NewsArt market
How Adrian Ghenie conquered the art market
The Romanian painter’s prices have increased 160-fold over the past decade. But who, or what, is behind this steep rise?
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Jeff Koons and Larry Gagosian file motion to dismiss collector’s 'impatient' demands for work he did not receive
Steven Tananbaum sued the artist and gallery in April for failing to deliver works he bought in 2014, likening the incident to a Ponzi scheme
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Artist collective tackles 'disappearing kids' under US immigration policy
This latest impromptu project is a direct response to Trump's "willingness to inflict trauma on young children and families”, the group says
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum
NewsCommissions
Random International’s new permanent commission on London’s embankment to be unveiled on Art Night
Sixty projects will punctuate the contemporary art trail winding through South Bank, Vauxhall and Nine Elms
NewsExhibitions
Australian artists and inmates collaborate to make videos about the reality of life behind bars
Works are on show as part of Dark Mofo, a festival organised by the Museum of Old and New Art just north of Hobart
Latest in In the frame
Groundwork Festival celebrates the summer solstice with a dance on a Cornish beach
Lily Cole steps behind the camera for Emily Brontë film
Ai Weiwei launches sale of benefit works on World Refugee Day
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
Feline fine: downtown Denver gets new cat installation
NewsPhotography
Hamburg addresses German genocide in Namibia with photography exhibition
Show of Marc Erwin Babej’s work comes as Namibia calls on Germany to return cultural treasures
Podcast
Podcast episode 37: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview
With the World Cup in full swing, we look at a London show exploring football as a cultural phenomenon with its co-curator Eddy Frankel, and talk to the British film-maker John Akomfrah about his exhibition at the New Museum, New York.
NewsPublic art
Public review open for David Hammons’s Day’s End proposal
The “ghost monument” in Hudson River Park would be paid for and maintained by the Whitney Museum
Latest in Comment
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
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
ReviewArtVilnius
Get over the unpronounceable names—go east for talented, smart artists at affordable prices
ArtVilnius fair has just held its tenth edition and is building the market for ex-communist countries with long artistic traditions
NewsArt market
Supply wrung out? End of term feel to London Impressionist and Modern art auctions
Sotheby's sale fell below estimate while Christie’s provided some cheer, showing there is still money in Monet – but only the right one
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
NewsBiennials & festivals
Sydney biennial appoints its first indigenous Australian artistic director
Artist Brook Andrew’s work deals with notions of history, identity and race
NewsCollectors
Pinault Collection extends empire with Rennes show, new Paris space and long-term loans programme
French billionaire—whose collection numbers 3,000 works—has sold 130 pieces since 2000
NewsConservation
Britain's Post-Modern architecture receives protected heritage status
From a private residence inspired by the cosmos to a commercial building with curves: Historic England adds 17 "PoMo" buildings to register
NewsExhibitions
Whitney’s Warhol: new blockbuster show to reinvent artist for the Instagram age
Museum’s director Adam Weinberg explains why exhibition took eight years to realise and why it will be "selfie-central"
NewsDiscoveries
Newly discovered Michaelina Wautier painting added to first major show on Baroque’s forgotten female master
And experts are convinced that “many more works will pop up”
FeatureArtist interview
Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it
Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence
PreviewExhibitions
Ai Weiwei retraces his father's steps to Marseille in 1929 for new show
Chinese artists unveils new commissions alongside 50 works at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
NewsConservation
World Monuments Fund gives $1m for post-quake restoration of Mexican archaeological site
Monte Albán, the ancient capital of the Zapotec people, was damaged by earthquakes in 2017
ReviewManifesta 12
Manifesta 12 makes the most of Palermo's botanical backdrop
Explorations of migration, slavery, memory and decay flourish in nomadic biennial’s botanic garden setting
NewsExhibitions
British Museum show focuses on Assyrian antiquities targeted by Islamic State
Loans likely to come from Iran—but works from the Met would not meet London museum's strict borrowing guidelines
ReviewExhibitions
Joaquín Torres-García, mapped and remapped
Acquavella Galleries’ exhibition of the Uruguay-born Modernist is a primer for the uninitiated and a treasury of rarely seen gems
In the frame
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s night at the Louvre Museum
The surprise video for the couple's song Apeshit was shot at the Parisian institution
NewsConservation
The amazing technicolour Chippendale: museum injects colour back into 18th-century work
Show at Leeds City Museum is one of this year's many events commemorating the tercentenary of the furniture maker’s birth
NewsArt market
Damien Hirst’s former manager Frank Dunphy to sell art collection
Sotheby’s auction includes personal works by Hirst gifted to Dunphy, or sketched on the back of restaurant menus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Match of the day: football vs art
The two may seem unlikely bedfellows, but plenty of artists are football fans—and they are making their allegiances known during this summer’s World Cup
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
CommentDiary of an art historian
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait
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