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At last, institutions join forces to take environmental action

Major events in London and Tokyo signal a much-needed shift in the conversation around museums and growth, and a move towards significant practical action

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Superstar of Australian art Emily Kam Kngwarray to get Tate Modern show in 2025

The Indigenous painter, whose survey opens at the National Gallery of Australia this week, only started her artistic career in her mid-70s

The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★

The long-delayed London survey is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of the Canadian-American artist's 50-year career

El Anatsui: the sculptor on making art from waste, and waking up the artist in all of us

The Ghanaian artist, whose new work is about to be unveiled in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, explains the layered meanings behind his use of recycled bottle tops in his signature glittering, fabric-like hangings

Postponed Philip Guston survey finally opens at Tate Modern

The delay allowed the show's curators to travel and conduct further research about the Ku Klux Klan works, organisers say

Tate Modern launches new commission for experimental artists

The Infinities Commission will support “immersive projects that sit outside conventional artistic categories”, with the inaugural edition launching in performance space The Tanks in spring 2025

Tate Modern announces new director as Oslo museum chief Karin Hindsbo

Pressing challenges include maintaining visitor numbers and developing the institution's climate response

London museums struggling to regain visitors after Covid closures, our survey shows

The Art Newspaper's annual Visitor Figures survey has found the National Gallery has lost more visitors since 2019 than any other art museum worldwide

Tate announces El Anatsui as next artist for vast Turbine Hall commission

Ghana-born, Nigeria-based artist—known for his signature bottle-cap sculptures—will unveil the work in London in October

'Like being on display in a zoo': judges rule in favour of luxury flat owners living next to Tate Modern in battle over privacy

Landmark Supreme Court ruling finds Tate Modern's viewing platform as private nuisance to luxury flat owners it overlooks

‘Enema of the state’: Aboriginal artist Richard Bell on his protest pieces heading to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Works going on show include a ticker tape calculating what the British government owes Indigenous Australians for use of their country during colonisation

Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton: the enduring allure of art and luxury

Plus, Michael Rakowitz's ambitious restitution plans and Rosy Martin's photographical iconostasis

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Tate Modern chief Frances Morris and artist John Akomfrah recognised in UK New Year Honours list

Grayson Perry is made a knight while Turner prize nominee Ingrid Pollard gets an MBE

New platform offers mentoring and financial aid to art students in Ukraine

Bursaries and a "Sister School" network of universities across Europe have been organised by UAx Platform to support war-affected Ukrainian students and staff

Frances Morris to leave Tate Modern in April after seven years as director

London museum's first female chief, who was pivotal in diversifying the collection and programme, departs to pursue curatorial projects related to climate change and Modernism

Art boom as the UK busts: how the economic crisis is affecting the market

Plus, Cecilia Vicuña; 20th-century women artists at Frieze Masters; and Modigliani in Philadelphia

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Eight exhibitions to see during London's Frieze Week

From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum

Cézanne's famous nude scene was once a British scandal—now it's the star of Tate's blockbuster exhibition

The Bathers drew protests in 1964 when London's National Gallery bought it for £475,000 and there were fears it would be vandalised

Provence at the heart of Tate Modern show dedicated to Paul Cézanne, the ‘artist’s artist’

London exhibition will also include Cézannes once owned by artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso

Why is art at the heart of Italy’s far-right political party?

Plus, Carnegie International, the US's longest-running contemporary art exhibition, and a mystifying egg sculpture

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UK museums to temporarily close out of respect for Elizabeth II's funeral

Tate Modern and Southbank Centre will be open overnight to provide toilet facilities to those queueing to see the Queen's coffin

Tate announces 2023 programme including exhibition pairing Hilma af Klint with Piet Mondrian

Solo shows dedicated to Isaac Julien and Sarah Lucas, a survey of contemporary African photography and the controversial "Philip Guston Now" are also on the slate

London visitors invited to go dotty with Yayoi Kusama in her Obliteration Room this summer at Tate

Meanwhile M+ museum in Hong Kong will launch retrospective of 93-year-old Japanese artist

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Ukraine fundraiser shines intriguing light on art, wealth—and a flexible approach to morality

'Brave Ukraine' event—presided over by Christie’s and held at Tate Modern—shows a cultural crowd keen to distance itself from the oligarchs it once wooed

'The apple of my eye': New Cezanne show in London and Chicago includes still life once owned and loved by Gauguin

Retrospective opens at the Art Institute of Chicago this month and travels to Tate in October

Controversially postponed Philip Guston show finally gets going. How has it changed?

The changing of dates of a four-city survey, purportedly due to the artist’s Ku Klux Klan motifs, caused uproar in 2020. Now, after a curatorial rethink, the first exhibition is set to open