Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Awardsnews

Major UK art prize awarded to Royal Academy schools student

Prizewinner Jame St Findlay receives £30,000 and a show at Claridge’s ArtSpace

‘Art is the opposite of war’: amid a new wave of bombardment, Beirut's culture professionals remain defiant

Israeli airstrikes have led to gallery and museum closures, but artists and gallerists are determined to continue their work

London’s revamped Warburg Institute courts a broader audience

Home to a unique collection smuggled out of Nazi Germany, the institute will show temporary exhibitions alongside Edmund de Waal’s library of exile

Repatriation of objects is on the government’s agenda, says UK culture secretary

Lisa Nandy's apparent support for repatriation reform has been welcomed by the head of London's Victoria and Albert Museum

‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening

The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna

Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection

The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring

Loansnews

Caravaggio’s Cupid heads for London

The provocative painting of Roman god of desire will travel from Berlin in 2025

Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities

The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico

How the UK can be a cultural superpower: think tank puts forward arts policies for new Labour government

The Fabian Society has proposed actions including introducing a tourism charge and organising a review of Arts Council England

Awardsnews

Shortlist announced for Artes Mundi 11, the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize

The 11th edition, which will be presented at venues across Wales, sees six artists nominated for the £40,000 prize

Fondation Cartier reveals plans for new Paris space designed by Jean Nouvel

The French architect will modernise the historic site, which is due to open next year near the Louvre

‘Will it cause reputational damage?’: British Museum director discusses controversial BP donation

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Nicholas Cullinan also mulls over the Parthenon Marbles and recent thefts scandal

A Banksy work has been stolen in London—again

Two men have appeared in court charged with burglary following the theft of a version of 'Girl with Balloon'

Medianews

Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo

Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine

Human rights groups call on Iran's government to end 'systematic persecution of artists'

On the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, Artistic Freedom Initiative’s new report uncovers human rights abuses following the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising

‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80

Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs

Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah among 4,000 arts professionals urging UK government to stand up for culture

The Venice Biennale artists are backing a collective manifesto which calls for new policies to support the visual arts

Italy names new culture minister following appointments scandal

Alessandro Giuli, who heads up Rome's Maxxi museum, replaces Gennaro Sangiuliano in the right-wing government role

Constantine Arch and Colosseum hit by 'incredible water bomb'

Lightning strike breaks fragments off ancient military monument in Rome

Animal rights protestors stage die-in at London’s Courtauld Gallery

Members of the activist group Peta occupied the institution‘s LVMH Great Room

Tate shows works donated by Greek tycoon Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Philanthropic gift of over 110 works integrated into displays at Tate Modern, Britain and St Ives

New London Museum gets £50m cash boost in face of rising costs

The original budget for the museum has so far been surpassed by £100m

Let them eat cake: V&A to stage first UK show on Marie Antoinette

Other blockbuster exhibitions at the museum next year will focus on luxury brand Cartier, ancient Egypt and the pioneering work done by disabled people in the world of design

Deutsche Bank re-hangs massive collection at new London headquarters

German conglomerate also commissions works by four artists for UK base

British Museum names architects shortlisted in controversial renovation competition

Environmental campaigners previously called on practices not to take part in the contest following a £50m funding pledge from BP

Former Frieze fair chief Victoria Siddall appointed director of London's National Portrait Gallery

Siddall will take up the role this autumn, becoming the first-ever woman to hold the position

V&A provenance expert heads to Art Institute of Chicago

Jacques Schuhmacher, who worked on several key restitution cases at the London museum, has taken up the role of executive director of provenance research

A smashing day out: boy accidentally breaks 3,500-year-old pitcher at Israeli museum

The Middle/late Bronze Age object was “pulled” by the “curious” four-year-old while visiting the Hecht Museum in northern Israel