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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A commentator reflecting on co-curating Tate Britain’s 2014 exhibition “Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation” argues that museums should be cautious when adding audio and video to gallery spaces....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The UK government has placed an export bar on a rare Renaissance bronze by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), valued at £4.6m, giving UK institutions time to try to acquire it. The 20cm-high...
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The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums in Greece and Scotland, with most works going to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, MOMUS (the Metropolitan...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Hungary’s new government has officially ended construction work on Budapest’s decade-long Liget cultural development in City Park (Városliget), including plans for a New National Gallery designed by...
Hyperallergic
Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein has purchased Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot-tall sculpture Blue (2019) for a reported $2 million after the National Park Service removed it from the John F....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos is donating 51 contemporary artworks—mostly by Greek artists—to four museums in Greece and Scotland as part of an ongoing philanthropic campaign. The National...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Paris prosecutors have asked that Giuliano Ruffini be sent to trial on charges of commercial deception and money laundering in connection with an alleged Old Master forgery network, and they also...
Hyperallergic
The National Park Service removed Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot-tall painted aluminum sculpture “Blue” (2019) from the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known worldwide for her polka dots, pumpkins, and immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, died aged 97 on 14 August in a Tokyo hospital from multiple organ failure, the Yayoi...
Hyperallergic
The BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9 with a lineup of 91 films centered on its theme of “a cinema for liberation.” Among highlighted works were...
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Steven Nelson, a former senior executive at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., accused the museum of “soft censorship” after it relocated a symposium connected to an exhibition on race...
Hyperallergic
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has boarded up certain structures and adjusted installations ahead of an IndyCar race later this month tied to President Trump’s “Freedom 250”...
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London’s National Gallery has faced criticism for NG Citizens, a £250,000 citizens’ assembly made up of randomly selected, demographically representative UK residents convened to advise on the...
Hyperallergic
Armenian-Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian is presenting “Weaving Culture” at the National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan, a project that narrates Armenia’s natural history through textiles. Curator...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed the 2025 film Moss & Freud, directed by James Lucas, portraying a friendship between supermodel Kate Moss and painter Lucian Freud, and argued that the movie romanticizes an...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Six artists have been shortlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s leading contemporary art prize: Melaw Nakehk’o (Circumpolar), Samuel Roy-Bois (Pacific), Audie Murray (Prairies), Lotus L....
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ARTnews’s summer preview lists 46 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, identifying spectacle as a major seasonal theme. It highlights projects including Laure Prouvost’s show about quantum...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed a major Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition at London’s National Gallery, described as the institution’s first large-scale presentation of the 17th-century Spanish painter. The...
Artnet News
Artnet News reports that Berry Campbell in New York is presenting “Louisa Chase: The Eighties,” the largest and most comprehensive Louisa Chase (1951–2016) solo show in New York in more than two...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, received a $116 million gift from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation to endow its Across the Nation lending program permanently, the largest...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara previews the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, describing it as likely to be a politically charged edition and noting uncertainty about whether protests will...
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Artnet News reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” assembles what experts estimate to be art worth billions of dollars, a feat New York dealer Robert Simon...
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Billionaire collector and National Gallery of Art trustee Mitchell Rales donated an additional $116 million to endow the NGA’s Across the Nation lending initiative in perpetuity, expanding a program...
Hyperallergic
A focused exhibition of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s mail art submissions to the Canadian collective General Idea is on view at Art Metropole in Toronto through May 31. Drawn from the National Gallery...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper’s 300th podcast episode in 2024 spotlights two major museum openings: V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford tours...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
London’s National Gallery selected Kengo Kuma and Associates to design a major new extension estimated to cost £350 million, with an opening planned for the early 2030s. Kuma’s proposal was chosen...
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ARTnews.com profiles Berlin-based Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ming Wong (born 1971) and his film Dance of the Sun on the Water | Saltatio Solis in Aqua, made after a residency that granted him...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance reported that more than 200 million visits were made to the world’s 100 most visited art museums in 2025, compared with 230 million in 2019 and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is mounting “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” described as the Met’s and America’s first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (1483–1520). The show assembles 237...
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Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř dismissed Alicja Knast as director of Prague’s National Gallery, a move that has drawn scrutiny and claims of political motivation. Knast had led the museum since...
Artnet News
London’s National Gallery has announced a “strategic reset” after reporting a $11.2 million deficit, prompting plans to reduce staffing and adjust programming. The museum has launched a voluntary...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
London’s National Gallery is preparing staff reductions and program cuts after projecting an £8.2 million deficit for 2026–27, The Art Newspaper reported on 13 February 2026. The museum is offering a...
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Artnet News reported that Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger has joined the roster of the international gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. The article characterizes Holzinger as...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper compiled the national-pavilion announcements made so far for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opens 9 May 2026 and runs through 22 November...