Podcast
Sisters are painting it for themselves: meet the female Old Masters finding prominence at last
We speak to curators Letizia Treves and Jordana Pomeroy about the growing trend to bring historical female artists to the fore. Plus, Kate MacGarry tells us about participating in Condo London. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsArt market
Taipei Dangdai attracts cautious but ‘committed’ local collectors in its first edition
Dealers report a high rate of works on reserve amid some strong sales at the launch of Taiwan’s new contemporary art fair
NewsZimbabwe
Zimbabwe biennial postponed amid political turmoil
As civil unrest and internet shutdowns continue, organisers say they now hope to hold event in 2020
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Grace Wales Bonner's group show at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery to a last chance to see Christian Marclay's The Clock at Tate Modern
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Who painted the mystery nude in the Van Gogh brothers' collection?
Museum specialist believes he has uncovered the identity of the artist—and his voluptuous muse
FeatureBauhaus
Bauhaus is 100 years old in 2019—but which one are we celebrating?
The German school, one of the crucibles of Modernism, was a complex entity
NewsGustav Klimt
Experts pour cold water on Klimt discovery in Hungary
Designer who unearthed the plaster relief attributes it to the Austrian artist
Latest in Comment
The Met’s antiquated views of antiquities need updating
Missing in action: African-American art in European public collections
Eurocentrism still sets the terms of restitution of African art
Why American artists should benefit from the resale of their works
Mikhail Piotrovsky—Hermitage chief for 26 years—is an Old Master of diplomacy
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the many sides of Bruce Nauman to the many subjects of Eugene Richards
BlogLinda on the loose
A standout portrait of a towering James Baldwin
A show at David Zwirner explores the writer's life, his circle and his legacy
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Jeremy Deller and Aries make English pre-history sexy as Theresa May suffers Brexit wipeout
NewsBrexit
UK cultural figures sign letter demanding 'People's Vote' on Brexit
Frieze's Matthew Slotover and Gagosian Gallery's Gary Waterston among signatories
BlogLinda on the loose
Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu bears witness in a marathon of moving images at the SculptureCenter
One work represents a kind of career retrospective for this widely respected artist and human rights activist, who appears to have been born with an archival gene
NewsExhibitions
Arthur Jafa’s searing chronicle of Black America comes to Tate Liverpool
The artist's radical video sparked debate about race relations in the US
Latest in Podcast
Sisters are painting it for themselves: meet the female Old Masters finding prominence at last
2019: art market predictions and the best events
2018: the year in review
Should looted colonial art be returned?
Olafur Eliasson on climate change. Plus, Art Basel in Miami Beach
NewsArt fairs
The mainstreaming of outsider art yields a market in flux
New York’s Outsider Art Fair swells in size as it looks to align itself with larger contemporary art fairs
ReviewJasper Johns
Complex, ingenious, emotional: the concluding volumes of Jasper Johns’s catalogues raisonnés
Two further volumes comprehensively cover the artist's drawings and monotypes
PreviewArt fairs
New York's Winter Show gets a facelift at 65
Formerly The Winter Antiques Show, the grande dame of New York fairs has dropped the word "antiques" in the hopes of drawing a younger crowd
NewsArt fairs
Inaugural Taiwan and Singapore fairs shrug off the gloom
Economic doldrums and stiff competition do not deter Taipei Dangdai and SEA Focus, but Art Stage Singapore is cancelled at the eleventh hour
BlogDiary of an art historian
Scotland has just four per cent of the Royal Collection—it's time it got a fairer share
The Queen has seven Rembrandts, 29 Van Dycks and 52 Canalettos, yet not one is on long-term display in Scotland
NewsClimate Change
How museums in Norfolk, Virginia, are acting to protect art in face of growing flood risk
Institutions are finding ways to adapt to climate change as scientists predict that the Virginia city could be under water by 2100
Latest In the frame
Museums battle it out on Twitter to have the greatest BDE (ahem.. Big Duck Energy)
Fahrelnissa Zeid—just Google her....
Aleksandra Mir presents Trump, the tabloid creation pre-2000
Welcome to the (life-sized) doll's house courtesy of Camille Henrot and Gaetano Pesce
Aican the AI artist: putting the art in to artificial intelligence
PreviewExhibitions
Grace Wales Bonner explores black spirituality for London show
Mystical rituals lie at the heart of the fashion designer’s first major exhibition taking place at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
NewsMuseums & Heritage
National Gallery of Canada director Marc Mayer bids adieu to Ottawa
After ten years at the post, he has plenty of accomplishments, including bringing Indigenous art into the canon, and few regrets
NewsArt market
Artsy co-founder Sebastian Cwilich to step down as president and chief operating officer
He will continue to work for the US online art marketplace as a senior adviser and remains its second largest individual shareholder
ReviewBooks
Clement Greenberg: still waiting for sympathetic treatment
On the 110th birthday of the great American critic, we delve into our archive and discover that writings about him are either too academic or too sensationalist
NewsAfrican art
Africa’s pre-colonial ‘crown jewels’ to find a home in new South African museum
Javett Art Centre at University of Pretoria will display 800-year-old gold collection excavated in the 1930s
ReviewExhibitions
Pakistani-American painter Ambreen Butt imbues traditional miniatures with timely social criticism
Her show Mark My Words is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC—one of the museums still open during the shutdown
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
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Boychild kicks off Condo London 2019 at Carlos Ishikawa
NewsBrexit
'A perfectly engineered catastrophe': artists speak out after Theresa May’s Brexit deal is crushed by parliament
Some, like Mark Wallinger, hold out vain hope for a second referendum, others, like Anish Kapoor, say we must come together to beat mounting xenophobia and intolerance
NewsHeritage
Aliph, the global fund to protect cultural heritage, announces its first projects in Iraq and Mali
Launched in 2016, Aliph will finance restoration work with technical support from the Louvre and Smithsonian Institution
NewsArt fairs
Art Stage Singapore cancelled
Fair director Lorenzo Rudolf says the "given circumstances" leave no other choice
ReviewExhibitions
Essential viewing: Warhol from A to B and Back Again at New York’s Whitney Museum
The sprawling show is a needed revisit for those who remember Warhol as a living, brilliant savant, taste-maker and oddball
NewsMuseums
MacKenzie Art Gallery given 1,000 works by contemporary indigenous artists from Canada and the US
Collectors Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner were drawn by the Saskatchewan museum’s dedication to indigenous and aboriginal art from around the globe
BlogLinda on the loose
Art as Healer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away
Gerhard Richter’s post-war coming of age is fictionalised on film
NewsBrexit
Leave campaigners call for Photographers' Gallery to be stripped of charitable status over Jonas Lund's project to 'reverse Brexit'
Swedish artist created fully functioning office ‘to expose online manipulation tactics’ used in the lead up to the EU referendum
NewsLand art
James Turrell's Roden Crater project gets $40m funding boost—with a little help from Kanye West
The artist will work with Arizona State University and a foundation toward the Land Art project's completion
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Environmental issues grow on the Taipei Biennale
Co-curators Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda have invited Taiwanese indigenous land right protesters to occupy parts of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
NewsProtest
Hundreds of Christians protest against McJesus sculpture at Haifa Museum of Art in Israel
Finnish artist Jani Leinonen has asked museum to remove the work—with no response
NewsArt fairs
New London fair in crowded art calendar looks at drawing in the digital age
Exhibitors at Draw Art Fair London in May will juxtapose drawings with related paintings and sculptures
NewsBritish Museum
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl will not travel to Quai Branly in Paris for Oceania exhibition
Royal Academy says conservation issues—not restitution fears—mean the ceremonial feast trough can not be loaned
NewsAuctions
Dutch Royal family’s decision to auction $2.5m Rubens drawing at Sotheby's sparks criticism
Calls are growing to give Dutch museums first refusal but Dutch prime minister says it is a ‘private matter’
NewsHeritage
Lush historic gardens bloom once more in Agra, India
The World Monuments Fund announces the completion of a four-year conservation effort
NewsMuseums
New Museum staff hold rally in support of unionising
Petition to form union was filed with the National Labor Relations Board last week
NewsRoyal Academy of Arts
Jock McFadyen announced as co-ordinator of Royal Academy's 251st Summer Exhibition
The Scottish painter will lead a committee of fellow artists to organise the annual contemporary art show
NewsMuseums
Is an art Cold War thaw coming? US and Russian museum leaders and diplomats to discuss loan freeze
Public conversation to be held in February will address long impasse on museum loans
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s most important painting leaves Europe for the first time
National Gallery’s Sunflowers heads to Japan where it is likely to be seen by around a million people
PreviewArt market
Acceptable in your 80s: first monograph and a London show for octogenarian sculptor
Book accompanies Paul de Monchaux's new exhibition, a collaboration between his young dealer Megan Piper and Bowman Sculpture
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Condo’s gathering of 52 galleries to a last chance to take a dip into Elmgreen & Dragset’s world at the Whitechapel Gallery
NewsIndia Art Fair
MCH Group 'indefinitely' committed to India Art Fair despite decision to pull out as majority shareholder
Some fear MCH Group’s decision to sell could be a blow to country’s art market
NewsPyotr Pavlensky
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky gets three-year prison sentence, but walks free for time served
Verdict was handed down in dramatic Paris hearing, which Pavlensky dedicated to the Marquis de Sade
NewsCondo
Condo London brings new energy to former gallery hub in Cork Street
Complex in heart of Mayfair will be occupied by three "temporarily spaceless" galleries for city-wide event
FeatureBauhaus
Germany celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus with a bonanza of museum openings and exhibitions
From newly conserved buildings and puppet shows to virtual-reality installations and ballet, across the country the German school is finally getting its due
NewsArt market
Life lessons: what the art market learned from 2018
Georgina Adam speaks with three leading art world figures on the key events of last year and what 2019 may hold
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From cross-cultural pollination in Armenia's Christian art to a pagan awakening
BlogIn the frame
Museums battle it out on Twitter to have the greatest BDE (ahem.. Big Duck Energy)
NewsArt market
A monumental work by Marie Antoinette’s portraitist will headline Sotheby’s Female Triumphant sale
Major works by 14 women artists are expected to dominate Sotheby’s Masters Week offerings and bring more 'diverse' collectors
NewsCaravaggio
French state rejects painting with controversial Caravaggio attribution that was found in an attic
Now the export ban has been lifted, the work may go on the market after restoration
CommentAfrican American art
Missing in action: African-American art in European public collections
The market for work by African American artists is on the rise but museums are falling behind
NewsBrazil
Jair Bolsonaro’s government extinguishes Brazilian ministry of culture
The departments of culture, sports and social development have merged
NewsLGBTQ
Largest exhibition of LGBTQ art in Asia to open in November
The collaboration between Sunpride Foundation and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre explores issues of inclusion in ‘Asia’s Gay Capital’
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Three new fairs not to miss in 2019
From Singapore and Taiwan to Los Angeles, new events attempt to break into world's fastest growing art markets
NewsDeaccessioning
Revealed: marquess of Northampton tried to buy Sekhemka statue before it was controversially sold off by UK museum
Ancient Egyptian sculpture was almost bought by the 7th marquess, whose predecessor donated it to the local museum in the 19th century
NewsVincent Van Gogh
National Gallery in London to send Van Gogh's Sunflowers to Japan
Exhibition with 60 other loans from the museum will help celebrate the Tokyo Olympics in 2020
NewsAppointments & departures
Stedelijk Museum issues conciliatory statement insisting that feud with Beatrix Ruf is over
Unusual press release is latest twist in long-running dispute between Amsterdam institution and its former director
NewsArt market
Art dealer Mary Boone claims early-life trauma prompted her criminal tax evasion
A psychological evaluation submitted by her lawyers to a Manhattan federal court ask for leniency in judge’s ruling
NewsEdvard Munch
British Museum to stage major show of Munch prints
Exhibition in London will be largest in 50 years
NewsArt market
Shagalov sues Paul Kasmin Gallery over Stella ownership
The art dealer has been involved in a number of lawsuits, which allege he defaulted on purchases of art
NewsBanksy
German museum to show shredded Banksy work
Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden aims to make the work “accessible to as many people as possible”
CommentRestitution
Eurocentrism still sets the terms of restitution of African art
A selective view of African cultural heritage continues the colonialist paradigm
NewsPerformance art
A global network for Indigenous performers launches in New York
Partner organisations will be “indigenised” by presenting a certain number of works by First Nations artists per year and build connections with local communities
NewsAppointments & departures
Marc-Olivier Wahler steps down as director of MSU Broad Art Museum
The Swiss curator is resigning from the Michigan institution for family reasons
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head displayed upside down
Curators discovered old mistake during research for No Man's Land exhibition
CommentAntiquities & Archaeology
The Met’s antiquated views of antiquities need updating
The new Greek and Roman curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum should rejuvenate its displays with honest, better stories
Elizabeth Marlowe