
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Six women, one foreigner: Italy appoints 13 new museum and heritage directors
Culture minister Dario Franceschini reverses trend for appointing foreign leaders for its leading institutions
Saudi Arabia pushes soft power by launching new teamLab digital art museum in Jeddah
The hi-tech Tokyo-based collective will create trademark immersive experiences for the new space
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Danh Vo's millennia-spanning pastoral show at White Cube to Abbas Zahedi's rosewater sprinkler system at South London Gallery
2021 art fair calendar already in flux after Taipei Dangdai moves from January to May
Delay and cancellation of events early next year prompts the question: will Frieze Los Angeles still take place in February?
Wanted—curator of the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale (who will work for £12,500)
Hong Kong-based data analytics chief Shane Akeroyd will sponsor the associate curator post for a ten-year period
Post-Brexit UK festival chief seeks country’s 'brightest talents' amid criticism over £120m cost
The project, planned for 2022, promises £3m in total to successful applications
Saatchi Gallery exhibits London’s graduate artists deprived of degree shows
The exhibition forms part of the education programme at the collector’s gallery which has now ‘transitioned into a charity’
Waste of money? New Antony Gormley sculpture in British seaside city rattles residents
Plymouth city council unable to reveal cost of public project after signing confidentiality agreement with the artist
French tech entrepreneur funds new €150,000 award for European cultural institutions focused on 'digital and environmental impact'
Public and private European organisations—including UK and Switzerland— are encouraged to apply before the deadline later this month
Bailout fail? Fewer than half of museums in England apply for government’s £1.57bn rescue package
Survey by The Art Newspaper also reveals that the Serpentine and Barbican have been left in limbo while the Southbank Centre is already £20m in debt
Trove of 'lost' Hokusai drawings acquired by British Museum
103 forgotten works by the renowned Japanese artist resurfaced at a Paris auction after slipping out of sight for more than 70 years
New York-based residency for Russian artists goes ahead as 'East-West divide' intensifies
US-Russia tensions heightened in the run up to November's US presidential election
Can’t make it to the Met? Dive into a new book for an unconventional look at the museum's collection
Publication aims to open up 6,000 years of art history using objects as a springboard—but is it worth the effort?
How to organise a biennial in the Covid era
Bangkok Art Biennale director on grappling with coronavirus constraints and displaying "sensitive" works
Basel’s new culture hub puts Caribbean artists, Picasso and Klaus Littmann’s nature project in the mix
Delayed by coronavirus, the new Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger has opened with the promise of free entry and catalogues for visitors
Frans Hals painting stolen from Dutch museum for the third time
Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer was taken in previous heists with a work by Jacob van Ruisdael
#ArtistSupportPledge—what happened next to the ‘lifeline’ that helped artists survive during lockdown?
Instagram scheme rallying art community in the wake of the pandemic has so far generated £60m
Venice Biennale awards Golden Lions to the late curators Okwui Enwezor and Germano Celant
Honour bestowed on four previous artistic directors of the international exhibition
Man who punched £20m Picasso painting at Tate Modern is jailed for 18 months
Repairing the piece—on long-term loan from a private collection—will take more than a year and cost up to £350,000
Debate flares as British Museum moves bust of slave-owning founder Hans Sloane
As part of the museum's efforts to address Britain’s colonial past, officials acknowledge that the collector "exploited slaves"
Misogyny and making art in the shadow of Jackson Pollock—how Lee Krasner was shut out of art history
New digital publication argues that the late US artist is the “unacknowledged equal” of her superstar husband
First Hagia Sophia, now Turkey's 'Sistine Chapel of Byzantium' will be turned back into mosque
The 14th-century mosaics at Chora Church—which was converted to a museum in 1945—risk being covered up and remaining part-restored
Ragnar Kjartansson’s 'never-ending lullaby' to be performed in Milan church for the Covid era
Singers will perform The Sky in a Room every day for six hours next month at the church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto
Ten artists who won Turner bursaries from Tate 'fully support' museum's striking workers
Open letter says that redundancies contradict Tate’s commitment to "champion the richness of art for everyone"
The next Tate Modern? Helsinki power plant to become vast new arts hub under city masterplan
Hanasaari plant will be at the heart of burgeoning Suvilahti culture district
German activist art group sells 'anti-fascist' works on eBay to support left-wing organisations
Peng collective auctions off ten objects bought from committed anti-fascists for €10,000
Vacuum cleaner billionaire James Dyson plans to build art gallery in his garden
Planning permission has been submitted for a building in the grounds of Dodington Park
Unesco, Icom and Louvre rally to help Beirut as museums tackle extensive explosion damage
A coalition of international museums and heritage organisations are working to provide expertise to Lebanese institutions
Paint names like 'Flesh Tint' are racially biased says UK fine art supplier
Jackson’s says it is campaigning to help dismantle “exclusionary culture” that privileges caucasian skin tones as the "default"
Why Jeff Koons is so difficult to please, the strange Venice Biennale selection process and which collector is a game changer
A new book by Matthew Israel gives an insider’s view of the art world over the course of a year