NewsJacob Lawrence
Missing for decades, a Jacob Lawrence painting surfaces in response to a Met exhibition
A visitor makes the connection between the artist’s Struggle series and a work in a neighbour’s home
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Mummified Llamas, sacrificed to the gods by Incas, uncovered by archaeologists in Peru
The animals still had their ritual adornments, including necklaces and long, colourful tassels hanging from their ears
NewsArt market
Miami Beach launches residency programme to help artists and businesses in lieu of Art Basel tourism revenue
The initiative encourages property owners to lend their vacant spaces for free and offers $2,500 stipends to artists—but they may still need to pay rent
ReviewResidencies
New York artists find second chance in Governors Island residency programme
The free residencies were part a multi-organisation initiative to replace the annual artist-run Portal art fair and other cultural programming cancelled due to Covid-19
NewsLaw
Sackler family to pay $225m in civil settlement with US government
The deal with the Department of Justice, which also includes guilty pleas and a $8bn fine against Purdue Pharma, does not prevent future claims against family members or company executives
NewsArt market
Sotheby's to offer monumental Giacometti bronze in rare 'sealed bid' sale with a minimum bid of $90m
Last sold at auction for $4.9m, offers will be reviewed ahead of the auction house's contemporary and Impressionist and Modern art evening sales on 28 October in New York
NewsArt market
Asia Now fair swoops up would-be Fiac exhibitors
Paris fair makes up for lack of Asia-based exhibitors with some blue chip galleries who were meant to be participating at the larger, cancelled fair
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A flood of art? The market issues around museum deaccessioning
Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal
'Another yawning gap': radical London Print Studio closes its doors
Exhibitions need a perfect storm to succeed—but shows opening during Covid-19 are getting a disappointing drizzle
Baltimore Museum of Art curators respond to deaccessioning criticism
Confronting the allure, and the dangers, of 'fake heritage'
Why vote? To protect those who cannot
I finally went to see some art—and caught Covid-19
‘Uniquely egregious’: The disturbing precedent of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s deaccessioning plan
Visionary leaders, big business and the digital boom: 30 years that changed museums
Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting
For the arts, there’s only one choice in this election
The only way is ethics: US museums should not neglect provenance research in the funding crisis
Done right, selling museum pieces can work—but probably not with Michelangelos
Philip Guston drew Richard Nixon's face as a hairy scrotum and phallus—what would he make of President Trump?
Gatherings are taboo in the Covid-19 world, so where does that leave experiential art?
Art unions need to agitate beyond worker contracts
How to save Venice: a five-point plan by a leading citizen
Banksy’s activism is his greatest work
'We cannot build a truly globalised art world without China'
'Be commercially minded or lose future funding': UK government's threat puts museums in peril
Why we should be concerned about President Erdogan turning museums into mosques
Remembering the beautiful melancholy of Matthew Wong
National Trust restructuring plans are ‘one of the most damaging assaults on art historical expertise ever seen in the UK’
Business can and should help the arts through this crisis
'Museums need to press the reset button and become more radical'
The problem with Marc Quinn's Black Lives Matter sculpture
'When the politics change, so must the statues'
Photographs are the monuments of our online visual culture
'If a person of African descent wants a career in the arts—well, good luck'
Can the art market be an ally in the fight for racial equality?
We need to talk about guarantees. And art loans
No rest for the frazzled for many in the art world
If we want more artists like Khadija Saye, we need to give young BAME people the help they need
US needs monuments celebrating African American history, not Confederate statues
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
Institutions need to follow artists’ lead to make a material impact on the world
What’s the ideal post-pandemic art market? One that's no longer a Disneyland for the rich
Oxford Economics report: an emergency fund for the UK creative sector 'needs to come soon'
Museums will need ethical funders all the more after the coronavirus crisis
Who are the art market's virtual winners?
Museums are about to reopen—but should they?
Eight ways museums could make the most of the coronavirus crisis
Edward Colston monument: 'UK must face the truth of what helped it become a mighty power'
Dread Scott: America God Damn
The Art Newspaper's statement on the Black Lives Matter movement
What sort of art will we want after the pandemic ends?
Must London always win? National Gallery of Scotland cancels Titian show for all the wrong reasons
The US has a big racism problem and the art world is not helping
After Covid-19, museums need to plan ‘must see’ exhibitions instead of blockbusters
Why I made a mountain of fortune cookies in my little London flat during lockdown—all in the name of art
Our mission is to be Miami’s art museum—that’s why we spent $145,000 to buy works from local galleries
Art museums should use their endowments to help battle climate change
Why the Association of Art Museum Directors’s move on deaccessioning matters so much
After years of sanctions and political upheaval, the pandemic is a new hurdle for the fragile Iranian art scene
Auctions are like dating: you can do it online, but sparks only fly in the flesh
Britain's young artists had a hard time before the pandemic. What will happen to them now?
Selling art online? Here are the legal pitfalls to avoid
'Being an art historian now is easier and more productive than it’s ever been'
When this is all over we must reimagine the infrastructure of the arts
Why we cancelled the 2020 FotoFocus Biennial and dispersed its $800,000 budget as arts grants
Auctions: what will change, post-Covid-19?
'Politicians have failed us': Michael Craig-Martin's thoughts from isolation
UK artists deserve a New Deal
Greetings from a museum leaving lockdown: lessons from Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
Museums must adopt new models to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
‘I’ve always been wary of big business’: Paula Cooper on weathering adversity and building better social systems
Notes from the lockdown: Making a situated museum in Queens
A message from... Yayoi Kusama: 'Let us joyfully sing this song of a splendid future'
'We are all Surrealists now': how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
Pope Francis, his crucifix and the Virgin Mary: miraculous or merely traditional?
Don't let your guard down: three things you can do now to protect your art during the pandemic
Mourning a ‘golden' exhibition season curtailed by coronavirus
Don’t forget to support our artists, the chroniclers of such crisis
Will coronavirus-related cancellations spell the end of ‘fairtigue’?
Please send help: a letter to the Getty Trust
Tristram Hunt: 'When the lights come back on, our museums will need support'
US artists need a federal bailout now
The BBC fights back with 'Culture in Quarantine' against the UK government’s plan to destroy it
Letter from Spain: Arco exhibition centre is now a coronavirus hospital
'The real ideological war has just begun and Covid-19 is only the starting point': Ai Weiwei on China's response to the outbreak
Letter from the editor
A message from...Shirin Neshat: 'We will get through this'
Letter from Italy: the churches—open, but without services—are the only place to see art
With the coronavirus shutdown, smaller heritage sites such as the Mary Rose face a fight for survival
A message from...David Hockney: 'Do remember they can’t cancel the spring'
The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Museum top brass are losing the oil money plot
Letters to the editor | Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?
Patrick van Maris is leaving Tefaf after five years: but has he left the fair in too much flux?
Death of a wannabe 'mega' gallery—was the closure of Blain Southern an outlier or the canary in the mine?
It is time to support Sudan’s artists in their fight for democracy
Where is the West? Art world should be supporting China during coronavirus crisis
Why I'm working with the South Korean boyband BTS on an art project
‘Art history is a global discipline’
Condo’s grassroots collaborative spirit is infectious
Don't be angry that Tate's 'Head of Coffee' gets £39,500—be mad that salaries in both hospitality and the arts aren't higher
Brexit: what's next for the UK art market?
Doubly lost: why the Salvator Mundi's failure to show up at the Louvre is to be greatly regretted
Millennials—monsters, or saviours of the art market?
NewsPrizes
Actor Russell Tovey to judge 2021 Turner Prize
Award's exhibition moves to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the year-long UK City of Culture 2021 festival
NewsRestitution
Black Lives Matter movement is speeding up repatriation efforts, leading French art historian says
Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago
NewsMuseums
Attacker sprays oil in Berlin museums, damaging sarcophagi, sculptures and frames
Sixty-three objects were sprayed with an oily liquid on 3 October at the Pergamon, Neues Museum and Alte Nationalgalerie
NewsAuctions
Phillips London sets new records for Emily Mae Smith and Portia Zvavahera in £26.3m contemporary evening sale
While the top lot of the night—a fiery self-portrait by George Baselitz—struggled to meet its low estimate, a bidding war broke out over Dana Schutz's painting of a bright orange Trump
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What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race?
Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates
Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives
Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The Royal Academy of Arts’s Covid-19 conundrum
This is America: Grayson Perry on race and class
Berlin: still a magnet for artists?
Cancelled: should good artists pay for bad behaviour?
A brush with... Rashid Johnson
A brush with... Chantal Joffe
A brush with... Jenny Saville
Virginia Commonwealth University launches programme dedicated to the art of podcasting
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Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer
What will culture be like in the next decade?
Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers?
Hong Kong: has the new law 'destroyed' the art scene?
The destruction of Australia’s ancient Aboriginal heritage
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
What to do about problematic statues?
How to visit a gallery during a pandemic
Let’s talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege
Houston, do we have a problem? The verdict on early museum openings in Texas
Raphael: as great as Leonardo and Michelangelo?
Is the future of the art market online?
Exclusive: Marina Abramovic on performance art post-pandemic
Can new tech recreate the hand of an Old Master?
Sophie Matisse retraces her great-grandfather's footsteps for emotional BBC film
The end of the blockbuster? Museums in a post-pandemic world
Donald Judd 101: the great artist in depth
Art theft: are museums safe under lockdown?
Can the art market weather the coronavirus storm?
Saving the art world’s self-employed amidst the coronavirus crisis
Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China
Fill your ears with art: the top culture podcasts to listen to during the coronavirus lockdown
Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of 'the most beautiful pictures in the world'
Remembering Ulay. Plus, how coronavirus cancelled Art Basel in Hong Kong
Surrealism: what was Britain's role?
Shirin Neshat on why Frida Kahlo is one of her favourite artists
Who owns the Parthenon Marbles?
Does Los Angeles want a big art fair?
Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting
The story of a fake Gauguin at the Getty
2020: art market issues and big shows
2019: the year in review
Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy
Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami
Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship
John Lennon wanted Hitler on cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
Anselm Kiefer on why size matters
Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction 'gigaweek'
Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US
From 'piecemealing' medievalist to TV darling: how Janina Ramirez is championing slow media about culture
Gunpowder, treason and plot: how artists have captured fireworks throughout history
Special: Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett
Dread Scott’s slave revolt reenactment. Plus, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Leonardo at the Louvre: the spectacular show and the Salvator Mundi no-show
MoMA special: our verdict on the museum opening of the year
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
Tate's William Blake blockbuster. Plus, Pace and the New York gallery boom
Tim Spall on playing L.S. Lowry. Plus, an exclusive interview with Chris Ofili and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Podcast sneak peek: how actor Timothy Spall captured the essence of Britain's beloved L.S. Lowry
Top of the Pods: David Hockney and other modern British mavericks
Top of the Pods: The best of the Venice Biennale
Top of the Pods: Leonardo—the Salvator Mundi saga
Top of the Pods: video artists in the spotlight
Top of the Pods: Artemisia Gentileschi and the forgotten female Old Masters
In memoriam: Karsten Schubert in conversation with Michael Landy
Top of the Pods: climate crisis with Olafur Eliasson, Justin Brice Guariglia and Anna Somers Cocks
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol, as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
Top of the Pods: experts on Van Gogh in the asylum and his early life
Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show
Vermeer's hidden cupid, the Prado's Dutch-Spanish show, plus Helen Cammock
David Smith in Yorkshire. Plus, the works that inspired leading artists
Art Basel and William Kentridge
How Dada inspired William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load
Painting, identity and injustice: Howardena Pindell and Oscar Murillo
The rise of the mega-dealers, plus artists take over the Guggenheim
Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top
Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial
Venice Biennale special: our review. Plus, how much longer will the city survive?
Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend
How did Salvator Mundi go from $1,000 to $450m? Plus, the tragedy of Van Gogh's only love
The Notre Dame fire: what happens next? Plus, Cold War Steve
From Despair to The Scream: the genesis of Edvard Munch’s most famous work
What inspired Munch's Scream? Plus, the Shed
Sackler sponsorship: take it or leave it? Plus, museum visitor figures
Art Basel in Hong Kong, Richard Lin and the Met’s World Between Empires
David Bailey in focus, plus Picasso biographer John Richardson remembered
Wham! The George Michael auction and the YBA market. Plus, Sharjah Biennial
Carolee Schneemann, the Armory Show and Venice Biennale curators
Rembrandt special: the complete artist
Hunk of burning love: the naked selfie of the Elizabethan age
Bonus podcast: Dorothea Tanning show comes to Tate Modern
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge launch public art exhibition showing portraits of a nation in lockdown
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Plans ‘in the trash can’: remote learning forces US college museums to get creative
Closures, postponements and sharp reductions in programming prompt soul-searching—and innovation—among institutions
NewsGustav Klimt
Stolen Klimt painting—buried for 20 years—to go back on show at Italian museum
Discovered by the gardener at the Ricci Oddi gallery last year, Portrait of a Lady will be the star of a series of exhibitions on the much-loved artist
NewsAppointments & departures
'We are not a suburb of Paris': incoming director of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts champions a North American identity
Stéphane Aquin is taking over after Nathalie Bondil’s controversial dismissal
NewsContemporary African Art
Kipwani Kawanga wins Duchamp Prize with installation referencing African independence
Paris-based artist's work recreates flower arrangements that featured at diplomatic events connected to independence ceremonies in African countries
NewsFunding
Chicago non-profit 3Arts awards $150,000 to three women artists
In its largest round of grants ever, the arts club turned artist funder has created a new “Next Level” series of prizes
Newscoronavirus
New York lawmakers to discuss the economic impact of Covid-19 on cultural institutions
"The arts and cultural sector has been especially hard hit," says Senator José Serrano
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Massive ancient cat image discovered among Peru’s Nazca Lines
The 2,000 year-old earth carving could be the oldest geoglyph ever found
NewsAppointments
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts appoints new director
Stéphane Aquin faces the challenge of restoring stability after Nathalie Bondil’s disputed removal
BlogThe Buck stopped here
'Gorgeous, repellent, savagely erotic': Polly Morgan slithers into our subconscious at London's Bomb Factory
PreviewExhibitions
From the streets to the studio: show explores how Basquiat, graffiti and hip-hop culture stormed the art world in the 1980s
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston includes works by Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kool Koor and Lady Pink
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Oklahoma to honour Native American art in new $175m museum
More than 25 years in the planning, First Americans Museum opens with new commissions and objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
InterviewThe Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper turns 30: how has the world of art publishing changed?
Current editor Alison Cole talks to founding editor and long-time editor-in-chief Anna Somers Cocks about the origins of the newspaper, the fundamentals of its journalism and the challenges the visual arts world has faced
FeatureVideo, film & new media
Take five: Steve McQueen quintet crowns an art-centred London Film Festival
Turner Prize winner’s series led a programme that celebrated the electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and explored an unlikely allegiance of artist and criminal
NewsArt crime
Criminal claims 13 works from legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist are hidden in a Dublin house
BBC4 documentary—released today—unpicks theory that the stolen art was shipped to Ireland
InterviewExhibitions
Cecily Brown: ‘I’m trying to understand what England means to me’
With her delayed show now open at Blenheim Palace, the British-born painter explains that she is as likely to be inspired by childhood comics as historic battle scenes
NewsClimate Change
Season for Change launches four £10,000 artist commissions to support climate action
The project will support works centred around underrepresented communities in the climate movement
NewsArt fairs
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
AnalysisAmerican art
'Comatose' pre-war American art market gets a digital jolt
Forced online due to Covid-19, this year's American Art Fair boasts more exhibitors as auction houses see new records set for late 19th century works
PreviewElection 2020
Bureaucratic but not boring: exhibition explores the visual history of US election ballots
With early voting already underway in the 2020 presidential election, a show at New York's Cooper Union reveals the "power of design in our civic process"
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Liu Xiaodong's portraits of wealthy Chinese immigrants to the Royal Academy's delayed Summer show
CommentClosures
'Another yawning gap': radical London Print Studio closes its doors
Art world pays tribute to vital public space that served community organisations as well as artists including Lucian Freud, Billy Childish and Shezad Dawood
FeatureBook Club
Judge a book by its cover: Centre Pompidou looks at Henri Matisse through a literary lens for new show
One of the most expansive museum surveys on the French artist in 50 years will present his book and magazine designs—and even some of his own writing
NewsMail art
Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe want your postcards for democracy
The artists have launched a mail art project to support USPS and mail-in voting efforts
NewsMuseums & Heritage
An invitation to sponsor a tile: keeping a roof over Jane Austen’s village home
Donations have poured in from all over the globe since the museum appealed for aid
NewsDeaccessioning
Former trustees and donors ask state to block sale of three important works by the Baltimore Museum of Art
Letter asks Maryland attorney general and secretary of state to investigate planned deaccessioning of a Warhol, Still and Marden
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Coveted Van Gogh bouquet to be sold at Sotheby's New York, valued at $18m
Chequered past: from the Bear Skin to the Nazis, a once-restituted painting is now coming up for auction
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Howardena Pindell's first video work in 25 years at The Shed to a cyclical series of Salome-inspired sculptures by Luke Ivy Price at Ki Smith Gallery
InterviewMarina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic TV: five-hour takeover will teach you everything you need to know about performance art
As well as her new Sky Arts programme, the artist's mixed reality work The Life will be sold at Christie’s this month, with an estimate of £400,000-£800,000
NewsDeaccessioning
Brooklyn Museum steams ahead on deaccessioning
After netting $4.2m for a Cranach, the museum plans to sell off works by Monet, Dubuffet, Degas, Miró and Matisse
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Félix Fénéon at the Museum of Modern Art
A collaboration between New York and Paris explores the dealer who championed both Neo-Impressionism and home-grown terrorism
NewsArt market
Fancy a free Takashi Murakami work? Perrotin gallery launches art treasure hunt in Paris
French gallery is hiding 20 valuable works in the empty nave of the Grand Palais—and the public have 48 hours to find them and take them home
NewsPace Gallery
Talking Heads singer David Byrne sells his quirky quarantine illustrations
The images, known as dingbats, are offered by Pace Gallery in New York for $3,000 each
BlogDiary
Just an illusion? Trickster Derren Brown paints David Attenborough
NewsDeaccessioning
To mirror, and support, community: Everson Museum board chair defends deaccessioning of a Pollock
Auction proceeds will go towards diversifying the collection at the Syracuse institution with “inspirational” art
NewsGerman Museums
Germany to create central digital platform for museum objects acquired in colonial context
Measures agreed by government and states include a set of common standards for digital registers
NewsVenice Biennale
Nordic pavilion gets political for 2022 Venice Biennale as space is renamed after Indigenous Sámi people
"It is a symbolic reversal of colonial claims that have sought to erase Sámi land and culture," says a project statement
NewsArt market
From flat white to white cube: Lévy Gorvy opens gallery in former Pret a Manger in Mayfair
Firm now plans to extend its lease after Long Museum buys huge Tu Hongtao painting on show in the new space
NewsRestitution
Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master to be auctioned in settlement between heir and current holder
The Golden Age work by Aelbert Cuyp was looted from Jacques Goudstikker and acquired by Hermann Göring
NewsHeritage
Brighton's Madeira Terrace, a unique Liverpool cemetery and a 17th-century public library among English heritage sites at risk
Entries on Historic England Heritage at Risk list, published today, have risen to 5,097
NewsPolitics
Nicaraguan government moves to tighten its grip on free expression
A trio of pending laws has human rights groups raising the alarm that artists and institutions critical of President Ortega could be forcefully silenced
NewsEthics
Inquiry into actions by Detroit Institute of Arts director and board chair found no misconduct, museum says
Law firm hired by the Detroit museum found no conflict of interest in loan of art from director's family, it adds
NewsFrance
Congolese activist fined €1,000 for trying to seize African funeral pole from Paris museum
Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and the other activists who removed the object from display at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac say their actions are a protest against colonial looting
NewsAuthentication
Will a ‘Shakespearean tragedy’ find a happy ending in Canada?
After years of research, the only portrait of the playwright possibly painted during his lifetime still hangs in limbo—but perhaps not for long
NewsVenice Biennale 2022
Simone Leigh will be first Black woman to represent US at Venice Biennale
Brooklyn-based artist acknowledges 'depth of white supremacy in America' on social media
NewsBrazil
Inhotim cannot use works from its collection to pay off founder's debt, judge rules
The Brazilian arts park signed an agreement in 2016 to donate 20 works from its collection to the government in order to repay Bernardo Paz's $110m tax debt for laundering donations
NewsObituaries
British photographer Chris Killip remembered after battle with cancer
Harvard professor's depiction of Newcastle's industrial decline became an icon of British documentary photography
NewsFunding
'Publicise your grants online': UK culture minister wades into row over rescue funding demands
Oliver Dowden confirms recipients were "encouraged" to acknowledge fund on websites and social media
NewsExhibitions
First look at the Torlonia marbles, as the last great private collection of classical sculpture opens to the public
Exhibition at Rome’s Musei Capitolini is the first step in finding a permanent home for the 620 ancient Greek and Roman works
NewsCensorship
Chinese interference derails Genghis Khan exhibition in France
Beijing authorities attempted to censor show's narrative amid a hardening of Chinese Communist Party's stance towards Mongol minority
Commentcoronavirus
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
BlogInsta’ gratification
Instagram turns ten: how the world's favourite photo app disrupted the art market
Dubbed "the world's new big art dealer" the platform is often used to spark interest in sales and helps artists and galleries to grow international brands
NewsHeritage
Machu Picchu all to yourself? Japanese tourist gets special solo tour of ancient site
Culture ministry gives Jesse Katayama access after being stranded in Peru for seven months because of coronavirus
AnalysisArt theft
Steal and repeat: why art gets stolen time and again
When works of art are taken multiple times, it is often more about criminal prestige or bargaining chips for reducing prison sentences
CommentDeaccessioning
Baltimore Museum of Art curators respond to deaccessioning criticism
Equity and diversity make history fairer, more accurate, and more meaningful in the present, they say
NewsArt education
European academies issue joint manifesto to protect freedom of arts
Signatories of the “Berlin Manifesto” include the Académie française and Arts Council England. It has been endorsed by Wim Wenders, Ken Loach and A. L. Kennedy among others
NewsPublic art
#MeToo Medusa sculpture to be installed across from New York courthouse where Harvey Weinstein stood trial
But some have questioned whether the statue truly embodies the feminist movement
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Trove of ‘perfectly preserved’ painted coffins and mummies discovered at ancient Egyptian necropolis
The finding of 59 sarcophagi and dozens of statuettes in Saqqara is just “the beginning of the big discovery” Egypt’s antiquities minister says
NewsPrizes
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
NewsFunding
First government grants for UK art spaces announced with £789,000 for London's ICA and £804,000 for Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Whitechapel, Whitworth, Mary Rose Trust and Photo London are also among the recipients for long-awaited Covid-19 rescue funds
CommentHeritage
Confronting the allure, and the dangers, of 'fake heritage'
Monetary gain is one reason people create counterfeit heritage—but political power, personal fame or the imposition of beliefs are equally compelling motivations
NewsArt market
Christie's sale in collaboration with cancelled La Biennale Paris fair flops
Online auction of art and antiques that would have been exhibited at Parisian fair achieves €1.5m with 21 of 91 lots sold
NewsVenice
Ocean art space in Venice church confronts city's perilous battle with climate change
Multimedia installation synthesises three years of scientific research into marine transformation across the planet
NewsSingapore
Singapore art space prepares final show in Gillman Barracks after Covid-19 shortfall
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art to close physical venue in March, casting doubt on future of gallery district
NewsMuseums
Scottish museum joins Tate in cutting ties with dealer Anthony d’Offay
Hundreds of works will be returned following harassment allegations dating back to 1997
PreviewExhibitions
Easy rider: when Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter went on tour
The artists' collaboration—first as teacher and student, then as a couple—is explored in a new exhibition at the Lenbachhaus in Munich
NewsArt market
Houston politician's mysterious collection of African artefacts raises alarm bells
Hundreds of pieces of African art are being stored in a publicly funded warehouse by the Harris County commissioner Rodney Ellis with little explanation of their background
ReviewBooks
From how insurance pay outs work to when to get your art appraised: a must have how-to book for collectors
This updated art market manual by Mary Rozell merits a place on any bookshelf
NewsLos Angeles County Museum of Art
Tom Gores steps down from Lacma board after pressure over prison telecom ties
Billionaire investor argues in his resignation letter that he pushed for reforms
BlogDiary
Frieze Week treats from Sarabande's new gallery space to Damien Hirst's sweet Saatchi memories
BlogMuseums & Heritage
Take a virtual ride down Sunset Boulevard with Ed Ruscha
NewsAwards
Martin Bailey—The Art Newspaper's correspondent—awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Other art world honourees include painter Frank Bowling; Artist Support Pledge founder Matthew Burrows; and Sally Shaw, the director of Firstsite in Colchester
ReviewArt & Technology
Physically sanitised, spiritually liberating: Gazelli Art House’s Enter Through The Headset
A special guest panel offers our first review of an in real life (IRL) virtual reality exhibition, held, with extensive hygiene measures, at a London gallery
NewsArt market
Miami Design District aims to fill in the fair gap with winter arts event
The Design Miami fair will return to the Moore Building, and other galleries that regularly show in Art Basel will be given temporary spaces
NewsDeaccessioning
Palm Springs Art Museum will deaccession a work by Helen Frankenthaler at Sotheby's
The work carries an estimate of $2.5m to $3.5m and will help the museum cope with its financial struggles amid the Covid-19 pandemic
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery
PreviewExhibitions
Wangechi Mutu asks the Legion of Honor, 'Are you listening?'
The artist will show new and recent works that play with San Francisco museum’s Neoclassical architecture and Western roots
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Trenton Doyle Hancock's face-off with Klansmen at James Cohan to Feliciano Centurión's textile paintings at Americas Society
NewsRestitution
Dutch government committee recommends return of colonial-era artefacts
The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre
AnalysisArt fairs
'If you're coming to buy, you have two hours to do it': what it's like at London's real-life 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
In the absence of the major fairs and auctions, Modern and contemporary African art is in the spotlight in London this week
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Nearly 450 heritage rescue grants announced from UK's £1.57bn cultural bailout fund
First funding round hailed as a "lifeline" for heritage sites and specialists reeling from the pandemic, but job losses continue
PreviewExhibitions
‘We wanted to have sex all the time’: first major survey of Sunil Gupta—photographer of gay Indian life—opens in London
The Photographers' Gallery retrospective explores five decades of the long-overlooked artist's career—from cruising on street corners to Aids activism
NewsNational Trust
National Trust—UK's largest conservation charity—to cut 1,300 jobs
The coronavirus-hit heritage body looks to save around £100m through redundancies
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
The most famous bedroom in art history: secrets of Van Gogh’s nocturnal life
A story of changing wall colours, a pair of pillows, wartime bombs and the hunt for a lost bed
CommentSackler family
Nan Goldin: We must stop the Sacklers’ imminent Justice Department immunity deal
The family behind Purdue Pharma is poised to buy their way out of liability once again
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