Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
‘Things have to change’: third speaker pulls out of Science Museum Group climate talk in protest against oil sponsorship
Broadcaster Robin Ince joins George Monbiot and Mark Lynas in withdrawing from the Climate Talks event over the UK institution's funding from oil companies BP and Equinor
Wanted: £48k curator to shake up British Museum's permanent displays and ‘give greater prominence to Africa’
London institution is advertising two new job roles to help deliver a radical curatorial initiative known as 'Reimagining the British Museum'
Six artists—including Nicole Eisenman and Ibrahim Mahama—shortlisted for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth public art commission
Winning sculptures will go on show in central London in 2022 and 2024
George Clooney wades into Parthenon Marbles debate—again
The actor first stated that the Ancient Greek sculptures should be returned to their site of origin in 2014 after filming The Monuments Men
Louvre launches flurry of brand partnerships and ‘e-boutique’ in bid to make up Covid deficit
Deprived of visitors, the world’s most popular museum is striking deals with brands such as Uniqlo to reach international audiences online
UK art trade questions who benefits from England's freeport bonanza
Eight mega warehouses announced in the budget will 'unlock billions' in investment, says the government, but they have a tarnished reputation, market analysts warn
Blockbuster Jeff Koons survey to open in Qatar this autumn
More than 60 works will be included in the US artist’s first Middle Eastern exhibition
Antony Gormley lends sculpture to fill an empty spot on the medieval façade of Wells Cathedral in England
The near-life-size contemporary work will join 300 historic depictions of saints and kings
Billionaire collector Nicolas Berggruen takes steps to buy historic Venetian palace and turn it into a cultural thinktank
If the sale goes ahead, La Casa dei Tre Oci will be the Berggruen Institute's space for its European programming with plans to partner with major museums such as Tate and MoMA
Debenhams department store may become huge gallery as Covid-19 decimates London's Oxford Street
‘Oxford Street Art House’ would house studios and galleries across seven floors, say councillors
UK Budget 2021: further £408m boost for struggling culture sector
Chancellor Rishi Sunak digs deep, adding £300m to the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund, £90m more for museums, and £18m for cultural community projects
Governments are ‘weaponising’ Covid-19 to silence dissident artist voices, report says
Seventeen artists were killed, 82 imprisoned and 133 detained over the past year in 26 countries, according to new Freemuse study
Keep your distance, former culture ministers warn UK government
Independence of museums and heritage bodies is at risk, say Ed Vaizey and Chris Smith, as Johnson’s government pushes ‘anti-woke’ agenda
Works by pioneering queer artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres to be displayed around Barcelona
New exhibition, organised by MACBA, aims to situate Gonzalez-Torres in relation to postcolonial discourse between Spain and the Americas
Calling all (digital) bookworms: virtual art book fair gives publishers a lifeline during the pandemic
Printed Matter's online venture offers new, rare and out of print publications alongside panels, trailers and prints
From Goya to Goldin: new museum puts Spanish city of Cáceres on the art world map
Dealer Helga de Alvear has donated her entire collection of 3,000 works, which include pieces by Tacita Dean, Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Wassily Kandinsky
Are museums as Covid-risky as saunas? Culture leaders outraged over late reopening of English art spaces
Commercial galleries, non-essential retail, and even gyms have been given the green light to open before museums under the UK government's "roadmap" to lift coronavirus restrictions
Bank of England wades into UK's escalating culture war on controversial monuments, saying it will remove images of slave owners
“Retain and explain” or restrain and refrain? Culture chiefs raise the alarm on government’s policy to keep problematic statues ahead of crucial meeting
Officials confirm: museums in England can reopen from 17 May under Boris Johnson’s lockdown roadmap
Commercial galleries will be permitted to open from 12 April under the new plan to gradually lift Covid-19 safety measures
Munch vandalised own Scream painting, declaring himself a ‘madman’, new research finds
Infrared scans indicate that the phrase, "Can only have been painted by a madman", matches the artist’s handwriting
Huge fee hikes for EU students who want to study art in the UK come into force from September
Visa issues and increased red tape could also deter European Union applicants, warn university leaders
Radical plan could move UK's national art collections into former IKEA store in Coventry
The five-storey building will house nearly 17,000 works from the Arts Council and British Council collections, under proposed scheme
Fill your boots: Dr. Martens gives £60,000 for new video commissions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
Grants will be given to artists to create moving image works to premiere at the ICA's Image Behaviour 2021 forum
Keep problematic monuments and ‘explain them’, UK government to tell cultural leaders
Opponents argue that some public statues reinforce racism, chauvinism, sexism and homophobia
February’s book bag: Jesus as muse, tips from Douglas Coupland and a reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft
The latest art publications rounded up in our new book bag section
Body of archaeologist who died defending Palmyra from Isis has been found, Syrian media reports
Khaled al-Asaad was killed “because he would not betray his deep commitment to Palmyra”, said Unesco chief
Actor Riz Ahmed and Chisenhale director Zoé Whitley selected for new commission to diversify London's public monuments
New 15-member body will focus on the capital’s statues, street names and memorials
Uffizi acquires first 'street art' work—a mash-up of Gilbert & George and a crotch-grabbing Mark Wahlberg
Mixed-media montage by UK artist Endless was donated to the Florence museum
Britishness, belonging and Blackness: artists reflect on complexities of cultural identity in new London show
In the wake of Black Lives Matter movement, new exhibition at Lisson Gallery will feature 11 women and non-binary artists tackling issue of Britain’s colonial legacy
Art library and archives at London's Wallace Collection could close to public as part of cost-cutting plans
Petition against the move claims that management want to ‘orientate the museum to income generation’