
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes
The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture
Decision to ban pro-Palestine films engulfs Documenta 15 exhibition in another censorship row
Members of the finding committee—including Tate Modern director, Frances Morris—condemn the advisory group’s decision to pull the works
Dozens of museum shows across Europe and US will mark 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death next year
Artist’s controversial relationships with women will be examined through "the prism of feminism", including via a dedicated Brooklyn Museum exhibition co-curated by comedian Hannah Gadsby
Documentary on Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sacklers wins the Golden Lion in Venice
Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed presents artist's efforts to bring some family members to justice following her own recovery from opioid addiction
Is art censorship on the rise? How freedom of expression is being curbed across the globe
Plus, a striking photograph by Diane Arbus and the Guggenheim Bilbao at 25
With royal approval: UK's arts organisation chiefs on how they have benefitted from the Queen’s patronage
Support from the Queen has been crucial to the functioning of a number of Britain's arts institutions
Meta London unveils art commissions at vast King’s Cross office complex
Works on show by Yinka Ilori, Mary Evans and Jeremy Hutchison who aims to explore Mark Zuckerberg’s "business model"
Jailed Cuban artist receives €50,000 inaugural Prince Claus Impact award
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is one of six artists to be honoured by the Dutch NGO
In surprise move, contemporary art specialist Christine Macel takes the reins at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Previously chief curator at Centre Pompidou since 2000, she also organised the French Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale
Rachel Whiteread and Roger Hiorns shortlisted for major new UK land art project
The Deep Time initiative on West Cumbria coastline also includes works by Susan Philipsz and Ryan Gander
Trigger Warning: a new column on censorship in art today, from must-read books to which algorithms are policing creative content
Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context
Scholar finds sketch of Michelangelo in margin of book
Fifteenth-century edition of The Divine Comedy includes witty drawing of Renaissance master at work on a sculpture, claims James Hall
After Poussin and Botticelli, UK Parliament is latest eco-activist target
Unesco site is targeted by more than 50 protestors from the group Extinction Rebellion
September book bag: from Lucian Freud’s love letters to an Edie Sedgwick biography
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Victoria and Albert Museum announces three new trustees including right-wing commentator Zewditu Gebreyohanes
‘Anti-woke’ activist appointed along with Rosalind Blakesley and Rusty Elvidge
Revamped Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to reopen with more than 1,000 new objects
After 18-month closure, Qatar gallery to relaunch on 5 October in time for Fifa World Cup
Shipwrecks ahoy? Unesco's underwater mission scours sea bed off Italy for archaeological treasures
A dozen marine archaeologists are currently searching in an area that was once one of the busiest maritime routes in the world
Immerse yourself in Venice in Paris… more crowd-pleasing multimedia shows being launched
A “behind the scenes” tour of Venice is the latest project from Grand Palais Immersif
Sticky fingers: German climate activists strike museums four times in past week
Protestors from the Letzte Generation group have glued themselves to works by Rubens, Poussin and Cranach
Microsoft mogul Paul Allen’s art collection heads to Christie’s and could be first to hit $1bn
The auction in November includes prized works from Paul Cezanne and Jasper Johns
Community-centred art pavilion to be unveiled at London's Notting Hill Carnival
The artist Alvaro Barrington and architect Sumayya Vally lean into the carnival's place as a robust "site of artistic creation"
In with the cuffs, out with the glue: Italian climate change protestors chain themselves to chapel banister
The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is home to masterpieces by the Italian Medieval painter Giotto
‘Return Rosetta Stone to Egypt’ demands country’s leading archaeologist Zahi Hawass
The former Egyptian antiquities minister leans into the current restitution conversation, calling again for the return of three prized antiquities from European museums
No oil, no gas—no stopping: Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to ancient Vatican Museums sculpture
The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund
Iraqi artists remove their works from Berlin Biennale over Abu Ghraib photography row
Sajjad Abbas, Raed Mutar and Layth Kareem say curators "prioritise the display of wrongly imprisoned Iraqis"
Health concerns raised over Cuban artist and activist held in jail
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was sentenced to five years in prison in June
Iraqi artists decry Berlin Biennale’s display of photographs showing tortured inmates at Abu Ghraib prison
Artists Raed Mutar and Sajjad Abbas protested against the inclusion of Jean-Jacques Lebel's work and have moved their own pieces
Hauser & Wirth couple buy up Groucho private club in London—complete with 150-strong art collection
Works by Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin are dotted around the Dean Street premises
Frieze rocks: Artist Nikita Gale to create electric guitar installation for BMW commission
Los Angeles-based artist will investigate the “history and politics of sound” at London fair in October
Excavations unearth secrets of everyday life in Pompeii—including exceptionally well-preserved glass and ceramics
Archaeologists bring to light household items buried in the ash