Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Exploring Robert Rauschenberg’s love of the East on his centennial

M+ to show works from the Overseas Cultural Interchange that ran in ten countries including China; Thaddaeus Ropac gallery gives US artist a platform at Art Basel Hong Kong

Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions

Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful

London Museum receives £20m cash boost and Roman artefact trove from Bloomberg

The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date

Two found guilty in theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet

The Crown Prosecution Service says it is confident that the case “played a part in disrupting a wider crime and money-laundering network”

Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?

A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view

Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts

The RA says that up to 60 jobs are a risk of redundancy—but the union claims the true figure is almost 100

Venice Biennale 2026: Switzerland and Nordic Countries reveal artists

Switzerland will be represented by six cultural figures, while a trio will take over the Nordic pavilion

Politician detained after attacks on ‘blasphemous’ works at Greek National Gallery

Four works by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis were vandalised earlier this week, The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens confirmed

Edward Gillman appointed director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery

Gillman, who was previously the director of Auto Italia in London, will replace Zoé Whitley, who stepped down in 2024

As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul

A year-long event bonanza will mark the birthday of perhaps the greatest British artist ever

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‘He could be grotesquely, wildly intemperate’: biographer Blake Gopnik tells us about the great collector Albert C. Barnes

A new biography on the renowned businessman, who amassed one of the most important collections of Modern art in the US, looks at what made him tick

A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew

Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16

Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with global collections, says new report

The report also describes the idea of charging international visitors as “logistically complex”

Cattelan gold toilet trial: defendant says he used the loo and it was ‘splendid’

The fully functioning 18-carat gold toilet was removed from an exhibition of Maurizio Cattelan’s work at Blenheim Palace in 2019

Innovative or inappropriate? Sector reacts to UK government's new culture podcast

Presented by culture minister Chris Bryant, ‘First Draft’ is billed as the podcast that “explores the impact, innovation and opportunity in the UK’s creative industries”

Esteemed private collection of Roman marbles is starting its North American tour

Nearly 60 works from the Torlonia Collection, including striking depictions of animals and people, will feature in exhibitions in Chicago, Fort Worth and Montreal

Royal Academy staff face redundancy amid plans to cut 18% of workforce

Sixty roles are at risk at the London institution, although almost half are "current vacancies", a spokesperson says

Cattelan's £4.8m gold toilet stolen in five minute raid and split into smaller parts, court hears

The court case of three men charged with the 2019 theft has begun in Oxford, and is expected to last four weeks

Lubaina Himid will represent Great Britain at the 2026 Venice Biennale

The Zanzibar-born cultural activist has been a supporter of Black artists since the 1980s

Archaeologist behind discovery of pharaoh's tomb says he may have found another

Piers Litherland, who led the team which discovered Thutmose II's tomb, believes this latest chamber could contain the ancient king's mummy

Architect Lina Ghotmeh wins competition to revamp British Museum’s vast Western Range galleries

Ghotmeh beat five architect-led teams to land what the museum has called “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world”

UK government aims to keep cash-strapped cultural venues ‘up and running’ with £270m funding package

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy announced today that funding will be shared between arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings across England that are in “urgent need of financial support”

Archaeologists unearth final undiscovered pharaoh’s tomb of King Tutankhamun’s dynasty

The unearthing of King Thutmose II's tomb has been described as “one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years”

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Migration season: Banksy’s animal art heads to new London Museum

A Piranha sentry box will be displayed at the new institution, previously known as the Museum of London

‘Let’s finally get on with it’: V&A director voices support for UK tourist tax

Tristram Hunt’s proposal would see funds ring fenced for cash-strapped cultural infrastructure

Roman basilica discovered beneath London office block

The 2,000-year-old ruins were found close to Bank tube station and London Bridge