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Museum of the City of New York opens new centre for social activism

The Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism’s inaugural exhibitions focus on activism in the Big Apple and the living cultures of the Lenape

Sarah Casconeabout 4 hours ago

Phoenix Art Museum receives $5m gift for new Sri Lankan and South Asian art galleries

The local philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran hopes his gift will deepen cultural understanding of the region and elevate its art

Gabriella Angeletiabout 6 hours ago

British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours

Some ticket holders have reportedly queued for up to two hours to enter the blockbuster exhibition, while others have been turned away

Gareth Harrisabout 9 hours ago

Comment | ‘Britart’ started well in the 1990s—but it soon became as bad as Britpop

Can Tate Britain's new show escape nostalgia and knock down the monstrous mythologies surrounding the Young British Artists?

Ben Lukeabout 10 hours ago

How an EU-funded research programme has been future-proofing art conservation

GoGreen has brought together experts from 13 institutions to explore sustainable methods—testing some out on a 1906 Tiffany dish

Annabel Keenanabout 9 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

How Turkey is racing to save Gallipoli’s vanishing shipwrecks

A recently launched project called Deep Heritage aims to slow the disintegration of dozens of warships sunk off Turkey's coast during the devastating First World War campaign

Ayla Jean Yackleyabout 10 hours ago

Matronage over patronage: the Prado and Rijksmuseum team up to research women rulers’ impact on art

The collaborative project will explore the women of Habsburg Empire and include an exhibition at the Amsterdam museum in 2029

Strongest El Niño in decades threatens Peru’s adobe heritage

Authorities are scrambling to protect more than 10,000 coastal archaeological sites as experts accuse them of insufficient planning despite warnings

Doubts over financial sustainability of Brussels’s new Kanal museum cloud upcoming opening

The managing director Yves Goldstein will step down immediately after the opening in November due to “a difference of opinion” over the institution‘s future

Art market

Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership

Recent US lawsuits, including a row over underpricing, reveal weaknesses in the market

Riah Pryorabout 11 hours ago

Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction

The painting, discovered in an estate sale in Michigan this summer, set a new auction record for Abercrombie at a Freeman’s sale in New York

$450m Impressionist collection—including a potentially record-breaking Van Gogh painting—to be sold at Sotheby's New York

Five of the works from the Blaquier-Arrieta collection go on show in London today as part of an international tour ahead of the sale in November

Untitled Art, Houston taps into a city where artists can thrive

The second edition of the fair highlights Houston’s galleries, collectors and institutions, while artists point to affordability, strong connections and a spirit of experimentation

‘The struggle creates genius’: as it grows and matures, Atlanta Art Fair spotlights the city’s hard-working artists

The fair’s third edition, its largest yet, saw a bevy of sales in its opening hours, primarily in the four- and five-figure range

Exhibitions

Grounding ourselves: new exhibition in London explores our complex relationship to the earth

“Listening to the Earth” at Drawing Room brings together ten artists who work with the earth as both subject and material

Louisa Buckabout 11 hours ago

Exhibition at New York's Met examines how Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock's relationship enriched their art

A new show argues that the Abstract Expressionist power couple could never have made their groundbreaking works without each other’s support

Latest edition of Portland triennial offers powerful projects but lacks a cohesive theme

The New York-based curator Lumi Tan has brought together 28 artist projects that are captivating yet disparate for the Converge 45 triennial in Oregon

Iván Argote—the artist behind the infamous pigeon sculpture for New York's High Line—to debut permanent installation in Italy

This month, the Colombian artist will unveil his site-specific sculpture in an ancient Piedmontese town, as well as a solo gallery show in London

Copenhagen's Glyptotek is thinking about the Roman Empire with new ancient fashion exhibition

Exhibition at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes sensational loans—and some added colour

Adventures with Van Gogh

Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.

The story behind the record-price Van Gogh up for auction in November

“Blossoming Chestnut Trees”, which has been hidden away for over 60 years, is being sold by Sotheby's for the Blaquier-Arrieta family of Argentina

Sylvie in Paris? Netflix star to lead weekend rehang at this year's Art Basel Paris

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, best known to Anglophone audiences from the hit series Emily in Paris, will ‘art-direct’ the French fair's Oh La La! rehang programme

Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare

London exhibition will examine the life of the crime fiction writer and how she created her most famous characters

When Dolly met Andy: a snapshot of the country music legend’s impact on artists

From Warhol to Annie Leibovitz, the late Dolly Parton was an inspiration to artists over her long career

Somebody to Love at the V&A as Freddie Mercury's costumes going on view

Eight of the Queen frontman's costumes will be exhibited in the free 'Splendid Things' display at the South Kensington museum

‘An important moment for me’: artist Oliver Beer’s cave-themed project wins over a reluctant Rufus Wainwright

Oliver Beer persuaded the star to take part in his Resonance Project, which involves singers to responding to the acoustic frequencies in a prehistoric painted cave

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Renoir and Love in London, political storm around Kanal in Brussels, Ronald Moody—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke previews a new Renoir exhibition at London's National Gallery, learns about the controversy around the opening of Kanal in Brussels, and explores a sculpture from 1938 by Jamaican-born artist Ronald Moody

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison

The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry, a nearly 70m-long embroidery telling the story of the Norman Conquest, has returned to England for the first time since it was made nearly 1,000 years ago, going on view in a special exhibition at the British Museum. To mark the occasion, here is a curated selection of our stories on the treasured work

British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry

Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos

Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?

Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public

Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF

A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show

‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech

Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry

As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with… Sunil Gupta—podcast

Sunil Gupta talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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Art on Location

Art on Location offers a special focus on outdoor art experiences, with news, features and archive content covering public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology

‘These are party houses aren't they?’ Why Britain's stately homes are opening up to contemporary art

Showing works by artists including Tracey Emin and Phyllida Barlow over the summer is helping to attract new audiences and bolster income for historic buildings

Sun, sea, sand—and art: luxury hotel in Crete commissions works in response to the island

The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation has taken on the challenge of putting outdoor art in scorching Mediterranean conditions at the Minos Palace Resort

From beavers to basketball hoops: a new public art trail opens in Toronto

The Lassonde Art Trail is part of a $1bn redevelopment project to revitalise the city's relationship with its waterways

Books

New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists

The study explores how Valleyer-Coster cultivated an elite clientele in a turbulent France while navigating the pressures placed on women artists

J. Cabelle Ahnabout 10 hours ago

Royal Academy book looks at Richard Dadd beyond the themes of madness and murder

Jennifer Higgie’s new novel meanwhile takes a very different approach to the life and legacy of the English artist, who spent much of his life in psychiatric institutions

Meet Alan Dunn, the New Yorker cartoonist who put Modernism in its place

A new book explores how Alan Dunn poked fun at 20th-century American architecture over this five-decade cartooning career

A bonanza of Bayeux Tapestry books to accompany the blockbuster British Museum exhibition

There is plenty to read about the medieval masterpiece as it returns to England for the first time in almost 1,000 years

Opinion

Comment | It's high time philanthropy was decentralised

Charles Asprey has shown courage and imagination by donating works to the tiny and remote Pier Arts Centre, instead of one of the UK’s prestigious London-based institutions

Comment | A trip to Venice this year offered thought-provoking reminders of past art disputes

From a contested Richard Prince to the disputed Veroneses, La Serenissima remains one of the best places to see works of art formerly at the centre of legal controversies

Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration

Comment | Why should artists stay in cities like London and New York when financial pressures are making it harder than ever?

Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention

Obituaries

Lucia Laguna, Brazilian painter of verdant and fragmented cityscapes, has died, aged 85

Laguna, who only started painting after retiring from her teaching career, started to achieve success when she was in her 60s

Peter Max, artist who achieved ubiquity marrying Pop art and psychedelia, has died, aged 88

A celebrity in his own right who also created riotous portraits of many famous and powerful people, Max made images that became inseparable from the legacy of the Summer of Love and countercultural movement

Geles Cabrera, the pioneering Mexican sculptor, has died, aged 100

Through her sinuous approach to the human figure, Cabrera forged a distinctive sculptural language and challenged conventions

Remembering Sliman Mansour, a defining figure of Palestinian art

Through his art, Mansour was a pioneering force of Palestinian cultural resistance

Christian Bernard, founding director of Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, dies aged 76

Over a four-decade career, the French art critic and curator profoundly influenced contemporary art institutions in Switzerland and France

The Art of Luxury

A magazine, published twice per year by The Art Newspaper, exploring how grande marque fashion, jewellery, travel and lifestyle interact with artists, the art market and the museums and heritage sector

‘An inexhaustible source of inspiration’: how the spirit of jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger lives on at Tiffany & Co

The jewellery house and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris are partnering to restore thousands of the designer's sketches and personal documents

Mexican chef brings spirit of Frida Kahlo to Tate Modern pop up restaurant

Santiago Lastra is combining a love for the artist and his home cuisine in London this summer

From the Hamptons to Saint-Tropez: design fairs PAD and Nomad follow the sun

Nomad co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte describes the fair as “a resort concept”

'A work of conceptual art': Belmond launches new Art Deco-inspired train dining car

The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior