The Latest Breaking News on Art

Step through Rubenshuis’ new architectural gateway to the world of the Flemish painter

Architects Robbrecht en Daem’s new building at Rubenshuis, Antwerp, frames Rubens’ private universe, weaving a modern library and offices into the master’s historic axis of art and nature

Wallpaper · Dec 20, 2024

Stonehenge may have been erected to unite early British farming communities, research finds

The altar stone, which we now know is from Scotland, may have been a gift or marker of political alliance

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024

Justine Simons: 'I hope I’ve been able to reposition culture as the lifeblood of London'

The deputy mayor for culture on how London’s arts scene has transformed over the past two decades, competing with Paris, and the capital’s biggest cultural project since the Great Exhibition

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2024

Time, beauty, history – all are written into trees in Karimoku Research Center's debut Tokyo exhibition

The layered world of forests – and their evolving relationship with humans – is excavated and reimagined in 'The Age of Wood', a Tokyo exhibition at Karimoku Research Center

Wallpaper · Dec 18, 2024

Forbidden Territories at The Hepworth Wakefield: a bold celebration of surrealism’s 100th birthday

Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes, a new exhibition showing at The Hepworth Wakefield, is a bold and engaging exploration of the important, if unwieldy, body of work that comes under the category of surrealism.

The Conversation · Dec 18, 2024

Tour Xi'an's remarkable new 'human-centred' shopping district with designer Thomas Heatherwick

Xi'an district by Heatherwick Studio, a 115,000 sq m retail development in the Chinese city, opens this winter. Thomas Heatherwick talks us through its making and ambition

Wallpaper · Dec 18, 2024

From migrating elephants to a divisive Jaguar, was this the best Design Miami yet?

Here's our Design Miami 2024 review – discover the best of everything that happened at the fair as it took over the city this December

Wallpaper · Dec 18, 2024

‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany

Great-nephew of Alfred Flechtheim, who was forced to flee the Nazis, is frustrated at slow progress in returning works by Picasso and Klee

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024

Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art to start charging entry fee for first time since 2000

MCA to charge $20 entry fee from 31 January, which will rise to $35 if visitors want to see its major summer or winter exhibitions

The Guardian - AU · Dec 18, 2024

Cash shortage forces major gallery to charge $20 entry

The Museum of Contemporary Art has long been free to the public, but it says a lack of government funding means it has to charge $20 entry fees.

AAP · Dec 18, 2024