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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 15h

A recently launched project called Deep Heritage aims to slow the disintegration of dozens of warships sunk off Turkey's coast during the devastating First World War campaign. buff.ly/WNzCaDA

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 16h

Can Tate Britain's new show escape nostalgia and knock down the monstrous mythologies surrounding the Young British Artists? buff.ly/VmsRNwX

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 18h

With the transfer of wealth between generations expected to accelerate over the coming decades, fresh lawsuits and convictions in the US, including a row over underpricing, are highlighting how easily disputes still arise following the death of an artist or collector. buff.ly/tfaZfhb

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 19h

First published in 2006 and reissued to coincide with the exhibition Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam at the Royal Academy of Arts, Higgie’s Bedlam: A Novel imagines what the Victorian painter’s surviving archive cannot supply: an inner life. buff.ly/eMTdGha

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 20h

The new documentary film Our Mr. Matsura, screening this week at the Vancouver International Film Festival, chronicles the life of photographer Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873-1913) as he navigated the boundaries between cultures, nations, and the photographer and his subject. buff.ly/CDUqEDI

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A new show argues that the Abstract Expressionist power couple could never have made their groundbreaking works without each other’s support. buff.ly/ds2lVJC

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On Thursday at Freeman’s auction house in New York, a painting by Gertrude Abercrombie, which was bought at an estate sale in Michigan last summer for a mere $30, blew past its high estimate of $200,000 and ultimately sold for $1.3m. buff.ly/50nP0zM

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A collaboration between the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid will investigate the forgotten influence of ruling women of Europe during the 16th century and their impact on art—which the curators are coining matronage, as opposed to patronage. buff.ly/alsrcil

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In this week's episode of The Week in Art, Ben Luke previews a new Renoir exhibition at London's National Gallery, learns about the controversy around the opening of Kanal in Brussels, and explores a sculpture from 1938 by Jamaican-born artist Ronald Moody. buff.ly/HNusLNI

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first major Modern and contemporary art museum in Brussels, located in a converted Citroën garage, has faced much controversy over the years of planning and building. It is now set to open on 28 November with 40,000 sq. m of art, architecture and public space. buff.ly/b0Nr57w

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The British Museum will introduce an audio-described tour of its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition after a man with visual impairment took legal action against the institution. buff.ly/3CAKR0N

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

World Monuments Fund released key insights from a study on Wednesday (30 September) revealing that insufficient public funding continues to surpass climate hazards as the primary threat to heritage sites around the world. buff.ly/YyXOHvZ

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Larger-than-life beavers are returning to Canada in the form of a permanent public sculpture by the Cree artist Kent Monkman. Gracing Toronto’s revitalised Port Lands waterfront as part of the new Lassonde Art Trail, The Colony (2026) is Monkman’s first public sculpture. buff.ly/UyalAqa

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unionised staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art plan to begin a strike on 5 October if a fair contract agreement cannot be reached with the museum’s leadership. buff.ly/aoFwCFF

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For decades, the Blaquier-Arrieta collection was reportedly kept “under lock and key” at the family estate outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, five of its paintings are being unveiled at Sotheby’s in London. buff.ly/b06SUjz

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two Nazi-looted art claims landed in California courts on 14 September, just two days before the window slammed shut to do so. buff.ly/FgR2RY1

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Power of Fashion in the Roman Empire at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, featuring 171 objects, will be a new way to look at these towering in-house works. It will also include some sensational loans. buff.ly/EsvXNZj

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new show at the Japanese institution pairs its extensive collection by the Impressionist with recent Modern and contemporary acquisitions. buff.ly/cCKsjY3

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two prominent Iraqi archaeologists have been arrested this month in what many fear is retribution for public comments they have made about corruption at the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, the government agency that oversees the country’s archaeological sector. buff.ly/2P5Acmz

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu, whose co-founder’s work recently filled the Tate Modern’s cavernous Turbine Hall, has won this year’s Munch Award dedicated to artistic freedom of expression. The group will receive NOK 300,000 (around £24,000). buff.ly/6FkAycN

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The collective Secret Handshake has installed playable arcade rigs featuring its game “Operation Epic Furious: Nuuk ‘Em All” in Washington, DC, and Nuuk, Greenland. buff.ly/fOyf1J9

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Hong Kong-raised artist, now based in Berlin, recently returned to his home city for a durational live art exhibition at Tai Kwun Contemporary. buff.ly/Ut5G1Ds

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The UK government says national museums in England will remain free for all, ending months of speculation that international visitors could be charged to enter institutions such as the British Museum, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and National Museums Liverpool. buff.ly/LM0NPNK

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hidden for 300 years, the paintings inside Italy's Villa Silvestri Rivaldi are by some of the leading artists of the day. buff.ly/mDa0UrV

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The buyer of a major Rembrandt painting has been identified. Thomas Kaplan, the New York-based owner of the Leiden Collection, has bought St John on Patmos. It sold for £6.75m at Sotheby’s last December. buff.ly/l2rEBgW

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A moveable feast of shifting geographies spread across dozens of sites in and around Canada’s largest city, this year’s Toronto Biennial of Art opened on Saturday (until 20 December). buff.ly/wbkRDrT

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland opened a suite of new buildings this past weekend. Known for its collection of Modern art, the museum has spent around SFr 120m expanding its internal space with three new structures designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. buff.ly/Hsgd4sk

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Titled “Mushrooms”, the work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia reflects nations’ feeble responses to crises and the artist's uncertainty about the future. buff.ly/H4rPISE

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

True to the fair’s mission, many exhibitors are showing works by long-overlooked practitioners of abstract art. buff.ly/unougIN

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The four shortlisted artists are Tanoa Sasraku, Marguerite Humeau, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije, each nominated for a solo exhibition from the last year. buff.ly/eEC85yQ

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New York’s biggest art fair has revamped its footprint to place artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas in the foreground, as well as stalwarts of the hometown scene. buff.ly/J9iOEOB

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In this week's episode, Ben Luke explores Cezanne's influence through a new exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, Ben Sutton speaks to artist Taryn Simon on her Guggenheim show in New York, and Alexander Morrison sees a work on paper by René Magritte at Gagosian in London. buff.ly/AWVszoA

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Though galleries often expand across borders, relocations are rarer. So what compels a dealer to move cities and start afresh? For Pauline Seguin, whose gallery Heidi has recently shifted from Berlin to London, it was a case of both push and pull. buff.ly/TVSE1Xs

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A two-venue exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the traditional painter Bada Shanren (1626-1705) has found unanticipated resonance with young audiences in China. buff.ly/HFvqsHR

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has a Barcelona gallerist discovered a previously unknown painting by Francisco de Goya? buff.ly/kM8mQLQ

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

During the Victorian era, people would clip locks of hair from loved ones (whether alive or awaiting burial) to weave and twirl into commemorative objects known as hairwork. Around 50 of these keepsakes, will go on long-term public view at the Morbid Anatomy Library in New York. buff.ly/K6rGts6

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Diego Rivera’s early-1950s monumental stone relief on the exterior of Mexico City’s Estadio Olímpico Universitario, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Unam), will be restored. buff.ly/TLHo3km

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver is turning adversity to an advantage. The museum, like many others around the world, has seen its funding drastically reduced in recent years—a trend that may accelerate amid the Canada-US trade war and the rising cost of fuel. buff.ly/JwmACvi

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The director general of the long-awaited Kanal (formerly Kanal-Centre Pompidou), Yves Goldstein, will stand down when the new modern and contemporary art museum opens in late November in the Belgian capital. buff.ly/dnINOPU

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The British Museum has banned visitors from taking photographs of the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, after concerns the habit was causing delays for others who were trying to see the work. buff.ly/oGWXWvV

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Christie’s will stage its second auction devoted to anime and manga material next month, after the first iteration of the sale earlier this year far exceeded expectations. buff.ly/J08rxya

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What is the future for the art market when monetary value trumps aesthetic value, asks writer Scott Reyburn, reflecting on The Big Deal, BBC TV’s new reality-style art dealing game show. buff.ly/ksDIJar

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Supporters of a motion that was passed by Vancouver’s city council in July, greenlighting the creation of a cultural land trust, see it as a way to keep artists and art nonprofits in one of Canada’s most expensive cities. buff.ly/5PrwRBK

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Artist Engineering Hardware is a new system that aims to reduce damage during transport and installation by eliminating direct contact with works of art. buff.ly/dY99fIB

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A landmark exhibition traces the French artist’s impact on painters ranging from Pablo Picasso to Peter Doig. Cezanne and Us at the Grand Palais has been organised by the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie. buff.ly/eyHtTTH

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The truck-based fair’s latest edition, coinciding with The Armory Show, will feature 20 exhibitors. buff.ly/ebxK0Qz

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs”, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a formally uncommon documentary about the Shipibo-Conibo artist currently representing Peru at the Venice Biennale. buff.ly/qIJzW1P

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Research completed ahead of an exhibition in Oslo has shone fresh light on the painter currently known only for a single portrait. buff.ly/EcE3YLm

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 21st edition of Contemporary Istanbul (23-27 September) will bring together more than 70 galleries from 24 countries when it returns to Tersane Istanbul, the restored Ottoman shipyard complex overlooking the Golden Horn. buff.ly/QSPIknf

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The UK government has placed an export bar on a rare work by the Renaissance sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico, valued at £4.6m. The 20-centimetre high Seated Nymph piece, dating from around 1503, is made of bronze. buff.ly/PGYwjFq

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