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The Broad museum in Los Angeles reveals $100m expansion plans
The institution has re-enlisted the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to create a new wing that will expand its gallery space by 70%
Moroccan pavilion cancelled at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Plans for country to make its Venice debut have been dropped, but no one—including the artists due to show there—knows why
SP-Arte turns 20—as Brazilian artists and curators take the spotlight at Venice
São Paulo fair’s founder says her efforts are “legitimised” by Adriano Pedrosa being the first South American to curate the Venice Biennale this month
Intimate photo stories of war
A thought-provoking exhibition of work by the late photojournalist Tim Hetherington at London’s Imperial War Museum
Tate Modern swaps its Turners for a ride with Der Blaue Reiter
A London exhibition of the Expressionist movement aims to show “there is more to the early Modernist period than starry, solitary male artists”
Painting from Warhol and Basquiat’s notorious collaboration aims to fetch around $18m at Sotheby’s in New York this May
The monumental canvas is expected to reset the record price at auction for any work from the series
Krista Kim: the entrepreneurial artist who is taking on AI
The Canadian-Korean creative works with light and sound to create Zen for the digital age
Good Spirit: Rachel Verghis is the creative force behind a small-batch gin that’s keeping the art world topped up
The collector, patron and entrepreneur serves her MarGin brand at art fairs, galleries and her London home
Message on a bottle: how Château Mouton Rothschild made a fine art of its wine labels
A glittering array of artists—including Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Henry Moore and Joan Miró—have designed labels for the wine-maker
British Museum’s legal action over thefts is ‘locking the stable door after the horse has bolted’, experts say
The museum’s former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects
Brazilian galleries Jaqueline Martins and Sé merge to form Martins&Montero
The new joint venture will operate in São Paulo and Brussels, opening with solo shows of 2024 Venice Biennale artist Jota Mombaça
Nicholas Cullinan is appointed director of the British Museum
Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, faces an array of challenges in rebuilding the oldest national museum in the world’s reputation
Swiss dealer Eberhard Kornfeld bequeathed Kirchner, Giacometti works to Bern Kunstmuseum
Kornfeld died last year, shortly before turning 100
A major squawk-ing point: Māori parrot-feather cloak set to be star exhibit at Perth Museum
Following painstaking conservation, the delicate piece will go on show at the Scottish museum in its newly opened building, a £27m conversion of the Edwardian former city hall
Forbidden City and Versailles are brought together in Beijing exhibition
Show focuses on the golden age of collecting between France and China in the 17th and 18th centuries
'I am looking forward to works that resonate with the concept of blackness': Wu Tiejun on his hopes for Art Basel Hong Kong
The founder of Nanjing’s Deji Art Museum describes his approach to collecting and his love of Taihu stones
Glenn Ligon: 'The idea of coal dust being elevated into the space of art was something that interested me'
As his series of text paintings make their debut in Hong Kong, the US artist discusses his decades-long meditation on the words of James Baldwin
Art Basel Hong Kong diary: Jeff Koons shakes it off, shopping mall is blooming lovely, and superheroes abound at M+
Plus: Wong Ping’s bum note, puppy (and kitten) love at Square Street Gallery, and the Peninsula Hotel goes green
Hong Kong's M+ museum is among the 20 most visited globally
Other art institutions in the Special Administrative Region also enjoyed healthy figures in 2023, according to The Art Newspaper’s annual attendance survey
West Kowloon mega arts hub races to find new source of funding
Hong Kong’s huge cultural quarter has been spectacularly successful
at pulling in tourists and shows, but with its endowment running out,
it needs to find new financial solutions
Next act: Edward Enninful turns his attention from fashion to the world of art
The former editor-in-chief of British Vogue has put on a Robert Mapplethorpe show at Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, in his first role as curator
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama wins inaugural Sam Gilliam Award
The prize, established by Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation, comes with a $75,000 gift and public programme at Dia
Mass Moca employees end three-week strike following dispute over wages
Unionised workers and museum officials have ratified a new deal that raises staff minimum wages to $18 per hour
Inigo Philbrick, art dealer who went to prison for fraud, is free
In 2022, Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to an $86m fraud
China, France and a unifying love of bling: Palace Museum show draws on parallels between cultures
The exhibition in Beijing of 17th- and 18th-century objects from the Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles will look at how artisans on opposite sides of the world influenced each other
Art Gallery of Ontario closes as more than 400 workers go on strike
The strike comes after a breakdown in negotiations between the workers’ union and museum administrators, and as the institution pursues a C$100m expansion
From long-lost portrait by Gustav Klimt to a painting by the ‘Persian Picasso’: our pick of the April sales
Plus, a mid-career painting by African American artist Hughie Lee-Smith
Blockbuster Picasso show to head to Hong Kong next year
Musée National Picasso in Paris to loan more than 60 works to M+ museum
As Art Basel Hong Kong gets off to brisk start, young buyers make their presence known
Predominance of new generation reflects an emerging trend across Asia
1-54 art fair brings contemporary African art show to Hong Kong
A selling exhibition of 27 established and emerging artists opens at Christie’s
auction house ahead of a planned launch of the fair in the city next year
'Queer people may soon be forgotten if their estates are not properly cared for': Patrick Sun on his philosophy for collecting
The pioneering patron of LGBTQ+ art in Asia discusses the importance of
preserving community legacies and shares his favourite Hong Kong eateries
In pictures: top works to see during Hong Kong art week
Check out our unmissable highlights from around the SAR
A brush with… Shahzia Sikander
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from time spent in Mogadishu, Somalia, to the work of the artist Eva Hesse
Richard Serra, creator of audacious steel sculptures, has died aged 85
The American sculptor received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
Leading Ukrainian art academy devastated by Russian air strike
The Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design reportedly sustained serious damage from falling fragments of a missile
The Reels deal: museums embrace Instagram’s video opportunities
While artists have decried the platform’s shift beyond still images, institutions are getting on board
Ten artists receive €100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2024
The second edition of the biennial award, which acknowledges practitioners across art, film, theatre and more, also grants two years of mentorship and inclusion in a global networking programme
New York museum's former chief financial officer claims in lawsuit she was fired for raising concerns about director’s expenses
Denise Lewis claims she was fired “without cause or warning” after she complained about the Museum of Arts and Design’s director’s alleged use of the institution’s funds for personal expenses during a vacation in Mexico
US museums blame falling visitor numbers for staff redundancies
Institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have let staff go
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Big brother is watching: museum visitors are being monitored by AI-powered cameras
Sophisticated technology is helping institutions count people but it also has the capability of tracking demographic data, ensuring people are well behaved and even detecting if visitors are enjoying themselves
Vermeer vs Pokémon: the double-edged sword of the blockbuster exhibition
Shows at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum were huge hits last year but managing visitors—and staff—proved challenging
The 100 most popular art museums in the world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs
Our exclusive Visitor Figures 2023 survey shows that many of the world’s leading art museums returned to their pre-pandemic attendance levels. But some, especially in the UK, are still missing millions of visitors
Acquisitions round-up: Cleveland museum buys a sumptuous 16th-century wooden carving, once part of an altarpiece
Plus, the UK’s first permanent public sculpture by a Black female artist goes to Warwick University, and National Gallery of Art lands a collection of 20 shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell
Who will rule Rembrandtland? Behind the search for an authority on the Old Master
Following the death of universally acclaimed Rembrandt scholar Ernst van de Wetering, attribution of the artist is in flux
New Hong Kong: how the city aims to stay a global art hub
The SAR is riding out economic and political challenges with more buyers, bigger galleries and serious art
Pop-up Supper Club aims to make art in Hong Kong more accessible
Run by local curators and gallerists, the event enables a relaxed experience while promoting regional works
Guangdong Times Museum reopens after money issues
Chinese institution, which suspended exhibitions in October 2022, has been reinvigorated following fundraising auction
From Hong Kong to Venice, Trevor Yeung conjures objects of desire
The Hong Kong artist explains why fish tanks and a notorious tree are “monuments to human interactions” in his new exhibitions for Para Site and the Venice Biennale
Yang Fudong: ‘It’s a silent movie, Hong Kong is the soundtrack’
The Chinese artist and filmmaker reveals the inspirations behind his silent film made for the M+ Facade, a tribute to the beauty of Hong Kong and the process of ageing
Sneak preview: Asian pavilions at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Decomposing fruit, a scent-diffusing figurine and a fantasy dragon ship
are just some of the works that explore themes of identity, migration and memory at the prestigious event this year
Top shows to see during Art Basel Hong Kong
Our pick of what’s on around the city
Taipei Biennial: a meditation on disease, loss and and the lasting impact of 'Covid toxicity'
Rooted in sound, the show offered a deep dive into the whole gamut of human experience
‘We remember who we are through culture’
M+ Museum Director Suhanya Raffel on Hong Kong’s first international cultural summit and why it matters
London's Serpentine Galleries calls for artists and institutions to become ‘stewards’ of data in face of rising interest in AI
The London gallery’s fourth annual Future Arts Ecosystems report addresses a pressing need for bodies to address the use of artificial intelligence, for their own benefit and for the public good
Hong Kong arts hub West Kowloon Cultural District opens summit with raft of global agreements
Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired
Protestors at London Science Museum rally against ‘greenwashing’ new sponsor
The museum has received backlash for its decision to allow Adani Green Energy to sponsor a new gallery focused on climate change
‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts
Major discrepancy in dates of Damien Hirst formaldehyde works revealed in Guardian investigation
Four of the artist’s preserved animal works, said to be from the 1990s, were produced in 2017, raising questions of transparency in artistic production
Jewish history museum in Philadelphia would become part of Smithsonian under proposed legislation
A new bill could create a commission to assess the feasibility of adding the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian family