In an epic new volume, Chris Killip captures an English community in the grip of industrial decline

‘An irreplaceable portal to the past’: English Heritage launches campaign to help preserve more than one million artefacts

Funds are sought to help experts store, care for, catalogue and undertake new research on the UK charity’s vast array of objects

Published: 2024-10-07 23:01:00

Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia

Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

Published: 2024-10-07 19:46:32

Five not-to-miss PST Art shows at Los Angeles galleries

From the atomic to the astronomic, and the natural to supernatural, these exhibitions make the most of the Getty’s sweeping science-meets-art agenda

Published: 2024-10-07 19:23:16

UK’s largest artist residency programme launches £7m fundraising campaign

The Delfina Foundation in London, which has hosted more than 450 artists and curators, hopes to secure its base and continue its programmes

Published: 2024-10-07 11:49:25

The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity

All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing

Published: 2024-10-07 11:00:18

Paintings by Charlotte Johnson Wahl, mother of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, reflect her time in a psychiatric hospital

An exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind will “lift the lid” on subjects rarely spoken about a decade ago

Published: 2024-10-07 10:39:29

Frieze London to debut makeover with ‘artist-centred’ curated sections

Opening later this week, the fair's reconfigured layout and entrance give a greater prominence to its curated sections

Published: 2024-10-07 09:33:30

Via Munch, Van Gogh and Dürer, this Helsinki exhibition captures the enduring power of the Gothic imagination

The new show at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, explores the influence of Medieval and Renaissance art on Modern artists

Published: 2024-10-07 09:16:00

British photographer Rankin’s advertising agency files for bankruptcy amid tough 'shift in the creative landscape'

Rankin, who has photographed David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II among others, says the last two years have been "massively challenging" due to reduced budgets and losing work to programmatic and AI-based solutions

Published: 2024-10-07 08:37:20

$3.9m restoration project breaks ground in Brooklyn to preserve remnants of a 19th-century free Black community

Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration

Published: 2024-10-07 08:00:00

7 October survivor’s show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks painful anniversary

Tal Mazliach’s exhibition reflects on her personal experience of Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza and the war that has raged since

Published: 2024-10-07 06:00:00

A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude

The film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire” is showing at the New York Film Festival

Published: 2024-10-04 21:18:06

‘It’s a little bit of a testing period’: inaugural Atlanta Art Fair opens with buzzy VIP turnout

Dealers hope the city’s first art fair will help Atlanta artists build a bigger collector base

Published: 2024-10-04 21:00:00

Curatorial risks worth taking to foster a sense of belonging in museums

Stephanie Sparling Williams, curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum, on how Black feminist practices informed the rehang of the museum’s American art collection

Published: 2024-10-04 18:36:15

'This year is particularly special': art prize exhibition delayed by Russian invasion opens in Kyiv

In the midst of an ongoing war, the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Prize will award $100,000 to one of 21 shortlisted artists

Published: 2024-10-04 16:48:21

Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage

Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art

Published: 2024-10-04 12:51:48

Green is the new black | Art fairs coming together to reduce emissions is a positive step—but serious systemic changes need to happen fast

More than 40 art fairs worldwide have made a unified pledge to cut their emissions by at least 50% by 2030

Published: 2024-10-04 12:17:50

All together now: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on their AI choir at the Serpentine

The groundbreaking musicians and artists see every part of their London show as a form of art

Published: 2024-10-04 11:33:41

Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill — podcast

Celebrating the “negative joy” of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill

Published: 2024-10-04 10:00:40

'Emotion is so important in his work': National Portrait Gallery charts a personal path through the career of Francis Bacon

With its first-ever Bacon show, the gallery plans to make 'a real splash with a major British artist'

Published: 2024-10-04 09:40:00

‘Non-fair’ Minor Attractions hopes to be enjoyable for visitors and exhibitors alike

Second edition of the commercial art event aims to exploit hotel location with an on-site nightclub and mood lighting as part of a pleasure-rich experience

Published: 2024-10-04 09:31:00

Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes

A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway

Published: 2024-10-04 09:29:00

New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project

Published: 2024-10-04 09:16:10

PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives

From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation

Published: 2024-10-03 21:29:46

More than 100 artist donated works to fundraise for Kamala Harris

Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Amy Sherald and many others are offering works through the Artists for Kamala fundraising sale and auction

Published: 2024-10-03 20:00:11

New York City mayor’s aides allegedly pressured Brooklyn Museum to host Chinese history exhibition

A recent investigation found that Eric Adams’s office was involved in the scheme to mount a show about Sun Yat-sen with just one month’s notice

Published: 2024-10-03 20:00:00

Jeffrey Gibson, artist representing the US at the Venice Biennale, joins Hauser & Wirth

The mega-gallery is now representing Gibson in tandem with his longtime New York gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co

Published: 2024-10-03 18:32:56

Ancient throne room of powerful Moche woman discovered in Peru

The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” is one of two elaborately decorated spaces archaeologists recently uncovered at Pañamarca

Published: 2024-10-03 16:34:50

Emily Carr painting bought for $50 at barn sale could bring $148,000 at auction

The 1912 painting is believed to have been gifted by the artist to friends who later moved to the Hamptons, where a discerning dealer nabbed it decades later for a bargain

Published: 2024-10-03 14:57:46

As the art market gears up for a season of global change, what are the odds of an autumn bounceback?

Amid uneven economic signals, many high-level art sellers are pursuing alternative revenue streams

Published: 2024-10-03 11:54:00

East London’s latest gallery aims to show art that is ‘a bit less polite’

The founders of Panrucker in Walthamstow are also employing a versatile “pop-up” business model to help keep the initiative sustainable

Published: 2024-10-03 11:35:57

Kasper König’s collection fetches €6m at Cologne auction

Top lots at the auction arranged by the esteemed curator before his death in August included two “date paintings” by On Kawara, a close friend

Published: 2024-10-03 11:14:37

Israeli archaeology bill raises fears of West Bank annexation

Experts warn that the bill, which expands the Israel Antiquities Authority’s jurisdiction, violates international law and could lead to sanctions against Israel

Published: 2024-10-03 11:04:44

How artists are helping US communities prepare for environmental emergencies

A Federal Emergency Management Agency programme is using art to raise awareness of flood risks and build resilience in communities

Published: 2024-10-03 11:00:40

'This is the antithesis of Brexit discourse': artist Es Devlin unveils 50 refugee portraits in a London church

'Why are we opening our hearts and doors and schools to Ukrainians, but not to Afghanis and Somalians and Syrians?', asks the designer known for her stage sets

Published: 2024-10-03 10:54:38

The ‘pearly triangle’: neurological investigation reveals secret of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

The study also found that when volunteers looked at five works of art in the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum, their brains responded ten times more positively than when they viewed reproductions

Published: 2024-10-03 10:02:35

Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

This could be the beginning of the end for the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden

Published: 2024-10-02 22:08:20

Art festival in Norway embraces the sounds of the Arctic Circle

At the Lofoten International Art Festival, music and sound art complement a majestic landscape of fjords and mountains

Published: 2024-10-02 17:43:56

Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted

Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'

Published: 2024-10-02 17:18:25

How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

As government aims to put the arts at the heart of the curriculum, an Art UK project is teaching children how to 'cope with today’s image-saturated world'

Published: 2024-10-02 16:05:46

New Niki de Saint Phalle documentary chronicles her personal struggles and aesthetic triumphs

Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Niki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan

Published: 2024-10-02 15:00:21

Podcast | Episode 100: A brush with… Marlene Dumas

An in-depth interview with the endlessly daring Dumas, discussing her admiration for Nicole Eisenman and Diane Arbus, and the impact of Francisco Goya on her practice

Published: 2024-10-02 13:46:00

'Untenable': UK Arts Society chiefs and trustees resign following internal opposition to reforms

A new governance structure was rejected by 70% of voting members at an extraordinary general meeting

Published: 2024-10-02 11:02:05

‘Coming full circle’: Perrotin to open first London gallery in Claridge's hotel

The French art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin recently pulled out of his Dubai gallery and secondary market space in Paris, though has been expanding the scope of his programme

Published: 2024-10-02 11:00:01

France's cultural pass at risk as calls to scrap it grow

President Macron’s flagship youth scheme receives twice as much public funding as the Louvre

Published: 2024-10-02 10:06:45

Maison Ruinart creates a bubbly pavilion for art

The world's oldest champagne house has upgraded visitor facilities at its production site in Reims, adding a new building to display part of its art collection

Published: 2024-10-02 09:44:00

Often overlooked: The Barbican presents 100 artistic responses to India's turbulent times

Work by more than 30 Indian artists, made between 1975 and 1998, explores a period of social and economic upheaval

Published: 2024-10-02 09:35:00

Hammer Museum names new leader to succeed longtime director Ann Philbin

Zoë Ryan, currently the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, will take the helm at the Hammer in the new year

Published: 2024-10-01 21:39:17

Artists Tony Cokes, Ebony G. Patterson and Wendy Red Star among winners of 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grants'

Each MacArthur fellow receives $800,000 in unrestricted funds, making it one of the most important prizes available to artists

Published: 2024-10-01 19:31:30

In an epic new volume, Chris Killip captures an English community in the grip of industrial decline

Never straying from the documentary tradition, the image maker explores the gradual erosion of traditional forms of labour

Published: 2024-10-01 12:50:46

The liberated lens: a chronicle of African cinema and photography

A new book celebrates the pioneering artists who took control of the post-colonial agenda

Published: 2024-10-01 12:26:59

October Book Bag: from a publication about money in art to tales of London art market rogues

Our round-up of the latest art publications

Published: 2024-10-01 12:22:34

‘The artist the critics love to hate’: the colourful life of sports star painter and Playboy illustrator LeRoy Neiman

We speak to the author of a new biography that reassesses the legacy of the “hustler” artist who rubbed shoulders with celebrities

Published: 2024-10-01 11:44:06

In Pictures | Artist billboards across America tell a story of US politics today

Ahead of the November presidential election, a new book by the For Freedoms organisation brings together the topical and political posters that it has commissioned since 2016

Published: 2024-10-01 11:33:54

Pucker up: Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at Surrealist hub in West Sussex

Monthly public tours will reveal one of the UK’s most prestigious collections of Surrealist art, featuring works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington

Published: 2024-10-01 11:21:51

I commissioned an artist for the first time: here's what it taught me about what it really means to be a ‘collector’

The experience of working with Antonia Caicedo Holguin bestowed more on me than a lofty—and often far too exclusive—title ever could

Published: 2024-10-01 11:17:24

Italy's culture minister goes back to university

A small group of anti-fascist campaigners protested outside the Sapienza University in Rome where Alessandro Giuli was taking the final oral exam for the degree he started in the 1990s

Published: 2024-10-01 10:55:23

An expert’s guide to Helen Frankenthaler: five must-read books on the Abstract Expressionist

All you ever wanted to know about Frankenthaler, from a seminal monograph to the story of the bohemian world that forged her—selected by the curator and writer Douglas Dreishpoon

Published: 2024-10-01 10:18:10

Stuffed animals, Superman and communing with spirits: the wacky world of Mike Kelley explored in Tate Modern survey

The London institution is the third stop for the four-venue touring exhibition of the late American artist

Published: 2024-10-01 09:35:12

'Refusal to be categorised': London exhibition illuminates the lesser-known works of Nicola L

Opening at Camden Art Centre, 'I Am the Last Woman Object: Nicola L.' brings together paintings sculpture, collage, films and performances from across six decades

Published: 2024-10-01 09:21:36