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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

JULY 4, 2025

In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. But Hauser & Wirth is not alone in realising that a commercial gallery can take on a whole new character, audience and purpose in a rural location.

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‘Our biggest heritage crisis’: why Britain’s churches are in danger

The Art Newspaper

JULY 3, 2025

They house treasures ranging from sculpture and ornate carvings to stained-glass windows and historic burial grounds. It also extended the programme for one year only, casting doubt on its future after March 2026. Nearly half of England’s Grade I-listed buildings are churches. If a building is not maintained, damp and rot can spread.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 19, 2025

Edwards’s retrospective opened last year at the Fridericianum in Kassel and will travel to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2026. Conscious pairing Mekondjo’s work “was very consciously paired” with Edwards’s sculptural explorations of African American identity, Fokianaki says. “Of Of course, all these things interconnect.”

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London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 24, 2025

Within this setting, Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture will be a “space for reflection and shared experience”, says a project statement. The project also incorporates new figurative sculptures of the late Queen alongside her husband Prince Philip at Birdcage Walk, a Prince Philip gate and a main monument to Elizabeth II to be built beside the Mall.

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New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 13, 2025

A new venue for durational art, Canyon , will open its doors on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2026. The 40,000 sq.

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Orange County Museum of Art in talks to merge with University of California, Irvine

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 16, 2025

News of the impending changes in leadership in governance come after several milestones for the OCMA in recent years—and as it prepares to open the latest edition of its biennial of California art, Desperate, Scared, But Social (21 June-4 January 2026).

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Amid geopolitical tensions, Pakistani and Indian art worlds unite in London exhibitions

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 20, 2025

While Giacometti's ragged, attenuated sculptures reflect the horrors of the Second World War, Bhabha's totemic hybrid figures address the permanence of global warfare in the modern age. "Works by both artists powerfully summon the repercussions of ongoing conflicts on everyday life," Jhaveri says.

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Lacma will plant towering, flowering Jeff Koons sculpture outside new building

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 23, 2025

Now, as the museum prepares to open its $715m David Geffen Galleries next year , it has acquired a monumental floral sculpture by Jeff Koons to anchor the outdoor spaces around the new building. The artist’s only other large-scale floral sculpture, 1992’s Puppy , also exists in one edition and an artist’s proof.)

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Katharina Grosse: ‘Imagination doesn’t have a scale’

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 16, 2025

In your show at Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen, and also The Sprayed Dear exhibition in Stuttgart, your sculpture is at the fore—both in terms of your historic work and your contemporary work. I think that is the starting point for negotiating with one another and maybe with agreeing on certain things we all share. That’s the open-ended offer.

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Three works by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill withdrawn from UK exhibition after consultation with survivors group

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 26, 2025

Each had been lined up for inclusion in the exhibition It Takes A Village at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft (until 1 February 2026), focused on artists who, like Gill, worked in the Sussex village in the early 20th century. It has since been restored and was reinstated in April.

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Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show

The Art Newspaper

JULY 9, 2025

The Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire is lending most of the pieces which include Large Two Forms , Oval with Points (1968-70), Reclining Woman: Elbow, Locking Piece (1981) and Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae (1968-69). The show will be the largest outdoor presentation of the sculptor's work to date.

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As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

The Art Newspaper

JULY 8, 2025

The centrepiece of the show, according to Issra Marie Martin, speaking on behalf of the New Curators cohort, is Speculative apparatus for the work of nohkompan and nikosis (2016), a sculptural structure acquired by Tate in 2020, which, in its fullest form, includes Trapper Linklater’s work, lent by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in Ontario.

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A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

The Art Newspaper

JULY 8, 2025

Lauder and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds, 1996 © Gerhard Richter 2025 Nicholas Serota, the former director of Tate, will co-curate a vast retrospective of works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter this autumn at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (17 October-2 March 2026). “[The

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

Orange County Museum of Art in talks to merge with University of California, Irvine

Amid geopolitical tensions, Pakistani and Indian art worlds unite in London exhibitions

Lacma will plant towering, flowering Jeff Koons sculpture outside new building

Katharina Grosse: ‘Imagination doesn’t have a scale’

Three works by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill withdrawn from UK exhibition after consultation with survivors group

Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show

As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

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