Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Arts Council England abolishes beleaguered flagship strategy

Following an independent review, Let's Create has been replaced with an interim strategic framework

Rediscovered Leonora Carrington painting to go on show for the first time at London's Freud Museum

Created during the Surrealist's treatment at a Spanish sanatorium, the work will go on display in London in July before travelling to Faro Santander in Spain

Arthurian manuscript could make magic at Christie's London

The late 13th century illuminated manuscript is estimated to sell for £1.5m-£2m this summer

A modern Tower of Babel? Pope Leo XIV warns against artificial intelligence

In his first major teaching, Pope Leo XIV cites Picasso's Guernica as a human creation of 'almost prophetic significance'

Chanel gives Centre Pompidou financial boost with new five-year partnership

The “commitment will strengthen Centre Pompidou’s work across access, scholarship, and the preservation of public knowledge” according to a statement

Museums in England largely oppose proposal to charge admission for foreign tourists

A storm of opinion is raging in the arts world on whether an admission fee is needed, with some museums arguing the income would be offset by a loss of other revenue

British Museum reveals ticket prices for Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

The first tranche of tickets can be booked from 1 July; members, meanwhile, will only be able to visit free-of-charge twice

M+ and Centre Pompidou announce multi-year partnership

The Hong Kong and Paris institutions will stage a major exhibition with work from both collections, to open at the revamped Centre Pompidou in 2030

Tate Britain previews new garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Featuring a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, the display is framed as a "taster" of Tate Britain's public sculpture garden to open next year

The art world remembers Valie Export, Austrian pioneer of feminist performance art

Best known for daring audiences to face and feel the female body on her own terms, the performance artist died in Vienna on 14 May at 85 years old

In Pictures: New Museum curator Gary Carrion-Murayari’s Frieze favourites

The New Museum’s senior curator takes us around the fair, highlighting works by Arthur Simms, Pedro Neves and others

New fund helps museums make purchases at Frieze New York

The Brooklyn Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art both acquired works with assistance from the Sherman Family Foundation Acquisition Fund

A reading room for the Epstein files opens in New York

A display of more than 3,000 volumes of printed-out files seeks to inform the public about the sex offender's multifarious entanglements

Gozo Yoshimasu wins first Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize

The 87-year-old artist and poet is the inaugural receipient of the £200,000 award, lauded as the UK's largest contemporary art prize

More than 70 Venice Biennale artists withdraw from awards

Walid Raad, Alice Maher and Alfredo Jaar are among those who have signed a protest statement in solidarity with the resignation of the exhibition's jury

Venice Biennale strike sees more than 15 pavilions temporarily or partially close

The action, organised by the campaign group Art Not Genocide Alliance, will culminate in a rally in the city

Alexander Morrison. With additional reporting by Carlie Porterfield and Gareth Harris
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Banksy’s Venice mural has been restored and will now tour city

The work known as ‘Migrant Child’ was extensively conserved in a project funded by the banking group Banca Ifis

Gareth Harris. With additional reporting by James Imam

Sound-based Holy See pavilion opens at Venice Biennale as Vatican’s contemporary art ambitions grow

The Vatican meanwhile recently opened a contemporary art space, which next year will feature work by artists including Yan Pei-Ming

Our pick of the best pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale

From splashing sewage to moments of zen, here is our selection of top national presentations in the Giardini, Arsenale and across town

Cultural workers at Venice Biennale to strike over Israel’s participation

A rally is also planned to take place in the city on the same day, 8 May

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‘A remarkably tenacious motif’: the many faces of Marilyn Monroe revealed in new book and show

Different artists’ takes on the film star are explored ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London

The Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise

From a Christie's exhibition to a posthumous display of Mel Ramos, this year numerous explicitly commercial shows signal a shift in attitude

Botticelli under UK export ban purchased by Klesch Collection

The Quattrocento Renaissance painting will be on loan to the Ashmolean Museum for three years

UK’s Brighton & Hove Museums to return 45 artefacts to Botswana

The objects, acquired by English reverend William Charles Willoughby in the 19th century, will now form part of a permanent display in Serowe

Major Greek contemporary art non-profit Neon to close after 14 years

After sponsoring many exhibitions and commissions across his native Greece, Neon founder Dimitris Daskalopoulos will continue to fund individual projects in Athens and several curatorial posts

Titian's ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ to get a refresh with bank conservation grant

Major conservation funding, sponsored by Bank of America, has been granted to London's National Gallery as well as 17 additional projects at other international institutions

Stockholm's Market Art Fair wants to prove the 'periphery is now essential'

Proudly regional, but with global ambitions, the 20th edition of Sweden's largest commercial art event sees 54 dealers gather in a new venue

Sonic investigations non-profit to be artist-in-residence at London's Gasworks

Led by Turner Prize winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Earshot utilises audio as a tool for research and advocacy

Antony Gormley sculpture quietly removed and sold off by UK council

The Reform-run council sold the public work back to the artist for an undisclosed sum