NewsAfrican art
Contested Asante trophy head to shine in new Wallace room
Seized during the Ashanti war and long held by the London museum, the prized Ghanaian work is to be displayed in a new permanent gallery
NewsDisasters & destruction
Can the Glasgow School of Art be saved after second fire?
Anger as focus turns to cause of blaze that ripped through Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece
NewsUnited States
Shooting at New Jersey arts festival injures 22 people
The incident has been attributed to gang violence and one suspect was believed to have been killed by police
PreviewExhibitions
Step into Frida Kahlo’s ‘secret’ wardrobe
Frida Kahlo's Making Her Self Up opens at Victoria and Albert Museum in June
Performance art
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Veteran performer's tribute to victims of totalitarian violence is part of Dark Mofo festival in Hobart
Latest in In the frame
Feline fine: downtown Denver gets new cat installation
Dress to impress—and win a $5,000 prize—at the Park Avenue Armory
An artistic cookbook for the next generation
The iceman cometh—to MoMA
Domino effect at Puerto Rico exhibition fundraiser
InterviewArt Basel 2018
Theaster Gates: ‘There’s no better Madonna than my mother’
Artist sets up printing press in Basel to explore ‘Black Madonna’ theme
NewsArt market
Art dealers slam proposed European Union licence regulations
Revising import controls on cultural goods could impact negatively on trade, dealer organisations say
NewsThree to see
Three to See: Basel
From a gesamtkunstwerk designed to awaken the senses to a five-decade survey of Bruce Nauman
Art Basel 2018
In pictures: AA Bronson selects his favourite works at Art Basel
The artist, an Art Basel veteran of four decades, has championed female artists, including Sylvie Fleury, in his selection
NewsArt Basel 2018
Galleries at Art Basel pay tribute to ‘generation of giants’
Works and archival material at several stands at the fair honour big names in the art world who have died this year
Latest in Comment
Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing—is the system in need of reform?
Could fairs publish sale prices? Don’t hold your breath
Can the art market thrive in a sharing economy?
The problem with artist-driven museum boards
Sydney’s flagship museum is entirely focused on building a costly extension. Why?
NewsArt Basel 2018
Controversial collection of early Basquiat drawings on show in Basel
Works were created by the artist when he was sleeping on a friend’s couch in Manhattan
Podcast
Podcast episode 36: Berlin Biennale and Art Basel
We explore the two big European art world events of the past week: Arsalan Mohammad is in Berlin with the curator Serubiri Moses and the critic and curator Annika von Taube, and Ben Luke speaks to Melanie Gerlis, writer for the Financial Times and The Art Newspaper, on the line from Basel.
NewsExhibitions
Major survey of Joan Mitchell’s work to open in 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art and SFMoMA are co-organising the show, which looks at the person and process behind the abstract works
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
From Gainsborough's friendly cows to Giacometti's depictions of people
Latest in Video
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
Damien Hirst visits Peter Blake in his studio
BlogArt Basel 2018
When the love don’t last at Art Basel and more gossip
Plus, how Picasso kept Ernst Beyeler on his toes
InterviewArt Basel 2018
Sam Gilliam: a life beyond the frame
With a show of his unstretched canvases at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the lyrical abstractionist is enjoying a late resurgence in popularity
FeatureExhibitions
Dream team: 11 of the best football works
As the World Cup 2018 kicks off in Russia, Eddy Frankel picks some of the most striking pieces by contemporary artists
CommentArt Basel 2018
Could fairs publish sale prices? Don’t hold your breath
“For all the supposed desire for transparency, no one will make the first move”
NewsArt Basel 2018
Swiss galleries forge ahead despite the global squeeze
New initiatives, fair subsidies and a focus on Swiss artists help dealers to adapt
NewsArt Basel 2018
What are the limits of Art Basel’s Unlimited?
Sector has raised the bar for large works, but price and size do not always match
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Are art awards really worth winning?
Winning a prize can give an artist international exposure, but the question of who really benefits—critically and commercially—is an increasingly vexed one
NewsConservation
Eight World Monuments Fund watchlist sites get $1m in grants from American Express
In many cases, the funding will be used to help prevent future damage, including public outreach and scientific research
NewsControversies
Beatrix Ruf, former Stedelijk Museum director, cleared of alleged conflicts of interest
Report commissioned by Amsterdam city council finds that she complied with Dutch regulations
CommentArt Basel 2018
Can the art market thrive in a sharing economy?
Melanie Gerlis on how millennials don’t seem to have the same collecting gene as previous generations
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain
Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process
NewsArt Basel 2018
Multi-billion-dollar Picasso show heads to the Beyeler
The exhibition, which opens in February, will focus on Blue and Rose Periods
NewsArt Basel 2018
Marshall arts: how collectors fell for Kerry James
Artist lands two big sales at Art Basel after record-breaking auction result
NewsNorth Korea
Former propaganda artists for North Korea denounce Trump-Kim meeting
Meeting will "brainwash many people" artist says
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Suffragette cities: UK women take to the streets to mark 100 years of the vote
NewsArt Basel 2018
London's Whitechapel Gallery and Turin's Castello di Rivoli to hold joint Rakowitz survey
Artist to continue project reconstructing thousands of lost and destroyed Iraqi artefacts
NewsConservation
Mauritshuis invites visitors to watch conservators clean its oldest painting
Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ
NewsBiennials & festivals
Riga's first biennial launched by all-female team
Inaugural Riboca exhibition is financed by a Russian entrepreneur—to some Latvian reservations
NewsArt Basel 2018
Show and sell: the added value of a museum exhibition
How soon is too soon? Private collectors are selling off works as little as a few weeks after lending them to high-profile shows
NewsArt Basel 2018
Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun teams up with Ikea
Project aims to produce affordable, off-grid tools
InterviewArt Basel 2018
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Cool Science
The US pioneer of digital art discusses her passion for cutting-edge biology and its influence on her new multimedia exhibition, Anti-Bodies
NewsControversies
Once bitten, twice shy: Canadian artist caught using comedians' photos without permission promises no more funny business
Despite controversy over public art project in Calgary, Derek Michael Besant has been commissioned to create a similar work in Ottawa
NewsExhibitions
Masterpieces from London's Courtauld Gallery head to Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
Works by Manet, Van Gogh and Cézanne will return to France for the first time in more than 60 years
NewsArt Basel 2018
Gender politics to the fore at Basel satellite fairs Liste and Volta
“The personal is political—this is a clear and present undercurrent,” says Volta artistic director Amanda Coulson
ReviewExhibitions
The best—and worst—of Magritte is on show at SFMoMA
The “philosophical painter” poses age-old questions about what the senses apprehend, what awareness and reflection contribute, and how we know
BlogIn the frame
Domino effect at Puerto Rico exhibition fundraiser
Defend Puerto Rico activist group puts on charity tournament of the traditional pastime
NewsArt market
Collector appeals for return of Pissarro painting restituted through a 1945 order made by the Allies in France
"This may raise many important Holocaust issues for the French market," Christie’s says
NewsArt market
New York gallerist Tanya Bonakdar to open first space in Los Angeles
The dealer says her artists encouraged the expansion
Podcast
Podcast episode 35: Freud, Bacon, Hockney and the post-war London scene; and Signals gallery
We talk to Martin Gayford about his book Modernists and Mavericks and sitting for portraits by Freud and Hockney. And we explore a show celebrating the Signals gallery, where Latin American and European avant-gardes converged.
FeatureMarcel Duchamp
What was it like to conduct Marcel Duchamp's only live television interview?
Fifty years on, Joan Bakewell remembers speaking to the pioneering artist for the BBC, shortly before his death
NewsConservation
Why using lasers to clean feathers is not a bird-brained idea
Conservators have used the method on a ceremonial cape made by the Tupinambá—a cannibalistic tribe from Brazil
NewsConservation
New research reveals secrets beneath the surface of Picasso paintings
Discoveries about two Blue Period works in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s collection have inspired an upcoming exhibition
NewsObituaries
Remembering Irving Sandler
The art critic, historian and Artists Space co-founder earned the moniker "The Sweeper Up After Artists"
NewsBuilding projects
Australia's largest contemporary art gallery to be built in Melbourne
New space will help National Gallery of Victoria to capitalise on blockbuster exhibitions
NewsArt market
Sotheby's sues Greece over its claim to ancient bronze horse
A case of man bites dog: auction house turns the tables on Greek government after it was forced to withdraw the figure from New York sale in May
NewsVincent Van Gogh
Revealed: Van Gogh's failed attempt at art dealing
New book argues that artist bought Japanese prints “not for pleasure but to deal in them”
NewsRestitution
Angola recovers six artefacts looted from museum during civil war
Dundo Museum's lost objects were traced by the Sindika Dokolo Foundation
NewsArt Basel 2018
ShanghArt and Waldburger Wouters to open project space during Art Basel
This will be the first time a major Chinese gallery has opened a space in Europe
PreviewExhibitions
Juergen Teller tackles football’s highs and lows in Moscow show
Exhibition at Garage Museum includes stalker-like snaps of Pep Guardiola and live work charting Germany’s World Cup success—or failure
NewsIn the frame
Jeff Koons on transcendence
The artist reflected on his early career and artistic success in David Rockefeller lecture
Artists
Livestream: Antony Gormley, Norman Rosenthal and Louisa Buck talk about the genius of Joseph Beuys
The panel discussion at London's Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac coincides with exhibition of the German artist's early work
NewsArt market
A Saatchi for the next generation? Damien Hirst commissions 21 works by emerging artists for new show
Artist mentored Boo Saville, Helen Beard and Sadie Laska, allowing them to create their largest pieces to date in his studios for Newport Street Gallery show
NewsArt market
Iran’s art market defies expectations in face of US sanctions with new fair
In a first for Iran, the Teer Art fair is set to open in June amid a growing but fragile market environment
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Google and the World Monuments Fund highlight Iraqi heritage under threat
Using drone footage, 3D models and videos, the tech giant is working with cultural institutions to make preservation efforts accessible to a larger public
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Joan Jonas moves off the land and into the ocean for Tate Modern performance
PreviewExhibitions
Key figure of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Charles White, finally gets his due
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to celebrate artist and activist after lengthy search for works
PreviewExhibitions
From Riga to Los Angeles, biennials are searching for answers in troubled times
Manifesta 12, Made in LA, Riboca and the tenth Berlin Biennale explore whether art can make a difference in a rapidly changing world
NewsAttribution
Leiden Collection shows off two ‘new’ Rembrandts in Amsterdam
Rediscovered portraits are due to travel to Louvre Abu Dhabi in early 2019
NewsCultural policy
UK permits Nazi-looted Meissen figure to leave for Japan despite spoliation claim
There appear to be no winners in what the Arts Council refers to as an “extremely unusual” case
NewsObituaries
Malcolm Morley, the first artist to win the Turner Prize, has died aged 86
The US-based photorealist trailblazer turned to Expressionism, experiencing a career renaissance in later years
CommentArt Basel 2018
Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing—is the system in need of reform?
Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit
Anny Shaw