Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Recently restored castle in Norwich among five institutions shortlisted for UK's top museum prize

Spaces in Norwich, Plymouth and Cambridge will be considered alongside London heavyweights for the £120,000 award

British Art Show—exhibiting UK's 'most exciting' art in past five years—announces line up for tenth edition

Organised by curator Ekow Eshun, "A Chorus of Strangers" includes artists such as Alex Margo Arden, Alvaro Barrington, Lubna Chowdhary and Jesse Darling

English museums should only charge tourists if digital ID checks in place, UK politician says

The Labour peer Margaret Hodge has gone into more detail on proposals put forward in a report about the funding body Arts Council England

London's Southbank Centre to receive £10m government funding boost

The investment, part of a £128m support package for culture venues across the UK, follows a period in which the centre has struggled financially

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‘A fresh look at contemporary culture’: Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, takes us inside the new London museum

The Stratford-based museum, opening this month, aims to build on the success of V&A East Storehouse, which has attracted 500,000 visitors since it opened in May last year

Staff at Goldsmiths art college plan industrial action ahead of redundancies

'Future Goldsmiths' marks the third restructure programme at the south London-based university in five years

FKA Twigs and Brian Eno among artists included in the Vatican's sound-based 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion

The Holy See pavilion will honour the the life and legacy of the Benedictine nun, Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Spanish culture ministry denies loan of Picasso's Guernica to Bilbao

A Guggenheim Bilbao display of the monumental painting would have marked the 90th anniversary of the bombing that inspired it

London’s V&A launches webpage exploring provenance of its objects

The new collections hub page speaks to an “institutional commitment to accountability and transparency”, the museum’s director Tristram Hunt said

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Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art

We speak to the author of a new book that looks at how making prints has been vital for many famous artists

Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sends message of ‘preventive peace’ on digital billboards around the world

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities

Arts and heritage organisations largely exempted from new UK regulations on memberships

Representatives for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Tate had warned that the legislation could have severely impacted their funding

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Keep it in the family: how Johannes Vermeer’s paintings remained out of view for so long

In an exclusive extract from Andrew Graham-Dixon’s new biography, we learn how many of the Dutch Old Master's works stayed in one family for years

Barn at Henry Moore’s former home redeveloped into exhibition space

Following a £5m refit, the Sheep Field Barn gallery at the sculptor’s farmhouse in Hertfordshire, England, will also house an education centre

Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse works stolen in ‘three-minute’ Italian museum heist

Italian police say that four hooded criminals broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, housed in a rural villa south of Parma, on 22 March

German artist Anne Imhof to be subject of ‘ambitious’ Hong Kong solo exhibition

The Golden Lion-winning artist's first Asian solo show will feature works spanning multiple media, including a new commission

UK government to ‘explore’ charging international visitors to museums in England

The government's favourable response comes three months after the publication of Margaret Hodge's landmark Arts Council England review

Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District signs partnerships with 12 international institutions

The agreements will see an artist-in-residence pilot programme established with the Misk Art Institute in Riyadh and collaborations with Museums Victoria in Australia

Art Fund launches new fellowship scheme for global majority curators

The scheme will aim to address imbalances in the cultural sector, explore transcultural perspectives and engage with communities

Dalí painting that inspired Schiaparelli dress to be shown in UK for first time

“Necrophiliac Spring” was owned by the Italian fashion designer and led her to create the Tears Dress, one of her most famous creations

‘I don’t like that idea’: outgoing Tate director Maria Balshaw enters debate on museum admission charges

Balshaw says a proposed 'tourist tax' would be a better source of revenue for UK museums

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Tate announces major David Hockney, Edvard Munch and Sonia Boyce exhibitions for 2027

The programme, announced as Tate’s director Maria Balshaw departs, will also feature shows for the Algerian modernist painter Baya and the British artist Thomas Gainsborough, alongside a group exhibition exploring Asian works in ink

Snuffboxes stolen in Paris daylight robbery to go on display at V&A

The snuffboxes, made in 18th-century Berlin, come from the Gilbert Collection, and will go on display in a new gallery space at the V&A in South Kensington

Self-generated income for UK museums ‘can only go so far’ in filling gaps left by funding cuts, report says

Such income streams are “riskier” according to a new report by the National Audit Office

Monumental Rubens ceiling painting revealed once more after two-year renovation

The Flemish master's largest-known work, in London's Whitehall, will now be accessible at close quarters, thanks to a newly-installed lift

Late British artist Lynn Chadwick to be focus of major retrospective at UK’s Houghton Hall

The artist’s sculpture “Back to Venice” (1988) will also be offered at Christie’s London’s in March

Lee Ufan retrospective will be among 2026 Venice Biennale collateral events

The show, spanning the South Korean artist’s seven-decade career, will be one of 31 collateral events at this year’s Biennale