Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

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

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How Andy Warhol’s textile and fashion work influenced his art

Three key takeaways from a new book that looks at the artist's designs for shop awnings, advertising illustrations, screen-printed clothes and more

Dawn Airey announced as new chair of Arts Council England

The television veteran will replace Nicholas Serota, known for his Tate directorship, on 1 August for a term of four years

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

Widely known by her online alter ego Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein had come to prominence through her memes and critiques of the art world

Gone bananas: Cattelan's Comedian stolen from Centre Pompidou-Metz exhibition

The duct-taped banana installation was swiftly restored after its "perishable element" went missing on Saturday afternoon

British Museum director responds to pushback after Jewish Culture Month event postponed

The museum rescheduled a May lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah upon learning that a significant number of participants intended to disrupt the event

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