Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
The dawn of blockchain? CryptoPunks evangelist Noah Davis on why the Centre Pompidou NFT show is a game-changer
Davis oversaw $69m Beeple NFT sale at Christie’s in 2021
Unesco chief vows to help rebuild Ukraine’s heritage and culture—but $6.9bn investment is needed
Audrey Azoulay met President Zelensky and toured sites in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa during an official visit to the country this week
‘It is a crime against humanity’: Ai Weiwei discusses refugees in the UK, moving on from Covid and why Lego is his medium of choice
Design Museum exhibition brings together more than a million pieces collected by the artist including spouts and Stone Age tools
April book bag: from a book of contemporary collage to a lavish tome about Mecca
Our roundup of the latest art publications
‘A threat to the country’: Pablo Picasso’s police files scoured for new book about his life as a foreigner in France
A new publication looks at the Spanish artist’s alienating experiences as a young man in Paris, including police harassment and stigmatisation as an anarchist
Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat's collaboration examined in Fondation Louis Vuitton show
Paris exhibition explores the fusion of two giants of American art in the mid-1980s
Courbet painting—seized by the Nazis and owned by a reverend—to be returned to its original owners
The forest landscape, La Ronde Enfantine, will be returned by the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, to the heirs of Robert Bing
Scotland pulls out of next year’s Venice Biennale
Citing the present economic situation, the arts body Scotland + Venice has withdrawn from the event—although Scottish arts figures hope the decision will not mark "a full stop"
Steve McQueen’s Grenfell Tower film—dedicated to the victims of the tragic fire in 2017—to debut in London
Work will be screened at the Serpentine Galleries before entering the Tate collection
Artist condemns anti-LGBTQ laws passed by Ugandan parliament including death penalty
Leilah Babirye—who fled to the US in 2015—slams legislation which also introduces sentences of up to 20 years for "the offence of homosexuality"
Galleries continue to bank on Asia as Peres Projects expands in Seoul and Hauser & Wirth relocates to new street-level space in Hong Kong
Meanwhile, Eva Presenhuber is now teaming up with a South Korean design studio and Tang Contemporary Art will add a space in Singapore to its roster
Hong Kong is back with bang: Art Basel returns and M+ museum makes waves
Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women
Art Basel Hong Kong fully reopens after four years—and Asian buyers are out in force
The opening day saw a steady stream of sales to private collectors and institutions in the region
Abu Dhabi seeks to make waves with first major art biennial
The first "direct commission" unveiled by Public Art Abu Dhabi is a multimedia crashing wave display by the Seoul-based collective d’strict
First Saudi, now Seoul: Centre Pompidou confirms latest move of global expansion
Paris-headquartered museum brand will open its South Korean outpost in 2025
Hong Kong added to East Asian tour of masterpieces from London’s National Gallery
Exhibition featuring Titian and Van Gogh will travel to Hong Kong Palace Museum following stops in Shanghai and Seoul
Bridget Riley is bringing the colours of ancient Egypt to Rome with a major ceiling painting commission
Riley will transform the barrel-vaulted ceiling at the British School at Rome with a palette of bold colours based on ancient Egyptian iconography
Stick 'em up! Ai Weiwei invites you to give the middle finger in new online art project
So far targets on the platform developed in collaboration with Avant Arte have included landmarks, political buildings and even artworks
Six key jobs culled at London’s Whitechapel Gallery—including three curatorial posts
New director defends overhaul in wake of rising energy costs and Arts Council funding cuts
Centre Pompidou to open contemporary art museum in Saudi Arabia
The Paris institution's latest outpost is part of drive to rebrand the Middle Eastern state
Football's coming...to Manchester International Festival (with a little help from soccer player Juan Mata)
This summer's edition will also feature Yayoi Kusama’s monumental inflatables at Factory International's new building
Phyllida Barlow—British sculptor who found global fame after retiring from teaching—has died, aged 78
Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations
Revealed: Rome's new €100m culture masterplan
The National Roman Museum's director Stéphane Verger shares the radical new plans that will revamp four landmark museum and heritage sites in Italy
Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display
Mauritshuis currently has 170 works on display as part of its “My Girl with a Pearl” initiative while Vermeer’s masterpiece is on loan
Art history sleuths reunite mother with husband and son in 17th-century Flemish portrait
Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years
Climate change, a Gothic cathedral and champagne cellars: Eva Jospin takes on latest Ruinart commission
Promenade[s], an installation made mainly from cardboard and inspired by the landscape around Reims, will be shown at art fairs worldwide over the next year
Magritte painting thought to be an homage to Vermeer heads to auction in Paris
Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's
March book bag: from portraits of King Charles III to Marinella Senatore’s light installations
Our roundup of the latest art publications
From Hogarth to Hockney, artists struck by puppy love are celebrated in four recent canine-themed books
Ahead of a new show of dog portraits at London's Wallace Collection, we round-up some publishing treats for you to paw over
Building bridges post-Brexit: London Gallery Weekend to pay for European curators to attend third edition
This year's event will include 13 new galleries and an expanded performance programme