
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Qatari sheikh wins case against Phoenix Ancient Art over allegedly forged antiquity
The New York- and Geneva-based gallery says it will appeal 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
‘The violence hasn’t stopped, it has just learned to behave’: Maurizio Cattelan on why his new works chime with the times
The art world provocateur's latest works have been unveiled at Gagosian gallery, London
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
Miami collecting couple gift multi-million pound Joan Mitchell work to Tate
Jorge and Darlene Pérez will also fund curatorial endowment and have pledged to make a donation of African art
Inspired by the Cantonese diaspora in Europe, Lap-See Lam wins $100,000 Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award
The Swedish artist has explored ‘Westernised’ Chinese restaurants through a magical realist lens
April Book Bag: from a new angle on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to the re-issuing of bell hooks’s art essays
Our round-up of the latest art publications
New book looks at the shaping of Modern art in the Middle East beyond politics and war
The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner talks about his comprehensive new biography spanning from 1900 to today
Giuseppe Penone on his plans to take over London's Serpentine South—and the park beyond
Ahead of the opening of his largest UK exhibition to date, the Italian artist discusses what will make this show unique
Tate returns Nazi-looted Henry Gibbs painting to heirs of Jewish dealer
The UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”
Hong Kong Palace Museum show reflects a golden age of exchange between China and France
The exhibition, featuring loans from the Palace of Versailles and The Palace Museum in Beijing, celebrates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations
Lee Mingwei's anti-war work, ‘Guernica in Sand’, feels more relevant than ever
The Taiwanese artist encourages the audience to make their mark on his vast installation, an evocation of Picasso’s 1930s masterpiece, at M+ in Hong Kong
Casino giant hands out inaugural prize at Art Basel Hong Kong
Shin Min wins MGM's $50,000 award for her portrayal of the “harsh reality” faced by fast food workers in South Korea
Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for major Ancient Egypt show
Seven Egyptian venues will loan more than 200 works for the exhibition, including objects from Saqqara tombs
Exploring Robert Rauschenberg’s love of the East on his centennial
M+ to show works from the Overseas Cultural Interchange that ran in ten countries including China; Thaddaeus Ropac gallery gives US artist a platform at Art Basel Hong Kong
Political paintings and addressing misogyny: extensive Picasso exhibition opens in Hong Kong
The Art Newspaper's top takeaways from the M+ Museum's newest show
Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions
Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful
UK government announces raft of new museum trustees, including artist Isaac Julien and ‘Traitors’ presenter Claudia Winkleman
Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum
London Museum receives £20m cash boost and Roman artefact trove from Bloomberg
The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date
Two found guilty in theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet
The Crown Prosecution Service says it is confident that the case “played a part in disrupting a wider crime and money-laundering network”
Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?
A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view
Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts
The RA says that up to 60 jobs are a risk of redundancy—but the union claims the true figure is almost 100
Venice Biennale 2026: Switzerland and Nordic Countries reveal artists
Switzerland will be represented by six cultural figures, while a trio will take over the Nordic pavilion