Ethiopia’s Africa Hall wins Modernist conservation award – The Art Newspaper
World Monuments Fund and the furniture designer Knoll have announced the winner of their annual prize for the…
UK government bans export of £9m rural ‘masterpiece’ by Claude Lorrain – The Art Newspaper
The UK government has placed an export bar on a key painting by the 17th-century French artist Claude Lorrain valued…
Work by Edgar Degas among £59.7m haul of art donated to UK public collections in exchange for tax benefits – The Art Newspaper
Works by Edgar Degas and Ben Nicholson are among the gifts bestowed to the UK’s public collections as…
‘It’s madness’: David Hockney blasts plans to loan Bayeux Tapestry to UK – The Art Newspaper
The British artist David Hockney says bringing the Bayeux Tapestry to London for an exhibition at the British…
The Big Review | Jacques-Louis David at the Musée du Louvre, Paris ★★★★★ – The Art Newspaper
Total star rating: ★★★★★ The works: ★★★★★ The show: ★★★★★ Neoclassicism is having a moment. Long regarded as…
Storm over closure of South Africa’s much-loved Irma Stern Museum – The Art Newspaper
A row has erupted over the closure last year of the Irma Stern Museum (ISM), founded in 1971…
Van Gogh shows in 2026: America, Japan and the Netherlands – The Art Newspaper
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow at the Philadelphia Art Museum (6 June-11 October) will…
The Year Ahead 2026: the big exhibitions and the key museum openings—podcast – The Art Newspaper
In the first episode of 2026 we look ahead at the next 12 months with a guide to…
‘Unrealistic’ €600m Louvre redevelopment plans must be scrapped, say striking workers – The Art Newspaper
Staff at the Musée du Louvre yesterday staged another walk out, citing concerns around working conditions and infrastructure,…
AI helps to reconstruct Cimabue basilica masterpiece shattered by earthquakes – The Art Newspaper
Experts are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help reassemble a priceless fresco by the early Renaissance artist Cimabue…
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia – The Art Newspaper
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has voluntarily returned three statues to the…
A museum packed with once banned art is flourishing in the Uzbek desert – The Art Newspaper
In a corner of Uzbekistan, close to the cracked, muddy crater that was once the Aral Sea, lies…