Gareth Harris
Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper
Art Fund, the charity that helped buy Rokeby Venus for the nation, celebrates 120 years with new campaign
Organisation pledges to back initiatives linking museums with local communities for anniversary project
Law firm sponsor for National Portrait Gallery prize sparks controversy
Herbert Smith Freehills, which runs an "oil and gas" division, replaces BP
Ithra Art Prize worth up to $500,000 awarded to Saudi artist Obaid Alsafi
Palm trunk work located in AlUla addresses environmental issues
UK Pop art pioneer Joe Tilson has died, aged 95
Art world figures pay tribute to "one of the most inventive printmakers"
Radical plan to restore Clandon Park rejected by members at National Trust annual meeting
Restore Trust campaign group also failed to secure seats on heritage body’s governing council
Eva Jospin follows in footsteps of Jeff Koons and Olafur Eliasson with a show at the Palace of Versailles
The French artist will display a tapestry more than 100 metres long inspired by Virginia Woolf
‘No strings attached’ £60,000 Hamlyn awards given to five artists including Helen Cammock
Ten cultural figures in total are garlanded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Louvre wants to acquire Chardin’s famed strawberries painting—but needs €1.3m
LVMH group donates €16m towards work sold for €24m at auction
Revamp of fire-damaged Clandon Park galvanises National Trust ‘woke’ row
Campaign group Restore Trust accuses organisation of backtracking on its restoration plans for the 18th-century Palladian mansion
November book bag: from a collection of ‘weird’ Medieval art to a publication detailing Hokusai’s obsession with Mount Fuji
Our roundup of the latest art publications
Paper, politics and poetry: why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look
British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists
How Claude Monet battled his own temperament and why the women in his life were ‘fundamental’ to his art
The art critic Jackie Wullschläger’s talks to us about her new book, the first major biography of the French Impressionist written in English
World Press Photo ‘shocked’ at ousting of Hungarian National Museum director in LGBTQ+ exhibition row
Images of a care home in Manila by Hannah Reyes Morales fell foul of right-wing lawmakers
The legacy banking foundation buying up works at Artissima for Turin’s major museums
Fondazione Arte CRT’s new chief wants to bring art to the masses via public art programmes
Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre
The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted
‘We can feel instability’: Italian dealers weigh up the market at Artissima in Turin
Sales were brisk at the VIP preview of the fair's 30th edition, but "jitters" can be felt against an uncertain geopolitical backdrop
Museums around the world wonder how—or if—to respond to Israel-Hamas war
Many cultural institutions have remained silent about the ongoing crisis
Consumer culture art: Sylvie Fleury talks brands, cars and irreverent Minimalism
The Swiss artist is celebrating a 30-year career at Sprüth Magers in London
Public art tribute planned for codebreaker Alan Turing as AI summit opens in the UK
Funding for the selected work will come from the government's Town Fund, designed to level up regions outside London
Blocked show on Genghis Khan finally opens in France
The exhibition in Nantes was postponed after interventions by Beijing authorities
Climate activists spray-paint Paris's Louvre pyramid
A member of the Dernière Rénovation group scaled the famous glass monument over the weekend
Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Biennale announces programme for 2024
After Rain exhibition, featuring 92 artists, is organised by curator Ute Meta Bauer
Artes Mundi hits the road: Welsh contemporary art prize exhibition opens with a focus on the Middle East
Artists such as Mounira Al Solh give the country-wide exhibition additional relevance
Four artists withdraw from 2024 Istanbul Biennial as curator row deepens
The participants invited this year call for "transparent forms of communication"—the biennial foundation says dialogue channels are still open
Australia's National Library is seeking campaign material from the Indigenous Voice referendum
Items from "all perspectives" about the debate are being sought
Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker donate works to Freedom from Torture charity auctions
Ai Weiwei’s taxi window crank sculptures will also go on the block at the Sotheby's live sale
Arte Povera comes to Paris: major exhibition to open at Bourse de Commerce next year
The show curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will include loans from the Castello di Rivoli
Artist Tarik Kiswanson, who spotlights the plight of Palestinian refugees, has won France’s top art prize
Recent works by the artist are on show at the Centre Pompidou along with works by the three other Prix Duchamp nominees
Guerlain and Korean artist Lee Ufan award inaugural art and environment prize
The French artist Djabril Boukhenaïssi was announced as the winner at Paris + par Art Basel
'More Americans than at Frieze': sophomore edition of Art Basel's Paris+ fair opens to packed aisles and punchy sales
Major deals suggest a shift in power between Paris and London, though some attendees noted an aesthetic conservatism in the French fair's offerings