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Welcome to our art news page, where we bring you the latest updates and trends from the world of art. Our mission is to provide you with an engaging and informative platform to explore the diverse world of art and artists.

Through our articles, we cover a range of topics from contemporary art, street art, photography, sculpture, and more. We provide in-depth coverage of major art events and exhibitions happening globally, including art fairs, biennales, and museum shows.

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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 [...]

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’ [...]

Photographer Mostafa Nodeh Transforms His Vision of ‘Freedom’ into a Printed Album

The World Art News has always spotlighted artists from around the globe, but this time, we’ve become part of the story. When we first featured photographer Mostafa Nodeh’s striking black-and-white series Freedom, we never anticipated the ripple effect it would have. Inspired by the article, Nodeh transformed his work into [...]

The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy

The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy From 21 March to 29 June... [...]

Latest round of money laundering penalties hit UK trade 

White Cube and Carl Kostyál 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 [...]

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 he 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” [...]

African Artist Sekoto Shatters Expectations at Auction, Selling for Over Half a Million USD—Four Times the Estimate

The late South African artist Gerard Sekoto has once again proven his lasting impact on the art world, with his masterpiece The Artist’s Brother selling for an astonishing £406,000 ($528,000) at Bonhams’ Modern & Contemporary African Art sale—more than four times its original estimate of £100,000-150,000 ($130,000-195,000).

The post African [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mateo Blanco’s Born of Two Lands Flag to Make Bold Debut at Museum of Art – DeLand

Mateo Blanco’s latest masterpiece 'Born of Two Lands Flag' is more than just a work of art—it’s a bold statement on identity, heritage, and resilience. Crafted from natural dyes and Colombian textiles, the flag carries a striking scar at its center, mirroring the artist’s own journey of survival and self-discovery. [...]

Ancient Mesopotamian stone 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 [...]

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 gifted £20m cash boost and Roman artefact trove by 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 [...]

Rare Qianlong ‘Dragon’ Vase Stuns at Auction, Sells for $3.7 Million—Over Six Times Its Estimate

A breathtaking imperial vase, once expected to sell for a fraction of its final price, has stunned collectors at Bonhams New York, igniting a fierce bidding war and shattering estimates. This extraordinary piece, with its intricate dragon and cloud motif, is so rare that only one other example exists—housed in [...]

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” [...]

How much is the art stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 35 years ago worth today?

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

The artist’s 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 claims to have confirmed the authenticity of a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view [...]

Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?

A Swiss company claims to have confirmed the authenticity of a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy—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 [...]

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