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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Hannah McGivern
The recipients of the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships, revealed Tuesday (15 April) by the board of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, include 32 visual artists—among them Theaster Gates, Sara Cwynar, Lauren Bon and Lucas Blalock—and more than a dozen artists spread across other disciplines from fiction (Miranda July) to film and video (Mungo Thomson) and photography (Farah Al Qasimi and Martine Gutierrez).
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Maev Kennedy |Hannah McGivern |Bendor Grosvenor
It was bad luck for the owner of a portrait of a lovely young Roman model, when the future King Edward VII walked into the artist’s studio in February 1859, and fell for her immediately. The painting had already been promised to and paid for by the collector George de Monbrison, but the 17-year-old prince really wanted her.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius |Hannah McGivern
How to Be Happy Together , Para Site, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Rd, Quarry Bay, until 6 AprilThe iconography of Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai looms over both sides of Victoria Harbour this year.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | James Imam |Gareth Harris |Hannah McGivern
Two of Italy’s highest-profile ministers have clashed over the powers of the government’s heritage body, sparking protests from opposition politicians who claim cultural heritage is being instrumentalised amid broader tensions within the ruling coalition. The controversy centres on the role of the superintendent, the powerful conservation arm of the culture ministry, which must approve restorations of listed buildings and oversee construction in historic or scenic areas.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | José Da Silva |Hannah McGivern |Louisa Buck
A career survey of the Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) will open this month at the Charleston cultural centre in Lewes, southern England. It will feature more than 100 works including a number of objects from private collections that have not been exhibited before. Darren Clarke, who has curated the show and is Charleston’s head of collections and research, has chosen five key books to get to grips with the colourful life and art of Vanessa Bell.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hannah McGivern |Osman Can Yerebakan |Cristina Ruiz
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, until 30 MarchThe Egyptian artist Wael Shawky marshalled a cast and crew of 400 people at an open-air theatre in his native Alexandria to film Drama 1882 (2024), an extraordinary musical rendition of the Urabi Revolt, a 19th-century military uprising against Anglo-French imperial influence that took place in the city.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Martin Bailey |Hannah McGivern
As London’s Somerset House gears up to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its public opening, in May, its director Jonathan Reekie says that the building has been transformed from a “museum” attraction into a centre for contemporary art and the creative industries. It may come as a surprise that Somerset House claims to have attracted 2,728,000 visitors in 2023, not far below the 3,097,000 who went to the National Gallery at the other end of the Strand.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Hannah McGivern |Martin Bailey |Maev Kennedy
Specialists at the Wallace Collection in London have attributed an 18th-century work depicting the Grand Canal in Venice to Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of the famed Venetian view artist Giovanni Antonio Canal—better known as Canaletto. Canaletto was previously thought to have made the painting. The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (around 1737) shows the church of San Simeone Piccolo on the right and the demolished church of Santa Lucia on the left.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas |Chris Michaels |Tom Seymour |Hannah McGivern
A virtual reality (VR) work premiering at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas will let viewers experience the story of Carolyn Mercer, a transgender woman in the UK who survived electroshock conversion therapy meant to “cure” her gender dysphoria as a teenager.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Hannah McGivern |Anna Brady
The Dutch culture minister Eppo Bruins has blocked the sale of a rare medieval golden ring abroad, launching—for the first time—a process that gives Dutch buyers six weeks to buy it. The ring, unofficially likened to J.R.R. Tolkein's “one ring to rule them all“, dates from the ninth or tenth century—a dark and boggy time from which little survives—and has huge cultural value in the Netherlands.
