Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

1-54 makes the most of its new home in New York

The 11th edition sees the fair relocate to Halo in the Financial District

Tate Modern, the ‘cathedral to contemporary art’, celebrates 25 years

Artists and curators look at the London museum’s achievements, and the challenges ahead

Artists and architects shortlisted in Queen Elizabeth II memorial design competition

Designs by five teams have been shortlisted to create the proposed memorial in St James’s Park, with the winning entry due to be announced this summer

What would abolishing the UK government's department for culture mean for the arts?

Following recent reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to dismantle the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, experts and politicians weigh up the pros and cons of such a move

‘It’s a dream vessel for me’: Defne Ayas appointed new director of the Van Abbemuseum

Ayas replaces Charles Esche, who has been in post for two decades, taking the reins ahead of the museum’s 90th anniversary in 2026

Could artwork donations provide stability for cash-strapped UK art schools? London's Goldsmiths College thinks so

The college has launched a new model, backed by a £4m art donation, encouraging donors to give money and art, or entire collections, to support its teaching and finances

Left at the altar: Luc Tuymans's paintings to replace Tintoretto works at Venetian church

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration

Child damages Rothko work at Rotterdam museum

The incident raises questions about security in open-storage museums

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Immersive experience featuring ‘costumed folk’ shortlisted for world's biggest museum prize

Judges including comedian Phil Wang and artist Rana Begum selected the Beamish Museum to join four other spaces on the Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist

Head to head: medieval experts clash over exact number of penises in Bayeux Tapestry

In a new blog post, a scholar in Anglo-Saxon nudity doubles down on his belief that the mystery appendage is a phallus, not a scabbard

Two new art centres set to open in Venice

The new San Marco Art Centre will be based in St Mark’s Square from next month, while the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation will take over the Dorsoduro building

‘The arts are vanishing from education’: new report urges UK government to invest in arts sector

Backed by MPs and artists including Tracey Emin and Larry Achiampong, the report calls for a £5m grassroots visual arts fund and a reversal of funding cuts

Rembrandt works called into question by experts in the Netherlands

Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery say famous paintings may have been made by the Dutch Old Master’s students or studio assistants

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Tate announces 2025 Turner Prize shortlist

The four nominated artists will take part in an exhibition in Bradford later this year as part of the UK City of Culture festival

Jeremy Deller to close National Gallery's bicentenary celebrations with ‘first of its kind’ parade and party

The event, planned to take place in London's Trafalgar Square on 26 July, will draw folklore and traditions from across the UK

Qatari sheikh wins case against Phoenix Ancient Art over allegedly forged antiquity

The New York- and Geneva-based gallery says it will appeal the ruling in the case brought by Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah al-Thani

What’s on: Our pick of some of the best exhibitions to see during Art Dubai

Contemporary and performance art, plus a sprawling survey of sub-Saharan art are all on offer during the fair

New book tells the story of a century of Middle Eastern art

Arab art expert Saeb Eigner explores the work of more than 250 Modern and contemporary artists spanning diverse art movements across 22 countries in the Middle East

UAE launches fund to help local artists participate in global art fairs

The new scheme, managed by Art Dubai, will provide up to half the stand costs for galleries to exhibit at major fairs

Banksy treads the boards: new play explores fallout following Port Talbot garage mural

Dealer who bought “Season’s Greetings”, which first appeared in south Wales in December 2018, says local council rejected plans for urban art museum

British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

Venice Biennale 2026: The Netherlands and Lithuania reveal artists

Dries Verhoeven will show a performance piece in the Dutch pavilion while Eglė Budvytytė looks to Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

BBC unveils restored sculpture by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill

The statue, which has twice been vandalised in recent years, is now displayed in a glass case

Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte have taken over Pinault’s Venetian galleries: here are the works not to miss

From subversions of the “reclining woman“ motif to an urban cosmos, the works in these sprawling shows offer an insight into the diversity of the two artists’ practices

Former Tate chief appointed inaugural chair of Gallery Climate Coalition

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment