Art Basel announces new Qatar fair
The Art Newspaper
MAY 20, 2025
The fair, a partnership with Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+, will launch in February 2026 with around 50 international and regional galleries
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Dolley Madison’s Plundered Coffeepot Sells in the U.K.
Maine Antique Digest
MAY 12, 2025
On August 24, 1814, following a victory at Bladensburg, Maryland, British forces captured the city of Washington, D.C., and set fire to the White House, the Capitol, the Treasury, and the Library of Congress.
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The Golden Age of Coin Collecting: Navigating the 2025 Precious Metals Market
Antique Appraisers Auctioneers
MAY 14, 2025
Remember when your grandpa’s dusty coin collection seemed like nothing more than a quirky hobby? Well, grab your loupe and polish your monocle, because 2025 is shaping up to be a numismatist’s dream come true. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or just dipping your toes into the glittering world of precious metals, this guide will help you navigate the ins and outs of gold and silver coins, bullion appraisals, and everything in between.
Robert Francis Prevost has been elected Pope Leo XIV—why does this matter to the worlds of art and heritage?
The Art Newspaper
MAY 8, 2025
The Chicago-born pontiffthe new spiritual leader of 1.
UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years
Could 17th-century Italy provide a useful model for today’s challenging art market?
The Art Newspaper
MAY 8, 2025
An exhibition in New York spotlights an intriguing episode in trade history , in which an influx of foreign artists to Rome prompted everyone from barbers to lawyers in the city to develop side hustles as art dealers
Tate Modern, the ‘cathedral to contemporary art’, celebrates 25 years
The Art Newspaper
MAY 8, 2025
Artists and curators look at the London museums achievements, and the challenges ahead
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Comment | Why a country should invest in art—even when it’s under attack
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
While physically defending their country, Ukrainian artists work provides oxygen for urgent issues that demand attention and dialogue, writes Bjrn Geldhof, the artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
The Waverley rules were designed to protect UK cultural heritage—are they having unintended consequences on the art market?
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
The scheme, introduced in the 1950s, is meant to help keep important works of art in Britain
Adam Lindemann opens exhibition of 19th-century African sculpture and contemporary Black abstraction
The Art Newspaper
MAY 14, 2025
The dealer brings together five Urhobo sculptures for the first time in the US in an exhibition at his private residence on Manhattan's Upper East Side
Wes Anderson’s priceless ‘Renaissance portrait’ to go on show in London
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
A new exhibition includes the fictional masterpiece Boy With Apple, which appeared in the Anderson classic, the Grand Budapest Hotel
From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action
The Art Newspaper
MAY 14, 2025
The Herds is an expanding throng of life-sized moveable animal sculpturesand it succeeds where many ostensibly green projects fail
In The Mastermind, an art heist’s aftermath unfolds against the backdrop of Vietnam War-era America
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
The new film by Kelly Reichardt, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, centres on the theft of four paintings from a fictional Massachusetts museum in 1970
New York’s Hotel Chelsea honors the late artist Teruko Yokoi with new restaurant
The Art Newspaper
MAY 6, 2025
The artists former residence opens a restaurant named Teruko this month, featuring her works
‘It is not good or bad’: in a frantic age, Beeple seeks a more nuanced take on technology
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
The media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) increasingly sees his interactive video sculpturesone of which goes on show this month at the SXSW London festival and another at The Shed in New Yorkand social media posts as public art
Man Sentenced to 96 Months for Theft of Artwork
Maine Antique Digest
MAY 12, 2025
On March 13 Thomas Trotta, 49, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 96 months imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release, for one count of theft of major artwork.
Artists and architects shortlisted in Queen Elizabeth II memorial design competition
The Art Newspaper
MAY 8, 2025
Designs by five teams have been shortlisted to create the proposed memorial in St Jamess Park, with the winning entry due to be announced this summer
Boston Public Art Triennial launches with more than a dozen projects across the city
The Art Newspaper
MAY 20, 2025
Works at the inaugural triennial entreat locals and visitors alike to imagine new ways of understanding our world
Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, migration museum opens in Rotterdam, Ben Shahn's social security mural—podcast
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
Exploring the host of exhibitions and events that celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Tinguely, plus a look at the newly opened Fenix museum with its director, and a discussion of Ben Shahn's 1941 study, Harvesting Wheat
National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m
The Art Newspaper
MAY 1, 2025
The London museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection
Holy ground: why Persian carpets play an important symbolic role in the funeral of Pope Francis
The Art Newspaper
APRIL 25, 2025
For over 600 years carpets from Anatolia, Turkey and Persia have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists including Andrea del Verrochio to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space
Brooklyn Museum workers protest mass layoffs and alleged union-contract breaches
The Art Newspaper
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
At least 100 people, including local politicians, gathered on Tuesday night to put pressure on museum leadership
How to help artists and art workers devastated by Los Angeles wildfires
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 14, 2025
A range of art-world relief funds are trying to provide immediate aid
Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 24, 2025
Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful
Medieval wall paintings hidden in a French cathedral revealed in digital imagery
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 2, 2025
UK conservators knit together thousands of pictures taken at Angers cathedral of Saint Maurille paintngs
The devil’s in the detail of Vatican's Jubilee 2025 mascot
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 1, 2025
'Luce' will welcome visitors to special events in the Holy See and Rome this year
Turkish farmer discovers rare mosaic of ancient hunt
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 5, 2025
Dating to the late Roman period, a stunning, figurative mosaic, found buried under just 50cm of soil and featuring the rare Anatolian leopard, may be the first of its kind in Turkey
YouTube sensation MrBeast was given ‘unrestricted access’ to the pyramids—Egyptologists say it’s a good thing
The Art Newspaper
APRIL 7, 2025
Jimmy Donaldson, who has nearly 400 million followers on the video-streaming platform, shot a viral video in Giza, which may be helping to educate a new audience
For Madrid's Prado museum, the good times just keep rolling
The Art Newspaper
APRIL 11, 2025
A Veronese show in May is set to be latest in long line of Renaissance Venice crowd-pleasers for the Spanish institution
Investigation shines fresh light on British Museum’s looted, Dürer-inspired diptych
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 21, 2025
The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how European icons became incorporated into the African countrys traditions
Kimbell Art Museum acquires Chardin still life after record-breaking auction sale falls through
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
The Texas museum was the underbidder on The Cut Melon last June at Christie's, but was ultimately able to acquire it directly from the consignor
Creative Australia chair to retire following Venice Biennale controversy
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
Creative Australias chief executive has said Morgans decision is unrelated to the scandal over the artist Khaled Sabsabi being dropped from the nations 2026 Venice Biennale team
How to see every painting by Leonardo da Vinci
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
Martin Kemp, one of the worlds leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintingsfrom The Last Supper to two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks
Developers threaten San Francisco’s loved and loathed concrete colossus
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
Skateboarders and Brutalism enthusiasts are among those joining forces to save the Vaillancourt Fountain from urban-renewal obliteration
Vandal sprayed obscene graffiti at Peruvian archaeological site in broad daylight
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
The incident at Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the Americas, has drawn attention to the lax security at the 600-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site
Fire-damaged room at Castle Howard brought back to life by meticulous restoration
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
The Tapestry Drawing Room at the stately home, which was featured in the Netflix series Bridgerton, was destroyed in a blaze in 1940.
Remembering Koyo Kouoh, one of the most influential curators in the global art world, and one of its most original thought leaders
The Art Newspaper
MAY 23, 2025
The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale
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