News

Rene Burri dies aged 81; Nicholas Serota takes the Power 100 top spot; and Detroit makes a last-minute deal

Frieze Week; Burrell at Bonhams; Venice at risk; a public art challenge; and the art of slowing down

In the news this week: art law, racism and censorship debates, and the origins of art itself…

Curator Fiona McCarthy discusses Morris’s art and politics, and argues that both are still relevant today

A new owner for The Art Newspaper; seven day weeks for Paris museums; art theft in Cyprus; and another Banksy saga

From 17th-century embroideries to 20th-century photography: some notable recent museum acquisitions

Loved up tourists will have to find another way to say they care…

Racism and censorship rows at the Barbican; hailstorms in Florence; and the end of cadmium red?

Art and books have always gone hand in hand…

This is the third in a hat trick of recent changes intended to place public engagement at the heart of the gallery’s operations

The Great Galley at the Wallace Collections reopens after a two year refurbishment

What would Scottish independence mean for the arts? Is the Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery as good as they say? And who spends $65 million on a new pavement?

A Turner masterpiece goes up for sale; over 70 paintings are stolen in Vienna; and a Monet shows up in Gurlitt’s suitcase

Ed Vaizey at the Art Business Conference, hard times for the UK’s regional museums, the potential impact of Scottish independence on its museums, and what you should visit this autumn

Ed Vaizey at the inaugural Art Business Conference, London

A look ahead at some of the contemporary art exhibitions opening soon in Berlin

New director for the Kunsthalle Zurich, renovation plans at the Louvre, a warped Raphael at the Borghese and an appeal to save Wedgwood

Museum reopenings and big-name exhibitions take centre stage in New York this autumn

A quiet month for acquisitions, but not everyone’s been resting on their laurels…

Art thefts, law suits, iconoclasm, politics and buried treasure

Filippetti left the Cabinet in the midst of a political crisis which resulted in a reshuffle this weekend

Major resignations at Gwangju Biennale and Art Basel; the Bin Laden’s Carrara quarry; and drama at the Jeff Koons retrospective