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Comment | As Pace slashes business, could shrinking be the next growth model?
Constant expansion and rising prices in the primary market necessary for a mega gallery are "unfixable", says chief executive Marc Glimcher
Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56
Best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and its award-winning film adaption, Satrapi died in Paris on 4 June from “sadness” following her husband's recent death
More than 100 artists threaten legal action against Venice Biennale
The artists claim the organisers did not respond to their request for removal from the Visitors' Lions prize vote, which the Biennale disputes
Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art hires Philippe Vergne as artistic director and chief curator
Vergne, who is currently the director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, previously held leadership roles at the Dia Art Foundation and Moca Los Angeles
Comment | Farewell, Los Angeles’s ‘punk’ Box gallery
The Chinatown stalwart championed overlooked artists, from Barbara T. Smith to Wally Hedrick
Art market
London Gallery Weekend 2026: our critics pick their top shows
With over 120 galleries across the UK capital participating in this year's London Gallery Weekend, our critics have chosen their top 20 shows to guide you through the weekend
Call my agent: why artist management companies are making a comeback
A spate of new organisations are challenging traditional gallery models to support artists in different ways
Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums
New York’s marquee auctions made record figures for established names, but precious few by young artists. Meanwhile, struggling gallery sector is impacting primary contemporary market
Tiwani Contemporary, gallery dedicated to African art, ceases operations after 15 years
Due to "wider market uncertainties", the London- and Lagos-based dealership that helped launch the careers of Joy Labinjo and Gareth Nyandoro has closed
New art fair focused on community and accessibility launching in Philadelphia
Elsewhere is bringing 26 exhibitors to the Yowie Hotel on South Street for its inaugural edition
Museums & Heritage
Gaudí’s Sagrada Família finally shakes off its ‘incompletable’ tag, as Pope prepares to inaugurate its tallest tower
Long considered forever unfinishable due to its extreme complexity and the loss of its architect’s original plans, the Barcelona basilica’s 14th tower has now been completed
Quentin Blake’s sprawling Centre for Illustration to launch in London
The hub, housed in complex of industrial buildings in north London, will showcase illustration and graphics by the celebrated British artist and many others
Phoenix Art Museum gifted 185 works of Native American art
The acquisition, from the collection of William P. Healey, will form the basis of an exhibition opening at the museum in August
Inside the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's major expansion
The Arkansas museum now has 50% more space for its ever-expanding collection and art-and-wellness programming
Chichén Itzá reopens after dispute with vendors that led to 13-day closure
A battle over new visitor facilities highlights tensions between tourism development and local livelihoods
Exhibitions
London Gallery Weekend 2026: our critics pick their top shows
With over 120 galleries across the UK capital participating in this year's London Gallery Weekend, our critics have chosen their top 20 shows to guide you through the weekend
Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale
From Tai Shani to Ekow Eshun, seven leading art world figures reflect on Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, the main exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other collateral and institutional exhibitions
The 2026 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
Many patterns emerge across the 56 participants’ works, from an interest in complicating our understandings of US history and interventionism, to new approaches to looking at and making images
Show celebrates legacy of the art school in Benton End—which counted Lucian Freud among its students
London’s Garden Museum explores the home of the East Anglian School
Artist-brothers’ Kennedy Center project aims to unite the US in divisive times
National Scrollathon, an exhibition by Steven and William Ladd at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, represents 10,000 Americans of “every age, background, political affiliation, orientation, race”
Books
Book reveals how Chintz—India’s precious textile pattern—became a precolonial global export
The little understood art form is explored in the collected essays of 12 leading scholars
Shoot and branch: new photography book highlights the enduring majesty of trees
"Trees of Great Britain and Ireland" offers a handsome insight into early 20th-century botanical photography
‘A remarkably tenacious motif’: the many faces of Marilyn Monroe revealed in new book and show
Different artists’ takes on the film star are explored ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London
Pleasure, parody and propaganda: rethinking the art of illustration in a new history of the genre
From a ninth-century Chinese frontispiece to Marxist magazine covers, this rich tome explores the power of illustration and the ways in which we read such images
An expert's guide to Tracey Emin: five must-read books on the British artist
The best Emin publications, from her searingly honest autobiography to a collection of revealing snapshots—selected by the Tate’s assistant curator Jess Baxter
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
Yemen heritage, US flags at the National Gallery in Washington, Felix Gonzalez-Torres—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about cultural heritage at risk in Yemen, speaks to E. Carmen Ramos on the new American flag exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and discusses one of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's wrapped candies sculptures on view at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
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.
Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery
“A Symphony in Blue and Yellow” raises intriguing questions about how the artist wanted to present his masterpieces
Opinion
Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfall
The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes
Comment | The flaws in the plan to charge entry to British museums
The end of free universal museum entry risks deterring visitors and creating a two-tier system
Comment | Flourishing markets beyond the big three will benefit the art ecosystem—and the planet
Regions outside of the US, UK and China have grown their share from 17% of business in 2015 to 24% in 2025, according to report
Comment | Degenerate art all over again? Nazi attack on Modern art is not far away from trends in today’s world
When it comes to art, Trump is an utter vacuum—he makes the Nazis look like great connoisseurs, says author John-Paul Stonard
Comment | The slopification of political art
Artificial intelligence has made it incredibly easy to create pointed visuals in response to crises in real time, but the resulting videos and images have little poignancy or staying power
Diary
Hole in one: artist-designed mini golf course heads to London
British artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will design the ninth hole on this summer's putt-putt course in Battersea
Mexican film-makers to co-host Serpentine Summer Party
Co-host Salma Hayek Pinault may be best known to the art world for her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Frida Kahlo
Fashion figure Jordan Roth wows in collage at the Venice Biennale
Having just taken on the Met Gala as a "living sculpture", the multi-disciplinary artist came to Venice later in the week for a compelling performance
How sweet it is: chocolate Russell Crowe at the Malta Pavilion
A chocolate gladiator features in Valletta-based artist Charlie Cauchi's film and accompanying installation in the Arsenale
Nature is healing? Seagull lays eggs in the Giardini during Venice Biennale preview
The new mother may have upstaged some of the artwork on show
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with... Andrew Cranston—podcast
Andrew Cranston 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
The Art of Luxury
A magazine, published twice per year by The Art Newspaper, exploring how grande marque fashion, jewellery, travel and lifestyle interact with artists, the art market and the museums and heritage sector
'A work of conceptual art': Belmond launches new Art Deco-inspired train dining car
The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior
Hotel and art hub Casabianca opens on Italy's Lake Como
From Jannis Kounellis to Anselm Kiefer, a very personal art collection, asssembled by the De Santis family, is now on view in the 1930s villa
Artist Bouke de Vries creates sculptural porcelain bottles for Dries Van Noten perfume
London-based Dutch artist uses reassembled broken china fragments to create five unique vessels
Van Cleef & Arpels cashes in on lucrative secondary market for vintage jewellery
The jewellery designer's Heritage Collection presents rare 20th-century creations
'It’s like the natural world. Nothing lasts forever': Tadashi Kawamata on creating his temporary sculptures
The Japanese artist takes the simplest of materials to make his powerful installations
Obituaries
Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56
Best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and its award-winning film adaption, Satrapi died in Paris on 4 June from “sadness” following her husband's recent death
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports
Widely known by her online alter ego Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein had come to prominence through her memes and critiques of the art world
The art world remembers Valie Export, Austrian pioneer of feminist performance art
Best known for daring audiences to face and feel the female body on her own terms, the performance artist died in Vienna on 14 May at 85 years old
Georg Baselitz, German artist who turned figurative painting on its head, has died, aged 88
Baselitz’s death comes on the eve of a major exhibition of his latest paintings at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini concurrent with the Venice Biennale
Remembering Pat Steir, one of the 20th century’s late-blooming great artists
The painter made gravity her collaborator, transforming poured oil paint into one of the defining gestures of late 20th-century abstraction
















































