
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Artists set sail for Marshall Islands on climate crisis expedition
Lisa Reihana is among the artists embarking on the odyssey, which will be followed by a film, book and exhibition
Leonardo's $450m Salvator Mundi returns as an NFT
The Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Starry Night have also been released as digital assets
Can private funds soothe public cuts? Frieze London looks to boost UK arts sector with launch of new awards and initiatives
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the fair has announced a spate of schemes playing matchmaker between philanthropic groups and organisations in need
Barbican arts chief Will Gompertz appointed director of London's Sir John Soane’s Museum
In a surprise move, the former BBC arts editor will replace Bruce Boucher who will retire after almost eight years at the eclectic institution
Iwona Blazwick announced as curator of 18th Istanbul Biennial
The current curatorial lead of Saudi Arabia's Contemporary Art Museum, AlUla, she will now oversee the artistic vision of the Turkish exhibition's 2024 edition
Seven artists win lifeline Loewe Foundation/Studio Voltaire Award during cost-of-living crisis
Maz Murray and Emily Pope are among new cohort given rent-free studio space in London and a £5,000 bursary
Kyiv Biennial 2023 to travel across Europe with focus on 'war and displacement'
This year's exhibition will first open in the capital and two other Ukrainian cities
August book bag: from a new book of Lee Miller photographs to a ‘sexy’ publication of contemporary Indigenous art
Our roundup of the latest art publications
The Redstone Press founder Julian Rothenstein explains the benefits of being a small publisher and why he has cut back on fonts
The designer and editor also reveals the famous writers he will be collaborating with for the next editions of his popular diary series
Why there should be pilgrimages to see Carel Fabritius’s paintings and how the Dutch Golden Age offers us ‘the visual speech of life’
The art critic Laura Cumming tells us about her new book interlacing art history and memoir
Statue of Queen Elizabeth II and her corgis to be unveiled in UK
The work pre-empts an official memorial in the pipeline overseen by the Royal Household and the UK government
New museum in Saudi Arabia bolsters collection after inking partnership deal with Centre Pompidou
The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region
Ancient ruins of emperor Nero's theatre found in Rome
Objects ranging from the Roman to medieval period were found at the archaeological site, which will now be turned into a Four Seasons hotel
Portrait of Omai? What about bringing Henry VIII’s epic tapestry back to the UK, says British businessman
The piece by Pieter Coecke van Aelst remains in Spain but Jonathan Ruffer wants to show it at his new Faith Museum in County Durham
‘Clearly a copy from the 19th century’—Old Masters scholars reject AI-attributed Raphael
The so-called de Brécy Tondo has in the past been assumed to be a Victorian copy
‘This is about celebrating everyone’: London's V&A opens new Thomas J Price exhibition
The display includes a version of a sculpture that sparked debate in the Netherlands last month
Statue of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing proposed for London's fourth plinth
UK defence secretary Ben Wallace made the suggestion following a review of LGBTQ veterans' experiences—but critics point out the minister's contradictory voting record
South London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery to get new sculpture park in £4.6m overhaul
The institution’s first major redevelopment in 25 years will also include a new building for families and schools
‘Do you want a clap?’: tour guide who filmed tourist defacing Colosseum reveals how he caught vandal
The unidentified Swiss teenager is the second person to make headlines this summer for carving letters into the walls of the ancient site
Tate loans entire Rothko room for blockbuster Paris show
While the collection is out of the UK, works by Joan Mitchell on loan from the Fondation Louis Vuitton will hang in its place
Controversial Stonehenge tunnel scheme gets greenlight from UK government
Campaign groups say move is ‘as inexplicable as it is disgraceful’
Italy seeks the return of seven possibly looted works from the Louvre
The museum's director says works with dubious provenance are 'a stain in the collections of the Louvre'
First week of Italy's Pantheon price hike nets €200,000
Previously free, a standard tourist ticket to the ancient site now costs €5
Detained Cuban artist and activist pens appeal from prison on two-year anniversary
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was imprisoned on charges of contempt and insult to national symbols when widespread protests swept the nation in 2021
Picasso's daughter Paloma appointed administrator of his estate
Paloma Ruiz-Picasso, whose mother Françoise Gilot died in June, takes over from her brother Claude
Phillips launches annual David Hockney auction in London
The standalone sales come off the back of numerous high-profile projects involving the British artist
New exhibition in Tbilisi shines light on Georgian artist shunned by Soviet Union
Levan Chogoshvili's first large-scale solo show in the country will take place at the Atinati Cultural Center
Public art display in Liverpool hospital marks 75th anniversary of UK's National Health Service
Historic England is also funding two projects in Bristol and London
July book bag: from conversations with collectors to a Ruth Baumgarte catalogue raisonné
Our roundup of the latest art publications
The co-founder of luxury art publisher Assouline on why its books ‘are really haute couture’ and how they will ‘never’ go digital
Prosper Assouline also tells us about doing everything in-house and how 80% of a book is what is on the outside