85, she is still shaking things up with her use of gunpowder in her work. By Gareth Harris
NewsCensorship
Censored queer photographs get second chance at Miami's Nada fair
City officials cancelled a planned display by Pacifico Silano in Bal Harbour last year
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Norton Museum in West Palm Beach announces shortlist for photography prize
The nominees for the $20,000 award will all be included in a show at the recently expanded institution in February
NewsAwards
Hepworth Wakefield to stage 'long overdue' survey of Hannah Starkey with £100,000 Freelands Award
Show comes "at an exciting moment" as the photographer is reassessing her art in light of recent political events, museum's director says
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
New art space in Basel will offer free shows
The opening exhibition of the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, during next year's Art Basel fair, will focus on Caribbean artists
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Maurizio Cattelan presents first new work for a fair in 15 years—and it is a banana priced at $120,000
The piece of fruit taped to a wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach "offers insight into how we assign worth", Perrotin gallery says
NewsDiscoveries
Conservator discovers secret scrawls hidden beneath Derek Jarman painting
Pleasures of Italy canvas on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin throws light on late activist’s lovers and interests
NewsArt theft
Rembrandt paintings targeted by thieves at Dulwich Picture Gallery belonged to Louvre and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Attempted robbery was thwarted by police
NewsArt market
Perrotin moves Hong Kong gallery to Kowloon—but it has nothing to do with the protests
The gallery will relocate to a new cultural and residential district developed by billionaire collector Adrian Cheng
PreviewExhibitions
In Miami for Art Basel? Eight shows to see outside the fair
From a travelling Stonewall survey to Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña's first major museum retrospective
NewsCourtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld lecturers take eight-day strike action over pay inequality and the ‘strain’ of working conditions
Striking staff say funding is channelled towards art institute’s multi-million pound redevelopment project
NewsUK politics
Arts commentators question Conservative Party's controversial £120m ‘festival of Brexit’
Will artists and institutions participate in “national celebration” planned for 2022?
NewsItalian politics
Italian politician Matteo Salvini blasts sculpture showing him shooting refugees
Piece by Salvatore Scuotto instigates violence and should be removed, he says
NewsRepatriation
'A major step forward for Britain’s colonial museums': Manchester Museum returns objects to Indigenous Australians
Move might pave the way for repatriation of sacred artefacts from other UK institutions
NewsSponsorship
Protestors disrupt VIP preview of British Museum's Troy exhibition
Members of the climate activist group BP or not BP? blocked entry to the museum's show dressed as statues based on Greek mythology
NewsMonnaie de Paris
Monnaie de Paris venue cancels its contemporary art programme
Show dedicated to Kiki Smith will be last exhibition at the historic Paris Mint due to low visitor numbers
NewsLoans
Titian’s six epic mythological paintings to be reunited as Wallace Collection announces first ever loans
National Gallery in London will display the series next year and lend a Rubens work in return
NewsSackler family
Nan Goldin brings first PAIN protest to the UK, storming the Victoria and Albert Museum
Demonstrators demand that V&A director Tristram Hunt drops Sackler name
NewsSculpture
Antony Gormley in talks with French government over sculpture project in Brittany
Brexit is a disaster for the UK, says the sculptor as he unveils his Field for the British Isles installation at Firstsite gallery in Colchester
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Roy Oxlade's energetic canvases to Nan Goldin's first UK show in almost two decades
NewsCrime
Attempted robbery of Rembrandt paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Theft of two paintings was thwarted thanks to gallery's security staff and systems
NewsArt market
UK buyer bags Artemisia Gentileschi painting for a record €4.8m in Paris
Work depicting Roman heroine Lucretia was in a private collection for 40 years
NewsPrizes
MoMA director Glenn Lowry edges out Nan Goldin to top Art Review's Power 100 list
Banksy makes his debut at number 14 while dealer David Zwirner drops from first place to fifth
NewsMuseums
Chiara Parisi lined up as new director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Rome-born curator will oversee the gallery’s tenth anniversary programme and events
NewsMuseums
National Galleries of Scotland to no longer host BP Portrait Award
Museums officials say that the association with the oil company is at odds with a "responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency"
NewsClimate Change
Street artist paints ginormous portrait of eco warrior Greta Thunberg in San Francisco
Cobre defends use of spray paint in creating eight-storey mural, saying his materials are environmentally friendly
NewsMuseums
'We are the opposite of Starbucks': Pompidou chief on the challenges of setting up a Shanghai satellite
The French museum's president on censorship threats and settling the costs of the new project
NewsChina
Museum dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti to launch in Beijing
Paris-based institutions Musée National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti will open space in 798 district next June
NewsPhotography
JR launches open call on Instagram for his new free photography course
French artist says he will invite Naomi Campbell to school in Paris to help him teach 12 budding photographers
NewsTutankhamun
Archaeologist Zahi Hawass creates Tutankhamun opera to mark opening of Grand Egyptian Museum
Outspoken former minister also wants to stage the show in Valley of the Kings in 2022
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Lucian Freud's stunning self-portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts to King Tut's treasures at the Saatchi Gallery
NewsPrizes
Doris Salcedo wins world’s largest contemporary art prize of $1m
Nomura Art Award enables Colombian artist to create Acts of Mourning works in remote regions
NewsMuseums
A US-China-Arab partnership: Lacma, Yuz Museum and Qatar Museums team up on exhibition projects
The Los Angeles and Shanghai institutions say their joint foundation is still in progress