NewsSalvator Mundi
'We want Salvator Mundi' for Leonardo blockbuster, Louvre says
Claims that it had "cancelled plans" to show the work are "fake information", the museum says
NewsProtest
Demonstrators take over British Museum in biggest-ever protest against oil sponsorships
Event, organised by grassroots climate justice group BP or not BP?, highlighted relationship between oil companies and war in Iraq
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
How a protest poster by David Wojnarowicz may have inspired Basquiat's Defacement
Artist's 1983 depiction of an infamous case of police brutality goes on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June
FeatureLos Angeles
Wearing its art on its sleeve: Los Angeles' enduring passion for murals
The city’s street paintings, vehicles for protest since the 1930s, continue to be a flashpoint
NewsSatellite Fairs
Frieze Los Angeles brings satellite fairs into its orbit
A local stalwart celebrates its tenth edition, a New Yorker goes West, and a young upstart sets out its stall at the Roosevelt Hotel
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Action! Cinematic works abound at Frieze Los Angeles as galleries go all out for glamour
First LA edition of the British fair focuses on local artists and pieces that speak to a Hollywood crowd
Latest in Comment
Museums—just places for a bit of peace and quiet?
Davos 2019: Cooper Hewitt museum director on the power of inclusive design
The Met’s antiquated views of antiquities need updating
Missing in action: African-American art in European public collections
Eurocentrism still sets the terms of restitution of African art
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with Cheech Marin
The actor and comedian tells us what he's bought and why he loves it
NewsRestitution
Met hands over an Egyptian coffin that it says was looted
Describing itself as a victim of fraud, museum says it cooperated with district attorney's investigation
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Max Hooper Schneider: 'my fantasy army of marine-mammal people, across all genders'
The artist dives deep to create a lurid theatre from biological forms for his Frieze Los Angeles Projects commission
NewsMuseums
SFMoMA to sell a Rothko estimated at $35m to $50m
Proceeds would go toward acquisitions that “address art historical gaps’’
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Diane Arbus's intimate portraits of street life at the Hayward Gallery to a window into the future at the Whitechapel Gallery
NewsArt market
'Saddened, humbled and heartbroken': Mary Boone sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax fraud
New York art dealer falsely claimed around $1.6m in personal expenses as tax-deductible business expenses in 2011
Latest in Podcast
Can artists live off art alone? Plus, Los Angeles
George Shaw: 'I make no distinction between great painting and great TV'
Tracey Emin on mourning and #MeToo; George Shaw on realism and Rembrandt
Beguiled then bewildered: Ruskin's love-hate relationship with Turner
Ruskin and Gombrich: revisiting two art historical heavyweights
NewsAttribution
Former politician questions authenticity of Khnopff sculpture
Sculpture is currently the centrepiece of a major Paris survey
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Former Tate director's hidden tribute to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
James Manson paid homage to the artist by painting his own bouquet
NewsCommercial galleries
David Kordansky doubles gallery space and expands diverse artist roster
Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey as well as the estates of Tom of Finland and Betty Woodman
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with Wallis Annenberg
The Los Angeles-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Patti sings 'Because the night belongs to Annie'
Latest In the frame
You spin my heart right round—Paris ups its romance game for Valentine's Day
Pop Art: George Michael’s YBA collection goes on the block
Mamma Mia—Cher’s gorgeous garments are set for The Met
Hear them roar—tiger rugs by Anish Kapoor and Raqib Shaw fly out the door
Burger King wants you to ‘Eat like Andy’—but he would have preferred a Big Mac
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Frida Kahlo's hidden treasures to a layered look at James Baldwin
NewsCrime
A million Artsy user account details exposed in large-scale hack
Compromised data included account holders’ names and email and IP addresses
NewsMuseums
Morgan Library & Museum plans $12.5m restoration of its library's exterior
New York institution plans to shore up its Neo-Classical façade and create outdoor spaces for the public
NewsConceptual Art
Danish artist sells rough sleepers in ‘human Tamagotchi’ project
Kristian von Hornsleth enables collectors to track London homeless
NewsArt theft
Serial art thief Stéphane Breitwieser arrested—again
Having served a six-year jail sentence, he came under suspicion again after offering a 19th-century paperweight on eBay
Latest in Video
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
'A deeper source of truth than appearances': Antony Gormley on Joseph Beuys
Michelangelo: The Art Newspaper's editor talks about a British treasure
PreviewExhibitions
Botticelli’s violent stories have a contemporary resonance in #MeToo era
“Spalliera” panels depicting parables are reunited at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time in 500 years
BlogIn the frame
You spin my heart right round—Paris ups its romance game for Valentine's Day
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Hits and misses at Palm Spring's second Desert X biennial
Some half-baked works mean this year’s event fails to live up to the promise of the first edition
NewsFrieze Los Angeles
Art and entertainment worlds cosy up at Frieze Los Angeles
Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up
InterviewRijksmuseum
Interview: the Rijksmuseum's Taco Dibbits on Rembrandt's pulling power
We speak to the general director of the Dutch museum ahead of its exhibition on "all" of the works by the master in its collection
ReviewBooks
A hefty tome on the arts of the Austro-Hungarian belle époque
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
NewsArt fairs
Will Frieze Los Angeles succeed where others have failed?
Shrugging away doubts, the city’s art dealers are cautiously optimistic of the fair’s future
BlogLinda on the loose
Material fair: focused, fresh and festive
NewsPodcast
George Shaw: 'I make no distinction between great painting and great TV'
On The Art Newspaper podcast, the British painter discusses the diverse influences, from Hockney and Rembrandt to the children’s television series Grange Hill, that have informed his paintings of the estate where he grew up
NewsPrizes
Works by finalists competing for $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize go on show in Kiev
The winner will be announced in March and an updated version will go on show in Venice during the Biennale
NewsSalvator Mundi
Simon Fujiwara builds mini museum for Leonardo's Salvator Mundi at the Whitechapel in London
The original painting is never shown, only copies and projections are displayed
NewsArt market
London art dealer Richard Green sued by US tycoon over €5m Old Master purchases
Gary Klesch claims undisclosed provenance led him to pay higher price for two paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Salomon van Ruysdael
NewsRoyal Academy of Arts
Axel Rüger, director of Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, appointed new chief executive of Royal Academy
He succeeds Charles Saumarez Smith who stepped down in July 2018
NewsExhibitions
Parkland victims remembered through New-York Historical Society photo show
As part of her residency at the museum, the photographer Bettina von Zwehl made portraits with New York City high school students
FeatureLost art
Lost Art: should we rebuild sacked castles and ruined palaces?
Noah Charney examines how historic buildings that were needlessly destroyed can live on today
NewsTate Modern
Glass flats 'come at the price of privacy', judge rules in case in favour of Tate Modern against residents
Demands that the gallery close off part of its viewing-platform to prevent an invasion of privacy are dismissed in high court
NewsPhotography
Novelist Orhan Pamuk unveils photographs of Istanbul he took from his balcony
On show in Turkey this month, the images are an ode to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s hometown
NewsArt schools
Open School East free art school moves into two new venues in Margate
The organisation has relocated to the former home of Thanet School of Arts and Crafts on Hawley Square
NewsArt market
'Piss artist' Andres Serrano buys Trump's wedding cake
Artist paid $1,880 for the mini chocolate cake, given as a favour at US President's marriage in 2005, but is tight-lipped about his plans for the baked good
NewsExhibitions
Edmund de Waal to create exhibition in Jewish Ghetto in Venice
The ceramicist will also unveil library of books by exiled writers at Ateneo Veneto to coincide with the opening of the 58th Biennale
NewsAppointments
Fatos Üstek appointed director of the Liverpool Biennial
The Turkish curator has worked on Art Night and was recently named director of the Draf project
BlogDiary
Get lost in the myths and mazes of Large Glass's labyrinthine show
NewsArt market
Smaller sales platforms spotlight artists without gallery representation during Mexico City’s fair week
Spaces like Salón ACME and Cinco Pisos en el Quinto offer a more ‘empathetic model’ as the region’s art market grows
NewsRobert Ryman
Art world tributes for Minimalist painter Robert Ryman, who has died aged 88
“In defining art's formal limits, he was the most radical painter of his time,” says art historian Robert Storr
NewsExhibitions
Monty Python snub 'pretentious' Victoria and Albert Museum
Comedy troupe was planning a show at the institution but clashed over the title
NewsNazi loot
Max Stern: dealer's heirs still fighting for looted art justice
With works from the forced liquidation of his gallery by the Nazis still regularly turning up in Germany, two current restitution claims by his heirs could have major ramifications for all those seeking to recover looted art
PreviewExhibitions
Diane Arbus's nudists, drag artists, carnival folk and street urchins are laid bare in London show
Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery uses a distinctive layout to encourage visitors to get up close to US photographer’s early 35mm works
ReviewMedia & broadcast
A man-made landscape is writ large on the screen in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
After its US premier at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the visually stunning documentary heads to Berlin
NewsControversies
Nan Goldin’s anti-opioid activist group storms New York museums
Pain held demonstrations at the Guggenheim and the Met over the weekend
BlogLinda on the loose
Grace Jones graces the stage for Aids charity at Mexico City home of Eugenio López
NewsTracey Emin
Tracey Emin to turn Margate studio into a museum for her work when she dies
British artist is returning to the seaside town where she grew up and plans to establish a foundation there
NewsOpenings
Norton Museum of Art opens grand expansion
$100m project highlights museum's growing commitment to contemporary art
BlogIn the frame
Pop Art: George Michael’s YBA collection goes on the block
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Don McCullin's powerful war photography at Tate Britain to a last chance to see Lorenzo Lotto's insightful portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
NewsFakes & copies
Nuremberg prosecutor seizes 63 Hitler works from auction house on forgery suspicions
Twenty-six of the seized works were to be auctioned at Auktionshaus Weidler tomorrow
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
How Van Gogh's Sunflowers have inspired generations of British artists
Painters from Brangwyn to Nash paid homage to the masterpiece, all illustrated on the Art UK site
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Is Leonardo da Vinci's only sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum?
Italian scholar says terracotta statuette, currently attributed to Antonio Rossellino, is actually by the 15th-century master
PreviewExhibitions
15 must-see Rembrandt shows during the 350th anniversary of his death
Two exhibitions to be held at the Rijksmuseum this year will provide a cohesive overview of Rembrandt’s life and work
NewsMuseums & Heritage
National Museum of Scotland completes 15-year makeover revealing 'whole world under one roof'
The £80m masterplan has created 50% more public space and unveiled 6,500 forgotten objects
Podcast
Tracey Emin on mourning and #MeToo; George Shaw on realism and Rembrandt
We talk to Tracey Emin as her new show at White Cube opens. And we speak to George Shaw, whose exhibition has arrived at the Holburne Museum after its stint in the US. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsAcquisitions
Whitney acquires Abstract Expressionist painting by Norman Lewis
The museum will show the underrecognised African American artist's work alongside pieces by his contemporaries
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar’s washboard works to Shen Fan’s playful abstraction
NewsArt market
Economic policies introduced by Mexico’s new president have yet to dent dealers' sales at Zona Maco
Works at mid-tier price points are moving quickly at the 16th edition of the Mexico City fair, according to exhibitors
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Tracey Emin makes her mark with marvellously monumental bronzes at White Cube
NewsArt market
'Rockefeller effect' contributes to Christie’s £5.3bn record total in 2018
Brexit not a factor in dip in auctions in Europe and the Middle East, says auction house's Emeri president Dirk Boll
NewsAfrican art
Brooklyn Museum's detective work reveals original owners of African mask
Family elders give blessing to new exhibition of Yorùbá masquerade costume, stolen from Nigerian shrine room 70 years ago
CommentArt Fund
Museums—just places for a bit of peace and quiet?
The Art Fund's latest report concludes that museums and galleries offer a way to de-stress—but they should not just a place for calm and comfort
Ben Luke