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Installation view of Thomas Schütte. Genealogies featuring the artist’s Wichte (2006) and Drei Ganz Große Geister (1998-2004) © Thomas Schütte,…
Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman seated at a Virginal Image: Courtesy of the Leiden CollectionEvidence of 17th-century air pollution has helped…
David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (1968)© David Hockney. Photo: © Fabrice GibertThe works: ★★★★The show: ★★★★In the first…
President Donald Trump holds a press conference at the White House in 2020 Official White House Photo by Joyce N.…
The Grand Louvre project, which included the addition of I.M. Pei’s Pyramid entrance, was inaugurated in 1989. President Macron is…
A protest in Downtown Los Angeles on 2 February against Donald Trump’s proposed deportations Rudy Salgado/Alamy Stock PhotoPresident Donald Trump’s…
Kelly Cornell (left), the Dallas Art Fair director, with Sarah Blagden (right), the fair’s VIP relations director. “There’s so much…
Eric Taylor, A survivor from Belsen Concentration Camp (1945)Wiener Holocaust Library Collections A selection of paintings, photographs and letters giving…
Olafur Eliasson’s Endlessly Happy Visible Endings (2023) at Frieze Los Angeles in February. Coming just weeks after the city’s devastating…
Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly has been advocating for the introduction of restitution laws in France © Abaca Press / Alamy Stock…
Patti Smith performs at a rally to save the Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan on 1 April Photo: ©…
The restored work depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare's play The TempestThe Art NewspaperA sculpture by Eric Gill outside…
Ed Atkins © Tate Photography (Josh Croll)In this podcast, based on The Art Newspaper's regular interview series, our host Ben…
Douglas Coupland's Tom Thomson's Canoe (2008) before it was destroyed by fire on 2 April Photo courtesy Sarah KeenlysideA public…
The picture was meant to promote Hockney’s show at Fondation Louis VuittonTwixx via AdobeStockThe venerable UK artist David Hockney is…
Willem de Kooning, Untitled X, 1985 © 2025 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Maris…
After nearly two decades in development, the museum opened on 4 April Photo courtesy National Public Housing MuseumThe National Public…
© Illustration: Katherine HardyDon’t cry victory yet, antique dealers. Boring brown furniture remains difficult, even impossible to shift. Some other…
Sandro Botticelli's The Virgin Adoring the Child (1480/90) goes on view this month at the Flint Institute of Arts in…
Val Kilmer at Art Basel in Switzerland in 2010Photo: WENN Rights Ltd / Alamy Stock PhotoVal Kilmer, the multi-talented actor…
US President Donald Trump in 2018 Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian, via FlickrA coalition of 21 state…
The winner will be tucked up in bed on the bridge that connects the Sainsbury Wing with the rest of…
Joan Mitchell, Iva 1973© Estate of Joan MitchellThe Miami-based collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez have donated a major work by…
The portrait of the Roman beauty, called Nanna, was painted by Frederic Leighton © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 |…
MrBeast has almost 400 million followers on YouTube and is renowned for philanthropic projects such as building wells in Africa,…
Steven Shearer’s Golden Recline (2025) is part of the artist’s exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich Courtesy the artist and…
The Gallery Climate Coalition provides environmental sustainability guidelines for the art sectorCourtesy of Tate. © Samia MeahFrances Morris, the former…
A collage of watercolours and photograph by Alexandra, Edward’s Danish wife, is one of several quirky and personal items in…
Van Gogh’s Postman Joseph Roulin (July-August 1888) and Van Gogh’s Head of a Woman (Gordina de Groot) (March-April 1885)Museum of…
Attendees of SP-Arte's VIP preview on 2 April Photo courtesy SP-ArteThough 2025’s first quarter is already gone, the opening of…
Van Gogh’s Daubigny’s Garden (July 1890)Hiroshima Museum of ArtAdventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, The…
Visitors to the S.E.A. Focus art fair in 2025 interact with a tactile artwork created by Beyond Vision International for…
Installation view of To Every Orange Tree at the Carr Haus Café Courtesy RISD SJPThe administration of the Rhode Island…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum (centre, in navy blue) inaugurates the reinstalled ethnographic galleries on the upper level of the Museo…
Adrien Meyer leading Christie's 20th/21st century evening sale in Hong Kong on 28 MarchCourtesy of Christie'sChristie’s and Sotheby’s went head-to-head…
Thomas Kinkade’s A Quiet Evening, Places in the Heart I (1998), one of his quintessential “painter of light” works Courtesy…
Zainul Abedin's Untitled (Fishing Boats) (1969)Courtesy of Christie'sThe historically undervalued category of Bangladeshi Modernist painting is gaining traction at global…
Diverging routes: UK foreign secretary David Lammy (left) and prime minister Keir Starmer head to Washington, DC; Britain is strengthening…
Exterior installation view, Lap-See Lam, The Altersea Opera, 2024. With Kholod Hawash and Tze Yeung Ho. The Nordic Countries Pavilion,…
Supporters of the former president Yoon Suk-yeo stage a rally to oppose his impeachment near the presidential residence in Seoul,…
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, courtesy Pace Gallery and Zander GalerieWhile on a cross-country trip paid for by…
Paris’s public museums published their annual visitor figures in January, revealing 8.7 million entries to the LouvreRomain P19 via Adobe…
Louder than words: a flyer for Stanley Brouwn’s exhibition at Portal 5 gives nothing away Courtesy of Yoshi HillAttention has…
Elon Musk at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February; controversy around X’s owner is leading many museums to rethink…
Portrait of Celia Paul, 2025© Gautier Deblonde. Courtesy the artist and Victoria MiroIn this podcast, based on The Art Newspaper's…
Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam (1511) in the Sistine ChapelIs there anything left to say about the Sistine Chapel? Adriano…
Damaged pagodas in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar after the earthquakePhoto: Associated Press / Alamy Stock PhotoThe casualties continue to mount…
The book, Making a Bigger Splash: Soups, has been written by two of the group’s organisers, Anne Carotte and Cory…
Lucian Freud's Man’s Head, Portrait I (1963) © Lucian Freud ArchiveThe British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated…
The Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul closed for four monthsJefferson Bernardes/Getty ImagesA series of torrential rainstorms…
Since 2018, Egyptian conservation workers and students have been restoring Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Gulshani, a 16th-century Ottoman complex in Cairo, thanks…
Wael Shawky, The Gulf Project Camp (after ‘Hajj (Panoramic Overview of Mecca)’ by Andreas Magnus Hunglinger, 1803) (2019) © Wael…
Protesters outside the Department of Education building in Washington, DC on 13 March Photo: Aaron Schwartz / Sipa USA /…
Weegee’s Marilyn Monroe, Distortion (around 1955), one of a series of satirical images of celebrities and politicians he created ©…
A sneak peek at the Princeton University Art Museum’s new building Photo: Joseph Hu, courtesy the Princeton University Art Museum,…
Shirin Neshat's My Beloved (1995) and Dia al-Azzawi's Ishtar My Love (1965) © Shirin Neshat. Courtesy of the artist and…
The nostalgic show is open now until 21 February 2027cdkproductions via Adobe StockCake and custard, plastic trays and a lingering…
(Not so) purple patch: While Jenny Holzer’s show at the Guggenheim attracted 344,000 visitors, the museum’s total 2024 attendance fell…
Dhyandra Lawson, curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of ArtPhoto © Museum Associates LACMAIf you could live…
The shattered facade at the National MuseumPhoto: National Corporation for Antiquities and MuseumsSudan’s National Museum, once the guardian of an…