
Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
UK government finally announces details of its £1.5bn funding support package for the arts
Museum trusts in Birmingham and York warn job cuts are in the pipeline
Salvator Mundi! The Musical—tale of world’s most expensive painting to be turned into a stage blockbuster
Caiola Productions plan to put on the show—a mix of Hamilton and Willy Wonka—in New York in 2022
Picasso murals ripped from Oslo building as legal battle intensifies
Daughter of the works' co-creator Carl Nesjar says safeguarding the sandblasted works is imperative
New Getty publication brings together life-affirming DIY masterpieces made during lockdown
Participants worldwide re-created famous works by Vermeer, Munch and Klimt—using everyday household items
House of Illustration closes in King’s Cross but museum expands to historic north London site
The £8m Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is on track to open in late 2022 despite Covid-19 pandemic, officials say
French photographers demand President Macron puts his arts pandemic plan into practice
Signatories say that a ‘new deal’ is needed in France, enabling photojournalists to document the epidemic
UK’s largest art award Artes Mundi postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus
Challenge of transporting works and artists means £40,000 prize now scheduled for spring next year
UK government approves banknote designs featuring ethnic minority pioneers
Founder of advocacy group championing BAME figures says she is “tackling statues, artwork and signage next”
Banksy triptych—estimated at £1.2m—to be sold at Sotheby's in aid of Palestinian hospital
Artists has donated the works, which were previously on display in his Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From works by Pollock and Congo the chimpanzee to Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles
Summer Reads: which books do Oxford librarians want to dip into by the pool?
Bodleian scholars give their top tips for The Art Newspaper Book Club
Tate Modern reopening overshadowed by protests over job cuts
Due to the pandemic, around 300 jobs are at risk at Tate Enterprises, which operates retail, catering and publishing services across all of the Tate sites
UK may become 'cultural wasteland' after government's failure to provide funding quickly, says parliament report
MPs say £1.5bn government support package for the arts sector is “too little too late”
Artist Kader Attia 'heartbroken' as Covid-19 forces closure of his decolonial Paris art hub
The French-Algerian is now looking for a new, smaller space in the city's suburbs
Neon pioneer Keith Sonnier—who has died aged 78—honoured with exhibition at New York's Dia Beacon
The late artist was a key figure in the 1960s post-Minimalist New York art scene
Influential political cartoonist Steve Bell dropped by the Guardian newspaper after 40 years
Biting satirist looks to art history for some of his caricatures, such as a recent sketch of Boris Johnson as Mona Lisa
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From Nicholas Galanin’s 'escape plans' for Indigenous objects at Peter Blum Gallery to the Royal College of Art's virtual degree show
'Corona-proof plan': Dutch museum launches drive-by art show
Exhibition visitors must drive electric cars through an arena housing major works by artists including Bas Princen, Bruce Nauman and Anselm Kiefer
New Venice Biennale show reveals fraught episodes in its 125-year history
Interdisciplinary display in the Giardini will look at how the international exhibitions “crossed paths with history”
Q&A | Lisa Tickner on the inspiration behind her book on London’s 1960s art scene
From student sit-ins to the importance of air travel in shaping the art world as we know it
Marc Quinn's Black Lives Matter sculpture removed by Bristol council
Statue that replaced toppled monument to slave trader Edward Colston has polarised opinion
'Get rid of prisons': artist Stanley Whitney speaks out against US judicial system in online show
Initiative highlights disproportionate number of African Americans incarcerated in the US
Marc Quinn sculpture of Black Lives Matter activist replaces statue to slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol
Installed overnight, the work depicts local resident Jen Reid who was photographed on the site when the monument was toppled last month
Frank Popper—the historian at the forefront of art’s digital revolution—has died, aged 102
Expert in art and technology led the way in documenting the development of "virtual art"
‘Racist’ gallery in Liverpool museum to be overhauled in light of Black Lives Matter
World Cultures Gallery at the World Museum ‘privileges the actions of white colonial collectors’, says curator
Q&A | Drawings of ‘eruptions of violence’ against statues fill Sam Durant’s new book
The US artist speaks about his research into historic cases of iconoclastic annihilation
Three exhibitions to see in New York and London this weekend
From David Goldblatt's images of apartheid-era South Africa to Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Swiss abstraction
UK's first statues of black Brits—sited at Brixton station—to be restored after 34 years
The overlooked works are modelled on local residents
Our friend Keith Haring: in new BBC documentary buddies of the late artist draw back the curtain
Street Art Boy debuted recently on BBC2 and uses unheard interviews to document Haring's upbringing and work
Fiac organisers determined to go ahead with Paris fair this October despite coronavirus turmoil
But dealers ponder crucial question of whether US collectors will venture overseas by the autumn





























