How the adoption of canvas in Venice changed the way artists painted
Complex weave: Titian’s The Vendramin Family (around 1540-45) © The National Gallery, London In 14th-century Siena and 15th-century Florence, paintings…
Parasol Unit returns with a showcase of women from Central Asia and beyond
Tala Madani’s video The Womb (2019) features in Turandot: To the Daughters of the East. The title of the show,…
Trump’s plan to repaint Washington, DC's Eisenhower Building could cost more than $7.5m
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, DC, sits next to the White House Photo: Abovfold via Wikimedia CommonsThe US…
Fire erupts at San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain during its dismantling
Armand Vaillancourt's 1971 fountain being dismantled on 6 May Photo: Taylor C. NoakesThe effort to dismantle San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain…
‘This is an opportunity that will never happen again’: Syrian artist Sara Shamma on rebuilding her country
Renewed hope: Sara Shamma returned to Syria in 2024. “It’s a new country,” she saysPortrait: Mohammad AzaatSyria’s return to the…
The Bahamas returns to the Venice Biennale with a joy-filled posthumous collaboration
No Matter How Dreary and Gray, We People of Flesh and Blood Would Rather Live Here, Than in Another Man’s…
Shirin Neshat's Venice exhibition explores identity, exile and a social media tragedy
Still from Shirin Neshat’s film trilogy Do U Dare!, inspired by Nasim Aghdam, for whom the online world provided a…
One of Van Gogh’s greatest watercolours could achieve a record price
Van Gogh’s The Harvest in Provence (La Moisson en Provence) (June 1888)Sotheby’sAdventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by…
Father and daughter plead guilty in $2m counterfeit art scheme
A counterfeit work purportedly by Richard Mayhew that Bankowski and Bankowska sold for $160,000 Courtesy US Attorney's Office, Eastern District…
Banksy’s Venice mural has been restored and will now tour city
Migrant Child is seen as a reference to the global refugee crisisPhoto: cabuscaaA Banksy mural removed from the façade of…
1,000-year-old archaeological site bulldozed during construction of Mexico-US border wall
The Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge, where a 1,000-year-old intaglio was recently bulldozed during construction the Mexico-US border wall Photo by…
Artists made their mark at 2026 Met Gala
Amy Sherald sports a custom look by Thom Browne based her 2013 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance) at the 2026…
Pedro Reyes’s new Lacma commission sparks criticism in Mexico
Pedro Reyes's Tlali (2026) installed in the Geffen Plaza at the new David Geffen Galleries building at the Los Angeles…
‘She had a fresh, informed eye’: mural depicting late Venice Biennale curator Koyo Kouoh displayed in lagoon city
Derrick Adams, Heavy is the head that wears the crown, 2026, installation view© Derrick Adams Studio, Photo: Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy…
S&M-inspired Greek Pavilion in Venice confronts its fascist chains
Installation view of Escape Room, the Greek Pavilion exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale© Ivan Erofeev Stepping inside the Greek…
Comment | We must avoid amputating art in the name of preservation
Caravaggio’s Seven Acts of Mercy (1607) remains in a small chapel in Naples Photo via Wikimedia CommonsDiary of an art…
Beware the technology rat trap: Cooper Jacoby’s standout contribution to New York’s Whitney Biennial
An installation view of several works by Cooper Jacoby at this year’s Whitney Biennial Photo: Darian DiCanno/BFA.com; © BFA 2026The…
Arthur Jafa: ‘America has always been a demonic state. And we love it’
Appropriation art: Arthur Jafa’s 2017 Incredible Hulk-inspired LeRage© the artist, photograph by Kerry McFate Whatever anyone makes of the American…
Cosmic, concrete, earthy: Nancy Holt’s Land Art on show in UK
Nancy Holt’s Hydra’s Head (1974) at the Goodwood Art Foundation © Holt/Smithson Foundation /Licensed by Artists Rights Society, NewYork. Photo:Ciaran…
Today’s war, tomorrow’s loot: attempts at stemming the illicit trade in art
A photograph from 1945 showing General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspecting art stolen by Germans and hidden in a salt mine…
Pleasure, parody and propaganda: rethinking the art of illustration in a new history of the genre
Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kobayashi Kiyochika’s triptych of colour woodblock prints, Our Troops Set Up a Bivouac at Yingkou while Braving…
Major protests take place at Venice Biennale previews
Pussy Riot at the protest outside the Russian pavilion© Nikita TeryoshinMajor protests have been staged across the Venice Biennale, after…
Iran will not participate at the 2026 Venice Biennale
The organisers of the Venice Biennale have not yet provided a reason for Iran’s withdrawal from the eventPhoto: BojanikusIran has…
Lee Ufan: ‘I try to bring together those things which are made and unmade’
In creating paintings such as From Line (1980), Lee continued the stroke until no pigment remained on the brushPhoto by…
'I wanted to catch the desperation': Dries Verhoeven on turning the Dutch pavilion into a bunker for the Venice Biennale
Dries Verhoeven's The Fortress (2026) will feature 13 performers during its run. Photo: Willem PopelierOpened in 1953 and designed by…
Venice exhibition of site-specific films aims to capture the hyper stimulating times we are living in
A production still from Janis Rafa's Sacrificial Transgressions (working title) (2026) Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art…
The Egyptian Modernist Inji Efflatoun gains international exposure with new biographical collection
Dreams of the Detainee (1961). Inji Efflatoun's paintings frequently address “hardships and oppressive conditions” © Inji Efflatoun. Courtesy Barjeel Art…
Director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum to depart in October
Janne Síren, who will step down as director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum later this year Photo: Jeff Mace…
British billionaire's £200m art collection most expensive ever offered in UK
Egon Schiele's Danaë is estimated at £12m-£18mCourtesy Sotheby'sIn a powerful show of faith in the UK’s art market, the British…
Filippo Lippi painting—once the centrepiece of Florence's Palazzo Medici chapel—to undergo two-year restoration
Filippo Lippi's painting The Adoration in the Forest (1459) in Room 39 of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin in 2019 © Wolfgang…
Mind the baby! Visitors to the Japanese Venice Biennale pavilion will be asked to look after dolls
Ei Arakawa-Nash with his twins. His show includes more than 100 baby dolls that visitors can holdPhoto: Ricardo NagaokaFor Ei…
In new play, Norval Morrisseau forgery scandal prompts questions about authenticity and Indigenous identity
A scene from The Undeniable Accusations of Red Cadmium Light, with Anita Wittenberg (left) and Tyson Night (right) Photo: Jon…
Comment | Degenerate art all over again? Nazi attack on Modern art is not far away from trends in today’s world
The catalogue front cover for the exhibition Entartete Kunst, showing so-called “degenerate art” allegedly made by Jews and Bolshevists One…
Luca De Michelis, chief executive of Marsilio Arte, on his favourite spots in Venice beyond the Biennale
Palazzo Grimani, a rare gem Photo: Agata KadarPalazzo Grimani isa rare gem that never ceases to enchant, above all for…
UK’s Brighton & Hove Museums to return 45 artefacts to Botswana
Portia Tremlett, Brighton & Hove Museums’ curator of world cultures, packing the objects ready for shipment, with support from the…
Oldest astronomical observatory in the Americas discovered in Peru
Courtesy the Peru Ministry of CultureOn the coastline of Supe Puerto, where the desert meets the ocean on Peru's Pacific…
Morocco debuts at the Biennale with an exploration of its age-old craft traditions
Detail from raffia embroidery, produced by the artisan Malika Benmoumen in CasablancaPhoto © Ayoub El Bardii, courtesy Moroccan Ministry of…
New space dedicated to Oleg Prokofiev—whose abstract art was censored by Soviet Russia—opens in London
Oleg Prokofiev in his London studio, Dace Road, Hackney Wick (1992) Courtesy of Prokofiev StudioAbstract works created by the Russian…
Who is Gladys Hynes? Show reinstates forgotten artist who once represented Britain at the Venice Biennale
The Fowler (around 1917-19) is on loan from the Wolfsonian, where the show will travel to next year Photo: Lynton…
'It’s like the natural world. Nothing lasts forever': Tadashi Kawamata on creating his temporary sculptures
Tornado, at the Palais de Tokyo, featured 5,000 individual pieces of wood installed above the grand staircase Victoria PaternoArt of…
New Banksy statue appears in central London
A new sculpture has appeared in central London Photo: ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters ConnectUpdate: This article was revised after…
Art trade adjusting after US Supreme Court struck down Trump's extreme tariffs
Six members of the Supreme Court voted that the tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump were unconstitutional, as setting…
Rare early photographs reveal lost sites featured in Van Gogh’s paintings
A page from one of the two photographic albums assembled by Gustave Coquiot after his May 1922 visit to Van…
Recently excavated ancient Maya hall may reflect early power-sharing among leaders
Excavations of a possible Maya council house from the Terminal Classic period at Ucanal in Guatemala Photo: Christina HalperinArchaeologists working…
Comment | Museums are civic institutions. It’s time we acted like it
A Friday Nights at OMCA event at the Oakland Museum of California in 2025 Photo by David Mulgado. Courtesy Oakland…
Botticelli under UK export ban purchased by Klesch Collection
The Virgin and Child Enthroned (1470s) by Sandro Botticelli was sold at Sotheby’s London in December 2024 for £9.7m (with…
Two Brazilian curators selected to organise 2027 Bienal de São Paulo
Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca, chief curators of the 37th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo © Fe Avila.…
Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’
Paul McCarthy Photo: Mara McCarthy; © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & WirthThe US artist Paul McCarthy has…
Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting—podcast
Sebastian Quimiz, The Great RestorationCourtesy the artist and Olha KovalevskaFrom breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around…
Gallery Weekend Berlin opens ranks as city faces identity crisis
Anton Janizewski is showing works by Jiyoon Chung in the inaugural Perspectives section of Gallery Weekend Berlin Courtesy of the…
The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★
View southeast from exhibition level with The Bateman Mercury (2nd-century copy after a Greek original of the 4th century BC),…
The art of politics: how global conflicts are playing out in this year's Venice Biennale
At this year’s Biennale, the Romanian-born artist Belu-Simion Fainaru is representing Israel with Rose of Nothingness (pictured at Art Basel…
Under new ownership, Art Monte Carlo voices 'global ambitions'
Visitors to Art Monte-Carlo 2026© Eleonora Paciullo“It’s a bit of a hodge-podge!” exclaimed one institutional visitor to the 10th Art…
US exhibition unearths the Etruscans and their enduring cultural influence
A water jar from 520-510 BC, attributed to Eagle Painter, will be on show at the Legion of Honor Courtesy…
Georg Baselitz, German artist who turned figurative painting on its head, has died, aged 88
Georg Baselitz in 2024 Photo: Martin MüllerGeorg Baselitz, who died today (30 April) at age 88, was one of the…
Zurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui—podcast
Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Francis of Assisi, 1636© Lyon MBA – Photo Martial CouderetteFrom breaking news and insider insights to…
Texas man who ran cryptocurrency scam supposedly backed by blue-chip art worth $1bn sentenced to 23 years in prison
Photo by Kanchanara on UnsplashA Texas man who spent five years defrauding nearly 1,000 investors through a fictitious cryptocurrency scheme…
Recent discoveries reveal how natural disasters shaped past civilisations: can it help us plan for the future?
The Pikillaqta archaeological site in southern Peru Photo: AgainErickOne thousand years ago, the population of Pikillaqta in southern Peru abandoned…
Rare pigment worth more than its weight in gold found in Roman infant burials in York, UK
One of the gypsum burials being analysedPhoto: University of YorkSome 1,700 years ago two infants were buried in York, UK,…
Comment | Artnet-Artsy merger: 'a Bloomberg for art?'
Jeffrey Yin (left) will lead a newly merged Artnet and Artsy, which belongs to the private equity firm Beowolff Capital,…