Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

Barbican exhibition cancelled in wake of 'anti-Palestinian censorship' row

Resolve Collective has accused staff at the London arts centre of censoring a talk and for showing “hostility towards close family and friends at the exhibition opening”

Louvre interrupts sale of €2.6m record-breaking terracotta sculpture

Under patrimony laws the museum cannot intervene during the auction but can buy up works at the final price

Alexandre Crochet. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris

Never-before-seen South Asian miniature paintings from British Royal Collection to go on view in Milton Keynes

The exhibition at MK gallery will track the development of the art form from the 16th century to the present day and will explore how the works ended up in the UK to begin with

Fashion designer Paul Smith to sell his Banksy at Bonhams

The 2004 work Congestion Charge has a high estimate of £1.8m in the 29 June auction

Elena Filipovic announced as the new director of the Kunstmuseum Basel

Filipovic joins from the Kunsthalle Basel and will replace Josef Helfenstein

Basel auction house prepares for first sale after being acquired by Artcurial

Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet

Previously free, some UK museums are starting to charge as cost of living crisis bites

The principle of free admission to museums is being eroded, as entry fees are introduced to balance budgets

Best shows to see in Basel: from sound sculptures to a Basquiat bonanza

An interactive show of multimedia works has opened at Museum Tinguely while the Fondation Beyeler has reunited a series of Basquiat paintings

Can biennials really be sustainable? Helsinki Biennial looks at issues around the climate crisis

Artists and curators grapple with creating works that draw attention to the problem while also relying on travel and shipping to share them

Modern artinterview

Interview magazine editor and Warhol confidant Bob Colacello opens new show on Pop art heyday

The photographer speaks with us about his intimate images of the famed artist, how he got the coveted New York media job and his "diehard" Republicanism

Reina Sofía Museum and Whitworth Gallery appoint new directors

The art historian Manuel Segade will join the Madrid institution while Tate international art curator Sook-Kyung Lee takes the reins in Manchester

Vermeer blockbuster officially breaks record at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

The recently-closed exhibition drew 650,000 visitors in its four month run

Lootnews

‘Easily recognisable fakes’ among artefacts repatriated to Italy from the US

Forged objects have been identified among the 60 antiquities returned amid much fanfare earlier this year

A new show exploring Bloomsbury Set's impact on fashion to launch expansion of group's Sussex retreat

Southover House in Lewes will house personal items owned by Virginia Woolf and Duncan Grant this autumn and may lead to a dedicated gallery

Memorial to peace activist Brian Haw to stand opposite London's Imperial War Museum

The campaigner began protesting the Iraq war outside the Houses of Parliament in 2001 and remained camped at the site until his death in 2011

Controversial monument to Queen Elizabeth II needs donors

Massive sculpture by Simon Hitchens, criticised by local campaign group, is three times the size of Antony Gormley’s 'Angel of the North'

All change at Tate Britain after first rehang in a decade

Alex Farquharson, the director of Tate Britain, opens up on the thinking behind a top-to-bottom reassessment of the largest collection of British art in the world

Major Willem de Kooning exhibition to open during Venice Biennale 2024

Gallerie dell’Accademia show will explore how Italy shaped the late artist’s vision

Saudi Arabia announces two new major museums as part of AlUla heritage site

An institution for contemporary art and another dedicated to the incense trade route are the first "cultural assets” launched as part of the region's 15-year plan

Michelangelo's David blocked from Scottish ad campaign

Glasgow's Barolo Restaurant will run posters with the sculpture visible only from the waist up after artwork with the masterpiece in full-view was rejected

Iranian women artists facing repression find platform at Frieze New York

Dastan Gallery's stand hosts works by five artists that interweave the personal and the political

Commemorating King Charles III's coronation: nine artists commissioned by UK government to create works

One of the chosen artists, Cornelia Parker, describes her encounters with anti-monarchy protestors

Indian government challenges British newspaper report that it is making 'largest repatriation claim' against UK

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"

French curator Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale

The South Korean exhibition has come under fire for its Park Seo-Bo art prize which has now been abolished

Paris's Centre Pompidou to shut for five years as part of major renovation project

The institution will be closed for its own 50th anniversary—but will work with the city's museums, including the Louvre, to stage projects during the period

Philippe Regnier. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris
Art marketpreview

Taipei Dangdai capitalises on dedicated local collectors

The fourth edition of the art fair opens this week with 90 galleries, 70% of which have premises in Asia