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State humanities councils and other grantees received notices from the NEH and Doge this week that their grants were being cancelled immediately

While a 22% VAT rate is a pressing issue for the art trade in Italy, the country is also benefitting from the arrival of wealthy individuals from the UK

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous Victorian designer ”went viral”, and a chat about the ways Henri Matisse’s daughter shaped his life and art

Around the world, they are in unusual venues ranging from a Japanese museum in a mountain forest to a Warsaw church dome

Downtown commercial galleries were also among those to make the decision as police prepared for potential political violence

The show, held at the grand Two Temple Place, challenges inequities and misrepresentation

While the US appears to be relaxing some of its anti-money laundering provisions, the British government has labelled the art market as high risk and introduced a legal requirement to increase due diligence in the sector

There was an uptick in sales of traditional art at last month’s Tefaf Maastricht fair

Faced with anti-immigrant policies, institutional leaders are providing “know your rights” guidance

The Manhattan sculpture garden was denied protections under the Visual Artist Rights Act

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

A deep dive into the self-styled “painter of light” uncovers a treasure trove of unseen works by the artist everyone loved to hate

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

The royal acquired the painting, now in an exhibition at The King’s Gallery, when he was a young prince

The octogenarian and cigarette evangelist has called the decision “complete madness”

Jorge and Darlene Pérez will also fund curatorial endowment and have pledged to make a donation of African art

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 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”

Housed in one of the historic Jane Addams Homes, the new museum aims to challenge perceptions about the sector

The gallery brought on Cecilia Alemani to curate the show, which will span five decades

This is according to the latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy

The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy

Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year

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

The Swedish artist has explored ‘Westernised’ Chinese restaurants through a magical realist lens

Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding

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

Plus Dürer’s engraving of Nemesis and a painting by one of China’s greatest Modern artists

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

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

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country

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

The show promises free tasters that may “provoke delight or disgust, depending on your memories of school food”

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 forensically researched volume on the British artist’s oil paintings offers a depth of scrutiny that he himself was famous for

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New York

The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner talks about his comprehensive new biography spanning from 1900 to today

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

Ahead of the opening of his largest UK exhibition to date, the Italian artist discusses what will make this show unique

Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025

Some institutions have ditched their accounts in protest, while others
have chosen to “quiet quit” and stopped posting on the Elon Musk-owned platform

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

In the wake of its recent announcement, the group is turning to gastronomy, with recipes for Vincent van Gazpacho and Hieronymus Borscht

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

The inaugural event will take place from 6 to 13 April across the city

As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm

All but the most elite art schools risk losing crucial funding through grants and federally supported student financial aid programmes

The exhibition, originally staged in a publicly accessible café, will reopen in a building that is not open to the public

The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation

Just in time for Halloween, the museum will celebrate with a 24-hour open house

The UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”

Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery

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

The curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on her cultural passions

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

The two statues were seized during investigations into international smuggling networks including that of notorious trafficker Subhash Kapoor

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

Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museum’s director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions