A New York exhibition celebrating Venezuelan contemporary artists has been transformed into a fundraising effort after the powerful earthquakes that struck the country on 24 June, killing at least 1,700 people and leaving widespread destruction in their wake. buff.ly/FdGuSH3

An exhibition of some of finest surviving examples of Etruscan painting has opened in Rome—the first public display of the works since Italy acquired them last month for €15m. The acquisition is part of a drive to bring significant cultural heritage into public ownership. buff.ly/t3Riz8C

Ai Weiwei tells The Art Newspaper how it feels to see his new Manchester exhibition ‘Button Up!’ at Factory International’s Aviva Studios come to fruition. buff.ly/DG1EkN2

Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations. buff.ly/8P9m2pI

Check out The Art Newspaper’s podcast A brush with… to hear Pio Abad discuss how beauty can be used as a tool to engage new audiences and talk about difficult histories. Watch the full episode on The Art Newspaper’s YouTube channel: buff.ly/SpsUgM9

Plus an early version of the Statue of Liberty derived from the original plaster model of the landmark and an intimate, moody landscape by Milton Avery buff.ly/ix3iBI8

Minanbé (“there is no road” in Yucatec Maya) is the name of a newly discovered, intact ancient Maya city in the depths of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Campeche. buff.ly/Z5mVgPX

New Bremen is home to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks; the company’s chief executive wants to make it ‘the Marfa of the Midwest’ buff.ly/IomuScF

Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/30/c...

In the latest episode of A brush with..., Pio Abad talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work buff.ly/1IUg2P6

A newly discovered, 1,400-year-old site in the Mexican state of Veracruz may alter understandings of cultural interactions along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. buff.ly/YJ4SijR

The Art Newspaper Hong Kong’s editor Lisa Movius interviews Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, whose art dissolves boundaries between disciplines, cultures and species, particularly between humans and other animals. buff.ly/uuMIjhp

Founded by the Brazilian collector Flavia Nespatti, Antesala in Fitzrovia will combine selling shows of Latin American artists with an advisory and public programme. buff.ly/2vTfFCu

Nisha Bansil’s sculpture, made up of more than 50,000 glass ginkgo leaves, draws attention to the city’s more than 100,000 unhoused citizens. buff.ly/NgPUXxh

New technologies used in archaeological research from Latin America to the Pacific provide insights into how climate change has long-changed empires and societies buff.ly/d7hk1fG

Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo, Iza Tarasewicz, Selma Selman and Róza El-Hassan are among the artists taking part in the 2027 edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster, an exhibition that takes place every ten years in the northern German city. buff.ly/f3Lkzkf

From a tea garden to a basketball court to art installations, the 16th edition of the nomadic biennial transforms disused churches in Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Bochum buff.ly/fEQxAzZ

The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in its report, accusing the government department of a ‘lack of leadership’ buff.ly/UScy0LI

The digital art showcase’s third edition, at Art Basel’s hometown fair, offered much-needed historical context while prompting a fundamental question: who is this for? buff.ly/3Jv9sfN

While impressive results in New York and London suggest buoyancy at the very top end, further news of closures and downsizing illustrates the soaring costs facing bricks-and-mortar galleries. buff.ly/yvsdlVq

Can restoration become art? The newly reopened Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA) in Mexico City’s historic centre seeks to answer this question through a unique project exploring the intersection of restoration and artistic experimentation. buff.ly/bdKGGu4

In “Enormous Things: The Musical”, the beloved Pop artist confronts a creative block while Jeff Koons taunts him mercilessly and Calder, Kusama and Michelangelo offer advice. buff.ly/7iIEhRa

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern in London, speaks to Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law on the impact of Brexit ten years on, and discusses the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. buff.ly/CwZX2BH

The Box in Plymouth, in the west of England, has won the UK Art Fund Museum of the Year prize, beating the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The award, the most prestigious prize in the UK museum sector, is worth £120,000. buff.ly/8PIgTYX

While some institutions are serving as "islands of freshness" during this week's scorching temperatures, others are having to reduce opening hours or shut their doors buff.ly/mtf7oY7

An expert committee appointed by the Irish government has recommended creating a national panel to evaluate claims for Nazi-era and colonial loot in public collections and called for state funding for provenance research. buff.ly/7DFUkvL

Harriman, who faced criticism from some UK media outlets over social media posts, says it was always his plan to leave after serving two terms buff.ly/77nAdHz

After three years on hold, work has resumed on Bogotá's Museo de Memoria de Colombia. It confronts the legacy of Colombia’s internal armed conflict and honours victims of the violence that has marked the country for more than seven decades. buff.ly/AGWn7wd

Sotheby’s sale of works from the collection of billionaire financier Joe Lewis racked up £296.3m with fees, making it the most valuable single-owner collection ever sold in the UK, and one of the strongest auction results globally this year. buff.ly/yskpCpS

For her show at the Palazzo Marin, the artist found inspiration in the story of fellow Iranian Nasim Aghdam, whose dispute with YouTube escalated into violence buff.ly/fS6VCoD

The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled buff.ly/BVg7hIS

The Netherlands and Germany intend to return more than 2,000 cultural objects belonging to Ghana taken unlawfully during colonial conquests, the Ghanaian minister of foreign affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced. buff.ly/LG5ZVcJ

‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says is inaccurate buff.ly/HrbU62Y

Sales are booming as Millennial and Gen-Z collectors are taking a shine to historical artefacts buff.ly/WB1IbD9

In this week's episode, Anne Imhof talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. buff.ly/wvAxrNz

A new resource guide from the US-based National Coalition of Artists Against Censorship outlines strategies for artists to advocate for themselves when institutions cancel shows, deinstall works or renegotiate contracts based on a work’s perceived likelihood to cause controversy. buff.ly/Ep1ysRo

The new London Museum based at the historic Smithfield market in Farringdon— one of the biggest capital museum developments in the UK capital in recent years—will open to the public on 28 November. buff.ly/RuoJQRp

Everyone loves a parade, and Angelenos thronged Wilshire Boulevard by the tens of thousands on Saturday to watch one. This was the first Art Parade organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was part of the grand-opening weekend of its David Geffen Galleries. buff.ly/7sJ9nak

In an exclusive interview, the enigmatic collector and philanthropist discusses Anselm Kiefer’s inverted pyramid, oxygen molecules billions of years old—and why he has invented a completely new library categorisation system buff.ly/Ge0ck5G

The tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum this month might prompt us to reflect on the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on art and cultural heritage laws. The ‘regulation bonfire’ that was threatened and feared never did transpire, at least not in the art world. buff.ly/rVlb838

In 2022, the Rashaad Newsome created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory. The documentary chronicles the making of its namesake work of art. 'Assembly' premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on 22 June. buff.ly/tRdQYv3

A large, new temporary art venue is opening in central London at the end this month, within walking distance of Tate Modern. The charity Hypha Studios, which hosts studios and exhibitions in vacant buildings, will debut Hypha Gallery South Bank on 25 June, in former offices. buff.ly/sy3daTq

The Jewish Museum London has been given a £1m funding boost by the UK government which will help the institution develop plans for a new permanent home in the capital. buff.ly/AkK9AIK

The Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-90) is not particularly well known outside of his native country, but within the Netherlands—and in Japan, his second home—he is a legend of street photography. buff.ly/jwAnjQn

'New Rituals [for the End of the World]' at the House of Electronic Arts Basel showcases artists whose work responds to “unstable and apocalyptic” times, drawing on religion, myth and ritual. buff.ly/S6L239y

Early sales under the new initiative included artists such as Picasso and Guston buff.ly/BhRIT6Z

The artist Refik Anadol’s Dataland has taken over 25,000 sq. ft in Downtown Los Angeles. An immersive “laboratory of imagination”, the Dataland experience is part science experiment, part deeply reverent art museum and part immersive theme park. buff.ly/n3lGNRK

The centrepiece of the Obama Presidential Center, located in the Hyde Park neighbourhood eight miles south of Chicago’s downtown, is a towering, granite-clad museum designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The $850m complex opens to the public today, on Juneteenth. buff.ly/VMoHD6M

The Kazakh collector—a patron and cultural adviser with a focus on Central Asian contemporary art—is a fan of Basel’s Museum Tinguely and single-artist stand presentations buff.ly/fmf1xGj

In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about this year's Art Basel, interviews artist Pierre Huyghe on his exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, and learns about a new Skyspace by James Turrell opening in Aarhus, Denmark. buff.ly/CslIfsb