NewsPolitics
Artists fearful about the future under new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
No deal prospect and track record as London Mayor scrutinised
NewsObituaries
Marisa Merz, only woman linked to Arte Povera group, dies aged 93
The intensely private artist won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale
NewsResidencies
Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih is the first recipient of the Freedom artist’s residency
The new project, launched by Pen America and ArtX, aims to support at-risk artists
NewsPolitics
Leipzig exhibition ousts artist with alt-right sympathies
Axel Krause’s support for anti-immigration party AfD was a step too far for the organisers, but others say his exclusion suppresses freedom
NewsObituaries
Young New York-based artist Devra Freelander killed in a bicycle accident
The 28-year-old recently showed work in Times Square
FeatureObituaries
My father, the polymath, artist and adventurer, Friedrich Meckseper
The New York-based artist Josephine Meckseper shares personal memories of her father’s life and work
NewsAmy Sherald
Amy Sherald, Michelle Obama's portraitist, unveils massive mural in Philadelphia
The six-storey 2,400 sq ft painting depicts an empowered black teenager
NewsHong Kong
Hong Kong’s art world unites as demonstrations gather momentum
The gallery community has encouraged strike action, with many closing to enable staff to join protests
CommentHong Kong
Hong Kong demonstrations are driven by creative spirit
The city's artistic response to the political unrest proves that the best work often comes at times of crisis
NewsPrizes
Franco-British charity Fluxus Art Projects flies flag for joint culture projects pre Brexit
Artists Lubaina Himid and Tarek Atoui receive funding awards
NewsObituaries
Artist Martin Roth has died, aged 41
The artist's last solo exhibition centred on gun violence
NewsObituaries
Robert Therrien, whose outsize art teetered between fantasy and reality, has died at 71
The artist delved into quotidian objects like a 10-foot-high kitchen table
NewsArtists
Artist to install earthwork calling attention to immigration and human trafficking
Trail of red sand will be visible to travellers in flight and on the ground in Seattle
NewsLaw
Artist's copyright infringement suit heads to US Supreme Court
North Carolina used film director’s images without obtaining his permission or compensating him
NewsArt Basel 2019
Artist Alexandra Pirici demands compensation for underpaid performers
The system of dividends is a way to address the "immense amounts of unpaid or underpaid labour" that support the art world, she says
InterviewLawrence Abu Hamdan
Interview: Lawrence Abu Hamdan—a self-styled 'private ear'
Your voice reveals much more about you than you think—and the Turner Prize nominee is listening
FeatureArt Basel 2019
Baselscope: what the stars have in store for Air Signs during Art Basel week
Our resident mystic has some sage predictions for Gemini, Libra and Aquarius art lovers
InterviewAndrea Bowers
Interview: Andrea Bowers discusses power dynamics post #MeToo
The artist, whose work is causing a stir at Art Basel, aims to keep alive conversations on the toxic nature of power that sparked the feminist social movement
FeaturePaula Rego
Paula Rego: 'retire? and do what? eat ice cream?'
The Portuguese artist’s work focusing on issues such as abortion and honour killings is more relevant than ever – and curators cannot get enough
FeatureArt Basel 2019
Baselscope: what the stars have in store for Water Signs during Art Basel week
Our resident mystic has some sage predictions for Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces art lovers
FeatureBooks
Book excerpt: William Kentridge reveals how Antoine Bourdelle inspired his work
In Jori Finkel's book It Speaks to Me, Kentridge discusses the sculpture in Johannesburg that first made him feel the power of art
NewsArt Basel 2019
Auction prices: the elephant in the room at Art Basel
The first rule of art fairs is don't talk about auctions—but sometimes they can benefit artists and their dealers
InterviewWilliam Kentridge
Interview: William Kentridge on his life lessons
Self-interrogation is central to the work of the South African artist, whose latest piece on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel poses a series of questions that get half-answered
FeatureArt Basel 2019
Bringing up baby: making motherhood work in the art world
Being a mother has been cast as career suicide by Tracey Emin and Marina Abramovic. We speak to four women in the art world who beg to differ
FeatureArt Basel 2019
Baselscope: what the stars have in store for Earth Signs during Art Basel week
Our resident mystic has some sage predictions for Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn art lovers
InterviewCheryl Pope
Cheryl Pope on love, representation and the comfort of textile art
The artist is showing a new series of wool roving nudes at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago
FeatureArt Basel 2019
Baselscope: what the stars have in store for Fire Signs during Art Basel week
Our resident mystic has some sage predictions for Aries, Leo and Sagittarius art lovers
AnalysisGerhard Richter
Buyer’s guide to...Gerhard Richter
As a major retrospective on the artist is due to open at the Met Breuer in New York next year, we look at the German artist's market
NewsArtists
Paula Rego donates abortion etchings to raise funds for Milton Keynes Gallery
Portuguese-born artist says banning abortions is "cruel and unjust" on eve of her first UK retrospective in 20 years
CommentArtists
Abortion will happen—whatever the law says
The artist Paula Rego on why her abortion works are the best thing she's ever done
NewsResidencies
New residency programme puts Chicago’s justice system under artistic scrutiny
Artists can help "demystify" courtroom experience, founder says
NewsClimate Change
United Nations sounds the alarm on species loss—and artists respond
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's work in Cooper Hewitt's Design Triennial resurrects world's last male northern white rhino
NewsCrime
Murdered muralist Héctor Domínguez honoured in Mexico
Suspicion aired that the 27-year-old artist may have been killed, along with his father and brother, because of his environmental activism
NewsCensorship
Artists take stand against social media censorship
Instagram and others are quick to ban female nudity, at a high price for the arts
CommentArtists
Can artists live off art alone?
Only 2% of artists earn more £50,000, a report by the Arts Council England finds
NewsStudios
Locked out via legal loophole: artists evicted from London studios following 'administrative error'
Studio leaseholders ACAVA cite managerial changes as the reason for late payment of rent to landlord
NewsContemporary art
Curator will plant 299 trees in Austrian football stadium in statement against climate change
Klaus Littmann was inspired by a dystopian drawing created more than 30 years ago
NewsFrieze New York 2019
Amassing a Frieze Library, book by book
Galleries donate publications for a collection that will go to the Metropolitan Museum
NewsBerlin Gallery Weekend 2019
Too white and male? Not for long. Berlin Gallery Weekend director responds to criticism over lack of female artists
Maike Cruse says gender split at event will hopefully diminish in the next five years as many emerging artists are female
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Lauren Halsey brings the spirit of South Central LA to Frieze New York
Artist dedicates installation to Nipsey Hussle, the slain rapper and neighbourhood activist
NewsArt market
EU copyright crackdown is intended to protect artists, but might it damage their market instead?
New laws to stop copyrighted material from being uploaded to social media without permission could pose problems for those using sites like Instagram to sell art
NewsMuseums & Heritage
How to future-proof a work of art that will not be completed for 100 years
As Katie Paterson's sand castle project goes on tour, we look at how her Future Library is being made to outlive the artist
NewsArtists
Boots Riley on the links between art, Surrealism and social justice
The multi-hyphenate, who made his directorial debut with Sorry To Bother You, will speak with Mickalene Thomas at the Baltimore Museum of Art this month
InterviewArtists
Picasso biographer John Richardson dies, aged 95
We recently spoke to the art historian about his new book focusing on his extraordinary life, his homes and his eclectic personal collection
PreviewExhibitions
Ai Weiwei show brings out tensions between Canada and China
Survey at Gardiner Museum ranges from artist’s broken Han Dynasty urn to zodiac signs
NewsBrexit
'Allo 'Allo? Artist to install Brexit phone booth on English beach
In the run-up to leaving the EU, callers will be able to leave messages “for Europe”
NewsOpenings
Eduardo Chillida’s Basque museum and sculpture park announces full reopening
Hauser & Wirth has helped to develop “sustainable model” for Chillida Leku, which partially closed amidst Spanish economic crisis
NewsVenice Biennale
Naiza Khan to represent Pakistan in country’s first-ever participation at the Venice Biennale
London- and Karachi-based artist's show will explore life on Manora Island
NewsArtists
Long Island home and sculpture park of Ernst Neizvestny—who designed Khrushchev's tombstone—at centre of legal row
A dispute between Neizvestny’s wife and daughter threatens the late Russian artist’s estate and monumental works
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
How a protest poster by David Wojnarowicz may have inspired Basquiat's Defacement
Artist's 1983 depiction of an infamous case of police brutality goes on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June
NewsConceptual Art
Danish artist sells rough sleepers in ‘human Tamagotchi’ project
Kristian von Hornsleth enables collectors to track London homeless
NewsCopyright
Las Vegas-based artist claims that Ariana Grande plagiarised his work
Vladimir Kush is suing the 7 Rings singer for copyright infringement
NewsObituaries
Lyn Kienholz, champion of art in Southern California, has died at 88
She founded the LA History Project, which led to the exhibition series Pacific Standard Time
InterviewArtist interview
Back to basics: Michael Craig-Martin on his new show in Windsor (Florida)
The conceptual artist brings a range of recent works stateside in a presentation co-organised by the Royal Academy of Arts
NewsObituaries
Susan Hiller, a ‘paraconceptualist’ who abandoned anthropology in favour of art, has died, aged 78
“In art, the viewer can be forced into a situation that creates empathy, which cannot be done in the social sciences,” she said
FeatureBill Viola
Kira Perov: the ‘guardian angel’ in Bill Viola’s life and work
As the Royal Academy in London prepares to open a show uniting the US video artist with Michelangelo, his wife and collaborator discusses her pivotal role in his process
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
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
NewsArtists
Louise Bourgeois’s Spider crawls across Brazil
The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour
News
Artist duo Hesselholdt & Mejlvang says Danish museum did not pay them
The artists showed in a group exhibition and delivered two lectures at Aros Aarhus Art Museum
FeatureArtists
Jordan Casteel comes home with a show at the Denver Art Museum
The New York-based painter, whose work is now owned by private collectors like Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats as well as institutions, never envisioned herself becoming an artist
NewsCatalogues
Cataloguing Egon Schiele: a digital work in progress
Database allows scholars to make rapid connections between works
AnalysisThe Year In Review
Vik Muniz: My advice to fellow artists in the face of grim political times
Brazil’s cultural sector must respond to hard-right politics by reconnecting with the wider community
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Late artists finally get their due at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Galleries at the fair are giving lesser-known deceased artists the credit they deserve
InterviewArtists
Ebony G. Patterson: new garden-inspired installations reveal an original thinker in full bloom
The artist’s exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami is an intense, immersive experience
CommentWhitney Biennial
Whiteness must undo itself to make way for the truly radical turn in contemporary culture
The New York-based artist Xaviera Simmons responds to art critics who thought the 2019 Whitney Biennial was "not radical enough"
Xaviera Simmons