Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Attendance at major UK museums takes a plunge

Figures compiled by the government show a drop in visitors at Tate and the National Gallery

Will the latest plans for Île Seguin finally turn it into a key Paris culture destination?

New project proposed by the Emerige group includes an art centre and art hotel

Saudi women artists make their mark at 21,39 festival in Jeddah

New works draw attention to destruction of Islamic heritage and female car crash victims

Anri Sala turns abandoned Japanese house into sonic space

Albanian artist creates audio and visual installation on the island of Teshima

Trolls take over Icelandic pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Artist Egill Sæbjörnsson says a pair of man-eating creatures will shape the show

Centre Pompidou celebrates 40th birthday by sharing its treasures

Museum sends loans to more than 50 exhibitions as high-tech building gets €100m facelift

London’s Lisson Gallery, champion of conceptual art, turns 50

Thousand-page publication will document more than 150 artists who have had solo shows since 1967

Do Ho Suh creates memorial to his lost New York home and studio

Korean artist has moved to London, but his Chelsea apartment lives on in monumental drawings

Saloua Raouda Choucair, pioneering Lebanese artist, dies aged 100

Tate Modern’s show in 2013 brought her abstract sculptures and paintings to a much wider audience

Giants of German culture including Thomas Demand to feature in Fondazione Prada’s Venice Biennale show

Exhibition also includes works by theatre designer Anna Viebrock and film director Alexander Kluge<br>

Venice Biennale 2017: Mark Bradford and Xavier Veilhan projects revealed

US artist will work with Italian prisoners while the French sculptor will set up a recording studio in the Giardini<br> <br>

Who will be the Musée d’Orsay's new director?

Three French museum professionals and a Brussels-based director are on the shortlist to replace Guy Cogeval <br>

Broomberg & Chanarin to bring their politically-engaged art to the London Underground

New film at Canary Wharf will focus on refugee crisis in Europe, while current show in Milan includes topical works from past ten years

MoMA turns to Paris dealer to sell deaccessioned Dubuffet

Painting is one of two works from the New York museum that Applicat-Prazan will take to major fairs<br>

Feminism and playfulness at heart of United Arab Emirates pavilion in Venice

Group show will include poet and film-director Nujoom Alghanem and recently graduated Sara Al Haddad &nbsp;<br> <br>

Manchester arts centre The Factory finally gets off the ground

Council has greenlighted Rem Koolhaas-designed, £110m home of city’s international festival <br>

Ferens Art Gallery reopens to celebrate Hull’s City of Culture year

Rare&nbsp;Renaissance paintings, Francis Bacon’s “Screaming Popes” and the Turner Prize will go on show in the refurbished space<br>

Sarah McCrory named director of Goldsmiths' new contemporary art gallery

Turner Prize-winners Assemble are designing art school's space, due to open in 2018

Speculation grows that Tate’s next director will be Maria Balshaw

Will director of Manchester’s university and city art galleries be heading to London?

Grand Palais closure means that Fiac, Paris Photo and La Biennale Paris must move out

Dealers hope relocation of fairs will not prove disruptive during historic venue’s refurbishment

Reportnews

Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in 2017

From the Louvre Abu Dhabi to Cape Town's Zeitz Museum via London, Los Angeles and lots more

Central Saint Martins creates temporary art school at Tate Modern

Tate Exchange initiative aims to highlight threats to art education

Reportnews

The top worldwide biennials and events this year

From the Venice Biennale to Sculpture Projects Münster, 2017 promises to be a heavyweight year

Kader Attia focuses on the politics and poetry of water during two-day event in Dakar

Initiative is part of the Sharjah Biennial’s ambitious off-site programme<br>

French government places export bar on €15m Leonardo da Vinci drawing

State has 30 months to buy newly discovered work hailed as a “national treasure”<br> <br>

Polish government acquires masterpieces by Leonardo and Rembrandt—but at what price?

The state has secured more than 80,000 works belonging to the Czartoryski dynasty

Liz Glynn brings turn-of-the-century grandeur to Central Park with her open-air ballroom

The Los Angeles-based sculptor is also in the spotlight next month with a show of Rodin-inspired works at Paula Cooper Gallery

New York-based collector Ronald Lauder joins Getty board of trustees

The billionaire businessman is experienced in museum management, philanthropy and international affairs