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Coverage · July · 2026 · Arts · 148 articles

Charli xcx enters the National Portrait Gallery as a new album cycle opens

Venice 2026 Lineup Drops With Danny Boyle's "Ink" Set to Open a Leaner Festival

Sony courts the Cinerama Dome, and the exhibition map tilts again

"Faces Catastrophe With Flowers": Sabri Sundos and the Body as Archive

A Bronze Jefferson Lands in the Rose Garden: Trump's Quiet Remake of the White House Grounds

Katie Holmes, the Tribeca Dinner, and the Slow Convergence of Celebrity and the Art World

At SVA's MFA Thesis Show, the Rubble of History Becomes a Working Surface

A Silk Road Museum Pairing: Hong Kong and Tashkent Sign a Cultural Accord

EU Pulls €2 Million Biennale Grant as Russia’s Venice Pavilion Refuses to Step Aside

Behind the Art Institute of Chicago's outsourcing push

Disney Store Returns to D23 With F1 Jackets and a Peter Pan Push

A Manchester show stitches Manchester's textile past into a global conversation

Forty thousand tickets and one Russian pianist: how Denis Matsuev's summer festival became a soft-power statement

Shania Twain plays the long game on Little Miss Twain

The seven-metre ballerina, and why Moscow wants her back

Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists take Tchaikovsky back to Alapaevsk

Nikiforchin's 16-concert marathon: how a Russian piano festival sold 40,000 tickets

Toronto lines up its 51st edition with Mirren, Rock and Rogen at the top of the marquee

A Mountain West Residency Reopens Its Doors, and the Question of Who Gets to Disappear

Inside the bugged stately home where Nazi POWs monologued to their captors

A Whitewashed Washington, Quietly Reinstalled

A flash flood inside the New Museum, and a third death in New York's Legionnaires' cluster: the dual emergencies hitting Manhattan's cultural infrastructure

Kyung-Me turns to the sunflower, and lets the form come apart

The Hole, a Downtown NYC Gallery, Faces a $50,000 Lawsuit From Artists It Reportedly Couldn't Pay

V&A's Loss of an Academic Programs Head Reopens a Familiar Question About Britain's Major Museums

Vienna's art market regroup: a 35-gallery coalition bets on Astoria as the city's two anchor fairs disappear

Christine Borland, the Scottish artist who turned forensic science into form, dies at 60

A Shiny Glass Box Meets a Flash Flood

Five Years After 11J, Otero Alcántara Lands in Miami: What the Cuban Exile of a Performance Artist Tells Us About the Island's Squeeze

Zwirner folds the Upper East Side into Chelsea, signalling a Manhattan gallery map in motion

Otero Alcántara in Miami: What a Cuban Artist's Exit Reveals About the Island's Cultural Drain

Netflix buys Danny Boyle's 'Ink' ahead of Venice, putting Murdoch back on screen

Soil collapse at the Scriabin Museum exposes Moscow's cultural-infrastructure squeeze

Bolshoi brings its 250-year archive to the Seychelles

A 2 a.m. Odyssey: Inside the All-Night Nolan Revival That Sold Out Manhattan

Water in the gallery: a leak at the New Museum tests a Lower Manhattan flood plan

Bessmertnova at 85: what the Bolshoi's longest-serving ballerina still teaches a fractured art form

Shanghai auction fraud sentences land as collectors ask who else was watching

Bayeux Tapestry Survives Its London Outing, But the Loan Debate Is Just Beginning

Netflix's Murdoch biopic buy signals a streaming arms race for prestige cinema

Steve Lacy's long silence, and the price of an early No 1

Glasgow's hidden rooms: John Wood's leather-scene archive gets its first solo show

Felandus Thames and the Politics of Recognition in Beadwork

Veronesi’s ‘Dio Ride’ Lands Closing Slot at 83rd Venice Film Festival

Asghar Farhadi heads to Sarajevo: a festival lifeline for an Iranian cinema in exile from its own screens

When the figure won't hold still: the quiet contest over who illustrates the science we read

Re-reading a 1,400-year-old wall at Calakmul: the hunter who may also be a king

A New York Sculptor Wants to Put Charlie Kirk in Bronze. The Internet Has Other Plans.

Lena Headey's quiet score-settling with the room that paid her

The auction houses learned to adapt. The wider art market is still catching up.

Richmond's ICA Hosts a Greek-and-Confederate Reckoning

Murmurs Gallery, a Springboard for Emerging Artists in Los Angeles, Closes After Seven Years

A stolen Soulages, a 1977 disappearance, and the question hanging over a Manhattan auction

Mark Hamill's Lightsaber Breaks the Prop Market Wide Open

British Museum Faces Political Scrutiny Over Removal of ‘Palestine’ from a Display

Vienna’s Belvedere and LEGO turn Klimt into a 4,000-piece puzzle you can hang on the wall

Velvet, amethyst and the slow return of the ritual object

Iran strikes a US radar site in Kuwait: what we know, and what we don't

Hockney, Warhol and the canonical crowd: a pop-inflected week in art

Three antiquities, one reckoning: Manhattan DA returns Nayarit and Aztec pieces to Mexico

Pat Oleszko Takes the Whitney's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

A Statue Nobody Asked For: Sergio Furnani's Charlie Kirk Monument and the Meme Economy of Public Grief

Manhattan DA Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico, Including a Piece Once Held by the Met

Two Soviet-era scores, one Russian orchestra: what Svetlanov's summer finale signals

Pat Oleszko Wins Whitney Biennial's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

Danny Boyle's Murdoch drama 'Ink' to open Venice, and the festival's signal just shifted

Munch's Frieze, Renewed: A Long Look at Edvard Munch's Most Human Masterpiece Gets Rehung at the National Gallery

Boyle returns to Venice with "Ink," a Fleet Street Origin Story

Clark Art Institute lands a 330-work gift large enough to require a new wing

Vriesendorp at the Soane: a Dutch surrealist's erotics of the skyline

Connecticut's Artists Step Out of the Margins at the Aldrich

Frieze Seoul Lines Up Coin Hunts and Climate Panels for Its Public Program

A Break-In at the Tubman Museum Tests What a Town Owes Its Monuments

Miniature Histories: Lyndon Barrois Sr. Carves the World Cup Into LACMA

A Russian pianist's summer podcast lands in a year when Russian soloists are rare guests on Western stages

James Cohan Gallery rebrands as Norr Cohan as David Norr takes sole ownership

Hauser & Wirth Plants a Flag in Silicon Valley

Anya Taylor-Joy's Apple series 'Lucky' lands with charm but uneven teeth

Six Decades On, Artist MPA Reopens Yoko Ono's Cut Piece at the Broad