New biography offers well-crafted story of Louise Bourgeois’s rich life
“A rumpled mother goddess accidentally teleported to Chelsea”: Bourgeois outside her New York apartment wearing her latex sculpture Avenza (1968-69)©…
A brush with… Catherine Opie—podcast
Catherine Opie (2025) Photo: Heather RasmussenIn this podcast, based on The Art Newspaper's regular interview series, our host Ben Luke…
Arrests made over alleged €10m Louvre ticket scam
The Louvre is facing the longest period of strikes in its historyPhoto: StockbymEven in light of the string of problems…
YouTube’s first ever video upload acquired by Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Me at the zoo video and player Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert MuseumA new exhibit at the Victoria and…
‘A sad day’: UK cultural organisations criticise contractor’s decision to remove artworks from court cells
Examples of works of art introduced to UK courtsLay Observers report, HM Inspector of PrisonsUK cultural organisations focused on prisons…
French diplomat to replace Jack Lang as head of Paris’s Arab World Institute
Anne-Claire Legendre is Macron’s adviser for the Middle East and North AfricaPhoto: Judith Litvine / MEAE The Arab World Institute…
More than 600 works by Afro-Brazilian artists returned to Brazil
Some of the works repatriated to Brazil in January Photo: Daniel CerqueiraA collection of 666 works by 135 Afro-Brazilian artists…
John Akomfrah and Jasleen Kaur among 200 signatories of letter denouncing Barbican’s decision to remove arts head
The Barbican released its “anti-racism action plan” in 2024Photo: Chris LawrenceMore than 200 arts professionals, including the artists Jasleen Kaur,…
Minneapolis gallery launches mutual aid colouring book in response to Ice operations in the city
Coloring book page by Xavier Tavera Castro Courtesy of the artist and Dreamsong, MinneapolisJoining the blue-chip offerings at Frieze Los…
The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Heart pendant acquired by the British Museum—podcast
Rainbow flags at Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument. A larger LGBTQ+ flag was removed by the Trump…
Why yellow was Van Gogh's favourite colour
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (January 1889)Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by…
Sotheby’s hikes buyer’s premiums as auction houses test new fee structures
The new lobby at Sotheby’s New York in the Breuer Building Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesSotheby's has changed its buyer’s premium fees…
Barbican arts head Devyani Saltzman leaves role after 18 months
While the Barbican has not commented on the reasons for Devyani Saltzman's departure, The Stage reports that she was made…
David Hockney to create ten metre-long window installation for Turner Contemporary
David Hockney (left) will create a work for the Sunley Gallery window (right) to celebrate the Margate Museum's 15th anniversary…
Art collective Cooking Sections’ food projects are helping save the planet
Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe make up the collective Cooking Sections Photo: Lourdes CabreraIn this monthly column, Louisa Buck…
Creativity through adversity: Kansas exhibition explores Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani's life and work
Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani's untitled (World Trade Center, peace) (after 2001) Collection of Linda Hattendorf, Taos, New Mexico Largely under recognised…
Dóra Maurer, ‘towering figure’ of the Hungarian art scene, has died aged 88
Selfportrait with Seven Twists, 2011Évi FábiánDóra Maurer, the Hungarian painter, printmaker and filmmaker, has died at the age of 88.…
Club for working-class art professionals expands from London to northern England
Working Arts Club hosts regular events for members to meet and network Photo: David OwensThe London-based Working Arts Club (WAC),…
Bill aimed at giving Israel control over all West Bank heritage sites sparks concern
The Church of St. John the Baptist in SebastiaPhoto: Danita DelimontAs Israel moves to expand its control of the West…
Van Gogh’s ‘triple painting’ revealed by discoveries beneath the surface
The final result: Van Gogh’s Poplars near Nuenen (November 1885 and September-December 1886)Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, RotterdamAdventures with Van Gogh…
Show on fantastical neoclassicist Johan Tobias Sergel heads to Stockholm and New York
Johan Tobias Sergel’s The Faun (1774) will be on show in Stockholm and New York Photo: Nationalmuseum, StockholmThe neoclassical sculptor…
London’s National Gallery to cut staff as it faces £8.2m deficit
The National Gallery is to make serious cuts, with a significant number of staff expected to leave, in the face…
London’s Mosaic Rooms, dedicated to art from the Arab region, reopens after expansion
A still from The Circle (2023) by Bouchra Khalili, whose exhibition at the Mosaic Rooms opens on 18 Feburary ©…
At London’s Freud Museum, the artist Cathie Pilkington has made a ghostly intervention
Analyse this: A sculpture by Cathie Pilkington at the Freud Museum, LondonCourtesy of Cathie Pilkington and the Freud Museum London…
Opulent golden slipper, believed to have belonged to England’s King James II, goes on display in UK
Rare silk slipper believed to have been worn by James IICourtesy of the National TrustA magnificent leather and golden silk…
Ireland announces long-term income support for artists—but some from pilot scheme say they have been left in limbo
The Department of the Taoiseach in Dublin. The Irish government has committed around €18m to the scheme to support artists…
Museum dedicated to the Romantic movement reopens in Paris on Valentine’s Day
The Musée de la Vie romantique is in the former home and studio of Romantic painter Ary Scheffer © Jean-Baptiste…
UK artist resale right at 20: how successful has the pioneering scheme been?
Zimmermann: rise of artificial intelligence makes it crucial to decide what constitutes a work of artCourtesy of DACS Twenty years…
Austrian pavilion artist Florentina Holzinger joins Thaddaeus Ropac
Florentina Holzinger Photo: Elsa OkazakiThe choreographer Florentina Holzinger, whose genre-defying productions involving nudity, defecation and blood have left audience members…
Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch—podcast
Works by Philip Guston on show with Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Qatar Courtesy of Art BaselFrom breaking news…
This year's Carnegie International will feature 61 artists, including Jasleen Kaur and Li Yi-Fan
Installation view of Jasleen Kaur’s Alter Altar (2023) at Tramway, Glasgow Photo: Keith Hunter. Courtesy the artist; Tramway, Glasgow; and…
World Monuments Fund provides $7m to support 21 new conservation projects around the globe
The Qhapaq Ñan is a road system created by the Inca Empire connecting Indigenous communities across the Andes Mountains Courtesy…
The Big Review | Monuments, The Geffen Contemporary at Moca and The Brick, Los Angeles ★★★★★
The exhibition places Hank Willis Thomas’s A Suspension of Hostilities (2019) alongside Laura Gardin Fraser’s now graffitied 1948 sculpture of…
Gwen John—the quiet ‘seer of strange beauties’—gets major show in Wales
Gwen John’s Girl in a Blue Dress (around 1914-15) sold for £20 in 1935 Courtesy of Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum WalesThe National…
World Cup art initiatives go for goal in Mexico City
Art of the game: Museo Jumex will host a football-themed exhibition timed to the World Cup, featuring sporty works like…
See you, Searle: Guardian chief art critic bows out after 30 years
Adrian Searle will be gazing back on his career as a critic in his final piecePhoto: Helena ReckittIt is the…
British Museum acquires £3.5m golden pendant linked to Henry VIII after high-profile campaign
The pendant features the words Tous Iors—which may be a pun on the French word “toujours”, or “always”© The Trustees…
Syria’s Hasakah Museum—occupied by military for more than a decade—to finally open
The Hasakah Museum was built under the Assad regime before the civil war but was requisitioned as a military base…
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá dismisses longtime artistic director
Eugenio Viola has served as the artistic director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá since 2019 Photo by…
Ornate 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico
The newly discovered Tomb 10 in San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca, Mexico Photo: Gerardo Peña, courtesy INAH“The most important archaeological finding…
‘Good people are being compelled to censor themselves’: exhibition of Black artists reinterpreting the US flag opens without key Dread Scott work
Dread Scott, What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?, 1988, installation for audience participation © Dread Scott,…
Epstein files reveal Leon Black as a key collector of Van Gogh works
Van Gogh’s Quarry near Saint-Rémy (September 1889) Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, The Art…
Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’
Tracey Emin selfie: “I’m a good role model for showing what is possible if people are given a chance to…
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will return three bronze sculptures to India after provenance review
Somaskanda, Chola period, 12th century, Tamil Nadu state, India National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Collection,…
London show highlights how drawing was at the heart of Lucian Freud’s practice
Lucian Freud’s chalk-and-crayon Portrait of a Young Man (1944) will be on show at the NPG alongside sketchbooks, unfinished paintings,…
Venice Biennale 2026: all the national pavilions, artists and curators so far
The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di…
Queens Museum picks Debra Wimpfheimer as next executive director
The Queens Museum's next executive director, Debra Wimpfheimer Photo: Claudia LuciaAs its current leader, Sally Tallant, prepares to move across…
Five artists announced for India's Venice Biennale pavilion
Some of the artists and the curator representing India at the Venice Biennale. From left: Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala), Asim Waqif,…
Sotheby’s to sell around £2m of art to support the Royal Academy in London
A tapestry by El Anatsui (est £800,000-£1.2m) is being offered by Sotheby's to raise funds for the Royal Academy of…
Celebrations at Mexico's Museo Experimental El Eco
Alberto Odériz’s new installation for the Museo Experimental El Eco’s patioPhoto: Constanza OntiverosThe Museo Experimental El Eco, one of Mexico…
Cambridge University to return 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
University of CambridgeThe Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, UK, will shortly send around 100 Benin bronzes to…
Artemisia Gentileschi, Michelangelo and Rembrandt bring new energy and records to New York’s Old Masters sales
Artemisia Gentileschi's Self-Portrait Courtesy Christie'sThe Old Masters auctions in New York saw notable results this week, with new records set…
Ai Weiwei faced vote about his Royal Academy of Arts, London membership after Gaza tweet
Ai Weiwei at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, in 2024Photo: APA-PictureDesk/Alamy Live NewsThe Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei says…
When it comes to restitution, how can museums solve a problem like inalienability?
From left: Elina Anttila, the director general of the the Finland National Museum; Olushegun Adjadi Bakari, Benin's minister of foreign…
David A. Ross resigns from New York's School of Visual Arts over friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
The School of Visual Arts, New York Photo: Beyond My Ken, via Wikimedia CommonsSince the release of the Epstein files,…
London's Brutalist Southbank Centre awarded protected heritage status
“The Hayward Gallery was the first major building project undertaken in conjunction with the Arts Council", according to Historic England…
Mexico City street market gallery makes art accessible
Art-curious shoppers at La Lagunilla visit the market’s Galería Tianguis NezaPhoto: Frida JuárezEvery Sunday, the street market La Lagunilla—located near…
Acquisitions round-up: a 17ft sculpture by Anselm Kiefer, a $1.7m dinosaur skull, and a 17th-century genre painting
Die Erdzeitalter (Ages of the World) (2014) by Anselm Kiefer Courtesy of Israel MuseumIsrael Museum, JerusalemThe Israel Museum has acquired…
67 galleries will once again take over the Shed for Frieze New York
Visitors and participants at the 2025 edition of Frieze New York Photo © Steven Molina ContrerasThis spring the Frieze New…
Afghanistan’s heritage comes to the fore in acclaimed Doha show
Installation view with an early 13th-century ewer (Ghurid or Ilkhanid period) with silver and copper inlaid decoration displayed on the…