NewsAppointments
Ralph Rugoff named artistic director of the 2019 Venice Biennale
Director of London’s Hayward Gallery will organise 58th International Art Exhibition
PreviewArt market
Can an increase in two-artist booths spur sales at Paris's Fiac?
Artist pairings have grown in popularity for this year's edition of the fair at the Grand Palais
NewsPolitics
Franck Riester appointed as France’s new culture minister
Françoise Nyssen—who introduced a youth culture pass and lobbied for copyright reform—is out in cabinet reshuffle
NewsArt market
Stolen painting shown on BBC Antiques Roadshow in 1988 now held in limbo at Christie’s
Auction house sold the painting by Emma Sandys for £62,500 earlier this year, but now 19th century work is caught up in a legal battle
NewsAuctions
Writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal’s famed netsuke collection to go on long-term loan to Vienna—and under the hammer
The Japanese carved toggles feature in his 2010 memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes
NewsLoot
President Rouhani personally takes looted ancient relief back from New York to Tehran
Piece depicting a Persian soldier was seized last year at Tefaf New York
NewsConservation
Titian's Crucifixion work torn after falling from the wall in Spain's Royal Monastery
Sixteenth-century painting of Christ on the cross was rushed immediately for conservation
NewsCommissions
Rachel Whiteread turns a Nissen Hut inside out for her first UK permanent piece
The concrete cast—a 14-18 Now commission—is sited in a secluded spot in Dalby Forest
NewsFrieze London 2018
Wasteful art world gets ready to clean up its act
Shipping firms seek to replace single-use crates
InterviewFrieze London 2018
Confessions of a dealer: Franck Prazan
We speak to the director of Paris's Applicat-Prazan gallery about dealers in denial and the pleasures of Pink Floyd
News#metoo
'I have been sexually assaulted numerous times': Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak joins #metoo debate
The curator has called for women to be treated with "respect and dignity"
NewsCommissions
Tania Bruguera renames Tate Modern after local London activist as part of Turbine Hall commission
Heat-sensitive floor work and crying room part of “stealth” piece pushing positive aspects of migration
NewsArt market
Nan Goldin signs up with Marian Goodman Gallery
The photographer and anti-opioid activist will show works at Frieze and Fiac
NewsArt market
Top galleries take a chance on Taipei Dangdai
With Taiwan tipped as Asia's rising art market power, galleries such as Gagosian and David Zwirner join new fair next January
NewsArt market
Auction transfer season: Cécile Verdier of Sotheby's replaces Christie's France president, François de Ricqlès
Move follows a record-breaking breaking year for Paris auctions in 2017
NewsCensorship
Wolfgang Tillmans and Tania Bruguera pledge support for censored Serralves Museum director
João Ribas has stepped down following censorship row around Robert Mapplethorpe show
NewsArt market
Millennials in mind: Unseen Amsterdam photography event tempts younger collectors
The burgeoning platform for emerging artists includes a 53-dealer fair, special projects, awards and a section for collectives with a conscience
NewsSculpture
Huma Bhabha’s unsettling sculpture will be centrepiece of 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International festival
Commission is lined up for Wakefield city centre
NewsEducation
Art Fund's new student pass scheme offers 500 paid jobs in culture sector
UK non-profit's plan may draw in young crowds which are a target demographic for museums
NewsArtists
Portrait of the future at Tate: Steve McQueen plans to photograph every seven-year-old in London
Images of primary school children will go on show at Tate Britain alongside survey of Oscar winner’s work at Tate Modern
NewsSexual harassment
Belgian culture minister investigates Jan Fabre following allegations of sexual harassment
Twenty dancers sign letter saying that “humiliation” is rife in the artist's Troubleyn troupe
NewsExhibitions
Qatar dynasty's collection of jewels and antiquities could be shown in the heart of Paris
Al-Thani collection in discussions to show holdings at revamped Hôtel de la Marine
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in São Paulo this weekend
From the artist-curated Bienal de São Paulo to a sweeping survey of Latin American art by “radical women”
NewsBienal de Sao Paolo 2018
Little known Modern artists struggling with mental health find a place in the Sao Paulo biennial
Swedish artist Mamma Andersson brings marginalised practitioners, including Chicago recluse Henry Darger, to the fore
NewsMuseums
Great art, not famous alumni, will be the focus of Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
New south London gallery is housed in 19th-century public baths converted by architectural collective Assemble
NewsMuseums
Protesters decry neglect after Brazilian museum fire
Amid melee at National Museum, museology students begin project to digitise the institution
NewsAppointments
Palestinian Museum appoints Adila Laïdi-Hanieh as director after surprise departure of previous head
The writer and academic replaces Mahmoud Hawari who was only in post two years
NewsPolitics
Nicholas Serota, Frances Morris and Mark Wallinger demand the release of Shahidul Alam
Leading UK names have signed an open letter raising concerns about human rights in Bangladesh
NewsExhibitions
Sweet on Europe: Ulla von Brandenburg to re-stage exhibition of European confectionery, 45 years on
Show at Whitechapel Gallery in London was held in 1973 to mark the UK's entry to the common market
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Victoria and Albert Museum brings Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks to life online
New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes
NewsArchitecture
Renzo Piano designs replacement for collapsed Genoa bridge
Since the Morandi tragedy, architect "can’t think of anything else but that bridge"
NewsPerformance art
Berlin Wall may be resurrected—and then demolished—as part of anniversary of reunification
Organisers of the culture festival Berliner Festspiele are in talks with city authorities and are yet to confirm the event
NewsExhibitions
Artists and projects announced for first Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires
September event marks end of first year of the initiative overseen by Cecilia Alemani, the director of High Line Art, New York
NewsPublic art
Jeremy Deller to unveil plans for Manchester's Peterloo Massacre memorial in October
Designs and location of statue for bicentenary of "turning point in UK democracy" will be put to public consultation
NewsPublic art
Frieze sculpture piece marks sixth anniversary of South African mining massacre
Haroon Gunn-Salie’s installation of 17 headless men represents victims of Marikana shootings
NewsPublic art
Anger over plans to 'banish' suffragette statue from Parliament to remote Regent’s Park site
Proposal to move Emmeline Pankhurst sculpture comes months after new Millicent Fawcett work was unveiled to celebrate centenary of female suffrage
NewsMuseums
US whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning to make first UK appearance at ICA London
The polarising ex-army leaker will discuss artificial intelligence, LGBTQ rights and the links between digital technology and democracy
NewsMarina Abramovic
‘We’re all in the same boat’: Marina Abramovic poster angers Italian right-wing politician
Trieste deputy mayor Paolo Polidori calls image commissioned for sailing regatta “political propaganda”
NewsVandalism
List of 34,361 dead refugees and migrants goes back on show in Liverpool after being destroyed
Reasons and perpetrators behind the removal of the key biennial work remain unclear
NewsPolitics
Petitions and protests as art world rallies to free imprisoned photographer Shahidul Alam
Kochi Biennale organisers condemn “state-sanctioned violence” while Indian artists pledge to “shame the Bangladeshi authorities”
NewsArt fairs
Art Berlin moves to historic Tempelhof airport—but will it take off?
With more than 120 galleries, fair's second edition will test the strength of the German capital's under-developed art market
NewsPolitics
Arts and human rights organisations denounce arrest of Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam
Activist is detained and charged after commenting on student protests in Dhaka
NewsCommercial galleries
Radical performance artist Ulay to show rarely seen works in London exhibition
Marina Abramovic’s ex-partner has signed up with Richard Saltoun gallery
NewsArtists
West Coast wave of Ai Weiwei shows puts Chinese artist in Los Angeles spotlight
Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA
NewsArtists
Artists in conflict zones get a global platform with new Ruya Maps initiative
Programme to launch in October with show by Venezuelan artist Pepe López in London chapel
NewsPrizes
Read the winning essays in new UK prize for art history writing
Write on Art initiative was launched to combat the decline of arts teaching in schools
NewsMuseums
Art educators take London's National Gallery to employment tribunal in 'gig economy' dispute
Artists and lecturers are crowdfunding for legal fees in bid to win employee status
NewsTaj Mahal
Demolish or restore discoloured Taj Mahal, India's Supreme Court tells government
White marble monument, a Unesco World Heritage site, is turning yellow due to pollution and insect dung