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Art of Luxury
Adventures with Van Gogh
30 January 2026

Sonia Boyce to make new work to mark 200 years of University College London

The London university has also commissioned works by three artists-in-residence for its bicentenary

Gareth Harris
5 January 2026

How Australia’s social media ban could affect art institutions

Museums may need to rethink their content and find new ways to engage with young fans online

Aimee Dawson
26 November 2025

Bob Ross painting sells for record $1m at auction to benefit US public broadcasters

Four original canvases by the late television painting instructor have been sold lately to raise funds for US public broadcasting following slashes by the Trump administration, and dozens more will be offered in 2026

Alton Yan
12 November 2025

Do museums need to crack down on selfies?

The Uffizi in Florence is restricting selfies, and New York’s Frick Collection bans all photography—but other museums encourage them

Philippa Kelly
5 November 2025

Comment | Time is running out for justice on Nazi-looted art—but it is not yet too late for museums to act

It is time for Congress to pass the new HEAR Act and for museums to deliver provenance transparency, writes Gideon Taylor, the president of the World Jewish Restitution Organization

Gideon Taylor
31 October 2025

Protecting North America’s oldest cave art after an historic flood raised new alarms

Dunbar Cave, home of numerous petroglyphs and pictographs dating back at least 800 years, was submerged by a flood in February—the art was fortunately undamaged, but how can we save it from inevitable future storms?

Allison C. Meier
14 October 2025

From controversy to clarity: how a Philadelphia medical museum is rethinking the display of human remains

In 2023 the Mütter Museum was at the centre of a scandal around the repatriation of Indigenous remains. Now, as the dust begins to settle, a new leadership team is looking to the future

Bess Lovejoy
11 September 2025

Ch-ch-changes at V&A as David Bowie Centre opens

The centres opens on 13 September at the V&A East Storehouse, and mines a vast archive to explore the musician’s artistic processes, networks and influences

Gareth Harris
25 July 2025

Rethinking public art and remembering Koyo Kouoh: inside the Experimenter Curator's Hub 2025

The 14th edition of the Kolkata forum invited leading curators from across the world to debate key issues in the field

Anindo Sen
8 July 2025

‘An act of solidarity’: exhibitions raising funds and awareness for Palestinians open in London

One show presents works by over 200 artists, while another focuses on protests across the UK

Sarvy Geranpayeh and Joe Ware
6 June 2025

Comment | US digital age verification laws are threatening artists’ freedom of expression

New laws to protect minors from “harmful” website content are alarming artists and privacy groups

Emma Shapiro
2 January 2023

New online safety laws aim to protect children—but will they harm artists?

As the UK’s troubled Online Safety Bill finally looks set to become law, there are still concerns about whether it will get the balance between online safety and censorship right

Emma Shapiro
8 May 2020

Nicholas Galanin considers the unbalanced power of institutions over indigenous objects in Anchorage Museum exhibition

The online exhibition aims to dispel myths that “indigenous communities are unqualified to care for their own cultural objects”

Gabriella Angeleti
26 November 2020

Where to learn about and support Indigenous art and culture on Native American Heritage Month

From the Smithsonian's award-winning Americans exhibition to virtual Indigenous art markets

Gabriella Angeleti
15 September 2022

Is Art Basel launching a year-round ‘marketplace’ for galleries? A recent spate of job advertisements suggests so

The fair’s parent company MCH Group is developing "new digital formats" to support galleries

Anny Shaw
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
1 April 2020

Coronavirus complicates US Census—and the arts funding tied to it

Art + Action has launched a multi-pronged initiative to reach Bay Area residents in hard-to-count communities, and galvanise the art world to get behind the national headcount

Tess Thackara
3 January 2023

Indigenous art communities emerged from the pandemic more resilient

Native American artists in the United States and First Nations artists in Canada found new ways to show their work and protect elders during the worst of Covid-19

Sophia Herring
16 October 2020

ArtRio forges ahead, making it the first major event to take place in Brazil since the pandemic began

Marking the fair's tenth anniversary, a live event with limited ticketing for collectors continues even as Covid-19 cases climb

Lise Alves
10 March 2025

Comment | The UK is attempting to pry open a notorious data ‘backdoor’—here's why that's alarming for artists

Emma Shapiro on the UK government's secret order to break end-to-end encryption and allow access to all citizens’ Apple iCloud data

Emma Shapiro
20 May 2020

Solange's creative agency spotlights work of Parsons School of Design graduates in online festival

Graduating fashion students will collaborate on a new 3D work with artist Jacolby Satterwhite as end-of-term exhibitions are cancelled due to coronavirus

Gabriella Angeleti
4 March 2024

From shadow bans to privacy laws: how the internet has become less free—by stealth

The chilling of artistic freedom is impacting artists and those they connect with

Emma Shapiro
31 July 2014

US groups urge fast broadband for all as online plans threaten access to art

Proposed “two-tier” internet could leave artists with inadequate technology, while wealthy content providers get super-fast connections

Rachel Corbett
15 December 2023

Why artists fear online safety laws will chill freedom of expression

Free expression groups and creatives believe the price of “safety” on the internet may be the exclusion of marginalised artists and groups, and an end to online privacy for all

Emma Shapiro
24 November 2020

'Rent has increased by 3,100% since 2012': London heritage society says it may sell collection after UK government hikes costs

The Society of Antiquaries is launching a campaign to stay in historic home of Burlington House, close to Piccadilly

Gareth Harris
23 December 2020

A crisis hits the art market once a decade. What is different this time? Christie's president Dirk Boll assesses the impact of the pandemic

As his new book is published, the auction house chief compares coronavirus fallout to previous economic disasters

Catherine Hickley
24 October 2024

‘Art is being squeezed out’: Royal Academy poster campaign calls for increased arts education in UK schools

The campaign highlights the dramatic drop in number of students studying art, design and technology at GCSE

Gareth Harris
1 April 2000

How the internet will change the art market: the new kids on the block are smarter than you think

The advice on how to be successful in the online world offered here in 2000 centred on building a community and having a shared sense of purpose and trust

Andy Bottomley
10 April 2021

Toronto’s Contact Photography Festival expands its takeover of public spaces

Month-long event to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a series of installations across the city

Larry Humber
18 March 2020

As Art Basel in Hong Kong launches online, we look at how the art market is using cyberspace to combat coronavirus

From VIP virtual viewing rooms to grassroots digital action

Kabir Jhala. with additional reporting by Margaret Carrigan
27 May 2015

Three-year, $2.8m grant programme to rescue artists in conflict zones

Following similar fund for scholars, Institute of International Education with funding from Mellon Foundation launch project to aid persecuted artists and performers

Julia Halperin
2 July 2020

As Navajo Nation battles worst coronavirus outbreak in US, artists hope for an Indigenous renaissance

The cancellation of regional markets and fairs have taken a huge economic toll but have also ushered in a "new era of responsibility" to promote Native work

Gabriella Angeleti
6 May 2020

Where to buy art that supports good causes during the coronavirus pandemic

Works by artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Tracey Emin, Marlene Dumas, Martin Parr and many more, are on sale for as little as £50

José da Silva
26 May 2022

NFTs are accelerating the pace of art crime—here's how digital sleuths are sharpening their tools to fight wrongdoers online

Lawmakers must now contend with a new era of discord channels, smart contracts and open-source intelligence to combat cyber criminals

Riah Pryor
16 September 2021

Healing Arts programme comes to New York with a two-month schedule of events

Artist commissions, expert discussions and film premieres will take place in the city, starting and ending with a pair of symposia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wallace Ludel
18 June 2019

Artist to install earthwork calling attention to immigration and human trafficking

Trail of red sand will be visible to travellers in flight and on the ground in Seattle

Nancy Kenney
8 July 2020

International art students may be forced to leave the US under Trump's new ICE policy on remote learning

Harvard and MIT filed lawsuits against the US government while the president of CalArts calls the move an act of "political theatre" amid the pandemic

Gabriella Angeleti
12 December 2022

'The ultimate artist residency': team chosen for space voyage includes photographers and performers

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's dearMoon trip is being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company

Gareth Harris
17 February 2023

Turkey-Syria earthquake: the race to save damaged heritage sites

Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
18 March 2020

Frieze New York cancels its ninth edition due to coronavirus

The fair is the latest to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic as cases in the city rise to 1,339

Margaret Carrigan
9 February 2024

Preserving Banksy: public art database to document the UK’s murals

The project, backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will also capture many of Northern Ireland's politically charged street art works

Gareth Harris
15 December 2021

Balkan-based looters share tips on Facebook about vulnerable sites, potential buyers and how to escape the law

Illicit trade in cultural heritage finds a home on social networks, study reveals

Riah Pryor
4 June 2020

Riga’s Riboca biennial defies Covid-19 by transforming into an arthouse feature film

Unfinished exhibition space will be used as a set, while the public programme moves online

Tom Seymour
30 June 2007

Art makes a scene in virtual platform Second Life

The online virtual world is becoming one of the best places for artists, curators and dealers to meet

Helen Stoilas
19 January 2021

Biden inauguration is largely virtual—but some live art is planned

A public art installation of 200,000 flags opens on the National Mall, as coronavirus and heightened security forces most events online

Helen Stoilas
25 September 2023

Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commission

Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature

Gabriella Angeleti
31 October 2023

The Art Newspaper is looking for a new Editor

The Art Newspaper
21 May 2020

Some of the best places to buy art for a good cause

During the pandemic, buying art delivers the double whammy of donating to charity and owning a work by artists including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Chantal Joffe

Louisa Buck
26 February 2021

After San Francisco loses Gagosian, the city's galleries are collaborating to survive

Mega-gallery's closure will not affect Californian city's small but vibrant art scene, local dealers say—this is "not a place that responds to grandiose braggadoci"

Tess Thackara
21 July 2021

From village life to vaccine centre: Museum of the Year 2021 shortlist announced

Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Experience Barnsley, Firstsite, Thackray Museum of Medicine and Timespan chosen as five finalists for Art Fund's coveted £100,000 prize

Hannah McGivern
7 February 2023

Art Dubai will donate 50% of ticket sales to earthquake relief efforts in Syria and Turkey

“When there is a humanitarian disaster like the one unfolding in Turkey and Syria, a swift response is important,” says a spokesperson for the fair

Rawaa Talass
12 October 2020

Museums of the year: Art Fund names five joint winners of UK’s biggest arts prize

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Gairloch Museum, the Science Museum, South London Gallery and Towner Eastbourne will share £200,000 award

Hannah McGivern
14 August 2024

'We’re embedding learning into the building': inside the National Gallery's upscaled education programme

The National Gallery, which once housed the Royal Academy of Arts, has been home to study, scholarship and education since its earliest days

Hannah McGivern
20 November 2023

Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?

Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder

Aimee Dawson
18 May 2020

Happy International Museum Day! Why today's digital event matters now more than ever

Suay Aksoy, president of Icom, says museums closed by Covid-19 lockdowns "need to champion themselves because their survival may depend on it"

Hannah McGivern
14 April 2025

Comment | Metadata is not just a major pillar of online access, it is a step towards decolonising the museum

The written descriptions of works of art are more than just labels—they are a record of evolving cultural understanding, writes Curationist's Amanda Figueroa

Amanda Figueroa
29 July 2021

Dealer admits to marketing fraudulent Indigenous wood carvings to Canadian museums and galleries

Works by a non-Indigenous artist known as Harvey John were sold at museum gift shops and galleries as authentic Haida artworks

Gabriella Angeleti
14 April 2021

FotoFocus’s photography biennial returns to Cincinnati in 2022 with focus on climate change

FotoFocus’s photography biennial returns to Cincinnati in 2022 with focus on climate change

Wallace Ludel
31 December 2020

As 2021 beckons.... I crave new art in the new year more than ever

With talk of vaccines dominating the airwaves, a return to regular contact with the latest works and upcoming artists may be on the horizon

Ben Luke
7 October 2020

The Art Newspaper Live returns! Registration now open for 'New models for new times: Rethinking the art market in a changing world'

Join industry thought leaders like Sunny Rahbar, Ayo Adeyinka and Clare McAndrew in conversation with our art market experts in a three-part series of events beginning 8 October. Presented in partnership with Cromwell Place

The Art Newspaper
27 November 2020

Three online shows to see this weekend

From a sweeping survey of Kandinsky to a provocative show on the present day experience of Native American communities

Gabriella Angeleti and Kabir Jhala
26 January 2022

Lisson Gallery and digital platform Circa will fund scholarships at London university

The bursaries support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students on postgraduate courses in the arts at Goldsmiths

Gareth Harris
23 March 2021

Covid-19: which countries are closest to getting back to art business?

After a year in which the coronavirus wreaked havoc, vaccines offer hope. We look at the the state of play, and the outlook, for countries around the world

The Art Newspaper
29 November 2024

Candida Gertler steps down from Outset Contemporary Art Fund citing 'alarming rise of antisemitism' in cultural spaces

Move comes after 1,100 art workers sign an open letter demanding Tate cuts ties with the philanthropic organisation, which she co-founded in 2003

Joe Ware
6 August 2024

Warhol Foundation to sell the artist’s works on eBay to benefit its grantees

The initiative, called the Philanthropy Factory, hopes to raise an additional $1.5m for 74 US arts organisations

Elena Goukassian
24 May 2022

The Met creates digital project tied to $70m upgrade of African, ancient American and Oceanic art galleries

The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa

Gabriella Angeleti
12 March 2021

Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend

From Niki de Saint Phalle’s first US retrospective at MoMA PS1 to El Museo Del Barrio’s sweeping survey of Latinx art

Wallace Ludel, Karen Chernick and Gabriella Angeleti
16 August 2018

Why arts journalism matters: because art matters

Even in arts journalism, one can see the effects of President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric against the press

Helen Stoilas
25 September 2020

The only way is ethics: US museums should not neglect provenance research in the funding crisis

Ethical institutional practices such as staff equity and due diligence are essential investments, "not merely a luxury for flush times"

Elizabeth Campbell
18 March 2022

Stolen Nepalese temple artefacts found at London gallery returned in embassy ceremony

The artefacts, from the 16th and 18th centuries, were discovered in Barakat Gallery and were voluntarily handed over to police

Kabir Jhala
1 May 2024

National Gallery in London celebrates 200th birthday by launching own network of social media influencers

As part of the anniversary in July, the museum has launched 200 Creators

Aimee Dawson
24 March 2021

Coalition of activist groups announces ‘strike’ action against MoMA

Accusing the museum of elitism, alliance says its ultimate goal is “disassembling” the institution

Nancy Kenney
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
4 July 2022

'As visitors return, the UK’s museums have a new sense of purpose'

The five finalists for Museum of the Year 2022 are changing the world around them, says Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and jury chair for the £100,000 prize

Jenny Waldman
15 December 2021

Sotheby’s sales for 2021 surpass $7.3bn, the highest total in company history

The firm’s sales were bolstered by a sharp increase in online bidders, who accounted for 92% of all bids this year

Daniel Cassady
28 September 2021

Second presenter from right-wing GB News channel appointed trustee of a UK museum

Former Brexit Party candidate Inaya Folarin Iman joins board of the National Portrait Gallery in London

Gareth Harris
6 November 2020

Three outdoor exhibitions to see in London this weekend

From empathetic documentary photography in King's Cross to Cauleen Smith's Covid Diary broadcast at Piccadilly Circus Lights

Kabir Jhala
9 November 2022

Fleeing Twitter? Sick of Instagram? Eight lesser-known social media sites for the art world to try

More than a million users have left Twitter since business magnate took over the platform

Aimee Dawson
9 October 2023

Exclusive: UK shadow culture secretary to map out first national infrastructure plan for the arts

In an interview ahead of the Labour conference, Thangam Debbonaire also promises action on artist visas, copyright law and artificial intelligence

Tom Seymour
16 May 2018

Germany presents code of conduct on handling colonial-era artefacts

Culture Minister says colonial past has been a blind spot for too long

Catherine Hickley
22 May 2017

Santiago Sierra commemorates the Syrian war dead

Names of 144,000 people who have died to be read out over more than a week in four cities

By Aimee Dawson
2 October 2024

How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

As government aims to put the arts at the heart of the curriculum, an Art UK project is teaching children how to 'cope with today’s image-saturated world'

Gareth Harris
3 April 2020

New York artist launches platform to link people in need of help with others amid coronavirus lockdown

Social practice artist Jody Wood started her S.O.S. online aid network as part of her belief that "everyone is responsible for caring for one another"

Gabriella Angeleti
28 February 2019

Women are written into online art history at expanded Wikipedia edit-a-thons across Southern California

The group Art+Feminism has organised events at six museums to boost the online presence of women artists and cultural leaders

Jori Finkel
3 February 2021

'The London art world we started in could fit in a single pub': Frieze turns 30

The magazine and fair brand celebrates three decades with an online festival this month and launch of new membership programme

Anna Brady
6 November 2018

Native American group denounces Met’s exhibition of Indigenous objects

The Association on American Indian Affairs says the "first mistake was to call these objects art" and that tribal representatives should have been consulted

Gabriella Angeleti
8 March 2018

Women wanted: massive UK parade to honour the suffragettes

The Art Newspaper
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
2 June 2020

Art world presses pause for #BlackOutTuesday

Mixed reactions for the social media campaign, whereby millions are posting black squares in support for the Black Lives Matter movement—but is it reductive?

Anny Shaw and Gareth Harris
18 August 2021

Whitworth Gallery in Manchester U-turns on decision to remove pro-Palestine statement after Forensic Architecture threaten to pull work

Exhibition addressing the use of tear gas in Palestine adjusted to “give voice to different perspectives” following intervention by Israeli legal groups

Kabir Jhala
25 March 2021

World's biggest Inuit art collection revealed at Winnipeg's new museum within a museum

Qaumajuq centre aims to reframe Winnipeg Art Gallery’s colonial past with displays of more than 10,000 rarely seen Inuit works

Gabriella Angeleti
19 January 2022

Clare Lilley is named Yorkshire Sculpture Park's director—only the second in its 45-year history

Curator is overseeing a major Robert Indiana show due to launch this spring

Gareth Harris
19 August 2022

No oil, no gas—no stopping: Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to ancient Vatican Museums sculpture

The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund

Gareth Harris
6 January 2023

Professor who was controversially fired for 'Islamophobia' after showing depictions of Prophet Muhammad is named

US university's decision to dismiss employee for displaying the 14th- and 16th-century works has been described as an "egregious violation" of academic freedom

Kabir Jhala
4 October 2022

Mark Wallinger launches digital art project to raise legal funds for London pollution group

The Islington-based campaigners Nocado are fighting to prevent retailers Ocado and Marks & Spencer from setting up a depot adjacent to a primary school

Louisa Buck
16 April 2020

An Instagram masterclass from the man behind the Louvre’s eight million social media followers

We caught up with the Paris institution's head of digital communications, Niko Melissano, to get his advice on creating a mega-museum Instagram presence

Aimee Dawson
13 July 2017

In the age of Trump (and before), museums help immigrants on the path to US citizenship

New-York Historical Society launches free civics course for Green Card holders

By Victoria Stapley-Brown
20 March 2025

How a new online database is bringing an African focus to restitution cases

Open Restitution Africa’s digital resource based on pan-continental research counters elevation of Western narratives

Gameli Hamelo
17 September 2021

Firstsite: bouncing back from past controversies to become a vital community hub

The Colchester art gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary this year

Louisa Buck
13 August 2018

How a chain-link mosque at the Vancouver Biennale became a community hub

Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem's installation stands as an example of cultural exchange as diplomatic tensions break out between Canada and Saudi Arabia

Hadani Ditmars
18 February 2022

'Totally Kafkaesque': Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs spaces still paralysed by pandemic

Most Los Angeles art institutions have reopened while complying with Covid-19 safety measures—except those run by the city

Matthew Stromberg
7 March 2022

Why endow a museum wing when you can fund archives? Hauser & Wirth Institute gives $700,000 in grants to preserving historical records

Newly announced funding for the Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute follow 2021 grants to small nonprofits in Chicago, British Columbia and Hong Kong

Benjamin Sutton
30 April 2019

Culture Pass brings library patrons to New York museums—and now, museums to libraries

Branches across the boroughs are now hosting museums' educational programmes

Amanda Svachula
12 August 2022

India and Pakistan turn 75: exhibitions on independence and partition to see around the world

From Kolkata to Chicago, here are 11 shows that deal with the many histories of nationhood and freedom in the subcontinent

Kabir Jhala
1 February 2023

Indigenous art collective purchases 'urban oasis' in Seattle with plans to build cultural centre

The yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective has plans to create a community centre on the verdant site that focuses on artistic, cultural, and environmental initiatives

Torey Akers
31 October 2024

Christine Tohmé appointed curator of 18th Istanbul Biennial

The announcement follows a row over the initial appointment of Iwona Blazwick as the curator of the edition

Gareth Harris
7 April 2020

Billionaire art collector Adrian Cheng to distribute free face masks in vending machines throughout Hong Kong

The K11 Art Foundation founder is donating millions of masks aimed to help low-income communities in their fight against Covid-19

Anny Shaw
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