Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica
Digital visitors can explore “points of interest” at the sacred site, and zoom in on key areas such as the Tomb of Pope Paul IIIAI generated image of St Peter's…
Ei Arakawa-Nash's Tokyo show tests the limits
Ei Arakawa-Nash’s show features a 2024 film created in collaboration with Reiji Saito, which pays tribute to Ellsworth Kelly’s colourful 1953 painting Spectrum I and to Tokyo’s LGBTQIA+ community Courtesy…
Versailles and Palace Museum treasures head to Hong Kong
Key objects from the show include a Pascaline calculator from the Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1661–1722)The Palace MuseumTreasures from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris and The Palace Museum in…
How a Persian manuscript was swapped for a Willem de Kooning owned by the Iranian government
Willem de Kooning’s Woman III (1953) was swapped for folios from a 16th-century version of the Persian poem, the Shahnameh © Revocable Trust/ARS, NY and DACS; The Aga Khan MuseumOn…
Sotheby's pays over $6m to settle tax evasion case
Sotheby's Manhattan headquarters The Art NewspaperSotheby’s has agreed to pay $6.25m to the state of New York to settle a four-year-long case brought against the auction house for allegedly helping…
Comment | The Barbican’s survey of Indian art avoids the pitfalls that plague so many political shows
The Imaginary Institution of India show at the Barbican Art Gallery chronicles the responses of artists to the tumultuous period from 1975 to 1998© Eva Herzog Studio/Barbican Art Gallery Many…
November Book Bag: from fashion ‘outlaws’ to interviews with the auto-destructive artist Gustav Metzger
Gustav Metzger outside Gallery One during the Festival of Misfits, London, in 1962 ©National Portrait Gallery; Photo: John CoxThe artist Gustav Metzger, who died in 2017 aged 90, was a…
Goodwood contemporary: Rachel Whiteread to headline new foundation’s first exhibition at Sussex woodland site
Ann Gallagher (top right) will curate the work of Rachel Whiteread (top left) for the first headline exhibition at the Goodwood Art Foundation in May 2025. The foundation will also…
Kunstmuseum Basel settles on Pissarro painting with Jewish collector’s heirs
Camille Pissarro, La Maison Rondest, l’Hermitage, Pontoise (1875)Basel’s Kunstmuseum has reached a settlement with the heirs of Richard Semmel on a painting by Camille Pissarro that the Jewish collector was…
‘He laughed like a madman’: when Édouard Manet decided to touch up one of Berthe Morisot's paintings
Berthe Morisot and Édouard ManetA new book by Sebastian Smee, the Washington Post art critic and former contributor to The Art Newspaper, tells the story of the Siege of Paris…