NewsExhibitions
Major Kandinsky show opens in Saudi Arabia as Vladimir Putin arrives for rare state visit
Cultural programme of Russian art launches to coincide with president's trip to the Gulf state to sign over $2bn worth of deals
NewsPolitics
Nearly 500 protesters stage Anti-Columbus Day history tour at New York museums
After being blocked from entering the American Museum of Natural History, decolonization demonstrators took to the streets, ending at the Metropolitan Museum’s steps
PreviewExhibitions
‘Extraordinary’ Rubens show opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
The blockbuster exhibition gathers early works by the Flemish master from museums in North America and Europe
PreviewExhibitions
Caravaggio and Bernini show promises to be about more than just its titular #barockstars
Exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum will highlight the multiple trends and rich aesthetics of early Baroque art in Rome
NewsExhibitions
Urs Fischer makes wax portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio and his family for Gagosian show
One edition of the work has already been set alight and will gradually melt away over the course of the exhibition
NewsPolitics
'No chance for art institutions': fears for freedom of speech as populist party set to win Polish elections
Expected victory for ruling Law and Justice party raises concerns that minority voices will be silenced as museums increasingly come under state control
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”
Latest in Podcast
Agnes Denes: environmental art pioneer. Plus, Rembrandt-Velázquez and De Hooch
Mark Bradford addresses modern-day xenophobia through Greek mythology and a Motown classic
Frieze week: Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig, Melanie Gerlis, Hettie Judah
Special: is art education in crisis? Featuring Bob and Roberta Smith
Museum ethics. Plus, the Chicago Architecture Biennial
FeatureCartoons
Badiucao: meet the Chinese artist illustrating the Hong Kong protests
China’s ‘artful dissident’ has attracted worldwide attention through his drawings of protests, but he is still little-known in the art world
NewsMuseums
Italy extends Eike Schmidt’s leadership of Uffizi for four years
Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Southampton's new art space takes over tower of 700-year-old city gateway
Exhibition venue and heritage attraction inside Grade I-listed monument God's House Tower is called GHT
PreviewExhibitions
Back to the future: Nam June Paik's chapel and TVs take over at Tate Modern
London exhibition brings together more than 200 works by the Korean-born video and installation pioneer
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”
BlogIn the frame
Queen bees from Cornwall give Pierre Huyghe’s Malta sculpture a buzz
Latest in Video
Podcast sneak peek: how actor Timothy Spall captured the essence of Britain's beloved L.S. Lowry
Art heaven or hell? Museum’s epic £15m tunnel brings to life Dante’s Divine Comedy
How Dada inspired William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load
Video | There's news at The Art Newspaper
Exclusive: Damien Hirst channels Jackson Pollock for latest works
NewsOpenings
Ruby City: collector Linda Pace's dream museum becomes reality in Texas
Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye
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
ReviewElias Sime
Wellin Museum presents second major US exhibition devoted to Ethiopian artist Elias Sime
The artist, who will be awarded the Smithsonian's African Art Award later this month, has also been commissioned by the Ethiopian prime minister to create a public garden in the royal palace
NewsMuseums
After accusations of racism, MFA, Boston takes steps to become more inclusive
Museum conducts training sessions, changes procedures and plans a new hire
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Jennifer Binnie and Andrew Logan unite once more for collaborative London show
NewsPompeii
Fresco of two fighting gladiators discovered in Pompeii
Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini says the find shows the site is an "inexhaustible mine for archaeological research"
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Arles to Tokyo: Van Gogh exhibitions in 2020 that Vincent aficionados won't want to miss
Detroit’s Van Gogh in America will be the highlight, with more major shows in Amsterdam, Padua, Santa Barbara and Columbus
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see during Barcelona Gallery Weekend
From an expansive exhibition on colonial legacy to a torn apart racing car channelling Tiepolo and Top Gear
NewsOpenings
Paris Museum of Modern Art unveils €10m revamp of Art Deco home
Redesign by h2o architectes opens up 1930s building—with monumental murals by Matisse and Dufy—to disabled visitors
NewsArt market
Is this a Raphael? Madonna and Child painting to be auctioned at Dorotheum in Vienna
The work, previously unknown to scholars, was until now in a private ducal collection
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lempicka’s first US show in nearly six decades to Jacolby Satterwhite’s intimate and immersive environment
BlogIn the frame
Kerching! Mark Carney and Tracey Emin reveal £20 note featuring JMW Turner
NewsOpioid Crisis
Nan Goldin brings Pain to Purdue Pharma bankruptcy hearings in New York
Demonstrators at the White Plains courthouse kept up the pressure to hold Sackler family accountable in opioid crisis, as a $10bn settlement hangs in the balance
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
InterviewMark Bradford
Mark Bradford addresses modern-day xenophobia through Greek mythology and a Motown classic
US artist talks on The Art Newspaper Podcast about his London exhibition Cerberus at Hauser & Wirth
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"
ReviewExhibitions
Rembrandt-Velázquez: a match made in curatorial heaven
Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum reveals both artists as masters of psychology and technique
NewsArt crime
Money laundering, trafficking, ivory: crackdown on art crime intensifies
Wave of sentencing and changes in legislation puts pressure on art world
NewsConservation
Expert finds lost dress of Queen Elizabeth I in English village church
Rare 16th-century fabric to go on show at Hampton Court Palace after three-year study
InterviewPhotography
The media industry 'has changed beyond all recognition': Magnum's new CEO on adapting to the digital landscape
Caitlin Hughes has also promised to “bring the voices of its members together” as the photo agency targets a "more nimble" approach to client partnerships
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
NewsMuseums & Heritage
ICA Boston’s Watershed to reopen in May with massive ‘underwater’ installation by Firelai Báez
The Dominican-born New York-based artist will create her largest project yet at the seasonal space on Boston Harbor
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
NewsPrizes
Ikon Gallery wins £125,000 grant to put on 'dream' show of overlooked Renaissance master Carlo Crivelli
Birmingham institution is first recipient of new Ampersand Foundation Award that enables UK museums to realise a major project
PreviewExhibitions
James Tissot: the 19th century painter who swapped high society for the Holy Land
Long dismissed for its religiosity, Tissot’s biblical work will be given new context in San Francisco
NewsPhotography
Photography exhibition revisits Iceland’s most notorious murders
Jack Latham’s “forensic photography” exhibition coincided with the reopening of a criminal investigation dating to 1974
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Italian court blocks loan of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man to Louvre
The ruling also suspends the wider agreement for the exchange of works of art between France and Italy
NewsPrizes
Canada’s largest art prize, the Sobey Art Award, heads west
An exhibition of the shortlisted artists is now on view at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta
NewsLaw
Letter calls attention to domestic assault allegations against Swiss artist
Signatories have asked New York's Swiss Institute to address “troubling claims” about an artist included in current group show
PreviewIndigenous art
National Gallery of Canada presents global pulse of contemporary Indigenous art
The museum plans to acquire many of the works in its survey devoted to Indigenous artists
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
AnalysisArt crime
It’s 50 years since Caravaggio’s Nativity was stolen in Palermo: have the police been chasing red herrings all this time?
New enquiries suggest a US or Swiss connection through the mafia heroin trade
NewsArt market
'This is not the end, this is not doomsday': Hong Kong fairs survive escalated violence in city
Law banning face masks sparks more protests and brings Metro and buses to a halt, but Fine Art Asia chief says impact on fair is minimal
PreviewExhibitions
A New York salute to Rube Goldberg and his outlandish contraptions
Queens Museum celebrates a cartoonist who seems more relevant than ever
NewsExhibitions
MoMA will celebrate reopening with six site-specific works in its public spaces
Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky
NewsAppointments
Tim Marlow leaves Royal Academy of Arts to head London’s Design Museum
Announcement of RA artistic director's new appointment comes after Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black stepped down as co-directors
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
NewsMuseums
Staff quit in droves at Russian museum as ‘starvation wages’ bite
Deputy director’s swingeing salary cuts trigger resignations of around 50 employees at Moscow theatre museum
NewsCensorship
Feminist exhibition in China suddenly axed following alleged governmental pressure
Show in Shanghai cancelled after being deemed "too sensitive" to run during 70th anniversary of country's founding
NewsCrossrail
Latest Crossrail commission unveiled at Canary Wharf
Michal Rovner's video features some of London's best known landmarks
NewsResearch
Gauguin’s Tahitian lover may be more fantasy than reality
As the National Gallery's exhibition opens in London, an expert speculates that the teenager in his Polynesian works could be a composite of women the painter encountered
NewsLGBTQ
Designs for the National Pulse Memorial & Museum are unveiled amid debate
While early reactions have been mostly positive, a group of activists and victims’ families would rather see a support centre on the site
NewsArt market
Christie’s plods to a sturdy end to Frieze week
Post war, contemporary and Italian art sale notched up £89m, topped by a £7.4m Jean-Michel Basquiat
FeatureFriezescope
Friezescope: what the stars have in store for Air Signs during Frieze week
Our resident mystic has some sage predictions for Gemini, Libra and Aquarius art lovers
InterviewMark Leckey
Mark Leckey on using Victorian techniques to evoke magical memories
For his new Tate Britain show, the artist used illusion to recreate his childhood experience beneath a motorway
FeatureArt market
Running a contemporary gallery is tough: we look at London's lost commercial art spaces
There is a long list of innovative ventures to have fallen by the capital’s waysides but some have left a lasting legacy
NewsAppointments & departures
Co-directors step down from London's Design Museum after more than a decade
Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black will leave in January
NewsClimate Change
Extinction Rebellion target Tate Modern
The climate activist group projected “Time’s up, act now” on the side of the London museum's chimney
NewsCensorship
'I wanted to break down white male ideas': sexually explicit Johannesburg show is pulled
Work by artist Anton Kannemeyer has also been removed from London's 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair after complaints
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
NewsCorning Museum of Glass
Glass artist Deborah Czeresko wants to elevate the role of women in the field
Following her triumph in the Netflix show Blown Away, the artist has a two-week residency at The Corning Museum of Glass
FeatureConservation
The Sistine Chapel's system upgrade: Nam June Paik's immersive video to be recreated for Tate
The late artist’s award-winning Venice Biennale presentation has been painstakingly reconstructed at Tate Modern—clunky old tubes and all
NewsCommissions
New Rolls-Royce initiative encourages artists to make video, animation and VR works
Scheme is part of the luxury car manufacturer's new vision for its art programme to “encourage artists to expand the limits of the imaginable”
NewsAppointments & departures
Uffizi's Eike Schmidt reveals why he cancelled move to Kunsthistorisches Museum at the eleventh hour
Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government
CommentUK politics
'London’s resilience, creativity and innovation will help us to keep open for the world'
As the art world turns out in the capital during Frieze, Justine Simons, London's deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries, wonders what the rest of the world must be thinking
Justine Simons