Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Former Cromwell Place chief appointed director of Glasgow International

Helen Nisbet will lead the Scottish art festival as it launches its 11th edition next year

Pallets, not plinths: the V&A opens its vast storehouse to the public

The V&A East Storehouse, opening at the 2012 London Olympics site on Saturday 31 May, offers visitors an experience akin to a trip to Ikea—including the chance to “order an object”

Lease agreement secures Camden Art Centre’s future for 99 years

Building saved following £1.9m fundraising campaign led by artists and galleries

Tracey Emin and Ai Weiwei pay tribute to BBC broadcaster Alan Yentob

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

UK culture minister says scrapping department would be ‘absolute madness’

Chris Bryant has said he wants to “bury” the rumour that Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to abolish the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Washington, DC Jewish Museum ‘heartbroken’ by deadly shooting

The museum's directors have issued their first statement since two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead outside the building yesterday evening

Artist couple open north London not-for-profit in former Zabludowicz gallery

Husband-and-wife artist duo Philip and Charlotte Colbert have opened Camden Arts Projects, which kicks off its programme with a show of works by Martin Creed

Celebrating its bicentenary, London's National Gallery makes three major acquisitions

Works by Edgar Degas, Carl Gustav Carus and Floris van Dijck have entered the gallery's collection

Middle man in Cattelan gold toilet theft given suspended sentence

Frederick Doe was convicted in March of conspiring to transfer criminal property and was accused of trying to broker the sale of around 10 kilograms of the stolen gold

Sunday Times Rich List 2025 reveals changing art world fortunes

Leonard Blavatnik moves down and Denise Coates up amid tax changes that could affect the philanthropic landscape

Magna Carta ‘copy’ once sold at Sotheby's is an original, say UK professors

The document was consigned to the auction house in 1946 then, later the same year, purchased by Harvard Law School for just $27.50

More than 160 Tutankhamun treasures have arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum

Conservation work will be carried out on on key objects ahead of the museum's long awaited launch on 3 July

‘There is not enough money for education’: French philanthropist to fund museum visits for 100,000 UK children

Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum

UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting

The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years

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