News
Staff strike at Goldsmiths is now the longest in UK university history
Students say they are not receiving marks or feedback, as dispute over the institution's restructuring programme has dragged on for 130 days
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News
De Kooning sets European record but still falls flat at muted Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale
Works by Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter were also among those that failed to hit their presale estimates
News
US-Italian curator Francesco Bonami appointed artistic director of Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture
Bonami aims to “catalyse artistic energy” and “search for the best projects” for the institution, which is funded by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation
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Brazil’s Centre Pompidou outpost delayed until 2029
Originally due to open in 2027, then 2028, the project in the southern state of Paraná, where the government changed in the recent election, has been further delayed
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Art market
Art Market
Peter Nagy—Nature Morte gallery founder who transformed Indian contemporary art market—has died
The artist-dealer launched the careers of some of India’s greatest art stars working today
Art Market
Artists impacted by Stephen Friedman gallery closure out in force at Frieze London
After the gallery’s shock collapse, many of its artists are present at the fair under different representation
Art Market
At Frieze London, some buyers are taking risks—others are taking their time
The fair is adapting to changing buying patterns, but it seems to be paying off for galleries offering radical works
Art Market
New Abu Dhabi cultural district announced ahead of the emirate’s inaugural Frieze fair
The area, called Noma, will be near the site of the first Frieze Abu Dhabi, which launches next month in the Saadiyat Cultural District
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Museums & heritage
Museums & Heritage
British Museum’s chair optimistic on possible alternating display of Parthenon Marbles in Athens and London
The chair of the museum’s board of trustees told a Greek newspaper he would “like to reach an agreement” for a rotating display in Athens and London, but Greek authorities remain opposed
Museums & Heritage
As art’s health benefits become even clearer, hospital curators get organised
Participants at a symposium in Arkansas shared examples of best practice in the burgeoning discipline
Museums & Heritage
Suspects in Renoir paintings heist were planning separate robbery at Fondation Maeght, police chief says
Investigators have released details about the theft of two works by the French Impressionist after they were recovered from behind a concrete wall
Museums & Heritage
‘Even an ugly thistle can be so beautiful’: painter Sabine Moritz on how nature informs her work
The German artist’s first major UK institutional show, at London’s Garden Museum, includes works that span 30 years
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Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Roll up, roll up! Exhibitions celebrate the splendour of the circus and the artists it inspired
Shows at Paris’s Musée de Montmartre and the Hepworth Wakefield celebrate the big top's enduring influence on artists
Exhibitions
Slow down and look: the simple complexity of Robert Ryman is revealed in Barbican exhibition
For the late American artist, whose Barbican show is his first in the UK for over three decades, the space in which a painting sat mattered as much as the work itself
Exhibitions
Tate Modern exhibition explores Pictorialism and the birth of soft-focus photography
The show challenges the movement’s reputation as outdated and narrowly Western, tracing its networks and influence beyond the birth of Modernism
Exhibitions
At museums across London, Old Masters cuddle up to the contemporary—what makes this curatorial approach so appealing?
From the National Gallery to the Wallace Collection, a wave of museum shows suggests the intergenerational hang is here to stay, despite lingering reservations
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Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
Artist Gabrielle Goliath brings cancelled Venice Biennale work to London
The private foundation Ibraaz is showing ‘Elegy’, which was barred by the South African government because of a suite commemorating the Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada
Venice Biennale
An artist’s poetic rumination on the political promise of Opec
Sanaz Sohrabi’s feature-length documentary “An Incomplete Calendar” uses archival materials to reframe the oil cartel as an agent of anti-imperialist solidarity
Venice Biennale
Artist Movana Chen brings her performance with interconnected wearable sculptures to London
The Hong Kong- and Lisbon-based artist's work weaves tales of human frailty through textiles and performance
Venice Biennale
Five national pavilions to watch at the 2026 Biennale
From Estonia's haunting sound piece to Brazil's ecological proposal.
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Opinion
Comment
Museums cannot keep apologising for taking corporate money — but they must be honest about it
Behind the headlines: reporting from the studios, sale rooms and storage vaults.
Comment
Restitution is no longer a debate. It is a logistics problem.
An on-the-ground account of a story that has been quietly building for months.
Comment
What we lose when an algorithm finishes the painting for us
The decision lands at a delicate moment for an industry already under pressure to change.
Opinion
The art world's NDA culture is finally cracking — and not a moment too soon
Behind the headlines: reporting from the studios, sale rooms and storage vaults.
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Books
Books
Rothko, in his own words: a long-awaited collection of letters
Behind the headlines: reporting from the studios, sale rooms and storage vaults.
Books
Has curating become a cult? A provocative new study says yes
What the latest move means for collectors, curators and the wider public conversation.
Books
A biography of Lee Krasner that finally puts her at the centre
Behind the headlines: reporting from the studios, sale rooms and storage vaults.
Books
What 200 unpublished Picasso letters reveal about his Cubist years
An on-the-ground account of a story that has been quietly building for months.
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Columns
Columns
London National Gallery benches migrate to Wadsworth Atheneum to continue supporting tired art lovers’ bums
Leather seating from London's National Gallery has crossed the Atlantic to Connecticut
Columns
Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco di Giorgio—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks with art market editor Kabir Jhala in the Frieze London tent, visits the new Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, and discusses a Quattrocento bronze relief at the Frick Collection.
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A brush with... Gabriel Orozco—podcast
Orozco talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Columns
Frieze London Diary: fairgoers offered ‘15 minutes of fame’, ferocious Lego, and Queen Victoria as you have never seen her
Plus: perilous boulders at the fair, and a celebrity showing in Knightsbridge
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Art of Luxury
Art of Luxury
From Belgian diesel tanks to Ivory Coast medallions, PAD London fair offers an eclectic mix
The design fair's 18th edition enjoyed strong sales on its opening day
Art of Luxury
Inside the new gilded age of art-world watch collecting
Behind the headlines: reporting from the studios, sale rooms and storage vaults.
Art of Luxury
Hong Kong's spring sales suggest the Asian market has bottomed out
The decision lands at a delicate moment for an industry already under pressure to change.
Art of Luxury
The Frieze Week edit: parties, panels and quiet deals
The decision lands at a delicate moment for an industry already under pressure to change.
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Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh
‘You think you have a good radar and then you realise it’s full of holes’: collector Charles Asprey on what he has bought and why
The British collector, dealer and publisher on his craving for boutique fairs, his newest discovery and his favourite part of London—between Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell
Adventures with Van Gogh
A landmark Bourgeois show travels from Bilbao to Seoul this autumn
Behind the headlines: reporting from the studios, sale rooms and storage vaults.
Adventures with Van Gogh
MoMA announces a $200m endowment from an anonymous donor
An on-the-ground account of a story that has been quietly building for months.
Adventures with Van Gogh
From the archive: when the Tate refused a Rothko in 1959
An on-the-ground account of a story that has been quietly building for months.
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Podcasts
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The Art Newspaper Podcast
Episode 214: Why the biennale model may finally be broken
With curators Inés Saldaña and Marcus Lehmann · 38 min