This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso

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

The beautiful game? Untangling the tricky relationship between art and football

The sport has a rich historical connection to visual culture but a new trend to immortalise the living presents interesting challenges

Published: 2024-11-22 12:05:23

'Two ex-art students just getting on with it': Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood to have first museum show next summer

Donwood reveals the thinking behind the band’s album covers over the past 30 years—and why he gave up trying to paint a portrait of the band

Published: 2024-11-22 11:30:47

Rotterdam’s new museum of migration, Fenix, to open in May

Droom en Daad foundation funds new collection and renovation of dockside warehouse centred on spectacular new double-helix Tornado

Published: 2024-11-22 11:29:09

Van Gogh was not fantasising when he painted mountain landscapes with ‘The Two Holes’

A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature have been brought together at London’s National Gallery, on loan from New York

Published: 2024-11-22 11:28:00

Works by Basquiat, Haring and Hockney help Christie's 21st century evening sale net a healthy $106.5m

However, despite assistance from big names, it was emerging artists who were the real stars of the show

Published: 2024-11-22 11:10:36

This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso

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

Published: 2024-11-22 10:23:01

Who wore it best? A century of artists’ style

The fashion writer Derek Guy—perhaps best known for his pithy menswear observations and advice, dolled out via X—talks us through his sartorial favourites, from David Hockney to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Published: 2024-11-22 09:47:32

Rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 sells for 5,000 times original price

The Carr painting was one of the star attractions at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s marquee autumn sale in Toronto, alongside works by Tom Thomson, Marcelle Ferron, Kenojuak Ashevak and Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart

Published: 2024-11-21 18:53:15

How luxury buyers are changing art as we know it

The trade is increasingly reliant on an ultra-wealthy international clientele that lives what may be termed a ‘luxury lifestyle’

Published: 2024-11-21 17:02:15

Indigenous mound in St Louis is transferred to the Osage Nation

Along with the land transfer, the city of St Louis acknowledged the Osage Nation’s tribal sovereignty and their ancestral rights to the site

Published: 2024-11-21 17:01:02

Abu Dhabi Art 2024 is bigger than ever—but conflict in Lebanon and Gaza looms large

Meanwhile rumours of Art Basel parent company MCH investing into the fair were being widely discussed

Published: 2024-11-21 16:42:11

Untitled Art fair will expand to Houston in 2025

According to its organisers, this latest addition to the art-market calendar will be a boutique invitational fair

Published: 2024-11-21 15:00:00

Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton

ArtMeta art fair and Tezos ecosystem are taking Quantel Paintbox—used by contemporary art giants four decades ago—on a global tour to introduce it to a new generation of creators

Published: 2024-11-21 13:16:54

Tracey Emin helps win fight to protect famous Margate tower block

Council rejects proposal to replace windows in Arlington House, a Brutalist seafront building

Published: 2024-11-21 12:39:23

Ecological operas: the Gwangju Biennale 2024 moves away from the ideological

This year's edition of the leading South Korean exhibition takes its name from the traditional music form Pansori

Published: 2024-11-21 12:27:48

Yto Barrada to represent France at 2026 Venice Biennale

Barrada was selected for her “multidisciplinary practice that brings together various artistic and social communities in search of a new utopia”

Published: 2024-11-21 12:00:30

Looted Etruscan treasures seized after ‘tomb raiders’ post works online

Italian police used wire taps and drone surveillance to intercept the thieves

Published: 2024-11-21 11:30:13

Julian Assange visits artist who held $45m worth of art hostage

Andrei Molodkin threatened to destroy works by Picasso and others if the activist died in prison. Now, he is exhibiting a portrait of Assange in a new show

Published: 2024-11-21 11:30:08

‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home

Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?

Published: 2024-11-21 10:25:51

Beyond the banana: Sotheby's contemporary art night nets a modest $112m

Despite Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian selling for a staggering $6.2m, The Now and contemporary auctions in New York made 63% less than last year

Published: 2024-11-21 08:55:06

‘The world's most expensive banana’: Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian fetches $6.2m at Sotheby’s New York

The buyer, the collector and crypto investor Justin Sun, immediately vowed to eat the banana

Published: 2024-11-21 00:49:18

After an embattled edition, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale announces next show

Nikhil Chopra and the collective HH Art Spaces will curate the next instalment of the prestigious Indian exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2025

Published: 2024-11-20 20:09:26

Vancouver Art Gallery expands Asian art programme with $1.1m gift

The museum’s renamed Centre for Global Asias seeks to “recognise the many Asias that exist, within the geography of Asia itself and in the global diaspora”

Published: 2024-11-20 19:39:31

A brush with… Goshka Macuga — podcast

An in-depth interview with Turner nominee Goshka Macuga, discussing her influences from Eileen Agar to Stanisław Lem—and how she came to dance in her studio

Published: 2024-11-20 13:39:12

Three climate activists charged following Stonehenge paint protest

The members of Just Stop Oil are set to appear in court next month

Published: 2024-11-20 11:40:31

Magritte gets star billing at Christie's $410m 'solid as a rock' evening auction

The interior designer Mica Ertegun's Surrealist L'empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with a new high also set for Ed Ruscha

Published: 2024-11-20 11:02:23