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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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SFMoMA fires contemporary art curator Eungie Joo amid misconduct allegations

Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker [...]

The artist dealers call on to get works to and from Miami

Liz Nielsen, who showed a piece of her own at the Untitled Art fair, drove from New York to Miami and back with a van full of other artists’ work [...]

Authenticity of Indian works in university exhibition questioned

Paintings attributed to major Modernists in a recent show at the gallery of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) are facing scrutiny [...]

Zilia Sánchez, Cuban artist renowned for shaped, abstract canvases, has died, aged 98

Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career [...]

Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush, hidden in plain sight for 52 years, is marked and restored

Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the environment [...]

Once the most expensive painting ever auctioned, has a long hidden Van Gogh portrait been rediscovered?

Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet [...]

2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows – podcast

From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year's biggest stories [...]

Christian Parisot Unveils Volume VI of Modigliani’s Biography and Catalogue Raisonné

Christian Parisot’s "Modigliani – Biographie / Catalogue Raisonné," Volume VI represents the culmination of decades of meticulous research into the life and work of Amedeo Modigliani. Presented at Palazzo Graziani in San Marino, this 415-page publication not only offers an exhaustive account of Modigliani’s artistic journey but also provides invaluable [...]

Seeing is believing: Gérôme and Pakistan shows mark 20 years of museum building in Qatar

Exhibitions offer fresh looks at a once globally famous French 19th-century Orientalist artist and Pakistan’s embrace of modernity [...]

New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing

A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square [...]

How Amsterdam’s Drift Museum is working to create more energy than it uses

Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months [...]

Indigenous Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin receives $200,000 prize from Crystal Bridges Museum

The biennial award is named for the late collector and food company president Don Tyson [...]

New report chronicles challenges in making visible the sites of historic US protests

The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s latest "Landslide" report marks a shift from the annual initiative’s usual focus on threatened landscapes [...]

Workers at the Noguchi Museum push to form a union

After months of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against a new dress code banning workers from wearing keffiyehs, the Queens institution's staff are organising for "better conditions" [...]

Brafa turns 70, plus new fairs in Cyprus and Texas—a quick look at art fairs in 2025

Vima, the first international contemporary art fair in Cyprus, opens in the spring, while Untitled Art expands to Houston [...]

Sotheby’s does a U-turn on new fees structure

Less than a year ago, the auction house reduced buyer’s premium and tried to introduce a flat 10% vendor's commission to avoid bartering. It did not prove popular with sellers [...]

Santa Fe, Bukhara and Liverpool: the most interesting biennials to visit in 2025

Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year [...]

The Groucho Club to reopen in January following rape accusation

The London private members club, owned by the founders of Hauser & Wirth gallery, was shut down by police in November following a “serious crime” at the Soho venue [...]

Figurative painter Claire Tabouret chosen to design contemporary stained-glass windows for Notre-Dame

Heritage organisations remain opposed to President Macron's plans to replace chapel windows at the newly reopened cathedral [...]

London-based Studio Weave win competition to revamp British Museum entrance

New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026 [...]

Could Israel’s shuttered embassy in Dublin become a gallery for Palestinian art?

Fresh off a pop-up show in Ireland, the director of the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US hopes the former Israeli Embassy could become a permanent European outpost [...]

Controversial Ontario Place redevelopment and mega-spa could cost taxpayers billions

A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto's modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable” [...]

Phillips auction house executive chairman Ed Dolman resigns

Martin Wilson, the chairman of the British Art Market Federation (Bamf), is joining as chief executive and will oversee global operations [...]

Documenta reveals artistic director for 2027 edition

The appointment comes in the wake of a previous edition engulfed by antisemitism rows [...]

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s love of the Alps celebrated in new exhibition

The show, at Hauser & Wirth St Moritz, looks at the artist's visits to his Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger, when he would go cross-country skiing and visit agricultural shows [...]

Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide [...]

‘While there are dictators, no one can feel safe’: projects marking anniversaries of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine emphasise need for global vigilance

Among the initiatives launched to mark both 1,000 days since the invasion and its approaching third anniversary is an exhibition in Kharkiv exploring how the concept of safety “has been profoundly redefined by the war” [...]

Camille Claudel sculpture discovered in abandoned Paris apartment

The bronze is now expected to sell for up to €2m when it is auctioned in Orléans in February [...]

Christie’s results are down ‘only’ 6% in 2024, ‘despite challenging environment’

The house's auction total saw a double-digit decrease for a second year in a row—but private sales are booming [...]

Robert Smithson’s famed Land art piece Spiral Jetty added to US National Register of Historic Places

The 1,500ft-long, coiling earthwork in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is arguably the best known example of Land art [...]

Arts Council England to face scrutiny as government announces new review

Former minister of state for culture, creative Industries and tourism Margaret Hodge will lead the process [...]

Gerhard Richter once thought film wasn’t for him—in Rome, his latest exhibition proves how wrong he was

The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian [...]

2024 SECA Art Award Exhibition at the SFMOMA

2024 SECA Art Award Exhibition at the SFMOMA From December 14, 2024, to May 25,... [...]

Strike at Seattle Art Museum ends as visitor services staff ratify first contract

The new contract raises the base hourly wage and reinstates a pre-pandemic retirement programme [...]

Francesco Hayez’s ‘Bathsheba’ Painting Sets Record with $1.8 Million Sale at Christie’s

A masterpiece by the celebrated 19th-century Italian painter Francesco Hayez has shattered expectations at Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale in London, setting a new world auction record for the artist. Bathsheba, an evocative oil painting dating back to 1827, sold for an astonishing $1,893,348, nearly doubling its pre-sale estimate! Bathsheba [...]

Houston’s Rothko Chapel reopens after hurricane damage is repaired

The Texas pilgrimage site for devotees of Abstract Expressionism returns just in time for the holidays [...]

Family of late Marlborough Gallery chairman Pierre Levai sue his lover, claiming she ‘kept him sick, starved’

Max and Rosemary Levai claim Pierre’s “long-time paramour” Marcia Levine is responsible for his death and should not receive any of his inheritance [...]

Comment | The exhibitions I adored this year—and the one I didn’t

2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor [...]

The artist bringing Van Gogh’s paintings to life—without the use of AI

Andrey Zakirzyanov’s video animations of famous paintings are drawing in millions of views on across social media [...]

In Alabama, plans to preserve the last transatlantic slave ship are taking shape

The Clotilda shipwreck will remain submerged as a monument to the 110 enslaved people it carried—and in tribute to their descendants in Mobile, Alabama [...]

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