The Latest Breaking News on Art

Louvre faces standstill as staff weigh move after jewel heist and shutdown

The crunch vote comes as the museum struggles with the aftermath of a daylight jewel heist

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2025

‘The last bastion before collapse’ – Louvre museum closed as workers begin strike

Crisis-hit Paris institution still reeling from jewel heist is in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price rises

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025

Pont Neuf rewrapped: how Paris's oldest bridge became new again

Artist JR will take over Pont Neuf, the French capital’s oldest surviving bridge, for a vast installation next summer, the City of Paris has announced. The project is inspired by another intervention 40 years earlier, which shifted the boundaries of what artists could do with France’s monuments.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 14, 2025

Pop art, folk festivals and grape crushing: Australian summer events worth travelling for

From contemporary art exhibitions to eccentric festivals, regional Australia has no shortage of big events over the summer of 2025-2026

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2025

Maria Balshaw to step down as director of Tate after nine years

Balshaw, who joined in 2017, helped steer organisation through Covid-19 and fluctuating attendance

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

‘Getting lost is good’: skybridge and floating stairs bring fun and thrills to mighty new Taiwan museum

With its soaring ceilings, meandering pathways and mesh-like walls, Taichung Art Museum, designed by Sanaa, sweeps visitors from library to gallery to rooftop garden for rousing views

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

Sleeper hits, sci-fi sculpture and Martin Parr on Martin Parr – the week in art

Artists explore insomnia and snoozing, sculptors imagine alternative futures and we look back with a great British photographer – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

The Reject Shop faces a legal threat from a UK artist over a flamingo egg cup. Does it have a leg to stand on?

Australian retailer tells ceramic artist Hannah Turner it won’t restock the product amid debate over copyright

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2025

Mitch Winehouse ‘a bully’ who knew about ownership of auction items, court told

The father of Amy Winehouse is suing the singer’s stylist Naomi Parry and friend Catriona Gourlay.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum announces southern outpost in Eindhoven

Museum, which includes rich collection of Vermeers and Rembrandts, currently shows only fraction of its 1m objects

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2025