Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Parthenon Marbles row deepens after Rishi Sunak cancels meeting with Greek prime minister

The snub comes after Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised restitution issue with Labour leader Keir Starmer

Gasworks contemporary art centre in London appoints Robert Leckie as new director

Former Turner Prize judge replaces Alessio Antoniolli who has been in post for 18 years

Royal Academy president Rebecca Salter takes over Gainsborough’s House with new solo show

The survey pairs the UK artist with Rembrandt, Cedric Morris and George Frost

UK's Royal College of Art appoints Christoph Lindner as vice-chancellor

The new president's previous roles have included a focus on the climate crisis

Bristol's Arnolfini gallery faces backlash after cancelling Palestine film events

Film screening and poetry night were pulled over concerns they may be seen as "political activity"

UK museum reclassifies Roman emperor as transgender

According to research, Elagabalus asked to be called "lady" and preferred other feminine addresses

Battle of the Henry Moore heads: rare sculptures with estimates of more than £2m go on the block

Sotheby’s is selling an alabaster piece while Bonhams’ early carving is made from ironstone

‘Sex, bodies and the human condition’: MONA artistic director to curate racy group show in former Swiss porn cinema

Works by Nan Goldin and Andres Serrano will feature, as well as a site-specific installation made of cowhide leather by Chiharu Shiota

Masters curating course at Whitechapel gallery to be wound down

Joint initiative with London South Bank University shelved but collaborative PhD project is in the pipeline

Art Fund, the charity that helped buy Rokeby Venus for the nation, celebrates 120 years with new campaign

Organisation pledges to back initiatives linking museums with local communities for anniversary project

Law firm sponsor for National Portrait Gallery prize sparks controversy

Herbert Smith Freehills, which runs an "oil and gas" division, replaces BP

Prizesnews

Ithra Art Prize worth up to $500,000 awarded to Saudi artist Obaid Alsafi

Palm trunk work located in AlUla addresses environmental issues

UK Pop art pioneer Joe Tilson has died, aged 95

Art world figures pay tribute to "one of the most inventive printmakers"

Radical plan to restore Clandon Park rejected by members at National Trust annual meeting

Restore Trust campaign group also failed to secure seats on heritage body’s governing council

Eva Jospin follows in footsteps of Jeff Koons and Olafur Eliasson with a show at the Palace of Versailles

The French artist will display a tapestry more than 100 metres long inspired by Virginia Woolf

Prizesnews

‘No strings attached’ £60,000 Hamlyn awards given to five artists including Helen Cammock

Ten cultural figures in total are garlanded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Revamp of fire-damaged Clandon Park galvanises National Trust ‘woke’ row

Campaign group Restore Trust accuses organisation of backtracking on its restoration plans for the 18th-century Palladian mansion

Book Clubfeature

Paper, politics and poetry: why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look

British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists

Book Clubinterview

How Claude Monet battled his own temperament and why the women in his life were ‘fundamental’ to his art

The art critic Jackie Wullschläger’s talks to us about her new book, the first major biography of the French Impressionist written in English

World Press Photo ‘shocked’ at ousting of Hungarian National Museum director in LGBTQ+ exhibition row

Images of a care home in Manila by Hannah Reyes Morales fell foul of right-wing lawmakers

The legacy banking foundation buying up works at Artissima for Turin’s major museums

Fondazione Arte CRT’s new chief wants to bring art to the masses via public art programmes

Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre

The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted

Art fairsanalysis

‘We can feel instability’: Italian dealers weigh up the market at Artissima in Turin

Sales were brisk at the VIP preview of the fair's 30th edition, but "jitters" can be felt against an uncertain geopolitical backdrop

Museums around the world wonder how—or if—to respond to Israel-Hamas war

Many cultural institutions have remained silent about the ongoing crisis

Gareth Harris. with additional reporting by Benjamin Sutton and Stéphane Renault

Consumer culture art: Sylvie Fleury talks brands, cars and irreverent Minimalism

The Swiss artist is celebrating a 30-year career at Sprüth Magers in London

Public art tribute planned for codebreaker Alan Turing as AI summit opens in the UK

Funding for the selected work will come from the government's Town Fund, designed to level up regions outside London