AArts and design Read More Guatemala’s Museo de Arte Colonial shut down by authorities – The Art NewspaperFebruary 4, 2026 On 29 December, authorities from Guatemala’s Public Ministry (MP) arrived at the Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua…
AArts and design Read More London’s National Gallery appoints Patrick Elliott as curator of Modern paintings – The Art NewspaperFebruary 3, 2026 The National Gallery in London is planting its flag on 20th-century art with the announcement of Patrick Elliott…
AArts and design Read More Inside Brussels’s €230m Kanal-Centre Pompidou museum—opening in November – The Art NewspaperJanuary 29, 2026 The long-awaited Kanal-Centre Pompidou gallery of modern and contemporary art in Brussels—a vast new art hub rivalling other…
AArts and design Read More Art Gallery of Ontario curator resigned after failed acquisition of Nan Goldin work – The Art NewspaperJanuary 24, 2026 A leaked memo has revealed the resignations of a senior curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)…
AArts and design Read More Metropolitan Opera considers selling multi-storey Chagall murals, valued at $55m – The Art NewspaperJanuary 23, 2026 Amid mounting financial issues, the Metropolitan Opera, the largest performing arts organisation in the United States, announced on…
AArts and design Read More Ethiopia’s Africa Hall wins Modernist conservation award – The Art NewspaperJanuary 22, 2026 World Monuments Fund and the furniture designer Knoll have announced the winner of their annual prize for the…
AArts and design Read More UK government bans export of £9m rural ‘masterpiece’ by Claude Lorrain – The Art NewspaperJanuary 20, 2026 The UK government has placed an export bar on a key painting by the 17th-century French artist Claude Lorrain valued…
AArts and design Read More Work by Edgar Degas among £59.7m haul of art donated to UK public collections in exchange for tax benefits – The Art NewspaperJanuary 17, 2026 Works by Edgar Degas and Ben Nicholson are among the gifts bestowed to the UK’s public collections as…
AArts and design Read More ‘It’s madness’: David Hockney blasts plans to loan Bayeux Tapestry to UK – The Art NewspaperJanuary 16, 2026 The British artist David Hockney says bringing the Bayeux Tapestry to London for an exhibition at the British…
AArts and design Read More The Big Review | Jacques-Louis David at the Musée du Louvre, Paris ★★★★★ – The Art NewspaperJanuary 12, 2026 Total star rating: ★★★★★ The works: ★★★★★ The show: ★★★★★ Neoclassicism is having a moment. Long regarded as…
AArts and design Read More Storm over closure of South Africa’s much-loved Irma Stern Museum – The Art NewspaperJanuary 11, 2026 A row has erupted over the closure last year of the Irma Stern Museum (ISM), founded in 1971…
AArts and design Read More Van Gogh shows in 2026: America, Japan and the Netherlands – The Art NewspaperJanuary 10, 2026 Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow at the Philadelphia Art Museum (6 June-11 October) will…