Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for first time in almost 1,000 years

The tapestry will be displayed at the British Museum from September 2026, as part of a bilateral season of culture between the UK and France

A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

The German blue-chip artist will show more than 250 works at Fondation Louis Vuitton from October

Less than two years after opening, the Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona has closed its doors

A statement from the museum, which displayed works by Ai Weiwei and Goya, attributes the closure to disruption caused by strike action

Tatenews

Tate chair floats selling Turbine Hall naming rights for ‘a minimum of £50m’

Roland Rudd made the comments in relation to the new endowment fund Tate announced last week

Artist and curator Jean-Marc Bustamante to launch foundation in Arles culture hub

Bustamante will take over a medieval church that will host shows and lectures

Should UK museums display mummies? One institution is asking its visitors for their view

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt

Book Clubfeature

Arshile Gorky’s experience as an immigrant to the US and the painting that defined it

An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

Raphael’s experiments with innovative painting technique revealed by Vatican Museums restoration

A ten-year conservation project has shed light on how the artist attempted to work with a system involving a grid of nails placed on the walls

UK mental health hospitals are about to get more art

Veronica Ryan and Alberta Whittle are among the more than 50 artists who will work with Hospital Rooms on the three-year project

Open-air museum that recreates 1950s Britain wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize

Beamish, The Living Museum of the North was commended for "remarkable attention and passion of its staff"

English Heritage chief steps down after a turbulent 18 months in post

Nick Merriman oversaw a controversial restructure of the UK historic site charity

Tate launches US-style endowment fund, with aim of raising £150m by 2030

The new fund, announced at a star-studded gala yesterday, has raised £43m so far

‘A dialogue about rationality and irrationality’: Ai Weiwei to present new installation in Ukraine

The Chinese artist’s work, which is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci illustrations, will be housed in a former Soviet-era exposition hall in Kyiv

London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

The British-Nigerian artist Shonibare is part of the team behind the project, led by Foster + Partners

Uffizi director to ‘limit’ selfies after posing visitor damages 18th-century painting

A man attempting to capture a picture of himself at the Florence gallery tripped and left a hole in a work by Anton Domenico Gabbiani

Belgian council cancels Hew Locke commission that planned to ‘disrupt’ colonial statue

The artist had intended to recontextualise a statue of king Leopold II, who oversaw a brutal regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

UK city council launches £100,000 appeal to buy rediscovered Turner painting

Bristol city council hopes to raise the money in just seven days

In pictures: meet the newcomer galleries debuting at Art Basel

More than a dozen galleries are showing at Art Basel for the first time, all brimming with enthusiasm

Ahead of new fair in 2026, Qatar takes centre stage at Art Basel

The country’s cultural offensive also comes ahead of the opening of a clutch of museums

Tate and V&A chiefs awarded in King’s Birthday Honours

Sculptor Antony Gormley received the top award of Companion of Honour

Crime news

In the can: two men jailed for Cattelan gold toilet theft

James Sheen, 40, and Michael Jones, 39, were sentenced in Oxford, UK, for their involvement in the heist

UK department of culture faces cuts following government spending review

Announced yesterday by chancellor Rachel Reeves, the review states that total expenditure at the DCMS will be reduced by 1.4% in coming years

Tate Liverpool receives £12m from UK government to support delayed revamp

The reopening of regional UK museum was originally due to take place this year, but was pushed back to 2027

Prosecution of gallerist under UK’s Terrorism Act should serve as ‘warning to all art dealers’, says Metropolitan Police

The first-of-its-kind case saw Oghenochuko Ojiri, an expert on the BBC's ‘Bargain Hunt’, sentenced to two and a half years in prison earlier this month

Newly attributed Turner painting, last sold for £500, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with £300,000 estimate

The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner

Former Hepworth Wakefield director appointed chief executive of London's Royal Academy

Following a restructure and redundancies, Simon Wallis replaces Axel Rüger in the role

Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread back campaign to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in the UK

The Hepworth Wakefield gallery is hoping to raise £3.8m to acquire ‘Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red’

UK national museums back call for end to ‘relentless negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship

The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have signed a public letter authored by the co-chief executives of Sadler’s Wells