Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Henry Moore Foundation provides financial lifeline for UK artists during cost of living crisis

Rapid response funding provides "relief" in the face of soaring bills, artists say

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Extract | When the Picasso was almost knocked off the wall during a blockbuster show

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dealer who has given 1,677 works to create new French museum does ‘not expect a dime from the donation’

Conditions outlined for gift from Claude and France Lemand for new museum at the Arab World Institute in Paris

Archaeologists discover ancient tunnel at Great Pyramid of Giza that may lead to King Khufu’s tomb

The international team of scientists used radiography and endoscopy techniques to peer inside the structure

Russian or Ukrainian? Museums update Kazimir Malevich's nationality

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now describes the abstract painter as Ukrainian, while The Met reclassifies other painters who were born or worked in the country

Bellini show in Paris brings together a cocktail of influences and challenges some previous hangovers

The curators of a new exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André will demonstrate how recent research is helping us see the work of Giovanni Bellini and his circle in a new light

'AI will become the new normal’: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industry

Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value

Olafur Eliasson to create major new land art project on UK coast

Artist has been commissioned to create a mirror-like steel pool in the Lake District in collaboration with the writer Robert Macfarlane

London to get free, permanent David Bowie display as Victoria and Albert Museum acquires archive

Costumes, albums, lyrics and videos from 80,000-strong collection will go on show at the V&A East Storehouse from 2025

Tate announces El Anatsui as next artist for vast Turbine Hall commission

Ghana-born, Nigeria-based artist—known for his signature bottle-cap sculptures—will unveil the work in London in October

Drawing of male nude is Michelangelo’s sketch for Sistine Chapel, scholar says

Red chalk preparatory work may be linked to “Worship of the Brazen Serpent” section of Vatican masterpiece

Hogarth's forgotten stairwell: hidden in a 900-year-old London hospital are painter's vast canvases

Works will be restored and opened to the public to mark 900th anniversary of the St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Women artists gain wall space at Tate Britain as museum rehangs collection

Popular galleries dedicated to Pre-Raphaelite artists and JMW Turner will also be rehung with new rooms dedicated to John Constable and William Blake

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Drag queen event at Tate Britain sparks protests between trans-rights activists and right-wing groups

Aida H Dee’s storytelling event disrupted by fighting outside London museum

A 200-year-old family collection of largely unseen Théodore Géricault paintings heads to auction

The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m

France makes art inroads in Saudi Arabia with Centre Pompidou project allegedly on the horizon

The outpost would be the gallery's latest international satellite and the latest of many France-driven arts initiative in the Middle Eastern country

UK exhibition uncovers holy link between Henry VIII’s rival wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon

Both British queens owned the same prayerbook, curators at Hever Castle in England have found

More than 1,000 people help artist JR hold up giant images of refugee children for Turin performance

The vast works shown in Northern Italy were made last year at camps in locations including Greece and Rwanda

Artefacts in Swiss museums were looted from the Kingdom of Benin, new report says

Many of the works investigated show a direct link to the violent 1897 raid by British forces, and may lead to the transfer of objects to Nigeria

Previously declared at risk, the UK's ‘Stonehenge of the North’ is now open to the public

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes the project which tells ‘the story of ancient Britain’

Rijksmuseum's groundbreaking slavery exhibition heads to United Nations headquarters in New York

Speakers from around the world have been invited to a two-day talks programme centred around the display

Musée d’Orsay acquires Caillebotte masterpiece thanks to €43m donation from LVMH

“Boating Party” painting will tour France next year to mark Impressionism milestone

From a marble toilet roll to a giant Lego structure: Ai Weiwei's new London show looks at the value of objects

Exhibition at the Design Museum will include the artist's works drawing on the Covid-19 pandemic

Swiss dealers and collectors make their mark at artgenève—with optimistic advice for Brexit Britain

Local galleries at the Geneva fair welcome strong showing from Swiss-French and German buyers

Historic statues of Black Brits go back on show at Brixton Station—with a familiar new friend

After 36 years, artist Kevin Atherton unveils a new work modelled on one of his original muses, local resident Joy Battick

Canada chooses Kapwani Kiwanga for its 2024 Venice Biennale pavilion

The Paris-based multi-disciplinary artist received the Frieze Artist Award in 2018 and the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2020

John Akomfrah to represent Britain at 2024 Venice Biennale

The British-Ghanaian artist is well known for searing video installations examining issues ranging from climate change to colonialism