Visitor numbers at the world’s largest museums of art have largely returned to their pre-pandemic levels, an exclusive survey by The Art Newspaper has found. Although the total number of visitors to ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has announced the winner of its 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal, honoured for ...

The latest casualty in the Trump administration’s quest to shut down federally funded diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives is the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which announced ...

Over the weekend, artists, scholars and other concerned citizens responded to the White House’s list of what it sees as objectionable Smithsonian Institution exhibits and texts, released on Thursday ...

The navigable Olympia in west London is a welcome change from Somerset House for the fair's exhibitors hoping to maximise ...

Last night's season opening sale of post-war and contemporary art, which started with 11 lots from the late art dealer, set ...

There were famous faces at Frieze New York’s VIP preview on Wednesday. These included the CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper ...

James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of his mother, now his best-known painting, will be a highlight of Tate Britain’s ...

A new pop-up gallery blurs the line between party and exhibition as it brings out the suppressed queerness of right-wing ...

The artist uses the Mets baseball team and his own blood to explore his battle for belonging and the politics of health ...

Although uneven at times, ‘Forge’ questions whether collectors really have more appreciation for art than artists who create ...

A Mamluk footed bowl deaccessioned from the Toledo Museum was the star of this spring's sales of Indian and Islamic art, ...