News

News

Sophia Al-Maria wins inaugural Dunya Contemporary Art Prize

Art news daily: 24 April

24 Apr 2018
News
Crown, probably made in Gondar, Ethiopia, around 1740, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Ethiopian government seeks return of artefacts from V&A

Art news daily: 23 April

23 Apr 2018
News
Photo: Jon Atherton, Yale West Campus

Getty Research Institute names Mary Miller as next director

Art news daily: 20 April

20 Apr 2018
News

Venice Architecture Biennale Golden Lion goes to Kenneth Frampton

Art news daily: 19 April

19 Apr 2018
News

Copenhagen Contemporary to reopen in a permanent space

Art news daily: 18 April

18 Apr 2018
News
The Baltimore Museum of Art, which in May sold five artworks at auction for nearly $8 million to raise funds for new acquisitions. Would capitalising those works have allowed the institution to pursue its acquisition strategy without compromising its existing holdings?

Baltimore Museum of Art to diversify contemporary collection

Art news daily: 17 April

17 Apr 2018
News
Gold reliquary of Anne of Brittany's heart.

Reliquary with queen’s heart stolen from Nantes museum

Anne of Brittany’s heart stolen from Nantes museum, Joseph Beuys estate to be represented by Thaddaeus Ropac, and more of today’s top stories

16 Apr 2018
News
Chris Dercon in 2017.

Chris Dercon resigns as director of Berlin’s Volksbühne

Art news daily: 13 April

13 Apr 2018
News
Rendering of the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will be located in LA’s Exposition Park

Lucas Museum is buyer of Berkshire Museum’s Rockwell painting

Art news daily: 12 April

12 Apr 2018
News

Max Hollein named next director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art news daily: 11 April

11 Apr 2018
News
Nick Mitzevich

Nick Mitzevich to head National Gallery of Australia

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Nick Mitzevich named director of National Gallery of Australia | Nick…

10 Apr 2018
News

France to sign heritage agreement with Saudi Arabia

Art news daily: 9 April

9 Apr 2018
News

US court approves Berkshire Museum sale

Art news daily: 6 April

6 Apr 2018
News
Rendering of the expanded Frick Collection from 70th Street.

Frick board approves design for $160m extension

Art news daily: 5 April

5 Apr 2018
News

Christo reveals more details of Serpentine project

Art news daily: 4 April

4 Apr 2018
News
Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon

MAC Lyon director Thierry Raspail retires

Art news daily: 3 April

3 Apr 2018
News
Editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber, tipped to be next chairman of the Tate

Lionel Barber appointed chair of Tate trustees

Art news daily: 29 March

29 Mar 2018
News
Editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber, tipped to be next chairman of the Tate

Lionel Barber tipped to be next chairman of Tate board

Art news daily: 28 March

28 Mar 2018
News
The Getty Center.

J. Paul Getty medal recipients for 2018 announced

Art news daily: 27 March

27 Mar 2018
News

Congress increases funding to NEA and NEH

Art news daily: 26 March

26 Mar 2018
News

ICA Philadelphia is the first museum certified for paying artists fairly

Art new daily: 23 March

23 Mar 2018
News

Shortlist for Hepworth Prize for Sculpture announced

Art news daily: 22 March

22 Mar 2018
News
View of the Berlin Palace, future home of the Humboldt Forum, taken in spring 2017.

New director for Berlin’s Humboldt Forum

Art news daily: 21 March

21 Mar 2018
News
The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium.

Belgian police raid homes in Russian forgery investigation

Art news daily: 20 March

20 Mar 2018
1 … 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 … 57

Current Issue

Sophia Al-Maria wins inaugural Dunya Contemporary Art Prize

View this issue

Most popular

  • Recent

Podcast

Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London

The Masterpiece podcast: episode three

This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

Art diary

The Reflected Self: Portrait Miniatures, 1540–1850

Compton Verney celebrates what was once one of the most popular art forms in Britain, proving that size really doesn’t matter

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers

The two years the artist spent in Arles and Saint-Rémy in the south of France are the focus of this exhibition at the National Gallery in London

Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel

The first exhibition of de Vlaminck’s work in Germany since his death in 1958 demonstrates his remarkable knack for intensely colourful landscapes

Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture

The rich visual history of gameboards since the mid 18th century is celebrated in this show, which also highlights how abstract art influenced game design

Latest comment

The many faces of Mary Magdalene

For a city that is trying to cut down on its tourist numbers, Venice does seem to hold a lot…

Is investing in the past the way of the future?

A new report by Historic England claims that investing in heritage will boost the economies of struggling English towns – but how reliable are the means of measurement?

In praise of the cat ladies of contemporary art

Hettie Judah considers how artists such as Tracey Emin and Kiki Smith have represented the sacred bond between women and their cats