The latest edition of Frieze New York is open now and we hear all about this year’s fair from The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, and our art market editor, Kabir Jhala.
Gagosian, Frieze New York 2026
Image by Casey Kelbaugh/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze.
Cupid Complaining to Venus (1526-27), a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the National Gallery in London has long been known to have a complicated provenance and was once in the possession of Adolf Hitler. In The Art Newspaper’s May print edition, a photograph of the work in Hitler’s Munich apartment is reproduced for the first time in an English-language publication. Ben Luke talks to Martin Bailey, our special correspondent in London, who has been following this story since the 1990s, about the latest news.
In this early 1940s photograph, later published in a 1978 furniture auction catalogue, the Cranach painting is just to the right of the door
Auktionskatalog Hermann Historica, Munich
And this episode’s Work of the Week is the Glamour Posse series from the early 1990s by the British photographer Ajamu X. The work features in Gender Stories, a UK touring exhibition that this week opens at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Ben speaks to the head of the gallery, Charlotte Keenan.
Ajamu X's Glamour Posse series (photographed in 1993, printed in 2023): Curtis Agard (left) and Rikki (right)
Artwork © the artist; installation view courtesy Walker Art Gallery (Cultural Gifts Scheme)
- Frieze New York continues until Sunday, 17 May, Esther continues until 16 May and Tefaf is on until 19 May.
- Gender Stories, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 16 May-31 August.
