The Latest Breaking News on Art

Art lovers rejoice: the National Gallery can finally show us when painting really gets exciting

Curators can now chart the seismic shifts in 20th-century art – and include more works by women and artists of colour, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2025

Cat Stevens says he was left clinging by his fingertips during near-death experience

Revered folk artist had a number of brushes with death early in life

The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2025

Banksy and the judge: why great art happens when things go wrong

Sometimes the most powerful art emerges by accident.

Creative Bloq · Sep 13, 2025

The court artist whose Erin Patterson sketches went around the world: ‘I definitely need to get some therapy’

Anita Lester’s distinctive mushroom murder trial portraits show someone she perceived to be ‘consistently sad’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 12, 2025

Across the US, cities combine art, shade and education to help people beat the heat

Cities across the U.S. are combining art with shade to shield people from rising temperatures and educate them about our warming world

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2025

Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate?

The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2025

The dotty genius of Seurat and a song and dance about Picasso – the week in art

Tate Modern reframes its Picassos in a theatrical light, there’s a hands-on utopia in Gateshead, and the Cerne chalk giant gets a colourful new neighbour

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2025

Relax with Rembrandt: artist’s self-portrait to take a slow tour of England

National Trust-owned painting will be exhibited with a meditation option for art lovers to take a long, lingering look

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2025

Galleries in Scotland could close after years of 'systematic underfunding'

The head of the National Galleries of Scotland has told MSPs she “honestly” cannot rule out closing galleries after years of “systemic…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 11, 2025

OPINION - Museums are about who we are and who we aspire to be

We've just come out of the bicentenary year of the National Gallery, crossing the threshold into our third century, and we've been thinking a lot about the future. In part, this lies in developing a building a called St Vincent House at the back of the gallery, which was acquired…

Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2025