Danish museums have recovered well from Covid-19. The latest survey by Organisationen Danske Museer (ODM) shows that 2025 museum attendance was similar to 2024’s record levels. buff.ly/8z6TazU

The legacy of Britain’s most famous 20th-century sculptor will be enhanced this April with the launch of the redeveloped Sheep Field Barn gallery and education complex at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens at Perry Green in Hertfordshire, east England.

Following a record-breaking series of South Asian art auctions over the past two years, Christie’s will now hold its first London sale of South Asian Modern and contemporary art since 2019. buff.ly/O9MsaXA

As US-Israeli attacks continue, Iranian artists struggle to work, museums and galleries close their doors and historic sites are badly damaged. buff.ly/zaCaLu6

A new cultural centre will open in the UK town of Northampton on 1 May, marking a significant investment in regional arts infrastructure and the reuse of an historic civic building. buff.ly/BG4x5CH

A painting long deemed to be a copy of a work by Rembrandt van Rijn, albeit created in his workshop, was painted by the Dutch master and not a student according to the art historian Gary Schwartz, who is championing the work as an autograph replica. buff.ly/DoSkz3d

The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has decided to sell its Daniel Libeskind-designed building in downtown San Francisco. The museum had already been closed since December 2024, when it shut down and laid off 80% of its staff.

Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his position as the president of the Pinault Collection after only 13 months in the job. buff.ly/ad1FQT8

This year marks the 16th edition of Chile Arte Contemporáneo (Chaco), with more than 50 galleries under a single roof in Santiago (until 29 March).

Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/a...

Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/a...

During the marquee spring auctions in New York this May, Christie’s will offer one of the most significant private collections of Minimalist art to ever come to market. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/25/m...

As another Hong Kong Art Week unfurls across the city, its increasingly confident art scene has much to be proud of—including an embrace of queerness. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/25/p...

The Cheng-Lan Foundation, an independent initiative supporting global majority artists through exhibitions, residencies and commissions, opened its doors this week in time for Hong Kong’s marquee art week. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/h...

With four new art spaces opening, cultural workers see a bright future for the city. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/h...

A new exhibition at the Grand Palais includes more than 300 works from the last 13 years of the artist’s life. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/23/e...

One of the highlights of this year’s Outsider Art Fair in New York (until 22 March) is a series of paintings by the self-taught folk artist Sam Doyle. buff.ly/KyMyQcI

The city of Zurich, which owns the Rietberg museum, has announced that 11 objects in its permanent collection are being transferred to the Republic of Nigeria, represented by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments. buff.ly/JSfNy4I

Chile’s new president, José Antonio Kast, has already shaken up the public sector after his finance minister requested a 3% budget cut across all ministries. The measure was announced before Kast officially took office on 11 March. buff.ly/aexfNJ4

Art Dubai will adapt its forthcoming 2026 edition in response to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East that has broken out since the US-Israel war in Iran. buff.ly/e7MxQRf

Works by the Catalan master will be shown alongside works by American contemporaries at Washington, DC’s Phillips Collection. buff.ly/TWtIdeU

Works by the Catalan master will be shown alongside works by American contemporaries at Washington, DC’s Phillips Collection. buff.ly/TWtIdeU

Helen Legg has been appointed the artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts (RA). Legg, currently the director of Tate Liverpool, is one of the UK’s most experienced regional museum leaders. buff.ly/KsF6eZh

A $7m conservation project has focused on mitigating the engineering issues of the architect's masterpiece as well as preparing the building for a changing climate. buff.ly/la1W2Yr

The platform never reached its goal of converting one billion people into NFT collectors, but its rise and fall revealed much about the digital art ecosystem. buff.ly/3g9wvQO

Greenstone sculptures from Guerrero, thousands of marine shells, copal spheres and snake-shaped pendants were part of a 500-year-old Aztec ritual offering uncovered at Templo Mayor in Mexico City. buff.ly/LYz1Cjw

Maria Balshaw, the outgoing director of Tate, has waded into the debate about introducing admission charges at UK national museums for overseas visitors. buff.ly/VJJ8yz0

Nearly 200 artists, curators and art workers involved in this year’s Venice Biennale (9 May–22 November) have signed a letter calling for Israel’s exclusion from the event. buff.ly/aVE0CCc

The venerable fair continues to offer a trove of historic treasures, but that might not be enough to draw in today's wealthy buyers buff.ly/Jrbaa8B

Most houses are meant to outlast the impermanence of nature. Not so with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, a remarkable house in the Pennsylvania woods built over a 30ft waterfall. buff.ly/la1W2Yr

The artist collective allowed buyers to decide the fate of a cow’s life (thankfully they chose a sanctuary over the slaughterhouse), but the intended awareness-raising gave way to polarising digital discourse, writes Annabel Keenan. buff.ly/i0uCsjr

Shows dedicated to Lynda Benglis and Edvard Munch will open next year at Tate Modern, along with a Sonia Boyce retrospective at Tate Britain and two shows focused on the work and legacy of David Hockney marking his 90th birthday. buff.ly/S7UW0gQ

Tefaf Maastricht is the first major European fair to take place since new EU regulations on documentation required to import cultural goods over 250 years old came into full force last June—and early signs suggest the new rules are causing a variety of problems. buff.ly/80yQ0PP

This year’s Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund (TMRF) has been awarded to Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister for its restoration of The Boar Hunt (1616-18) by Peter Paul Rubens. buff.ly/f81KOtJ

The family of Victor Vasarely, the flamboyant French-Hungarian ad man turned Op Art pioneer, is hoping that 2026 is the year the foundation he created will finally get back on track. buff.ly/y3oaOa3

Tefaf is mostly sitting very pretty this year. Amid market uncertainty and a volatile environment for the industry’s many fairs, the Maastricht stalwart has been going for nearly 40 years and is back in favour as one of the art world’s favourites. buff.ly/x4nUrQ2

The death of a young Canadian backpacker, whose body was surrounded by dingoes when it was found off the Queensland coast, has lent a sense of tragic urgency to a work created for the Biennale of Sydney (14 March-14 June). buff.ly/vRfhqho

Discovery centres on stylised initials says Belgian art historian but David Ekserdjian stresses that artist’s entire canon is accounted for

Political volatility and mounting operational costs weigh heavily on the trade, which ticked up to an estimated $59.6bn in 2025 after two years of decline buff.ly/Kdxf0ok

The American public volubly aired its opposition to US president Donald Trump’s plans to build a $400m, 22,000-sq.-ft ballroom in an hours-long online meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on Thursday (5 March). buff.ly/dgM0YdM

Financial filings of the biggest names in the art market paint a picture of collapsing profitability

The American public volubly aired its opposition to US president Donald Trump’s plans to build a $400m, 22,000-sq.-ft ballroom in an hours-long online meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) on Thursday (5 March). buff.ly/dgM0YdM

Russia’s first appearance at the Venice Biennale since Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 will feature Russian folklore and world music. buff.ly/HG1lBlj

Two decades after one of the biggest art thefts in Brazilian history, the statute of limitations has expired. This means no one will ever face prison time for stealing five works by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso in 2006. buff.ly/9NFkWrv

Christie’s London brought in £197.4m (with fees) across three evening sales on Thursday, marking a 52% increase year on year on the equivalent auctions last season. buff.ly/E53s3qR

A show of works by the South Korean artist Lee Ufan opening at the San Marco Art Centre is one of 31 official collateral Venice Biennale events announced today to coincide with the world’s most prestigious art exhibition (9 May-22 November). buff.ly/3jTgBuk

Liliana Angulo Cortés, the first Afro-Colombian artist to lead Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, died on 21 February at age 51. buff.ly/HjYiWs2

The packed auction totalled £131m and made a record for Leon Kossoff buff.ly/E3cQ2gq

The former picture researcher Caroline Chapman provides a wealth of contextual information about key historic paintings in her new publication Painted Mysteries: Interpreting Great Paintings. buff.ly/KxIALT4

A study on the manumission of enslaved people in the state of Bahia is revealing the complex realities of slavery and emancipation in Brazil during the 19th century.