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Austrian presidential hopeful pledges to return Moctezuma’s headdress to Mexico

With the 2028 election just over the horizon, the economist Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn has put the long-contested Aztec treasure back in the spotlight

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art makes room, lots of it, for murals by Banksy, Baca and others

From rare interventions by Banksy to monumental images by JR and Diego Rivera, and preparatory sketches by Judy Baca, the museum frames muralism as public storytelling

Scarlet Chengabout 2 hours ago

Police recover Renoir paintings stolen from French museum

Six suspects have also been arrested in connection to last month's burglary at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer

Gareth Harrisabout 9 hours ago

Signet ring depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria—a lost wonder of the ancient world—discovered during underwater excavation

The ring, the only of its kind known to exist, was found on the submerged Royal Island of Antirhodos

Hadani Ditmarsabout 12 hours ago

Restoration of earthquake-hit palace in Mantua nears completion

The Italian city’s sprawling Palazzo Ducale has undergone a 14-year revitalisation and renovation, including a room decorated by Andrea Mantegna

J.S. Marcusabout 11 hours ago

Museums & Heritage

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s cemetery art restored in the Bronx

The Untermyer Memorial at Woodlawn Cemetery contains evocative bronze sculptures created by the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Allison C. Meierabout 23 hours ago

Uncertain future for Glasgow’s art scene as city’s Centre for Contemporary Art closes

Despite several organisations presenting plans to run a new cultural space in the location, campaigners have criticised the selling off of the centre’s contents, including its archive

Pop-up exhibition outside MoMA highlights connections between trustee Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein

A mobile version of the Epstein files reading room was parked near the museum on Tuesday, with Epstein survivors in attendance, as part of a campaign to pressure MoMA to cut ties with Black

Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director

Noujaim previously served as the United Arab Emirates-based museum’s scientific, curatorial and collections management director

Ukraine rebuilds museum devoted to controversial national figure

Roman Shukhevych was a key figure in country’s fight for independence, but has also been accused of being a Nazi collaborator

Art market

Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction

More than 60 artists have donated work including Genieve Figgis, Alvaro Barrington, Joshua Donkor and Sanya Kantarovsky

Joe Ware1 day ago

Wealthy Gen Z collectors are the art market’s biggest spenders, survey finds

The latest “Survey of Global Collecting” from Art Basel and UBS also found a growing number of buyers are bypassing dealers and auction houses to purchase directly from artists

Hong Kong gallery Tang Contemporary closes amid row over outstanding debts

The gallery’s Wong Chuk Hang branch faces accusations of unpaid artist fees and legal action

Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership

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

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

Exhibitions

‘Eventually everything, if you leave it long enough, will fall back into nature’: Michael Landy on the art of disintegration

The UK artist known for his searing critiques of consumer culture is showing a new series of drawings at the Sir John Soane’s Museum that imagine the future ruins of notable buildings

Louisa Buckabout 7 hours ago

St Louis's Counterpublic triennial explores connections between art and civic infrastructure

The third edition of the public-art triennial has expanded to more than 50 projects across Missouri’s largest city

Angella d'Avignonabout 23 hours ago

Comment | Mark Wallinger’s latest work reflects his mastery of making big ideas accessible

The artist's new series of paintings can be traced back to René Descartes

Louisa Buckabout 10 hours ago

K-pop star RM shows off his collection of Korean art at SFMoMA

The museum appears to have a blockbuster on its hands—with 50,000 tickets already reserved for the BTS singer’s curatorial debut

Artist unveils golden statue of a nude Donald Trump at European parliament building

The Danish artist Jens Galschiøt also gave out 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture to visitors of the Strasbourg exhibition

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.

A Louis Vuitton foundation exhibition, with ten Van Gogh paintings, reveals the extraordinary vision of an early collector

Artist and collector Gustave Fayet is honoured as a bold pioneer of Modern art in the Paris show

Martin Baileyabout 11 hours ago

Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?

The reported acquisition of a work suggests that the London museum is revising its opinion of the late artist

Jean-ius portraiture: Nan Goldin collaborates with fashion house Acne Studios

The US artist and activist is helping the Stockholm brand celebrate its 30th anniversary in style

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

The Week in Art

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

Palestinian artists after the ceasefire, Robert Ryman, Katherine Hubbard—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about life for artists in Gaza one year on from the ceasefire, visits the new Robert Ryman survey at the Barbican in London, and speaks to US artist Katherine Hubbard about her latest installation exploring her mother's illness and memory loss

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrisonabout 9 hours ago
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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… Cecilia Vicuña—podcast

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

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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

Historic building in old Danish artist colony transformed into luxury hotel

CORI Hornbaek Hotel, just outside Copehagen, brings together brings together contemporary art, Mediterranean élan and the local speciality—hygge

‘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

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

‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters

A collection of the artist’s correspondence provides fascinating new insights, from his domestic life to acquisition negotiations

Gareth Harris1 day ago

Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato

“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life

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

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

Opinion

Comment | The Brooklyn Museum’s manga exhibition reveals the opportunities and challenges of tackling a global phenomenon

The Japanese art form has a fervent and wide-reaching community around it, which the New York museum has incorporated in its process

Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces

Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction

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

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