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21 January 2026

In post-'revolution' Bangladesh, a photography festival questions how to rebuild after ruin

As the country gears up for its first post-uprising election, the 11th Chobi Mela brings together artists from across the Global South

Cyrus Naji
8 January 2026

Trump pulls US out of international cultural property preservation centre and coalition of arts agencies

In a memo announcing the withdrawals, the president said the organisations ran “contrary to the interests of the United States”

Benjamin Sutton
16 December 2025

Art Fund awards £1.2m to 29 UK museums to support ‘innovative’ projects

Charity's “Reimagine” programme will fund a variety of initiatives, from developing a new model for provenance research to preserving digital heritage

Gareth Harris
12 December 2025

Maria Balshaw to step down as Tate director

Balshaw will see out her nine-year tenure by co-curating the largest-ever survey of the artist Tracey Emin in spring 2026

Gareth Harris and Philippa Kelly
13 November 2025

K11 founder Adrian Cheng on Hong Kong’s art scene, the future of collecting and the creative potential of AI

The Hong Kong entrepreneur also spoke about his love for Monet, Matthew Wong and the Medici family in an interview hosted off the back of the latest K11 Art Foundation Salon

Louis Jebb
31 October 2025

Indonesia's 'scarred' art scene regroups following nationwide protests

At Art Jakarta and ruangrupa's anniversary show, key figures from the local scene discuss the impact of the anticorruption demonstrations

Lisa Movius
24 October 2025

Science museum files lawsuit to have neighbouring Pérez Art Museum Miami’s billboard removed

According to the Frost Museum of Science next door, the Pamm’s large digital billboard—subject of a previous dispute with the city that was settled last month—violates state laws

Benjamin Sutton
24 October 2025

What does winning an arts prize really mean?

Sparkly accolades punctuate the art world calendar and are honey pots for museums and artists alike

Philippa Kelly
24 October 2025

Baltimore Museum of Art receives $10m gift to support education initiatives

The gift, the largest in the museum’s history, will allow it to welcome more local students and families, while partnering with local university education programmes

Gabriella Angeleti
23 October 2025

Where do New York City’s mayoral candidates stand on the arts?

While it is not a central topic in their campaigns, Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa have all addressed issues relevant to artists and arts workers

Emma Riva
7 October 2025

Storied media arts centre launches emergency fundraising appeal to avoid closure

Vivo Media Arts Centre has been a cornerstone of the new media community in Vancouver, throughout Canada and internationally since 1973

Hadani Ditmars
1 May 2023

New York, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Linz ... Which city has the best digital art?

With the power to show works simultaneously in different countries, digital art does not really need to "be" anywhere. But where it is being created, exhibited and funded has a deep impact on how the work is made

Gretchen Andrew
21 August 2023

Venture capital and other tech-industry funding methods come to the art world

There is more variety than ever in how and why art is funded and the Silicon Valley models have arrived

Gretchen Andrew
2 March 2021

UK Budget 2021: further £408m boost for struggling culture sector

Chancellor Rishi Sunak digs deep, adding £300m to the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund, £90m more for museums, and £18m for cultural community projects

Gareth Harris
13 May 2015

Edward Vaizey to continue as UK’s culture minister

He will work with newly appointed culture secretary John Whittingdale

Martin Bailey
1 March 2014

How to avoid digital boom and bust

There are plenty of grants for new digital projects but finding long-term funding could be much harder

Julia Halperin and Javier Pes
22 November 2022

Value for money? UK’s ‘Brexit’ festival organisers justify £120m cost of public funds with audience of 18 million

The National Audit Office will release detailed data on the eight-month "Unboxed" event next week

Gareth Harris
5 February 2021

Germany doubles pandemic aid for arts with an extra €1 billion funding

Some galleries received funding in the first package for exhibitions they can’t open in lockdown

Catherine Hickley
18 January 2022

Art critics hit back at UK government plans to reform the BBC

The national broadcasting company’s funding model will be reviewed by 2027 sparking concerns about its future

Gareth Harris
14 May 2018

Russian billionaire’s Peri Foundation will keep paying for culture after arrest

It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges

Sophia Kishkovsky
28 October 2022

Digital Art Week comes to London with editions planned for Paris, Lisbon, New York, Miami, Seoul and Tokyo

Backed by crypto art denizens and web3 startups, the inaugural edition brings six free events to the capital

Gareth Harris
9 October 2024

Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub

Chris Michaels
7 November 2022

Benin bronzes online database goes live with details of thousands of looted artefacts

"Digital Benin" catalogue gathers together information on objects stolen from the Kingdom of Benin and now held in collections around the world

Gareth Harris
30 September 2020

Charity gives £2.5m Covid-19 rescue grants to 66 UK arts organisations including Tate and British Museum

Clore Duffield Foundation funds are designed to relaunch learning and community programming

Hannah McGivern
8 October 2021

Bradford, Southampton and the county of Cornwall make the UK City of Culture 2025 longlist

But Banksy ‘spraycation’ towns are eliminated from the competition

Gareth Harris
13 May 2025

‘There is not enough money for education’: French philanthropist to fund museum visits for 100,000 UK children

Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum

Gareth Harris
30 September 2013

Digital access to Italian banks’ art

300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online

Ermanno Rivetti
2 December 2022

The last hurrah? Art world excess at Art Basel Miami Beach

Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid

Hosted by Ben Luke and Aimee Dawson. With guest speaker Anny Shaw. Produced by David Clack and Henrietta Bentall
4 September 2023

Seoul gets another art fair as Art Busan opens design-led outpost

The Korean capital’s status as an art world hub will be bolstered by Define Seoul

Kabir Jhala
21 October 2024

Florida arts organisations devastated by Ron DeSantis's funding cuts

Right-wing governor's decision to slash entire $32m budget leaves smaller organisations fighting for survival

Carolina Ana Drake
28 April 2021

TikTok and masterpieces on tour: London's National Gallery reveals plans leading up to 200th birthday in 2024

Five-year strategy pledges to ramp up digital content and send historic paintings on UK "community tours" to mark bicentenary

Hannah McGivern
5 May 2020

'Born digital': the stalwart institutions that have been producing online art since long before Covid-19

As museums rush to upload online content during lockdown, we speak to some of the people who have been championing innovative digital work for years

José da Silva
20 November 2020

Jewish collections looted by the Nazis to be examined and traced in new database

The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project will begin with a pilot scheme focusing on the Old Masters collection of Adolphe Schloss, which was seized by the Gestapo

Catherine Hickley
4 June 2020

German government earmarks €1bn for arts in €130bn pandemic stimulus package

Package aims to counter “severest economic crisis in the history of the federal republic”

Catherine Hickley
7 February 2023

Detroit arts organisations receive $23m in grants for digital initiatives from the Knight Foundation

The philanthropic organisation has named ten grantees of tech-focused investments

Torey Akers
15 July 2024

Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI?

Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day

Jori Finkel
13 February 2025

Textile Museum of Canada closing until autumn amid ‘unexpected shortfall in our finances’

The museum’s board chair also cited the need for “urgent repairs” to its building in downtown Toronto

Larry Humber
11 March 2025

How will arts institutions adapt to modern philanthropy?

As organisations reject tainted donors, they must deal with changing attitudes, budget cuts and socially aware audiences while engaging with new forms of private funding, a summit at Tefaf Maastricht explores

Anny Shaw
4 March 2022

UK's £120m post-Brexit culture festival launches at last, lighting up Scotland cathedral

Government-funded initiative Unboxed costs £120m and will include an oil rig installation from the North Sea

Gareth Harris
16 June 2020

Art Fund unblocks £2m in grants to reopen UK museums and 'prevent immediate insolvency'

Charity's Covid-19 crisis support package includes £150,000 to launch new network of touring exhibitions

Hannah McGivern
20 November 2023

Masters curating course at Whitechapel gallery to be wound down

Joint initiative with London South Bank University shelved but collaborative PhD project is in the pipeline

Gareth Harris
1 October 2020

Building on Covid-19 effort, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation details $1.5m in grants for small museums, artists and equity initiatives

Recipients range from Grey Art Gallery at NYU to a truck that transports art books to underserved communities

Nancy Kenney
19 June 2020

Guerrilla Girls focus on Black Lives Matter in new video

Art Night’s Trailers series also includes works by Mark Leckey and Oona Doherty

Gareth Harris
19 July 2022

Christie’s launches venture capital fund for art tech startups with a focus on NFTs

Move follows concerted drive by the auction house to gain ground in the blockchain and fintech domains

Gareth Harris
11 March 2021

Pandemic anniversary: the things museums should learn from our plague year

Although “thumbstoppable” social media content is essential, the online world has dark consequences too, says Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Tristram Hunt
18 September 2023

Commissioners appointed to oversee Birmingham city council as debt crisis puts museums in firing line

The group, brought in by UK housing secretary Michael Gove, will oversee the council's accounts following the announcement earlier in September that it was facing serious financial difficulties

Richard Franks
22 February 2021

Mapping the pandemic’s digital deluge: one academic is trying to collate the online projects of every single museum

Chiara Zuanni wants to capture the outpouring of online art offerings both as an archive of the Covid-19 era and as a source of inspiration for art organisations all over the world

Aimee Dawson
6 June 2024

UK foundation makes mark ahead of general election with £30m gift aimed at promoting arts education

Clore Duffield organisation will back the creation of extra learning spaces and a new garden at Tate Britain

Gareth Harris
13 October 2019

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”

Gareth Harris
26 April 2017

What French presidential candidates Macron and Le Pen have in store for the arts

Both politicians have pitched new cultural, artistic and heritage measures

By Victoria Stapley-Brown
18 March 2016

National Gallery of Art lands $30m grant from Mellon Foundation

Full funding will go to the museum if it raises an additional $45m on its own

Dan Duray
20 February 2025

UK government aims to keep cash-strapped cultural venues ‘up and running’ with £270m funding package

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy announced today that funding will be shared between arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings across England that are in “urgent need of financial support”

Gareth Harris
26 September 2025

Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn—podcast

Unpacking the issues facing cultural institutions today, plus chats about a Renaissance blockbuster and a ”cut-up” architectural installation in Basel

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Alexander Morrison and Philippa Kelly
20 August 2025

Getty Foundation awards $2.6m in grants to preserve Black visual arts archives

Libraries, museums and archives throughout the US will use the funds to make their collections more accessible through digitisation and—at least in one case—a VR game

Elena Goukassian
12 January 2023

Art Night contemporary art festival moves out of London to the Scottish city of Dundee

The Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani has been confirmed for a new commission

Gareth Harris
13 February 2023

Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma

Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"

Claire Voon
17 April 2020

Looted Benin treasures to go online in international project led by Hamburg museum

Project is backed by the Ernst von Siemens art foundation, which seeks “a more factual focus to the discussions about restitution”

Catherine Hickley
13 August 2015

Vatican fundraising: there’s an app for that

Patrum aims to bring in donations for restoration projects, and connect patrons around the world

Gareth Harris
4 February 2022

Bored Ape NFT founders seek $5bn funding from Silicon Valley investor

The secretive crypto collective Yuga Labs is reportedly in talks with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to sell a multi-million dollar stake

Kabir Jhala
31 May 2024

Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard

Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard

Benjamin Sutton
7 October 2021

Rhizome receives $1m grant from Mellon Foundation

The funding will support two new staff positions, open-source software and future operations

Wallace Ludel
3 September 2025

Amid layoffs and defunding threats, here's how US arts funding is adapting to life under Trump

The largest federal funders of culture—and the organisations that depend on them—are beginning to resume activities under the country's new regime

Helen Stoilas
24 November 2022

'Everyone will be far poorer': England's art organisations respond to 'short-sighted and foolish' national funding cuts

Learning and community outreach programmes under threat as Arts Council England funding shift wreaks deep financial damage on institutions

Gareth Harris
17 February 2021

Knight Foundation’s $50,000 fellowship goes to five artists who find ‘creative or poetic’ ways to work with technology

Sondra Perry, Rashaad Newsome and Black Quantum Futurism are among the inaugural recipients of the annual

Wallace Ludel
9 March 2020

Hundreds of art organisations outraged as UK withdraws from €1.46bn Creative Europe fund

More than 680 cultural figures and institutions sign open letter over decision they believe "threatens an impoverished future for British creativity"

Gareth Harris
12 June 2023

'I tend not to wait around; I think it’s a millennial mindset': collector Fiorenzo Manganiello on ignoring the critics

The tech entrepreneur and blockchain professor has a passion for street and digital art

Anna Brady
6 October 2022

British art magazine Elephant to fold after publisher pulls funding

The magazine and digital platform, founded in 2009, often led critical art debates on race, sex, class and gender, but will now close if a new owner is not found

Charlotte Jansen
1 November 2021

Conservatives scrap arts premium for schools promised in 2019 UK general election manifesto

Arts education policy amounting to £270m was missing from autumn budget announcement last week

Gareth Harris
31 March 2001

Snap to grid: a user’s guide to digital arts, media and cultures

New technology does not change anything except the context of art

Peter Schauer
29 August 2025

Philadelphia museum sues Trump administration over lost federal funding

After filing its lawsuit, the Woodmere received a letter from the Institute of Museum and Library Services informing it that the full $750,000 grant had been reinstated

Emma Riva
8 July 2015

Greek museums forced to close as funding runs out

“Cultural institutions on brink,” says curator of main exhibition at Thessaloniki Biennale

Gareth Harris
1 November 2017

Victoria and Albert Museum secures £15m endowment fund with Saudi donation

Non-profit Art Jameel throws weight behind London museum’s long-term funding campaign

Gareth Harris
21 January 2022

Courtauld Institute forms 'strategic partnership' with neighbouring King's College London—what does this mean for the prestigious art history college?

The two institutions of vastly different sizes will join forces at a time of "great uncertainty" for arts and humanities in higher education

Kabir Jhala
9 August 2023

Guggenheim Museum staff ratifies its first union contract

With 97% of the vote, museum employees signed their first union contract after two years at the bargaining table

Anni Irish
14 December 2020

Museums and galleries in London to close from Wednesday under new Covid Tier 3 restrictions

But arts professionals heavily criticise the government decision, saying there is “no logic” behind the move

Gareth Harris
6 November 2019

Artory partners with the Winston Art Group appraisal firm to offer free vetting services

The partnership is the latest collaboration undertaken by the growing blockchain-based art registry to increase “transparency” in the art market

Wallace Ludel
1 April 2015

Leading art libraries pull together to make research available on the web

Joint project to place 31.5 million images on a single website would “revolutionise” art history, says Frick Collection’s Inge Reist

Martin Bailey
25 September 2024

London’s revamped Warburg Institute courts a broader audience

Home to a unique collection smuggled out of Nazi Germany, the institute will show temporary exhibitions alongside Edmund de Waal’s library of exile

Gareth Harris
12 January 2022

Rare Shakespeare First Folio acquired by Canadian university to go on view at Vancouver Art Gallery

The University of British Columbia has acquired a copy of the ‘First Folio’ that helped preserve some of the bard’s most famous plays, including ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Tempest’

Benjamin Sutton
25 November 2022

Canada’s museums urged to overhaul practices to empower Indigenous peoples

Country’s museums association says institutions must involve Indigenous people in “every element” of their work

Martha Lufkin
13 September 2024

An open letter to Chris Bryant, the tenth UK arts minister in ten years

Labour’s pre-election arts manifesto, Creating Growth, included policies to put the arts back into education and bring museums into line with universities on open data

Bendor Grosvenor
28 August 2020

'Be commercially minded or lose future funding': UK government's threat puts museums in peril

In a letter leaked to The Art Newspaper, the culture minister Oliver Dowden tells directors they must raise their own funds during the pandemic—but how?

Bendor Grosvenor
6 June 2020

The mechanics of sponsorship in 2020: an interview with Rena De Sisto, the head of Bank of America’s arts and culture programme

‘We help museums do what they do best,’ says the executive who oversees the company’s support of international institutions

Helen Stoilas
8 January 2021

From lockdowns to looting: how Covid-19 has taken a toll on world's threatened heritage sites

Sites of major importance—many in regions already ravaged by conflict—are contending with security problems and funding shortfalls

Nancy Kenney
22 October 2020

Art programme that keeps minor offenders out of court at risk of defunding

New York City might pull the budget for Project Reset, which has helped 4,500 people stay out of the criminal justice system and find a second chance through art

Wallace Ludel
13 December 2024

Saudi Arabia launches digital art institute as part of $62.2bn Diriyah complex

A vast new digital art institute, Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, opened earlier this month with "cutting-edge labs and immersive exhibition spaces"

Gareth Harris
22 May 2023

Acquisitions round-up: rediscovered miniature by female Old Master added to US National Gallery of Art's collection

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Hannah McGivern
3 February 2025

As US tariffs loom, Mexico City's art scene looks to the future

Despite funding cuts and gentrification, new voices invigorate the capital’s thriving mix of museums and galleries

Shanti Escalante De Mattei
11 March 2020

UK budget: freeports, money for patching up national museums and new £250m culture fund confirmed

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers first post-Brexit spending pledges

Gareth Harris
17 May 2017

Conservatives will deliver 'best Brexit deal for the arts', says digital minister

Matt Hancock pours scorn on Labour’s £1bn culture pledge and promises a review of UK export regulations

By Martin Bailey
16 May 2017

Labour Party promises £1bn extra in culture funding over five years

Published ahead of the general election in June, the UK opposition party’s manifesto includes strong support for the arts

By Martin Bailey
19 September 2024

Why it's time for museums to take risks—or risk obsolescence

Jorrit Britschgi, executive director of the Rubin Museum of Art, on ‘embracing non-attachment and impermanence’

Jorrit Britschgi
4 September 2020

Bailout fail? Fewer than half of museums in England apply for government’s £1.57bn rescue package

Survey by The Art Newspaper also reveals that the Serpentine and Barbican have been left in limbo while the Southbank Centre is already £20m in debt

Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw
14 May 2020

Long lost families reunited: social media campaign uncovers the links between objects across UK museums

Galleries on lockdown connect online during coronavirus pandemic using #CollectionsUnited

Gareth Harris
1 March 2022

This digital archive brings women art dealers back into the story of Modern art

The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives explores the role of historical women gallerists as powerful forces in once-niche markets that have since become major sectors of the art world

Karen Chernick
14 October 2020

Exhibitions need a perfect storm to succeed—but shows opening during Covid-19 are getting a disappointing drizzle

With no group student visits, no art-world private view, and limits on public access, the buzz of new exhibitions has potentially been short-circuited

Ben Luke
9 April 2020

Los Angeles councilman plans to create emergency grants for artists

Funding from development fees would be used to help artists and non-profits by the pandemic instead

Wallace Ludel
8 June 2020

Digital Benin: a milestone on the long, slow journey to restitution

When British troops plundered the Royal Palace of Benin in the 19th century, at least 3,000 objects were dispersed internationally. A new online database is bringing them together

Catherine Hickley
3 September 2019

How ethical can museums afford to be? We ask five major UK art institutions about funding challenges

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

Martin Bailey
11 April 2019

Another shake-up in art finance sector as Athena sold for $170m

New owner, digital investment platform YieldStreet, calls art finance an "exciting and sound new investment option" with low correlation to the stock market

Anna Brady
9 April 2018

New York's Postmasters gallery, in survival move, solicits pledges via Patreon

"We need more support than I can generate via sales alone", says founder

Sarah P. Hanson
10 April 2019

‘Like being married to a serial killer’: Hito Steyerl denounces Sackler sponsorship of museums

German artist urges art world to rally against cultural funding from embattled family at opening of her show at Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Julia Michalska and Hannah McGivern
12 March 2018

Venice Biennale 2019: the confirmed artists and curators so far

Australia, Canada, Switzerland and New Zealand announce plans for show organised by Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff

Gareth Harris
24 April 2019

London’s Warburg Institute launches £14.5m expansion to revive the 'science of culture'

Research centre based on the library of German art historian Aby Warburg plans to open new public spaces in 2022

Simon Tait
21 November 2024

‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home

Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?

Louis Jebb
27 July 2020

ICA Miami expands online programming and scholarship with $2m grant

The institution’s Art + Research Center will be renamed after the Knight Foundation in light of gift, which funds two new positions and educational initiatives

Wallace Ludel
27 March 2018

Fresco that never was will be digitally realised

Charles Le Brun project at Vaux-le-Vicomte, halted by a financial scandal at Louis XIV’s court, will be completed with video projection

Hannah McGivern
25 January 2019

Romani arts and culture make online debut in new digital archive

RomArchive aims to pool knowledge and counter clichés

Catherine Hickley
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