How abandoned oil wells are threatening US heritage sites

‘Intimate, personal, nuanced, complex’: Victoria and Albert Museum reveals winner of Jameel Prize 2024

The latest edition of the £25,000 prize, awarded every three years to an artist inspired by Islamic traditions, is themed around moving image and digital media

Published: 2024-11-27 19:30:42

US authorities return four artefacts from Ban Chiang archaeological site to Thailand

The items, which include a vessel and bracelet, had been gifted to a US soldier more than 50 years ago

Published: 2024-11-27 19:19:49

Museu de Arte de São Paulo to finally open $43m expansion project in March 2025

A new building adjacent to the Brazilian museum’s original home will more than double its total space

Published: 2024-11-27 18:46:54

Artists protest at Toronto Arts Foundation gala over funding from Israeli real estate company’s charitable foundation

The protests are part of a broader campaign pressuring Canadian arts organisations to cut ties with the Azrieli Foundation

Published: 2024-11-27 18:32:18

Art Week Tokyo compacts the sprawling city into something digestible

The fourth edition sees the event court serious collectors as well as curators

Published: 2024-11-27 16:56:44

A brush with… Jeff Wall — podcast

An in-depth interview with photographer Jeff Wall, discussing hallucinations, Franz Kafka and the inspiration he draws from comics

Published: 2024-11-27 13:39:00

Is social media one of the worst things to happen to artists? Yes, says US artist Josh Kline

Artist argues it has turned art into a business and negatively affected quality

Published: 2024-11-27 12:36:28

Seven years on from Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to return Africa’s heritage, frustration grows about the lack of progress

An Ivorian drum will be returned—though only under a special “deposit agreement”—while a crucial colonial bill has stalled

Published: 2024-11-27 12:30:13

London art world haunt Groucho Club closed as police investigate ‘serious crime’ on premises

The private members club was bought by Hauser & Wirth's founders in 2022

Published: 2024-11-27 12:07:51

From care worker to the National Galleries Scotland: Everlyn Nicodemus finally enjoys recognition

The Tanzania-born artist's retrospective features works kept in storage for four decades

Published: 2024-11-27 11:43:55

Hew Locke to ‘disrupt’ statue of Belgium monarch who oversaw brutal Congo regime

The British-Guyanese artist will place five masts in front of the depiction of Leopold II, whose administration was characterised by “systematic brutality and atrocities”

Published: 2024-11-27 11:25:16

California Institute of the Arts faculty and staff move to unionise

Grievances include changes to healthcare benefits, stagnant wages, layoffs and running the nonprofit arts college like a for-profit business

Published: 2024-11-26 22:44:35

Manhattan District Attorney's Office returns antiquities worth a total of $500,000 to Mexico

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

Published: 2024-11-26 18:46:21

Fit for a king: Egyptian museum in Turin unveils new galleries for monumental ancient sculptures

The dramatic revamp of the Italian institution’s Gallery of the Kings is part of a broader renovation that is due to complete in 2025

Published: 2024-11-26 15:52:12

Welsh government hopes to boost tourism and heritage with proposed ‘tourist tax’

Wales may follow cities such as Venice in introducing the controversial levy

Published: 2024-11-26 12:27:57

Elon Musk serves up disconcerting AI art

The controversial billionaire failed to spot a contemporary car in Caillebotte picture altered using artificial intelligence by Luma

Published: 2024-11-26 11:58:58

UK art imports fall 16% for second year in a row as Hong Kong picks up slack

Sector is lobbying UK government to simplify trading procedures, or risk being outpaced by competitors

Published: 2024-11-26 11:56:10

Two books explore Piet Mondrian's journey into abstraction—and his posthumous influence on 1960s fashion

How, two decades after his death, did Mondrian become a brand icon, and make a lasting contribution to the “youthquake”?

Published: 2024-11-26 10:51:02

Ancient Egyptian priestess’s remains found in father’s tomb

Remains from Middle Kingdom era, along with coffins and funerary objects, were found at the bottom of a hidden shaft south of Cairo

Published: 2024-11-26 10:48:30

This newly translated volume compiles the photographic traces of a libidinous love affair

Author Annie Ernaux and journalist Marc Marie’s collaborative memoir documents a passionate yet haunted relationship

Published: 2024-11-26 10:33:45

Bill that would allow Trump to designate art non-profits as 'terrorist organisations' advances to US Senate

The controversial bill has raised worries among Democrats who fear that Trump will exploit it for personal retribution

Published: 2024-11-25 23:09:21

Vancouver’s floating artist residency finds safe harbour in new location

The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, based in the refurbished former home and studio of Carole Itter and Al Neil, is now moored near Vancouver’s Maritime Museum

Published: 2024-11-25 21:40:20

The limits of transnational women’s solidarity in Mexico City’s art scene

Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics

Published: 2024-11-25 19:17:50

Venice Biennale reveals 2024 visitor figures

Overall visits were down on 2022, but organisers report an uptick in attendees from underrepresented groups

Published: 2024-11-25 12:54:47

Pro-Palestine boycott of Goldsmiths CCA ends after gallery cuts ties with donors

Students ended the action, which had led to the London institution’s temporary closure over the summer, after the names of Candida and Zak Gertler were removed from one of the CCA’s galleries and its donor list

Published: 2024-11-25 12:32:14

UK artists earning an average of just £12,500 per year, says new report

The document warns that visual arts is now a 'privileged profession', where 'only those with certain economic advantages can afford to pursue and sustain a career'

Published: 2024-11-25 12:23:33

Nan Goldin supported by protesters as she pleads for Gaza at Berlin opening

In an impassioned speech at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the artist accused Germany of gagging artists and conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism

Published: 2024-11-25 10:51:35

Remembering Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, the Unesco boss who fought for the dispossessed

The headline-making director-general of Unesco, who clashed with Reagan and Thatcher, died recently at the age of 103

Published: 2024-11-25 10:39:08

How abandoned oil wells are threatening US heritage sites

There are over three million orphaned wells across America, most of which were installed before environmental and cultural protection laws were enacted

Published: 2024-11-25 10:30:34

After Valencia's devastating floods, artists, museums and churches assess the damage

Following the deaths of more than 200 people in eastern Spain, the process of recovery and repair has revealed the enormous personal and institutional cost

Published: 2024-11-25 09:41:23

Steve McQueen’s Blitz, by turns gripping and didactic, locates solidarity in desperate survivalism

The artist and film-maker’s historical feature about London during the Battle of Britain frames it as a traumatic experience that cut through ossified strata of class and racial hierarchy

Published: 2024-11-22 21:37:56

Climate activists who dumped red powder on US Constitution at National Archives sentenced to prison

Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art

Published: 2024-11-22 20:34:34

Caravaggio portrait, unseen for decades, goes on view in Rome

The portrait of Maffeo Barberini was first attributed to Caravaggio 60 years ago, but had not been publicly displayed until now

Published: 2024-11-22 20:18:18

Denzil Forrester finds freedom in music

Dancing with the Grenada-born artist after the opening of his New York show proves to be a salve

Published: 2024-11-22 16:55:48

101 exhibitors revealed for Frieze Los Angeles fair's 2025 edition

Preparations for the fair come as with Frieze parent company Endeavor is exploring a potential sale of the British art brand

Published: 2024-11-22 16:00:36

Barbara Walker's show at the Whitworth makes me feel proud to be Black British

The British artist's first major survey exhibition in Manchester is worth leaving the London-centric art bubble for

Published: 2024-11-22 12:45:22

Controversial Science Museum sponsor charged in US over alleged bribery scheme

Gautam Adani—who lends his name to the museum's Adani Green Energy Gallery—was indicted in New York on charges including securities fraud

Published: 2024-11-22 12:44:52

The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa—podcast

Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre

Published: 2024-11-22 12:36:53