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Advisory board of US agency that funds museums and libraries warns Trump appointee that it ‘cannot’ be unilaterally eliminated
In a letter to the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ new acting director, the agency’s advisory board emphasised that its activities are governed by Congress
‘Exceptional’ Iron Age hoard could help to better understand Britain's history
One of the largest and most significant from the period, the hoard was discovered at site in Yorkshire
São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower
This month’s opening will more than double the museum’s space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations
Political paintings and addressing misogyny: extensive Picasso exhibition opens in Hong Kong
The Art Newspaper’s top takeaways from the M+ Museum’s newest show
Anastasia Bukhman, the Russian-born collector behind a £1m donation to London’s National Portrait Gallery
Art was not a part of the philanthropist’s life growing up in a remote town in Russia, but moving to Europe some years ago opened her eyes, and she is now an avid collector and generous donor
Frieze Masters appoints Emanuela Tarizzo as director
The art adviser and former director at Tomasso gallery takes the reins from Nathan Clements-Gillespie at a pivotal time for Frieze, which is presently being considered for sale
Former San Francisco Art Institute will become non-accredited, studio-based art school following campus restoration
As for the famed Diego Rivera mural housed there, its owner promises that public access will be “prioritised and maintained”
Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions
Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful
Ch.ACO fair aims to be a focal point for South American art
The Chilean fair, about to hold its 15th edition in the country’s capital of Santiago, aims to bridge geographic gaps and foster dialogues across the continent
Bronze Age Corsican statue sold at auction in London is a ‘fake’, French cultural authorities claim
Officials and archaeologists have said the small object, which was auctioned by Lyon and Turnbull for €22,500 earlier this month, is a copy
‘If necessary, I will shout at him!’: Richard Ansett's images of Grayson Perry go on show at Sotheby's
The selling exhibition will open in London on 28 March, alongside Perry’s Wallace Collection show, ‘Delusions of Grandeur’
Latest round of money laundering penalties hit UK trade
Some art businesses are among the list of businesses fined for failing to comply with regulations
UK government announces raft of new museum trustees, including artist Isaac Julien and ‘Traitors’ presenter Claudia Winkleman
Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum
Jack Whitten at MoMA, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine—podcast
Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives of Black artists in France, and Hans Ulrich Obrist on a monumental painting by the esteemed Indian artist Singh
Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle
Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”
London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery is feeding more than passions
The gallery in leafy south London suburb will begin hosting a farmer’s market this weekend
Japan is opening its eyes to women photographers—and to the female gaze
Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and subverting traditional assumptions about the female body
A new documentary asks how King Charles was hoodwinked by forged paintings
The film examines the scandal of fakes lent by James Stunt to a royal residence, including works supposedly by Monet, Salvador Dalí and Picasso
Sotheby's to sell art belonging to Brazil's Lady of the Resistance
The journalist and collector Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, who established the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, was exiled after speaking out against Brazil’s military dictatorship
On a San Francisco roof, an artist’s work is birthed by the night sky
Ala Ebtekar’s new cyanotypes for Arion Press were exposed using moon and starlight during a partial lunar eclipse
ICA Boston launches $100,000 award for women artists, with Sarah Sze winning inaugural edition
The new Meraki Artist Prize is funded by Fotene Demoulas, whose family owns the Market Basket supermarket chain
Trump appoints deputy secretary of US Labor Department to lead museum-funding agency marked for elimination
Keith Sonderling, the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, plans to steer the agency to “promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country”
A new destination for contemporary art takes shape in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Construction on the Eacheve Foundation’s new complex broke ground in January and is on track to be completed in time for an opening in autumn 2025
Bigger is not better and free admission costs institutions less, museum report finds
Remuseum’s second report concludes that admission fees are raising few funds and keeping out potential visitors—and expansions are often not worth the money
Longing for home: sacred drum among first objects restituted to the US by the Netherlands
The 350-year-old artifact is one of seven objects returned to the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Native American tribe
‘The missiles will not erase his mark on our hearts’: Palestinian artist killed in Israeli strikes
Dorgham Quraiqi, was working with the UK charity Hope and Play, when the remains of his house were bombed
Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed
The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic ruler
London Museum receives £20m cash boost and Roman artefact trove from Bloomberg
The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date
Revealed: British Museum’s visitor figures hit ten-year high
While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper’s annual visitor figures survey has revealed
How a new online database is bringing an African focus to restitution cases
Open Restitution Africa’s digital resource based on pan-continental research counters elevation of Western narratives
Comment | Works of art are living things—so should we let them die?
The cost—financially and environmentally—of preserving works of art can be huge. Perhaps it is time to rethink how we look after them
Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain
The work sold at Christie’s New York, almost quadrupling its $3.5m high estimate, as South Asian Modern art crests a wave
New York art adviser Lisa Schiff sentenced to prison for fraud
Once a high-profile adviser to elite art collectors, Schiff will spend 30 months in prison
The ten most expensive Vincent van Gogh paintings
His ‘Sunflowers’ painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too
São Paulo's newest gallery knows you must ‘burn cash to support great artists’
Yehudi Hollander-Pappi, founded by two former Mendes Wood DM employees and a seasoned collector, opens this week with a 20-strong roster and a clear vision for success
How a Portuguese entrepreneur turned an 18th-century palace into a private museum
Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins opens on 22 March, at a time of significant growth in Lisbon’s art scene
‘We will not be a traditional institution’: Foto Arsenal Wien takes up the mantle of Vienna’s radical art roots
The new exhibition space, Austria’s first centre for photographic images and lens-based media, will open on 21 March
Heiting Library, Cy Twombly and Lewis Carroll Collection: March acquisitions round-up
Works acquired by the US’s National Gallery of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston and Oxford’s Christ Church
Two found guilty in theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet
The Crown Prosecution Service says it is confident that the case “played a part in disrupting a wider crime and money-laundering network”
Thirty five years on from ‘the world’s largest art heist’, how much are the works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum worth?
From $200m to upwards of $1bn, the estimated value of the 13 works stolen in Boston on 18 March 1990 has varied in the decades since
US Supreme Court reopens lawsuit over Nazi-looted Pissarro painting
The Supreme Court’s order requires the decades-long dispute over a painting at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid to be re-examined in light of a new California statute
Marina Abramović in her Element: performance artist announces new NFT drop designed to create a ‘bridge’ to young generation
Her first NFT collection since 2022 is inspired by different aspects of her life and work
Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?
A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view
Art collector James Stunt found not guilty of money-laundering
The entrepreneur was accused along with four others, who were found guilty
‘I’m the most content I’ve ever been’: Tracey Emin on having her first museum show in Italy, losing her libido and why she had to take a break from painting
The British artist discusses the way her views on painting and life have shifted over the years as an expansive show of her works opens at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
London's oldest art fair celebrates its 40th anniversary
The London Original Print Fair launched in 1985 when the concept of art fairs was in its infancy. Its director of 38 years, Helen Rosslyn, reflects on its longevity
RedNote and TikTok: what is social media like in the Chinese art world?
Killer algorithms, a huge influencer culture and the ‘sweet spot’ of RedNote
How technologies applied in Florence are revolutionising fresco conservation
Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision
Trump layoffs leave more than 26,000 government-owned artworks in limbo
Nearly half the art and historic preservation workers at the General Services Administration have been put on leave and are expected to be terminated
Member of museum theft ring sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing Warhol and Pollock works
Thomas Trotta was part of a theft ring that nabbed a variety of items, including sports memorabilia and gold nuggets, from museums on the East Coast of the US over two decades
Massachusetts museum presents an artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier
Ohan Breiding’s experimental film and photography, on view at Mass Moca, pay homage to the disappearing Rhône Glacier in Switzerland
‘It's having a battering’: behind the Tate's latest round of layoffs
The UK institution is slashing 7% of its workforce as “real-terms decline” in public funds and declining visitor numbers continue to bite
Art market salary satisfaction declines amid ‘redundancies and reduced revenue’, new survey finds
Meanwhile the abolishment of DEI initiatives in the US risks increasing “unconscious biases”, according to the second SML Art Market Talent Report
Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts
The RA says that up to 60 jobs are a risk of redundancy—but the union claims the true figure is almost 100
As collector strategies shift, prints are experiencing new levels of popularity
With buyers taking prints more seriously, publishers, collectors and dealers are embracing the unique commercial advantages of editioned works
Grayson Perry flips the bird at art world snobbery with Masked Singer appearance
The Turner prize winning potter stunned viewers and hosts of the popular TV show after revealing himself as the voice behind the kingfisher costume
Trump signs executive order to ‘eliminate’ agency that funds museums and libraries
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is listed alongside six other ‘unnecessary’ organisations
Ahead of game-changing EU legislation, Tefaf Maastricht opens to satisfactory sales
Works by Velázquez, Titian and Picasso were offered at the fair, as well as a sculpture thought to be modelled by Michelangelo
Christie’s appoints new regional president of the Americas
Julien Pradels will fill the role left when Bonnie Brennan was promoted to chief executive
You’ve got mail: pathbreaking exhibition on Van Gogh’s postman opens shortly in Boston, then heads to Amsterdam
While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”