The Art Newspaper

Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for major Ancient Egypt show Seven Egyptian venues will loan more than 200 works for the exhibition, including objects from Saqqara tombs https://buff.ly/b88nnns

‘Ravaging shared heritage’: South Korea wildfires destroy ancient temple and threaten Unesco site At least 28 people have died in the fires, which are now the country's worst ever natural fire disaster https://buff.ly/ts2Jtu9

‘Brain’ of late composer lives on in show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia Team led by neuroscientist used stem cells originating from Alvin Lucier's blood to create sound installation https://buff.ly/xELJOSY

The Frick Collection opens its first-ever education centre The Ian Wardropper Education Room, named after the museum’s outgoing director, welcomes everyone in the community https://buff.ly/yiiCzqy

Alleged head of Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring leaves France amid ‘breakdown’ in criminal investigation Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal https://buff.ly/O3xPZEJ

Whimsy wins the day at Desert X's 2025 edition Two hours east of Los Angeles, a road trip worth the journey to outdoor projects by Alison Saar, Agnes Denes, Jose Dávila and others https://buff.ly/GJItne4

Paintings safe from soup as Just Stop Oil ‘hangs up the high viz’ The controversial climate campaign group, whose protests have included throwing orange cornflour at Stonehenge and supergluing themselves to various works of art, says its final action will take place in April https://buff.ly/kKKQNg8

Energy returns to a changed Art Basel Hong Kong While there were fewer US collectors, and Chinese spending remains lower, the increased Southeast Asian presence and an "exponential growth" of Gen Z buyers is notable at this year's edition of the fair https://buff.ly/aGJks4J

Fra Angelico Deposition altarpiece back on display in Florence after transformative two-year restoration Almost a century after it first opened its doors on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Frick Collection unveils its first-ever education centre. Part of the museum’s renovation—repurposing 60,000 sq. ft of existing space, and adding 27,000 sq. ft of new space—the Ian Wardropper Education Room is an 846-sq.-ft multipurpose space named after the museum’s outgoing director. The Frick will reopen on 17 April with a more community-minded approach to its programming, making its extensive scholarly offerings accessible to local youth and to the general public. The museum will also relaunch its famed concert series, with newly commissioned compositions that put music in conversation with the visual art on view. https://buff.ly/iBrZNWa

Vancouver Art Gallery parts ways with director and chief executive Anthony Kiendl The Vancouver Art Gallery Association announced on Tuesday (25 March) that Anthony Kiendl, the gallery’s chief executive and director since 2020, has left to “pursue other professional and personal interests”. The end of Kiendl’s five-year tenure at the helm of the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) comes on the heels of its leaders scrapping plans for a new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed building last December. A decade in the planning, the gallery’s new 310,000 sq. ft home was to be built on a city-owned property some 500 metres from the VAG’s current location in a historic courthouse building. The project was cancelled after costs ballooned from C$400m ($280m) to C$600m ($420m), but not before C$60m ($42m) had already been invested. https://buff.ly/y4Tl7BQ