Martin Parr, 1952-2025
The documentary photographer, famed for his astute studies of British life, has died aged 73
The art world pays tribute to Martin Parr, an ‘extraordinary photographer of people and life in the UK’
Tributes online have come from artists including Grayson Perry and The Pet Shop Boys
Martin Parr steps out from behind the camera lens in informal autobiography
An intimate and chatty biography gives the artist space to reflect on his career in photography and the practice’s evolution
From the archive | Martin Parr's Miami
With Art Basel week in full swing, we sent the Magnum photographer on a tour of the city’s fairs and museums to see what caught his eye
From the archive | Martin Parr on clichés, consumerism and common sense
In 1999, during a pause in the editing of his BBC TV film ‘Think of England’, the photographer sat down with The Art Newspaper
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Louvre staff vote to strike, citing failures of management and building maintenance
It was yesterday revealed that that a water leak in the museum's Egyptian antiquities department had damaged hundreds of books
‘Endless scrolling induces permanent craving’: panGenerator highlights our unhealthy relationship with technology
The artist collective takes elements of the digital world and turns them into physical installations to bring alive the dangers
Remembering Frank Gehry, legendary architect of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Toronto-born architect, who reshaped global skylines with his sweeping, seemingly unfinished creations, has died, aged 96
From politics to painting: works by Albanian prime minister Edi Rama are new art fair favourites
The politician, whose administration has been dogged by accusations of corruption, has signed to Berlin gallery Société
Venice Biennale 2026: all the national pavilions, artists and curators so far
The latest announcements of the key players representing their countries at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Art market
Hauser & Wirth will expand gallery empire to Italian city of Palermo
The blue-chip gallery has acquired a 19th-century palazzo in need of restoration in Sicily
‘The challenge will be to sustain it’: was the autumn art market boom more than just a blip?
Highly successful auctions and fairs do not solve the market’s deeper problems
Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach
The installation in the fair's new Zero 10 digital art section features robotic creatures with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech moguls
Medieval triptych ventures out of Dorset to sell for £5.7m in London Old Master auctions
“The Five Miracles of Christ” sold at Sotheby’s to a Christian foundation on Tuesday night, while an early Gerrit Dou led Christie’s evening auction at £3.8m
Cracked it: rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg sells for record £22.9m in London
Dubbed the ‘Mona Lisa of the decorative arts’, the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction
Museums & Heritage
Disruption expected at British Library as hundreds of workers strike over pay
The Public and Commercial Service union says library staff face “increased poverty and debt, with a concurrent rise in health issues”
Lima’s historic city centre to be restored after years of earthquake damage and abandonment
The ambitious Lima 2035 project will revitalise the Peruvian capital’s architectural heart, a Unesco World Heritage Site, for its 500th birthday
Ancient Etruscan monster gets new state-of-the-art home in Florence museum
Fearsome 2,400-year-old sculpture of a chimaera has been reinstalled in a dedicated gallery at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze
Seven bullet holes discovered in Marseille basilica's Madonna and Child
The hidden holes in the gilded copper statue, located on top of the French city's Notre-Dame de la Garde, were inflicted by German troops during the Second World War
London's National Gallery announces £750m fundraising drive towards new wing and expanded collection
The gallery has also revealed the architecture firms shortlisted to design its planned extension
Books
The best art books of 2025, as picked by The Art Newspaper’s editors
The publications that delighted our literary team this year, from important exhibition catalogues and overdue surveys to personal reflections and playful illustrations
When Masha met Ragnar: Pussy Riot member’s life-changing encounter
In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson
An expert’s guide to late Pablo Picasso: five must-read books on the second half of the Spanish artist’s career
The best publications about Picasso's later years, from an esteemed biography to a book about his animal drawings—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
December Book Bag: from a photographic record of a lost nightclub to the tale of an accidental art heist
Our round-up of the latest art publications
The Rembrandt robber: five takeaways from an insider’s book on a notorious art thief
The security expert Anthony Amore provides insights into the curious case of Myles Connor, who stole Rembrandt’s Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn
Exhibitions
‘Drastic turmoil and change’: Tokyo show explores Japan's post-war society through its art
"Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010", co-curated by The National Art Center, Tokyo and M+, Hong Kong, brings together more than 50 artists from Japan and abroad
Venice, Sydney, Gwangju: the most interesting biennials to visit in 2026
Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year
Despite Putin’s repressive regime, a new private museum opens in Moscow
Zilart will house the huge collection of St Petersburg property developer Andrey Molchanov and his wife, Yelizaveta Molchanov
Sixteen must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week
From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian
New exhibition explores how Max Beckmann's hard-edged signature style first emerged in his drawing
Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Louvre crisis deepens, Helene Schjerfbeck—podcast
The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas and art market editor discuss the top sales and the wider mood in Miami, Ben Luke gets the latest on the ground in Paris and hears from curator Dita Amory on Scherfbeck’s ‘The Tapestry’
The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in Ottawa—podcast
The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid—podcast
Studio Museum reopens, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer in Suffolk—podcast
MFA Boston returns work by enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi—podcast
Gauguin ‘fake’ is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s head piece—podcast
Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.
Driving in Van Gogh’s footsteps: the 1907 book that imagined a dream art pilgrimage
Writer Octave Mirbeau, an early owner of a Sunflowers painting, titled his fictional travelogue "628-E8"—after his car’s own licence plate
Two Van Gogh records smashed—and a new highest sale price for the artist’s Paris period work
Van Gogh’s ‘Sower’ will soon go on sale at Sotheby's—where it's set to make record price
Opinion
Comment | Fine balance: fairs up the exclusivity while appealing to younger clients
The idea of making luxury more democratic seems both noble and impossible
Comment | Turner gets all the kudos, but it was Constable who was the truly radical painter
John-Paul Stonard argues the case for honouring Constable at London's soon-to-be expanded National Gallery
Comment | Want to truly read a painting? Forget the present, and focus on the past
To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor
Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient
The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives
Comment | Exhibitions comparing artists can be problematic, but the Barbican brings Giacometti, Bhabha and Hatoum together with perfect judgement
Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue
Diary
No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign
Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach
Francis Bacon’s Paris pad honoured with plaque
The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s
Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum
Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar
Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo
An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages
Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A
The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month
Obituaries
Llyn Foulkes, art world iconoclast, has died, aged 91
An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaves behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture, animation, music and more
Remembering John Morgan, radical typographer and designer who transformed the Church of England's books
From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture
Carla Stellweg, influential critic, gallerist and scholar of Latin American art, has died, aged 83
The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator
Tony Fitzpatrick, indefatigable artistic polymath from Chicago, has died, aged 66
A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more
Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87
In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives