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‘We haven’t stopped a minute’: foreign collectors and curators fuel buoyant start at SP-Arte, Brazil's biggest fair
The São Paulo fair is benefiting from renewed interest in art from the Global South, says founder Fernanda Feitosa, thanks in part to Adriano Pedrosa’s 2024 Venice Biennale
Did Thomas Kinkade secretly make good art? A new film investigates
A deep dive into the self-styled “painter of light” uncovers a treasure trove of unseen works by the artist everyone loved to hate
Steven Shearer: ‘I started to think of the internet as a kind of sarcophagus’
Inspired by religious figuration, the Canadian artist’s latest series uses images of people sourced online that he has enlarged to create painterly canvases exploring the vulnerability and universality of sleep
Newly conserved portrait of an Italian beauty who bewitched King Edward VII to go on show
The royal acquired the painting, now in an exhibition at The King’s Gallery, when he was a young prince
Paris Metro stubs out exhibition ad featuring smoking David Hockney
The octogenarian and cigarette evangelist has called the decision “complete madness”
Miami collecting couple gift multi-million pound Joan Mitchell work to Tate
Jorge and Darlene Pérez will also fund curatorial endowment and have pledged to make a donation of African art
In a rare interview, Khaled Sabsabi speaks of his ‘devastation’ after being dropped as Australia’s representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale
The artist criticises Australia’s arts funding body for failing to allow him to defend “misinformation” about his art, and says he hopes to take his planned work to Venice independently
Smithsonian leader: institution will continue to operate ‘free of partisanship’ following Trump attack
Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has affirmed in a memo to staff that the institution will “remain steadfast in our mission to bring history, science, education, research and the arts to all Americans”
Changing the narrative: National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago
Housed in one of the historic Jane Addams Homes, the new museum aims to challenge perceptions about the sector
Gagosian to stage first Willem de Kooning show in 12 years
The gallery brought on Cecilia Alemani to curate the show, which will span five decades
California’s creative economy buttressed by Hollywood and college arts departments
This is according to the latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy
Museu de Arte de São Paulo traces its own history and evolution across exhibitions in its new tower
The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy
Where to see Van Gogh's work in 2025: Boston, London and beyond
Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year
‘Where are the artists with disabilities?’: the organisations opening up Asia’s art world
Hong Kong’s No Limits festival gives prominent spaces across the city to artists with disabilities, while Singapore’s Art:Dis pairs students with high-profile mentors
Inspired by the Cantonese diaspora in Europe, Lap-See Lam wins $100,000 Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award
The Swedish artist has explored ‘Westernised’ Chinese restaurants through a magical realist lens
‘We can’t predict the future or what will happen’: Trump’s slashing of US foreign aid hits heritage conservation
Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding
A brush with… Celia Paul — podcast
In this first episode of the new series of A brush with…, Ben Luke talks to the painter Celia Paul about her influences—including writers as well as contemporary and historic artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work
A Robert Frank photo he saw as ‘threatening’ and a ghostly Dalí painting: our pick of the April auctions
Plus Dürer’s engraving of Nemesis and a painting by one of China’s greatest Modern artists
The life story of Francesca Alexander—the American artist in tune with Italy—is told in new book
New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads, brings her out of the shadow of her friendship with John Ruskin
Publication reveals there was more to photographer Weegee than his grim crime scene images
A comprehensive overview explores the “paradox” of Weegee’s work and how he went from taking tabloid photos of murder to making distorted celebrity portraits
April Book Bag: from a new angle on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to the re-issuing of bell hooks’s art essays
Our round-up of the latest art publications
‘We are crying’: heritage authorities express sorrow after Sudan National Museum looted and ransacked
The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country
Comment | Hastily reinstalled ethnographic galleries have turned Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology into political theatre
Inaugurated in January by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the revamped yet unfinished galleries devoted to Mexico’s living Indigenous cultures reflect the dominant party’s agenda, not scholarship or a curatorial vision
Let them eat cake—and custard: Food Museum launches school dinners exhibition
The show promises free tasters that may “provoke delight or disgust, depending on your memories of school food”
Mystery in Manhattan: why New York galleries are turning to intrigue this spring
Several dealers are taking a “less is more” attitude by, for example, giving little away in press releases—and it’s making a notable difference
The trials and tribulations of putting together Lucian Freud’s catalogue raisonné
The forensically researched volume on the British artist’s oil paintings offers a depth of scrutiny that he himself was famous for
Long undervalued, Bangladeshi artists begin to rise at auction
Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New York
New book looks at the shaping of Modern art in the Middle East beyond politics and war
The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner talks about his comprehensive new biography spanning from 1900 to today
An expert’s guide to Ruth Asawa: five must-read books on the Japanese American artist
All you ever wanted to know about Asawa, from a graphic novel biography to tales from her time at the celebrated Black Mountain College—selected by the curator Janet Bishop
Giuseppe Penone on his plans to take over London's Serpentine South—and the park beyond
Ahead of the opening of his largest UK exhibition to date, the Italian artist discusses what will make this show unique
Museums in southern Brazil still recovering after last year’s floods
Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025
Museums are losing social media followers amid users' mass X-odus
Some institutions have ditched their accounts in protest, while others
have chosen to “quiet quit” and stopped posting on the Elon Musk-owned platform
How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront ‘over-attendance’
Visitors have streamed back after Covid-19, but the influx has been a double-edged sword, forcing some institutions to consider their long-term sustainability
Just Stop Oil to release soup cookbook after calling end to protests
In the wake of its recent announcement, the group is turning to gastronomy, with recipes for Vincent van Gazpacho and Hieronymus Borscht
Exclusive | The world’s most-visited museums 2024: normality returns—for some
A new museum in Shanghai leaps into our top ten and European museums continue their strong performance, but our exclusive annual survey finds that some British institutions are still lagging behind
Art Week Riyadh will ‘bring together the many layers of Saudi Arabia's art scene’
The inaugural event will take place from 6 to 13 April across the city
US museums seek to provide safe spaces for LGBTQ+ communities amid government rollbacks of their rights
As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm
Trump’s targeting of universities and cuts to Department of Education put US art schools on alert
All but the most elite art schools risk losing crucial funding through grants and federally supported student financial aid programmes
Rhode Island School of Design shuts down students’ pro-Palestine exhibition
The exhibition, originally staged in a publicly accessible café, will reopen in a building that is not open to the public
Yoko Ono’s acclaimed Tate Modern retrospective will travel to MCA Chicago
The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation
Princeton University Art Museum to open in brand-new building on 31 October
Just in time for Halloween, the museum will celebrate with a 24-hour open house
Tate returns Nazi-looted Henry Gibbs painting to heirs of Jewish dealer
The UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”
Slim Hong Kong evening sales at Christie's and Sotheby's draw solid results for a 'tough season'
Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery
Myanmar heritage sites severely damaged by deadly earthquake
World Monuments Fund is investigating the extent of the damage to religious and cultural buildings after the earthquake struck the Southeast Asian country last week, killing at least 1,700 people—with neighbouring Thailand also affected
A brush with Dhyandra Lawson
The curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on her cultural passions
Against a tense political landscape, we can learn a lot from the cool head of a picture restorer
A new breed of auction sleeper hunter—and my own doom-scrolling about the geopolitical realities of 2025—have led me to consider other occupations
US authorities return two Khmer artefacts to Cambodia
The two statues were seized during investigations into international smuggling networks including that of notorious trafficker Subhash Kapoor
New York print fairs see new energy and an influx of young collectors
The IFPDA Print Fair’s crowded preview and the launch of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair echo recent signals that the medium is increasingly in demand
Avast me hearty: much loved National Maritime Museum curator gets touching send off
Visitors to the museum’s pirates exhibition may spot ongoing tributes from staffers
MoMA picks chief curator of prints and drawings as next director
Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museum’s director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions
April's must-see exhibitions: Matisse, Morris and the design of the 1940s
The Art Newspaper’s pick of the top shows to see around the world this month
Guggenheim shows to champion Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, who still ‘needs to be rediscovered by many audiences’
The career survey of the Portuguese abstract painter starts in Venice before moving to Bilbao
Richard Wright: ‘When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it’
The Turner Prize winner, who is having his first UK institutional exhibition in two decades, explains his process, the interplay of time and space within his work, and why he had a brief career as a sign painter
Robert Rauschenberg's centenary celebrations are starting with old friends
Rarely seen works and other treats will go on show in worldwide exhibitions, starting in Milan and Munich this April
With ‘Art and Design in the 1940s’, Philadelphia Museum of Art is exploring a decade of two halves
Using the museum’s vast archive, this exhibition highlights the impact of war followed by optimism
Henri Matisse’s daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist
In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career
From artisans to AI: London exhibition explores the legacy of William Morris
A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public
Canadian gallery sues Norval Morrisseau’s estate for breach of contract and defamation, seeking $1m
EA Studios alleges that the estate and its director bad-mouthed the Calgary-based gallery in an attempt to steal its customers
‘I didn’t initially appreciate Barbara Hepworth, and I missed several chances’: Calvin Hui on the works that got away
The co-founder of Hong Kong’s 3812 gallery, which is moving its London outpost into a new development of the Whiteley building, talks about his life in collecting and offers tips on Art Basel
Hong Kong Palace Museum show reflects a golden age of exchange between China and France
The exhibition, featuring loans from the Palace of Versailles and The Palace Museum in Beijing, celebrates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations