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Obama Presidential Center opens, offering an art-filled, hopeful view of US history

The sprawling new campus on Chicago's south side includes a rousing museum and commissions by Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Richard Hunt, Martin Puryear and many more

Ruth Lopezabout 14 hours ago

New documentary goes behind the scenes of Rashaad Newsome’s biggest project

In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory

Susan Morrisabout 9 hours ago

Inside Refik Anadol's Dataland, the world’s first AI art museum

An immersive “laboratory of imagination” from Anadol's studio boots up in Downtown Los Angeles

Santé! Converted French winery gains recognition as national museum

La Coopérative-Musée Cérès Franco is reopening to show its eclectic collection after a major renovation

Dale Berning Sawaabout 9 hours ago

Zooming in on the Dutch street photographer Ed van der Elsken

The artist chronicled Amsterdam life in the 1970s

Nina Siegalabout 9 hours ago

Art Basel 2026

News, analysis and more from across the art fair and beyond, including The Art Newspaper’s on-the-ground coverage

Big names pay off for Basel Exclusive

Early sales under the new initiative included artists such as Picasso and Guston

Carlie Porterfieldabout 15 hours ago

Artist, DJ and musician to hold rave at Art Basel

Event includes recording of Eleanor Roosevelt reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Alexander Morrisonabout 15 hours ago

Art Basel Diary: Kanye's Greek goddess, a wheelie good read and the ultimate plunge pool

Plus The Art Newspaper dives with the ducklings and art critics just got fluffier

The Art Newspaperabout 15 hours ago

In Pictures: Basel Social Club

This year the city's upstart fair is capitalising on its location, a former office complex, as it turns the world of work on its head

Carlie Porterfieldabout 15 hours ago

'Regret is part of the story, but so is discovery': Valeria Rodnianski tells us what she collects and why

Born in Kyiv, the Germany-based collector's works are grounded in German and Eastern European art

José da Silvaabout 15 hours ago

David Hockney (1937-2026)

A selection of articles from our archive featuring the late British artist.

David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the “Young Contemporaries” exhibition in London in 1961

David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist

We talk to David Hockney about Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which broke an auction record this week, selling at Christie's New York for $90.3m with fees. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

David Hockney on self-confidence

To mark the British artist's birthday today, we release behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, in which he describes where he gets his innate sense of assurance from

David Hockney follows in Van Gogh’s footsteps, painting fleeting spring blossom

Martin Gayford’s book pays tribute to Britain’s greatest living artist before an exhibition at London’s Royal Academy

a blog by Martin Bailey

David Hockney: 'Abstraction in art has run its course'

"The world is very beautiful, but human beings are quite mad," says the British artist

Behind-the-scenes videos

Art market

Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting

The $30m work has been the subject of almost a dozen years of legal battles

Mexican authorities urge Sotheby’s to stop sale of two pre-Columbian artefacts

The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York

Asian antiquities are gaining a younger following—will it last? 

Sales are booming as Millennial and Gen-Z collectors are taking a shine to historical artefacts

‘It's a work of art’: rare, cloth-bound first edition of Wuthering Heights to be auctioned at Christie’s

The book, estimated at up to £600,000, is the first original edition to appear at auction in more than a century

Independent 20th Century adds 75% more exhibitors as it moves to the Breuer Building

The fair's first edition at Sotheby’s landmark Madison Avenue home will feature an expanded roster of international galleries

Museums & Heritage

New textile museum in Mexico City celebrates Indigenous artistry

The new Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos frames textiles as living heritage and explores ethical collaboration

Redesign of Dutch Van Abbemuseum aims to make museum-going more accessible

The contemporary art museum in Eindhoven introduces stim tools such as fidget toys and a sensory map to invite deeper audience interactions

Senay Boztas1 day ago

Training scheme for budding curators from lower socio-economic backgrounds receives £3m donation

Russian-born philanthropists Anastasia and Igor Bukhman have pledged the grant to the New Curators programme, launched by three former Tate curators

Anny Shaw1 day ago

Memphis Art Museum reveals opening date and inaugural exhibitions for new building

Entry to the institution’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass timber home along the Mississippi River will be free to local residents in perpetuity

Exhibitions

Glasgow International 2026 offers reminder of city’s cultural power at a challenging time

The latest edition of the art festival brings together potent work by artists both local and global across more than 30 venues

Black mirror: a conceptual artist’s new mobile app helps you be a better texter

Created as part of Jennifer Rubell’s current show at Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York, Attune Official is for anyone who obsesses over text messages

In museum first, MFA Boston pairs prized vessels by Paul Revere and enslaved artist David Drake

As part of a revamp of its galleries devoted to early American art, the museum is installing a clay jar by an enslaved artist alongside a bowl made by a hero of the US Revolutionary War

How Old Masters had an enduring influence on a Modern pioneer

For its major survey of Helen Frankenthaler, Kunstmuseum Basel has focused on the late American artist’s time in Europe and the influence of Old Masters on her work

Group show explores where technology meets spirituality and folklore

The exhibition at Basel’s HEK showcases artist whose work responds to “unstable and apocalyptic” times, drawing on religion, myth and ritual

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with… Caragh Thuring—podcast

Caragh Thuring 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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects

Books

An expert's guide to Marina Abramović: five must-read books on the performance artist

The best Abramović publications, from an intimate memoir to a collection of the artist’s aphorisms—selected by the curator Shai Baitel

Mystery, controversy and the butterfly’s sting: James McNeill Whistler book aims to dispel the fog around his legacy

The unashamedly partisan book by Daniel E. Sutherland also looks at the science behind Whistler’s nocturnes

Mapplethorpe nudes, the NEA and the birth of America’s culture wars

We speak to the writer Isaac Butler about his book revisiting the battles over censorship and public funding in the US during the 1980s and 1990s

How Andy Warhol’s textile and fashion work influenced his art

Three key takeaways from a new book that looks at the artist's designs for shop awnings, advertising illustrations, screen-printed clothes and more

John Constable, an artist and man for all seasons, shines brightly in new book

The 250th anniversary of Constable’s birth has seen a flurry of publications about the great painter and his work. This rich and ingenious study reveals how his art and life were shaped by the yearly cycles of the weather

Art Basel Diary: Kanye's Greek goddess, a wheelie good read and the ultimate plunge pool

Plus The Art Newspaper dives with the ducklings and art critics just got fluffier

The Art Newspaperabout 15 hours ago

Art Basel Diary: mouse in the house, Kanye at Unlimited, and Cattelan's banana gets supersized

Plus: P•P•O•W's stand stays hydrated and Katharine Grosse's fabulous football

Influential art world figure Joe Hage moves from the shadows to take top billing

The founder of Heni art services is behind a major Barbara Hepworth show at London's Courtauld Gallery

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Art Basel in Basel, Pierre Huyghe interview, James Turrell—podcast

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.

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison

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.

Exclusive: an unknown archive of treasures from Van Gogh’s doctor, Paul Gachet

Documents, photographs, drawings, paintings—and even a sketch of the artist on his deathbed

Martin Baileyabout 11 hours ago

Opinion

Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself

Since the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections have continued to expose art's vulnerability to politics

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

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

Obituaries

Remembering Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of kinetic art

The Argentine-born, Paris-based artist, who died at age 97, had been hoping to attend the opening of his retrospective at Tate Modern next week

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

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