NewsAppointments & departures
Ralph Rugoff named artistic director of the 2019 Venice Biennale
Director of London’s Hayward Gallery will organise 58th International Art Exhibition
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
NewsGrand Palais
Paris to build temporary venue near Eiffel Tower to host Grand Palais's shows when it closes in 2021
Culture chief Chris Dercon says the new space will hold events during the museum's three-year refurbishment, including a collaboration with Unesco
NewsParasol Unit
Parasol Unit to close east London gallery
From next spring the foundation will hold exhibitions "in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed”, says founder Ziba Ardalan
NewsContemporary art
Ragnar Kjartansson re-creates US soap opera for vast GES-2 culture complex opening in Moscow
GES-2 complex is located in a former power plant, built in 1907, located near the Kremlin
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Bridget Riley's trippy canvases to Eduardo Paolozzi's war-wearied sculptures
NewsArt market
Billionaires battle it out over the Lalannes at Sotheby’s in Paris
Jose Mugrabi and Antoine Arnault among collectors bidding at "white glove" sale of works by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne
NewsBernar Venet
In pictures: the making of Europe’s largest public sculpture
Bernar Venet’s vast steel arc has been installed on a Belgian motorway
NewsMuseums & Heritage
As Brexit looms, new gallery on England's south coast promises to be 'outward facing'
Brighton CCA, run by the University of Brighton, launches with exhibitions on German artist Franz Erhard Walther and south London collective Dog Kennel Hill Project
NewsAuctions
Futurist masterpiece by Umberto Boccioni could sell at Christie's for up to $4.5m
A different version of the sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space sold at the auction house in 1975 for $41,000
NewsCaravaggio
Caravaggio’s masterpiece St Jerome Writing gets its own wing in Malta cathedral
Huge tapestry set inspired by Rubens will also be conserved in the new annex at St John’s Co-Cathedral
NewsObituaries
Chinese artist and provocateur Huang Yong Ping has died, aged 65
Curator and collaborator Hou Hanru says that the late Chinese artist provided “an alternative viewpoint on the world”
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in Paris this weekend
The best shows to see outside of Fiac, from a literary contextualisation of Francis Bacon to Kiki Smith's coin collection
NewsFiac
Fiac fever: amidst Brexit drama, we ask 'virgin' dealers why they chose the Paris fair this year
Galleries fresh to the 46th edition explain their decision and reveal their early sales
NewsCentre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou to expand and move collections to new satellite venue in southern Paris
The “art factory” will be a conservation, exhibition and storage space and is expected to open in 2025
NewsExhibitions
Plastic bottle peril: Gavin Turk's environmental crusade marches on in new show inspired by Extinction Rebellion
Watercolours of water bottles as well as hundreds of discarded bottles from London's streets will be shown at Amsterdam gallery
NewsObituaries
Artist, activist and Andy Warhol muse John Giorno has died, aged 82
Tributes paid to key figure of US counterculture whose work was “groundbreaking for its time”
NewsArts funding
Cash-strapped museums and libraries across England get £250m government funding boost
Lobby group warns of crumbling buildings and leaking roofs following “decades of underinvestment”
NewsControversies
Aichi Triennale show embroiled in censorship row reopens—but only for visitors selected by lottery
Visitors had to sign a consent form promising not to post works on social media
NewsStudio Voltaire
Phyllida Barlow sculpture to pop up in partially ruined, gothic chapel in London cemetery
Studio Voltaire’s ambitious off-site programme also includes commissions by Monster Chetwynd and Dawn Mellor
NewsPrivate Museums
François Pinault's long-awaited Paris gallery will open next June
The refurbishment of the Bourse de Commerce space, designed by Tadao Ando, costs $170m
NewsArt education
Art school shake up: London's Courtauld Institute to offer Modern and contemporary African art degrees
New Tate curator calls the development "a bold decision" in a "burgeoning field"
NewsRedevelopment
Cultural figures rally to save Reading Prison—where Oscar Wilde was once incarcerated—as it goes up for sale
Locals hope to prevent historic site "being gutted and turned into luxury flats" as building is put on the market
NewsDesert X
Three board members resign as Desert X announces collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Los Angeles Times reports
Ed Ruscha, Yael Lipschutz and Tristan Milanovich have resigned over the decision to launch the sculpture biennial in Al-Ula next year
NewsControversies
Candice Breitz pulls work from South African museum that is exhibiting convicted murderer's art
Curator at newly opened Javett Art Centre defends decision to show drawing by artist who killed a sex worker in Cape Town in 2013
NewsFrieze London 2019
Frieze returns to safe haven of painting amid threat of recession and political instability
Traditional medium is back in fashion amid looming Brexit
ReviewExhibitions
The Empire strikes back? Kara Walker's fountain makes a splash at Tate
US artist takes on British Empire’s legacy and the Transatlantic salve trade in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
NewsMusée du Louvre
Louvre defends planned switch to timed-entry tickets after Mona Lisa 'pandemonium'
Reservations will become mandatory at the world's most visited museum by the end of the year
NewsFrieze London 2019
Art world faces up to the reality of climate crisis
Many dealers are beginning to look for local solutions to global climate emergency
NewsFrieze 2019
White Cube to open 'office and viewing rooms' in Paris
Launch is latest high-profile opening in the French capital pre-Brexit
NewsOpenings
Centre Pompidou’s satellite space in Shanghai to open early November
New offshoot joins Málaga and Brussels in French museum’s burgeoning international network
NewsTacita Dean
'Passionate European’ Tacita Dean unveils stormy new work for UK Government Art Collection
Artist’s Californian cloudscape, drawn in chalk, hangs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
NewsSponsorship
After backlash over homophobic sponsor, former BP chief steps in to fund Turner Prize
John Browne is among four new supporters of the award that launches in Margate
NewsArt market
'New' Artemisia Gentileschi to be auctioned in Paris
Painting of Lucretia has been in a private collection in Lyon for the past 40 years and is estimated to sell for over €600,000
NewsExhibitions
Nate Lowman’s new works to focus on Las Vegas mass shooting
Series of paintings at David Zwirner London are based on crime scene images released by police
NewsPublic art
Officials reject reports of permanent Prince Philip statue for London's Fourth Plinth
Mayor of London’s office says contemporary art series will continue with Heather Phillipson sculpture planned for 2020
NewsExhibitions
Simon Starling tells the tale of a Turin car tycoon and his Old Master sliced in half
Exhibitions in Glasgow and Turin explore legacy of Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli
NewsArt theft
'I wish it was a prank': Maurizio Cattelan on the surreal theft of his golden toilet
Man arrested after 18-carat lavatory was forcibly removed from Blenheim Palace
NewsMusée du Louvre
Bad bedfellows? French politician blasts Louvre over partnership with Airbnb
Paris deputy mayor Ian Brossat says that teaming up with the online rental giant is “disastrous and shocking”
NewsClimate Change
Art world impact just 'a drop in the ocean': Istanbul biennial curator takes on climate crisis
Nicolas Bourriaud examines the Anthropocene in 16th edition of the exhibition and says the “real issue is mass tourism"
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Reem Fadda takes the reins at Abu Dhabi cultural foundation—but where is the emirate's Guggenheim?
Historic culture centre in UAE re-opens after 10 years with survey of trailblazing woman artist Najat Makki
PreviewBiennials & festivals
‘Post-industrial’ Biennale de Lyon to examine shifting social and economic experience of the region
As the largest edition of the biennial expands into an abandoned factory, we also roundup new festivals sprouting up around the world
NewsAntony Gormley
Antony Gormley criticises huge carbon footprint of the art world—but admits he is part of the problem
British sculptor says there is no doubt that art fairs are "a profligate use of resources”
NewsArt crime
Art Recovery International calls on Icom to step in and investigate 'stolen' Reynolds painting on show in Japan
The portrait was allegedly stolen from the home of a menswear magnate in 1984
NewsNational Gallery
Filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi is National Gallery's latest artist in residence
Initiative is part of London gallery’s developing Modern and contemporary art programme
NewsIstanbul Biennial
Monster Chetwynd’s monstrous children’s playground to open in Istanbul
Sculptural project, part of the 16th biennial, looks to the mythical creature Medusa
NewsExhibitions
Dior show smashes total attendance record at the V&A—but Alexander McQueen exhibition had more daily visitors
Exhibition of the late French designer had 594,000 visitors overall but was on for seven months
NewsCensorship
Instagram censorship U-turn? Female nude posted by Palazzo Strozzi finally given greenlight
Museum officials say that the 1910 image by Russian artist Natalia Goncharova, on show at Tate Modern, was initially censored by the social media giant
NewsUK politics
Too much politics? UK Green party MP and anti-Brexit campaigner Caroline Lucas turns curator
High-profile UK politician will organise a show of works at Towner Art Gallery that focus on the environment
PreviewArt fairs
What am I actually buying? Performance art-only fair in Brussels faces challenge of materiality
A Performance Affair introduces new protocol to specify what is on offer and its secondary market development
NewsLoans
Greece in talks with Louvre to borrow Parthenon frieze as part of 'temporary exchange'
Move reignites debate over British Museum’s position on sculptures brought to Britain by Lord Elgin
NewsIran
British Council condemns Iran court upholding ten-year sentence for UK-based curator
Aras Amiri loses final appeal over spying charges
NewsControversies
Eleven artists withdraw or modify their works at Aichi Triennale in ongoing censorship row
Cuban activist Tania Bruguera closes down her exhibit while other artists reconfigure works to reflect the controversy
NewsBiennials & festivals
Inaugural Rabat Biennale to be made up (mainly) of female artists
Curator Abdelkader Damani explains the reasons behind launching Moroccan show in already saturated biennial landscape
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Liverpool World Museum used facial recognition technology on visitors to Terracotta Warriors show
Privacy group condemns move but the museum says people were made aware of the surveillance measures
NewsIstanbul Biennial
Istanbul Biennial shifts to waterside warehouse after asbestos scare
New Antrepo 5 venue announced after curator says visitors could have been at risk
NewsAi Weiwei
Puccini gets political: Ai Weiwei to direct opera in Rome about Hong Kong crisis
The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year
NewsHong Kong
As crisis deepens, activists stage pro-democracy exhibition in Hong Kong
Show at WMA Space tells the “story of HongKongers” through protest ephemera
NewsMuseums
London mayor Sadiq Khan supports proposal for new slavery museum in the capital
Liverpool slavery museum keen to collaborate on project highlighting UK’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
NewsHastings Contemporary
Victor Willing's life, work and tumultuous relationship with Paula Rego explored in first UK retrospective
New documentary by Willing’s son will also form part of Hastings Contemporary's reassessment of the forgotten artist