A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran’s artists
Iranian artist Shaqayeq Arabi features in Echoes, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition Courtesy Shiva Zahed GalleryOn 28 February, a new gallery…
Lalanne mirrors owned by Yves Saint Laurent and a classic Diane Arbus photo: our pick of the April auctions
Claude Lalanne, An Important Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors, from the Salon de Musique of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé’s…
Philadelphia art museums celebrate America's 250th anniversary with blockbuster two-venue show
John Singer Sargent’s 1904-05 Group With Parasols (A Siesta) will feature in A Nation of Artists Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum…
How US museums are adapting to a new era for technology-based art
Ian Cheng, installation view, BOB, Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019. © Ian Cheng, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone…
Expo Chicago’s local focus pays off as Midwestern collectors, institutions buoy sales
Dylan Spaysky's sculpture Girls (2026) anchors the joint stand of Good Weather gallery from Chicago and What Pipeline gallery from…
Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor
Duchamp’s oil Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (1912) Courtesy of Philadelphia Art MuseumIt is 53 years since the last…
Our pick of the best museum and gallery shows to see in Chicago this spring
“Living things”: the Chicago-based Korean artist Dabin Ahn’s Torso (Nocturne) (2026, right)—one of his works currently on show at Document…
April Book Bag: from a Matthew Wong catalogue to a history of dogs in art
Canine fans will appreciate this art historical take on man’s best friend, exploring “the presence of dogs in art from…
Paying tribute to storied printmaker Kenneth Tyler at the IFPDA Print Fair
Kenneth Tyler pulling a proof of Frank Stella's Bene come il sale (1988) at Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York,…
A Brush With… Lorna Simpson—podcast
Lorna Simpson © Bottega VenetaIn this podcast, based on The Art Newspaper's regular interview series, our host Ben Luke talks…
Greece introduces new law to tackle art forgery
Member of parliament Nikolaos Papadopoulos attacked a work at the National Gallery in Athens last year AP PHOTOTHANASSIS STAVRAKIS; ©…
Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core
The 225ft tower of the Obama Presidential Center houses the museum. The 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park also includes the…
Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector
The Hole's longtime flagship space on the Bowery is a fixture of the Lower East Side gallery scene © The…
A book exploring the evolution of J.M.W. Turner’s positions on slavery
J. M. W. Turner, SlaversThrowing overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon coming on (The Slave Ship) (1840) which sits…
Christie’s to sell an almost unknown Van Gogh double-sided drawing
Van Gogh’s Pickers of Peas (Cueilleuses de pois) (June 1890) (detail)Christie’sAdventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin…
Vaccine billionaire buys $17.9m Raja Ravi Varma, setting new record for Indian painting at auction
Raja Ravi Varma's Yashoda and Krishna (1890s) is now the most expensive Indian painting sold at auctionCourtesy of SaffronartMarking the…
Native Americans created dice more than 12,000 years ago, study finds
Examples of early Native American dice discovered at sites in the United States Robert MaddenA new Colorado State University study…
Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art
Rembrandt’s drypoint Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses (around 1653-60) Courtesy Cleveland Museum of ArtThe UK author…
A renewed focus on rigour and connection at Expo Chicago
This year’s fair has around 40 fewer galleries participating than in 2025 (pictured), allowing for a more spacious layout at…
Art Cologne heads to the beach with revived Mallorca edition
Art Cologne Palma Mallorca will take place at the Palau de Congressos de Palma The world’s longest-running art fair, Art…
Gods, emperors and eagles restored in Blenheim Palace roof-rescue mission
Over the past year, 50,000 visitors have climbed Blenheim Palace's scaffolding to observe the restoration process Damian Griffiths; courtesy Donald…
Artists respond to the continuing toll of colonialism in the Americas
Felipe Baeza, Ahuehuete, 2018 The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection. © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London; kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York.Following a…
Monumental 37ft-long Indian scroll goes on public view for the first time at Yale Center for British Art
One of the 33 sheets that make up the Lucknow scroll depicts a pink palace Courtesy Yale Center for British…
Milan’s contemporary art credentials further bolstered by arrival of Paris Internationale
Nicole Gravier presented by Ermes Ermes, Rome at Paris Internationale 2023© Margot MontignyThe international art trade has been eyeing up…
Christie’s to hold its first South Asian Modern art sale in London in seven years
Ganesh Pyne, The Fisherman (1979), estimate: £250,000 -350,000Christie'sFollowing a record-breaking series of South Asian art auctions over the past two…
Santiago museum, set on fire during 2020 protests, reopens
Violeta Parra’s La huelga de los campesinos (around 1964) Courtesy the Violeta Parra Museum, Santiago, ChileA museum dedicated to the…
Bavaria restitutes Lesser Ury painting to the heirs of a Jewish banker
Lesser Ury, Interior with Children (the Siblings) (1883)Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sibylle ForsterThe Bavarian State Paintings Collections has said it will restitute…
Exclusive | The world's 100 most visited art museums in 2025: new venues a big hit with visitors
Shelf life: V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, a new outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington, made a…
Trey the Triceratops sells for $5.5m via Pharrell Williams's auction site
Trey the triceratops Courtesy of JoopiterA 66-million-year-old skeleton of a young triceratops sold yesterday for $5.5m on Joopiter, the auction…
Theaster Gates gifts David Drake pot from his collection to enslaved ceramicist’s descendants
Theaster Gates inside the exhibition, Dave: All My Relations at Gagosian's 821 Park Avenue location in New York, with the…
Art Institute of Chicago’s first Norman Rockwell acquisition is a home run
“Lovable losers”: Norman Rockwell’s painting The Dugout (1948), now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago © SEPS licensed…
Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiaparelli and Dalí—podcast
Matisse’s La Chute d’Icare (1943) Courtesy of Galerie de l’InstitutFrom breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around…
Irreconcilable differences: Canadian cultural tourism to the US experiences a steep decline
Lost love: New York’s Buffalo AKG Art Museum, only a few miles from the Canadian border, has since the beginning…
Smithsonian’s governing body quietly losing members
The Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC Photo: Nate Lee, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Smithsonian's Board of Regents, the governing body of the…
Ancient golden helmet recovered after Dutch museum heist
The Helmet of Cotofenesti (c.45BC)Photo: WikicommonsA golden helmet from the ancient eastern European Dacian civilisation stolen last year in a…
An expert's guide to Alexander Calder: six must-read books on the US sculptor
Alexander Calder with Snow Flurry I (1948) in a 1952 photograph by Gordon Parks © Gordon Parks Foundation; © Calder…
Hirshhorn Museum’s revamped sculpture garden will feature new acquisitions by Mark Grotjahn, Lauren Halsey and more
Chatchai Puipia, Wish You Were Here, 2008. Bronze. Gift of Aey Phanachet and Roger Evans in honor of the Hirshhorn’s…
Caravaggio documentary from makers of record-breaking Vermeer film to make streaming debut
A still from Caravaggio: Exhibition on ScreenA new documentary on Caravaggio is debuting on the small screen next week, premiering…
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse works stolen in ‘three-minute’ Italian museum heist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Poissons (1917)Fondazione Magnani-RoccaPaintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse have been stolen from a private museum near the…
A brush with… Karen Archey, head of curatorial at Düsseldorf's K20 and K21 museums
Karen Archey, the head of curatorial department at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen © K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Düsseldorf; photo: Andreas EndermannIf you…
The Louvre’s new director is inheriting a troubled, traumatised museum—can he repair the damage?
Leribault will need to draw on his considerable experience of running cultural institutions to revive the Louvre Luc CastelThe Musée…
Barn at Henry Moore’s former home redeveloped into exhibition space
Sheep Field Barn at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens at Perry Green in Hertfordshire © Henry Moore Foundation, photo: Rob…
Unesco grants enhanced protection to 39 Lebanese heritage sites as war escalates
Tyre, LebanonPhoto: Adobe lic0001 The United Nations body Unesco has granted enhanced protection to 39 cultural sites in Lebanon, placing…
National Museum of Korea Seoul sees a surge in visitor numbers
The National Museum of Korea Seoul Courtesy the museumThe National Museum of Korea (NMK) Seoul’s main site in Yongsan District…
Gagosian chooses Paris location to present three important late paintings by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon in his studio on rue de Birague, Paris, 1979. Photo: Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com. Courtesy of GagosianThree late…
Copy of Rembrandt portrait on display in Chicago is by the master himself, scholar claims
A copy of Rembrandt's Old Man with a Gold Chain, executed on canvas and long attributed to his workshop, which…
Keep it in the family: how Johannes Vermeer’s paintings remained out of view for so long
In his recently published biography of Johannes Vermeer, the UK art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon outlines how the patrons Maria de…
Exhibition of UAE-based art in Seoul looks beyond the gilded stereotypes
Farah Al Qasimi's Signs of Life (2023) Photo: CocoapicturesProximitites, a wide-ranging exhibition of art from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)…
Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery—podcast
Visitors approach London’s Tate ModernPhoto: philn99From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team…
Christopher Columbus statue installed on White House grounds
A statue of Christopher Columbus recently installed on the White House grounds, in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building…
One of Donatello’s most important bronze statues is being restored: should it ever be shown outdoors again?
Heavy lifting: Donatello’s Gattamelata was removed from its pedestal in a Padua piazza last October. Now Italian authorities have a…
Iran’s arts community and heritage suffer as US-Israeli attacks continue
Golestan Palace, Tehran’s only Unesco World Heritage site, was damaged after a reported attack within the palace’s buffer zonePhoto: Fatemeh…
In a month of war, Iran’s cultural heritage has suffered huge damage
The Chetel Sotoun palace in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, was badly damaged during bombing on 11 March Morteza…
Arts organisation enlists celebrities in fight to save Manhattan church
Built in the Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1890, West Park Presbyterian Church was designed by Henry Kilburn Fred…
‘Maurizio will offer the chance of a miracle’: artist-provocateur Cattelan opens hotline for confessions and reimagines pope-themed work
Maurizio Cattelan, La Nona Ora (2026)Image: Avant Arte The mischief-making Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan—known for notorious interventions such as the…
Mexico’s art community calls for greater transparency in management of treasured collection
Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Necklace (1933) © 2026 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. /…
‘As an artist I have a duty to reflect the times’: photographer Misan Harriman explores protests and solidarity in new London show
A Black Lives Matter protest depicted as part of Misan Harriman’s The Purpose of LightCourtesy of the artistOn a summer’s…
‘The sharp perception only a woman can bring to observing other women’: Dorothy Bohm’s photographs go on show at Lee Miller’s former home
Dorothy Bohm at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1969© Estate of Dorothy BohmWith interest in Lee Miller at…
How museum funding in Denmark has become reliant on visitor numbers
The Fuglsang Kunstmuseum Photo: Leif Tuxen; courtesy of the museumDanish museums have recovered well from Covid-19. The latest survey by…
Construction of White House ballroom must stop, federal judge orders
The "large hole" where the White House's East Wing previously stood, and where a large ballroom might one day rise…