Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum in London after secret English Channel crossing

The medieval embroidery was delivered to the museum from France in the early hours of the morning ahead of the September exhibition opening

Icom adopts new code of ethics for museums in bid to address a ‘rapidly changing world’

The new code provides revised principles on how institutions should handle issues ranging from education to their relationship to society

Book Clubinterview

The worst of us: a philosopher’s guide to the world’s most depraved art

The academic Daisy Dixon discusses her new book investigating the art that has provoked outrage over the centuries

Interest in art’s benefit to health grows as Wales and Greece take major steps

Government awareness is increasing globally as the emphasis shifts from treatment towards prevention

National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside two other works

British Museum to turn red for second fundraising ball

Tickets for this year's event will cost £3,500 a head to raise funds towards the museum's billion-pound transformation

Bayeux Tapestry exhibition brings in £2.5m for the British Museum on first day of ticket sales

Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with further releases to come

National Museum Cardiff may temporarily close for renovation work, officials say

Any closure of the museum's building “will be subject to a full review and consultation”, according to Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales)

UK charity Hospital Rooms to distribute artist posters to more than 1,000 mental health facilities for tenth anniversary

Designs by Grayson Perry and Yinka Shonibare will go on show across England and also be for sale to raise funds to support more artist commissions in psychiatric wards

UK government leaving museums vulnerable with ‘hands-off approach’, parliamentary report says

The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in its report, accusing the government department of a ‘lack of leadership’

Art marketanalysis

What sold at Christie's London auction of controversial Zabludowicz collection?

Consigned from the holdings of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, the £15.4m sale fell within estimate

The Box in Plymouth, ‘a welcoming space’ which ‘reaches beyond its walls’, wins UK Art Fund’s Museum of the Year prize

The museum has been praised for the ambitious way it has shared its collections and for its social outreach

Women auto workers who helped inspire UK's Equal Pay Act honoured in east London public sculpture

Made in collaboration with local students, Ruth Ewan's sculpture will mark the beginning of a heritage trail at the redeveloped Dagenham Green site

Helen Cammock removes film criticising Winston Churchill from London's National Portrait Gallery following complaint

‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says is inaccurate

London Museum announces opening date for new Smithfield location

The revamped museum, which focuses on the history of the UK capital, will open to the public on 28 November 2026

Paula Cooper Gallery wins first Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award

The prizewinner nominated Chapter NY to receive funding towards participation at next year's fair

Art Basel Qatar to move to Herzog & de Meuron-designed venue

The emir's Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani revealed details of the purpose-built location, on which construction is expected to begin in 2028

Exhibition examines new vocabulary that gave same-sex desire a place in art

Kunstmuseum Basel show traces the early history of queer art and artists, from the time the word “homosexual” was coined

Government-funded mobile museum to tour national collections across England

Co-sponsored by arts charity Art Explora, the new mobile museum aims to increase access to the UK's Government Art Collection and works from other partner institutions

Sculpture by Edi Rama, Albania's prime minister, features at Art Basel

The bronze work is presented as part of Parcours, the fair's public art section

The art world honours David Hockney, ‘who flew the flag higher than any other British artist’

From Tracey Emin to Nicholas Serota, tributes have poured in for the painter since his death at 88 years old on 11 June

Child damages Magritte painting with pinecone

The 1959 painting 'The Castle of the Pyrenees' is being restored at the Israel Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum to bring Istanbul to London in upcoming exhibition

Charting the Turkish city's history through the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, the V&A claims that the show will be “the first exhibition in the UK to tell this story in full”

New digital archive reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts for the first time in four centuries

The director of the Museo Galileo, which has led the Leonardotheka project, says it sets a “compelling precedent for how cultural institutions can and must retain intellectual ownership of their digital endeavours”

Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56

Best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and its award-winning film adaption, Satrapi died in Paris on 4 June from “sadness” following her husband's recent death

Openingsfeature

Quentin Blake’s sprawling Centre for Illustration to launch in London

The hub, housed in complex of industrial buildings in north London, will showcase illustration and graphics by the celebrated British artist and many others

JR's wrapped Pont Neuf installation in Paris damaged in storm

The opening of the French street artist's newest public work and tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude has now been delayed