NewsPublic art
David Hammons’s public sculpture on the Hudson River will now be beachfront property
Gansevoort Peninsula, the site of Day’s End, will also include a 5.65-acre park, wetlands and kayak launch
NewsHeritage
Trump retracts threats against Iranian culture sites saying: ‘I like to obey the law’
The US president’s reversal comes after widespread condemnation and defense officials’ assurances that military would abide by international law
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Cultural heritage officials condemn Trump’s threats against Iranian sites
Meanwhile, an impromptu tribute to the country’s cultural heritage broke out on Twitter, as users posted images of their favourite places
AnalysisThe Year in Review 2019
King Tut’s golden year, Koons’s worst: the highs and lows of the art world in 2019
As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember
NewsMuseums & Heritage
KAWS joins board of American Folk Art Museum
The contemporary artist is among four new trustees elected
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Pérez to host Basquiat show during next Art Basel
Exhibition focuses on wider graffiti and hip-hop culture and includes video, music and fashion
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
From Miami to Margate: Ellen Harvey’s mural depicting a slice of South Florida travels abroad
The hand-painted designs for her permanent installation will be included in the artist’s solo show at Turner Contemporary next year
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Major Jon Rafman show planned for Hirshhorn Museum
And Mickalene Thomas goes Pop in NYC
Podcast
Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami
We talk to Louisa Buck about the decision to award the Turner Prize to all of the nominees. Plus, Miami-born artist Teresita Fernández tells us about her homecoming show at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Teresita Fernández, an artist of place, brings her art home to Miami
The MacArthur award-winner revisits her early works with a large-scale survey in the city of her birth
PreviewExhibitions
In Miami for Art Basel? Eight shows to see outside the fair
From a travelling Stonewall survey to Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña's first major museum retrospective
PreviewExhibitions
Queen Nefertari’s tomb brought back from the dead in Kansas City
Although the “Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt” is more than 3,000 years old, a new show aims to enliven it with sculptures, sarcophagi and a little help from a video game
NewsPublic art
New York will soon get its own shiny Anish Kapoor sculpture
The artist’s first permanent work of public art in the city will be installed at a Herzog & de Meuron-designed high-rise in Tribeca
NewsObituaries
Modern art historian, US museum director and clergyman EA Carmean, Jr has died, age 74
He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
NewsObituaries
Deborah Marrow, the Getty’s longest-serving leader, has died, aged 70
Starting in 1983 as publications coordinator, she spent most of her three decades at the Getty overseeing its grant-making programme
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Rubin Museum restructures, reducing staff, hours and programmes, for ‘long-term sustainability’
The changes also include plans for immersive installations and artist residencies
NewsConservation
Josef Albers's Manhattan returns to its rightful place in the MetLife building
The colossal mural, recently recreated, has returned to its home near Grand Central Station
PreviewArt & Design 2019
The year ahead in design: all the key dates you need
The biggest biennials, fairs and exhibitions over the next 12 months
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Rubin Museum's meditation on “power” to the Costume Institute's celebration of camp
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Survivors and victims’ families oppose plans for a $40m museum at site of Pulse shooting
The group says fundraising efforts to turn the Orlando nightclub into a tourist destination would be better spent on survivors’ care
NewsObituaries
Nancy Reddin Kienholz, artist and partner of Ed Kienholz, dies age 75
The pair created provocative installations about American society, race and sex
NewsLaw
Street artist sues Ellen DeGeneres and Walmart for copyright infringement
Julian Rivera says his heart-shaped “love” design was copied on a popular line of clothing without his permission
NewsPerformance art
Volunteers wanted to crawl with performance artist Pope.L
The artist is staging a massive inclusive crawl in New York this September
NewsLooted art
US authorities file criminal charges against antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor and seven others
The government’s complaint outlines a massive alleged smuggling ring involving other dealers, art restorers and associates who helped create false provenances for looted objects
NewsClimate Change
United Nations sounds the alarm on species loss—and artists respond
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's work in Cooper Hewitt's Design Triennial resurrects world's last male northern white rhino
NewsObituaries
The Modernist architect I.M. Pei has died, aged 102
The Chinese-American designer created some of the world’s most striking museum projects, including the Louvre’s glass pyramid entrance and the National Gallery of Art’s East Building
BlogDiary
Camping out for Camp
We caught up with the crowds waiting to spot celebs—particularly Harry Styles—on the red carpet of tonight’s annual Met Gala
PreviewCostume Institute
Bold, ironic and camp: Met show explores exuberant expression in fashion
Costume Institute's new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion examines camp from the 17th century onwards
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Nearly €1bn raised for Notre-Dame over two days
Several charitable and crowdfunding campaigns launched since the fire
NewsArt crime
Artist recreates exiled dictator's treasure trove in 3D—but what happened to the originals?
Pio Abad and Frances Wadsworth Jones's replicas of jewels smuggled into Hawaii by Imelda Marcos are displayed at the Honolulu Biennial alongside the social services they could have paid for
NewsSponsorship
Why is the British Museum still accepting tobacco sponsorship?
London institution has acquired 600 objects thanks to funding from Japan Tobacco International, makers of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut
FeatureArt's Most Popular 2019
How global art can provide a kick-start to local economies
Special exhibitions mean big money—not only for the museums that hold them but for local businesses as well
NewsArt's Most Popular 2019
Heavenly figures: how two Met shows topped The Art Newspaper’s attendance survey
The New York museum's Heavenly Bodies exhibition came first even though curator “never set out to create a hit”
NewsEconomics
Trump wants to axe the NEA. Yes, again.
The administration points to private fundraising like crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter as a better way to support the arts
NewsCensorship
Protests against Cuba’s censorship law continue as Havana Bienal opening nears
A new report by the non-profit organisation Pen America calls for the repeal of Decree 349 while Cuban artists ask for solidarity from biennial participants
NewsExhibitions
Storm King to stage major survey of Mark Dion’s environmental installations
The 500-acre sculpture park and museum in upstate New York is a fitting venue for the artist’s ecologically minded work
PreviewBiennials & festivals
Honolulu Biennial focuses on indigenous artists and local issues
The second edition of the biennial takes a proudly Pacific-centred view
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with Cheech Marin
The actor and comedian tells us what he's bought and why he loves it
News
James Turrell’s PS1 installation off view due to encroaching development
A temporary scaffolding from a nearby high rise has interrupted the view in the much loved skyspace work
News US politics
NEA, Smithsonian museums and National Gallery of Art to reopen
A temporary budget deal ended the US government shutdown on Friday, allowing state-funded arts organisations to get back to work
NewsSculpture
US government shutdown shuts down Trevor Paglen's space sculpture
The closure of the Federal Communications Commission has delayed the deployment of the work
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Which exhibitions will be the blockbusters of 2019?
Major Leonardo and Rembrandt anniversaries mean a wealth of shows focusing on the Old Masters, but Tintoretto, the Bauhaus or Bill Viola could be dark horses
InterviewArt Basel Miami Beach 2018
Bill Fontana: Miami sound machine
The artist and composer’s new South Florida-specific installation is an evocative experience
FeatureArt fairs
Behind the scenes: Diary of an art handler
Having to cope with everything from curious koi to melting Vaseline, an art handler’s working days are certainly never dull
Feature
You have to renovate to accumulate: three South Florida museums expand in very different ways
The Norton Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College show that museum expansions can take different sizes and forms
NewsArt Basel Miami Beach 2018
Tania Bruguera and fellow artists released from Cuban jail
Cuba's culture ministry waters down Decree 349, a new controversial censorship law
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach 2018
From the archive: headlines from our 15 years (so far) at Art Basel in Miami Beach
We look back at our very first set of daily papers in 2004
NewsExhibitions
Top shows to see in Miami this week
From a tribute to the feminist stalwart Judy Chicago at the ICA to a reunion of the AfriCOBRA artist at MoCA
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Mass Moca adds another decade to its long-running Sol LeWitt show
The museum celebrates the tenth anniversary of the installation, which is still "full of surprises"
NewsThree to see
Three shows to see in New York this weekend
Celebrate Halloween with Frankenstein, Harry Potter and scary conspiracies
NewsArt fairs
Art Basel to bring Abraham Cruzvillegas’ acrobatic Autorreconstrucción to Miami Beach
While the Public and Film sectors are not taking place this year, the large-scale performance and installation work will be shown free to the public in the convention centre's new 60,000 sq ft Grand Ballroom
NewsPrizes
The 2018 biennial Hugo Boss Prize goes to Simone Leigh
The artist’s work draws upon the visual culture of the black diaspora, ideas of beauty, ethnographic research and feminist discourse
NewsSaudi Arabia
Columbia University cancels talk with Saudi artist Ahmed Mater amid scrutiny over the kingdom’s cultural funding
The Metropolitan and the Brooklyn museums have also decided not to use money from the Crown Prince’s arts organisation for related events
NewsEconomics
What comes after the bailout for Greece’s art world?
As the country’s economy moves towards recovery, we asked art figures to reflect on the crisis and look towards the future
News
Met plans to leave Breuer building, making way for the Frick
The Brutalist structure will house Frick’s historic collection during expansion of its 70th Street home
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From righteous indignation to interactive play
NewsArtists
Is this the future of catalogues raisonnés?
A new online database of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings offers a template for a more up-to-date—and richer—resource
NewsLucas Cranach the Elder
Goudstikker heir files petition for rare rehearing of Cranach claim
Marei von Saher asks an appeals court in California to reconsider her case against the Norton Simon Museum
News
New York to LA: Klaus Biesenbach to take over MoCA
The board of the West Coast “artists’ museum” welcomes the MoMA PS1 director with open arms
NewsPolitics
US dealers move against Trump’s proposed 10% tariff on Chinese art and antiques
Public hearings on the government’s plans are due to be held in Washington, DC in August
NewsExhibitions
A match made in heaven: Bill Viola to be shown alongside Michelangelo at the Royal Academy
The exhibition will examine themes of spirituality and mortality in both artists’ work
NewsLaw
Dalí foundation sues California museum for use of artist’s name and image
Monterey’s Dalí17, which displays the 500-work private collection of the Ukrainian-born real estate developer Dimitry Piterman, features the Surrealist’s face—complete with upturned moustache—on its logo
CommentPolitics
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