NewsBanksy
Banksy seller's stringent instructions for Sotheby's revealed
Sotheby's directors speak out for the first time since Girl With Balloon was half shredded at auction
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie International is a DIY (Do Interpret Yourself) exhibition
The show’s curator Ingrid Schaffner has avoided an ill-fitting theme and allowed the art to speak for itself—sometimes this works and sometimes it does not
BlogIn the frame
Bjarke Ingels’ 2016 Serpentine Pavilion pops-up in Toronto
NewsAppointments
The Met's Luke Syson to head Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
Curator returns to the UK where he organised the blockbuster 2011 Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London
InterviewMuseums
Neil MacGregor: why the Humboldt Forum is ‘an amazing opportunity to attract new audiences’
The former British Museum director, who steered the project for three years, discusses its Enlightenment roots and ambition to engage a wider public
InterviewHumboldt Forum
Berlin's Humboldt Forum: how its director plans to confront Germany’s colonial past
Hartmut Dorgerloh says institution will discuss presentation of non-Western art “together with critical friends and the communities”
NewsPolitics
Franck Riester appointed as France’s new culture minister
Françoise Nyssen—who introduced a youth culture pass and lobbied for copyright reform—is out in cabinet reshuffle
Latest in In the frame
Bjarke Ingels’ 2016 Serpentine Pavilion pops-up in Toronto
Van Gogh comes to New York
Simon Fujiwara’s fascination with Anne Frank
Getty announces grants to shore up modern buildings
Camp moves from the margins to the Met in the next Costume Institute show
NewsArt market
Galleries on New York's Lower East Side band together to boost foot traffic
More than 20 galleries will participate in the inaugural LES Art Week, launching 17 October
NewsPrizes
Clément Cogitore wins the Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s leading contemporary art prize
French artist uses hundreds of images of stock photography
NewsArt market
Trio of deaccessioned Georgia O’Keeffe paintings could make over $30m at Sotheby's
Modernist works from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be offered in New York in November
BlogDiary of an art historian
Tate, WTF is up with you using Wikipedia?
Once an expert authority on Van Dyck, the museum now has nothing more to say about him than a link to an unverified website
NewsArt market
Eric Albada Jelgersma's Old Master collection estimated to make over £26m at Christie's
Pair of portraits by Frans Hals expected to lead two-day sale of collection of Dutch entrepreneur, who was advised by the dealer Robert Noortman
NewsArt law
Fair use or foul? An appropriation case involving Warhol raises an artistic debate in New York court
A legal battle over the Pop artist’s portraits of Prince is heating up
Latest in Comment
The next chapter of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is off to a strong start
The all-powerful market is sounding the death knell for connoisseurship
There is more to exhibitions than number-crunching
Artists’ battle for refugees is beginning to pay off
Interested in a square inch of a Warhol? Fractional ownership hits the art market
NewsArt market
Stolen painting shown on BBC Antiques Roadshow in 1988 now held in limbo at Christie’s
Auction house sold the painting by Emma Sandys for £62,500 earlier this year, but now 19th century work is caught up in a legal battle
ReviewBooks
Jackson Pollock's art gets lost in academic theory in new book
This scholarly overview of the artist’s work is modishly opaque
NewsAuctions
Writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal’s famed netsuke collection to go on long-term loan to Vienna—and under the hammer
The Japanese carved toggles feature in his 2010 memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes
NewsEconomics
What comes after the bailout for Greece’s art world?
As the country’s economy moves towards recovery, we asked art figures to reflect on the crisis and look towards the future
NewsConservation
Family reunited: US exhibition brings together the pieces of cut-up 17th-century Frans Hals portrait
Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio shows three paintings confirmed as one original work by recent conservation
Latest in Video
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
'A deeper source of truth than appearances': Antony Gormley on Joseph Beuys
Michelangelo: The Art Newspaper's editor talks about a British treasure
NewsArchitecture
New Russian cathedral to feature frescoes celebrating armed forces
Church is latest example of symbiosis between church and military patriotism
NewsMuseums
High Museum of Art’s new galleries honour their public
Non-white visitors have jumped from 15% to half of the museum’s attendance in just three years
PreviewExhibitions
Lina Iris Viktor unearths a hidden history at the New Orleans Museum of Art
The artist’s first museum solo show looks at forgotten links between the city and Liberia
NewsExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Anni Albers' textile masterclass at Tate Modern, to an exploration of artist couples at the Barbican
Podcast
In the Sotheby’s saleroom with the self-destructing Banksy, plus Bauhaus pioneer Anni Albers
We go behind the scenes of one of the most publicised stunts in auction history with our correspondent Anny Shaw who was there that evening. Then we get a tour of Tate Modern's Anni Albers retrospective with its curator Briony Fer, speak to the artist's biographer Charles Darwent and the head of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Nicholas Fox Weber. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
AnalysisArt market
Is Hong Kong 'the problem solver for the global art industry'? Fine Art Asia's director thinks so
Andy Hei says tax advantages and broad Asian clientele help keep city's edge of Mainland China—but he is not deterred from holding Beijing fair this month
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh's garden painting set to make $40m auction record for Paris period
Now being sold by a London-based collector at Christie's New York, the work will probably go to Japan or China
FeatureAnni Albers
Paul Smith gets wrapped up in the work of the Bauhaus
After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer
NewsDocumenta 14
Documenta obelisk, dismantled last week, to remain in Kassel after all
Artist Olu Oguibe accepts alternative location, saying work’s humane message is urgently needed
NewsPodcast
The National’s 'sweetest song': how Ragnar Kjartansson convinced US rock band to play a song repeatedly for six hours
Icelandic artist's video work is in New Museum's pop-up show in London
NewsArt market
Major Ebsworth Collection sale at Christie’s marks the first blockchain-recorded auction
Estimated at $300m, the sale of American Modernist masterpieces will be digitally encrypted by the blockchain startup Artory
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Yasumasa Morimura’s play on Western paintings at Japan Society to Leonor Fini’s freedom at the Museum of Sex
NewsIn the frame
Getty announces grants to shore up modern buildings
The conservation projects include the National Art Schools in Havana, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California.
NewsAuctions
Banksy renames shredded painting Love Is In the Bin as work sells to winning bidder after a week of negotiation
Girl With Balloon canvas ‘self-destructed’ live at Sotheby’s last week in one of the most publicised stunts in auction history
NewsMuseums
Fire consumes depot at Deutsches Museum
Burned storage depot housed 8,000 exhibits; museum fears “heavy damages”
PreviewExhibitions
For her final show at MoCA LA, curator Helen Molesworth chews on the meaning of 'termite art'
Inspired by an underground essay written by the late artist Manny Farber, the exhibition concept is anything but clear-cut
NewsMuseums
Sweden's Nationalmuseum reopens—and goes free
Government waives charges after funding five-year, £100m refurbishment
NewsExhibitions
Chinese artist and Netflix star Cai Guo-Qiang gets major show at Uffizi
Exhibition to include works made using signature pyrotechnic technique inspired by Renaissance flora in the Florence museum’s collection
PreviewExhibitions
Hilma af Klint, the ‘mother of abstraction’, gets first major US show
More than 100 years after a spirit commanded her to break with naturalism, the vision of the Swedish artist is realised at the Guggenheim
NewsLoot
President Rouhani personally takes looted ancient relief back from New York to Tehran
Piece depicting a Persian soldier was seized last year at Tefaf New York
NewsArchitecture
Thermal spa developer buys Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Structure will be re-installed as part of Therme Group's art and architecture initiative
NewsLaw
Richard Prince defends reuse of others’ photographs
In court motions, he argues that his appropriation explores the virtual world of social media
NewsArt market
Abraaj Group liquidators to sell 200 works from art collection at Bonhams
Middle Eastern and South Asian works owned by embattled Dubai-based private equity firm carry much lower estimates than prices paid a decade ago
BlogIn the frame
Camp moves from the margins to the Met in the next Costume Institute show
InterviewLooted art
Meet the amateur art sleuth who is helping India recover its stolen antiques
Shipping company executive S. Vijay Kumar was responsible for recovering a Buddha stolen from India 57 years ago among many other looted works
NewsAppointments & departures
Art Dubai appoints new international director Chloe Vaitsou, formerly of Frieze Fairs
Emirati fair says she will work alongside the artistic director in a move away from having a single leader
NewsMuseums
V&A's new photography centre brings history of the medium into view
Controversial transfer of Royal Photographic Society collection from Bradford has led to a growing "culture of research" at the museum
NewsPolitics
Artists join forces in bid to swing US midterm elections
Artist-run organisation For Freedoms’ country-wide initiative is a rallying point—even in right-leaning states
BlogIn the frame
Ye made this work famous—and you can buy it
CommentArt market
The all-powerful market is sounding the death knell for connoisseurship
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
CommentMuseums
The next chapter of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is off to a strong start
One year after Karole Vail took over the Venice museum, major exhibitions and rehangs are in the works
Brian Allen