News

Fun and Games: 15th annual Serpentine Pavilion revealed

The Serpentine unveils plans for its summer pavilion

25 Mar 2015

The Met brings out the best surprise at Asia Week New York

The Met steals the show at Asia Week New York

25 Mar 2015

Can Iraq’s Antiquities be Saved?

What is the extent of the damage in Iraq and is enough being done by the international community?

23 Mar 2015

Art Outlook: 19 March

Terror at the Bardo Museum; Syria recovers looted artefacts; Gabriele Finaldi joins the National Gallery; and a new CEO for Sotheby’s

19 Mar 2015

Regional museums are in crisis. Can they survive?

Key speakers debated the issue at a Courtauld event this week

19 Mar 2015

Terror attack at Tunisia’s Bardo Museum

Nineteen people are reported dead and more injured in an attack on the Tunis museum

18 Mar 2015

Fire at the Battersea Arts Centre

The north side of the grade II listed building has been destroyed in a major blaze

14 Mar 2015

Art Outlook: 12 March

Austria to keep a prized Klimt; Gerhard Richter says art is too expensive; and are things looking up for the Warburg Institute?

12 Mar 2015

Islamic State militants take bulldozers to the ancient city of Nimrud

The assault on Iraq’s history is another front in ISIL’s war

6 Mar 2015

Art Outlook: 5 March

This week’s art news, including cultural destruction in Iraq, arrests in Spain, and controversy over London’s proposed Garden Bridge

5 Mar 2015

The Catlin Art Prize Shortlist 2015

Which of these eight recent graduates should take home the £5,000 prize?

3 Mar 2015

Acquisitions of the Month: February 2015

From the first printed bibles to contemporary Inuit sculpture and astrophotography…

1 Mar 2015

Art Outlook: 26 February

Art news: English Heritage to split in two; Romania’s silence over Brancusi statue sale; Cézanne sketches discovered at the Barnes Foundation

26 Feb 2015

Art Outlook: 19 February

Sheila Girling dies aged 90; Centre Pompidou plans pop-ups; Musée Maillol closes unexpectedly, and the Whitworth reopens…

19 Feb 2015

The Whitworth reopens

Great art, thoughtful curation and a snazzy café: Manchester’s £15 million redevelopment project is a great success

17 Feb 2015

Art Outlook: 12 February

A Leonardo is seized from a vault in Switzerland; artists condemn Tania Bruguera’s detention in Cuba; and a Gauguin sells for $300 million

12 Feb 2015

Art Outlook: 5 February

Walter Liedtke killed in train crash; National Gallery staff strike over privatisation plans; two bronzes attributed to Michelangelo

5 Feb 2015

Walter Liedtke: 1945–2015

The curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was killed in the Metro-North Valhalla train crash on Tuesday

5 Feb 2015

Fitzwilliam Museum attributes two bronzes to Michelangelo

David Ekserdjian discusses the recent announcement

2 Feb 2015

Acquisitions of the Month: January

New year, new acquistions: from Jérôme Bonaparte’s chandelier to an entire country cottage

31 Jan 2015

Art Outlook: 29 January

Sponsorship, strikes and self-censorship in London’s top museums; the Smithsonian’s international expansion; Tutankhamun’s broken beard

29 Jan 2015

Art Outlook: 22 January

Gabriele Finaldi is tipped as the next National Gallery director; Italy recovers looted antiquities; and Luc Tuymans is found to be in breach of copyright

22 Jan 2015

Gallery: ‘Self’ at Turner Contemporary

A selection of self-portraits from Turner Contemporary’s latest show

20 Jan 2015

What’s inside the Amphipolis Tomb?

And what does it mean for our understanding of Graeco-Roman art?

16 Jan 2015