Shipping costs are skyrocketing—and galleries are expected to be hit hard
Oil price increases and the inability to fly over Russian airspace has made sending art abroad, especially between East Asia and Europe, much more expensive
Object lessons: from Richard Gere's portrait of Bob Dylan to Lucian Freud's drawing of a pony with which he had a tricky relationship
Our pick of the highlights from April's fairs and auctions
One giant leap for Jeff Koons: artist to send his sculptures to the moon
Corresponding digital renderings of the lunar-bound works will be sold as NFTs, obviously
How to get the next generation in India's youngest state to visit museums? Give schools money
The $17.4m scheme in Bihar has resulted in 33,000 young visitors to its main museum in Patna in a year
Art Basel reveals directors and name for new Paris fair in October
Paris+, by Art Basel is due to run until at least 2028
The original NFT? Sotheby's to offer a receipt for an invisible work by Yves Klein for €500,000
The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold
Stolen Nepalese temple artefacts found at London gallery returned in embassy ceremony
The artefacts, from the 16th and 18th centuries, were discovered in Barakat Gallery and were voluntarily handed over to police
A Canova statue—lost in an English garden for decades and bought for £5,200—will be sold at Christie's London for £8m
The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years
Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off Antarctic coast, more than a century after it sank
An expedition team has located the famed shipwreck in what has been described as a "milestone in polar history"
Magritte more than doubles auction record at an otherwise tame Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening sale in London
Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m
Ukraine museum reportedly burns down in Russian invasion, destroying 25 works by folk artist Maria Prymachenko
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the Museum of Local History in Ivankiv had been set on fire by Russian forces
Object lessons: from a Francis Bacon triptych to India's most expensive woman artist at auction
Our pick of highlights from forthcoming auctions and fairs
How an artist’s East London studio threatened by developers turned into an experimental space of queer solidarity
Ridley Road Project Space, which ran for six months in Dalston, will close in March
From naked protests to blockchain fundraising: how artists are protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Russia has warned of "legal repercussions" for taking part in anti-war demonstrations
Arco Madrid opens to decent sales, few Latin American collectors and a Peruvian artist getting her vagina sewn shut
The first full edition of Spain's leading art fair since the start of the pandemic saw a near-return to form with strong institutional presence
Sotheby's unveils second $200m tranche of works from the Macklowe collection
The works, by artists such as Warhol, Richter and Giacometti, will be sold in New York in May
Rubens could become most expensive work of art ever sold in Poland
Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month
Nigerian installation in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral provokes debate around restitution and colonial monuments
Victor Ehikhamenor's towering work has been placed beside the building's memorial to the man who led the plunder of the Benin bronzes in 1897
Eternal return: Italian museums to sell digital copies of masterpieces by Leonardo, Caravaggio and Modigliani
Replicas of works from four institutions, including the Uffizi, will be sold as NFTs by Unit London gallery
Russian gallery guard charged after drawing eyes on avant-garde painting with ballpoint pen
Work by Anna Leporskaya from the 1930s is undergoing restoration after "lapse in sanity" by museum employee during first day on the job
Horsehair baskets and tracing paper chairs: Loewe Craft Prize announces 2022 shortlist
The world's most lucrative award for craft will announce its winner in a ceremony in Seoul this June
With pop-up rents on the rise, formerly nomadic Guts Gallery opens permanent space in Hackney
The London gallery has made a name for championing underserved voices in the art world and will open its new space with Morris dancers and the "smell of Yorkshire"
Journalism or doxxing? News report reveals secret identities of Bored Ape NFT founders—and the crypto community is not happy about it
The Buzzfeed News journalist Katie Notopoulos has named Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow as the men behind the online pseudonyms "Gordon Goner” and “Gargamel”
Bored Ape NFT founders seek $5bn funding from Silicon Valley investor
The secretive crypto collective Yuga Labs is reportedly in talks with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to sell a multi-million dollar stake
Object lessons: from a 16th-century angel to a jaunty walking stick
Our pick of the highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
Organised ‘under gunfire’, Kazakhstan announces first national Venice pavilion—but will it actually go ahead this time?
This year’s commissioner hopes the absence of government funding might help them avoid the disaster of the nation's 2019 pavilion, which was cancelled amid “corruption” allegations
Step back inside Notre Dame: immersive VR exhibition recreates Paris cathedral prior to 2019 fire
Eternal Notre Dame will raise funds towards the €1bn restoration of the fire-ravaged cathedral
Art Basel forced to postpone Hong Kong fair until May due to rising Covid cases
Originally planned for March, it will now take place less than three weeks before the Swiss fair's flagship event in Basel
Courtauld Institute forms 'strategic partnership' with neighbouring King's College London—what does this mean for the prestigious art history college?
The two institutions of vastly different sizes will join forces at a time of "great uncertainty" for arts and humanities in higher education
For the first time ever, a Korean museum is selling off 'national treasures' at auction
Two bronze Buddha statues are likely to make records for cultural artefacts at auction in Korea