Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Tate and V&A chiefs awarded in King’s Birthday Honours

Sculptor Antony Gormley received the top award of Companion of Honour

Crime news

In the can: two men jailed for Cattelan gold toilet theft

James Sheen, 40, and Michael Jones, 39, were sentenced in Oxford, UK, for their involvement in the heist

UK department of culture faces cuts following government spending review

Announced yesterday by chancellor Rachel Reeves, the review states that total expenditure at the DCMS will be reduced by 1.4% in coming years

Tate Liverpool receives £12m from UK government to support delayed revamp

The reopening of regional UK museum was originally due to take place this year, but was pushed back to 2027

Prosecution of gallerist under UK’s Terrorism Act should serve as ‘warning to all art dealers’, says Metropolitan Police

The first-of-its-kind case saw Oghenochuko Ojiri, an expert on the BBC's ‘Bargain Hunt’, sentenced to two and a half years in prison earlier this month

Newly attributed Turner painting, last sold for £500, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with £300,000 estimate

The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner

Former Hepworth Wakefield director appointed chief executive of London's Royal Academy

Following a restructure and redundancies, Simon Wallis replaces Axel Rüger in the role

Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread back campaign to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in the UK

The Hepworth Wakefield gallery is hoping to raise £3.8m to acquire ‘Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red’

UK national museums back call for end to ‘relentless negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship

The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have signed a public letter authored by the co-chief executives of Sadler’s Wells

Book Clubfeature

Rain, insomnia and finding a model: how Morocco challenged and changed Matisse

The author of a new book, Jeff Koehler, tells us about the French artist’s fruitful but sometimes tricky sojourns in Tangier

An expert’s guide to Postmodernism: five must-read books on the movement

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from a pivotal novel to a book on how Postmodernism “shapes all aspects of contemporary life”—selected by The Cosmic House director Eszter Steierhoffer

China’s terracotta army reportedly ‘damaged’ by museum visitor

A 30-year-old man reportedly “climbed over the guardrail” that protects the 2,000-year-old statues

Louvre to return 258 works to Fondation des Artistes

Items from Adèle de Rothschild's cabinet of curiosities will be returned to the foundation after they erroneously ended up in the collection of the Paris museum

Uzbekistan's inaugural Bukhara biennial promises to explore art, craft and emotion through food

Titled ‘Recipes for Broken Hearts’ the biennial will feature more than 70 Uzbek artists, along with the UK's Antony Gormley

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