Category: Culture

Nikhil Chopra and the collective HH Art Spaces will curate the next instalment of the prestigious Indian exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2025

The museum’s renamed Centre for Global Asias seeks to “recognise the many Asias that exist, within the geography of Asia itself and in the global diaspora”

An in-depth interview with Turner nominee Goshka Macuga, discussing her influences from Eileen Agar to Stanisław Lem—and how she came to dance in her studio

The members of Just Stop Oil are set to appear in court next month

The interior designer Mica Ertegun’s Surrealist L’empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with a new high also set for Ed Ruscha

Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027

Our intrepid diarist goes in search of the site where Joseph Wright of Derby painted a late—sublime—landscape, on the shores of Ullswater

These awards, which have increased to £75,000 for each recipient this year, are unique in that they come with no conditions

The night’s total take took a major hit when it was revealed that its second-biggest lot, a Basquiat self-portrait, had failed to sell

The Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, one of the most precious volumes in the Blickling Estate’s library, was too fragile to be exhibited

The artist discusses her concurrent shows at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles and the Vancouver Art Gallery

The event may be focused around Artissima, Italy’s leading art fair, but there’s must-see exhibitions to found across the city

The footballer attended the unveiling of the work after it finally found a permanent home

National Lottery players raise more than £30m every week and fund over 700,000 projects across the UK—but when it comes to funding the arts, some say the scheme is in need of an overhaul

Mutual Aid, recently opened at the Turin museum, is devoted to work humans have made in collaboration with other species

The Artivist Network organised a range of actions at the summit that both highlighted the serious costs of climate breakdown and interrupted what can be a drab visual environment

Following an “extraordinary” meeting, the heritage body has put 34 historic sites on its enhanced protection list

Kicking off November’s marquee evening sales, the house brought in a total of $268.6m from 49 lots

The partnership will allow visitors to see real-life gladiatorial battles at the world’s most famous amphitheatre

Stephanie Stebich, who had led the institution since 2017, has been reassigned to a senior advisory role

The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ

The forthcoming Lassonde Art Trail is teaming up with both the Public Art Fund and York University’s L.L. Odette Sculptor in Residence programme

The reality TV star wore famed jewel to the Lacma bash

With the reopening of the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, the Portuguese capital is developing a lively contemporary art landscape. But its “cool” reputation brings challenges as tourism soars

A campaign to give arts and heritage “a seat at the table” for negotiations at the annual summit already has the support of around 40 countries and more than 1,500 civil society organisations

The fair welcomed 71 galleries this year, while local competition intensifies

Bristol institution makes waves after quitting social media platform

Works by the gallery’s artists that once sold for a thousand dollars can now fetch over a million

Censorship and the risk of conscription have forced many artists to flee the country—and face under-representation abroad

Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens unveils its $250m renovation and expansion project on 22 November

The museum, which previously came under scrutiny for possessing the remains of another victim of the MOVE bombing, has been conducting an inventory of its biological anthropology section

The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener

Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output

A judge in London ruled in favour of the seafood multinational Samerji, finding that the artist Odee Fridriksson’s satiric project “crossed the line”

A special roundtable conversation touching on some of the biggest issues facing museums: from the need to address colonial histories to sponsorship and AI

As gladiators return to the big screen, English Heritage announces plans to show the artefact at Hadrian’s Wall

Taysir Batniji’s ‘Disruptions’ has been named Photobook of the Year at this year’s Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards

The directors of the British Museum, V&A East and Tate Modern talked activism, funding, empire and more in a wide-ranging discussion on The Art Newspaper’s Week in Art podcast

Museum leaders cited persistently low attendance and support coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reasons for the “reimagining and rebuilding”

Though laudible in its aim to kerb trafficking of stolen goods, planned rules will impose unreasonable burdens on lawful and genuine trade

The actor’s failure to correctly pronounce the name of Bloomsbury Group writer leaves some viewers baffled

Fifty years later, Monumenta’s organisers and attendees reflect on what was arguably the most ambitious school project ever

The terms of the settlement in New York allowed Sotheby’s to resolve the issue without admitting any wrongdoing

Ahead of the Biennale’s closing week, we highlight the talking-point exhibitions and events that there’s still time to catch

A private collection of 1,700 ceramic items was given by the Sir Percival David Foundation

Richard Semmel, a Jewish textiles entrepreneur in Berlin, was forced to sell the painting after fleeing Nazi persecution in 1933

Penrith Regional Gallery focuses on sightings of the folkloric ‘Blue Mountains panther’ through works by 18 Australian artists

This exhibition successfully traverses the terrain of art and geopolitics—an area often littered with clunkiness and earnest failure

The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection

Six stand accused of negligence causing involuntary harm, including the culture ministry’s heritage operator, for its role in overseeing the restoration of the Château de Versailles

A host of globally recognised artists, a growing number of art world tourists and a domestic gallery boom are all contributing to the country’s reputation on the international stage

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

A new show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery unshackles the artist from her husband, Eric Ravilious

Currently the director of the Paris Fashion Museum-Palais Galliera, she will take over from Juan Ignacio Vidarte in April 2025

Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church

Paris prosecutor has requested that the Swiss art dealer and his business partner Olivier Thomas should face charges relating to the disappearance of dozens of works more than a decade ago

The death of Al-Khateeb, who had more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, has sparked questions about why she was not more widely recognised by the arts community during her life

The artist Kathryn Andrews began to develop the idea that has become the Judith Center during the 2016 US presidential election

The Lunar Codex has partnered with the estate of Canadian Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau to collect contemporary and traditional music that will be sent into space in 2025

An urgent treatise on the decommodification of culture by the professor of cultural economy Justin O’Connor