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CommentIvory
The UK’s imminent law against the trade in ivory is a serious threat to liberties, says former Lord Chief Justice
Civilians will be allowed to enter your house, break open containers and use “reasonable force”
Anna Somers Cocks
CommentContemporary art
Quintessentially Chinese art gives way to a global identity
Contrasting Zhang Xiaogang with a young 'post-passport' generation
Barbara Pollack
CommentLeaders
Is contemporary art the kale of the art world?
The rise in popularity of the green vegetable mirrors that of contemporary art
George Goldner
CommentArt market
Cryptocurrencies: a moving target for regulators
"Blockchain participants have had little guidance from regulators as to how they plan to shape the law so as to protect against criminal activity"
Joe Hage
CommentNational Portrait Gallery
London's National Portrait Gallery’s contemporary art programme resonates more with the art world than the public
Though not as dire as first thought, visitor figures for the museum's contemporary shows have still been poor
Ben Luke
CommentSocial history
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Matthew Sears is professor of classics and ancient history, University of New Brunswick
Matthew Sears
CommentPolitics
Why arts journalism matters: because art matters
Even in arts journalism, one can see the effects of President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric against the press
Helen Stoilas
CommentIvory ban
Traffic believes the US and UK ivory sale bans are ‘vital elements in the international response’ to poaching
The official spokesman of the wild-trade monitoring organisation responds to The Art Newspaper's article on the trade in elephant ivory—and we respond to him
Richard D. Thomas
CommentRestitution
Returning looted African art is as urgent as giving back works stolen by the Nazis
Congolese-born art collector Sindika Dokolo says this "long-neglected historical wrong" is finally being addressed—but more can be done
Sindika Dokolo
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
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”
Anna Brady
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
Melanie Gerlis
CommentMuseums
The problem with artist-driven museum boards
Brian Allen explains how artists can hurt rather than help museums like MoCA Los Angeles
Brian Allen
CommentLeaders
Sydney’s flagship museum is entirely focused on building a costly extension. Why?
Unless the Art Gallery of New South Wales begins to focus more on exhibitions, there is every reason to believe that Sydney Modern will be a gigantic and costly flop
John McDonald
CommentLeaders
Egon Schiele was not a sex offender
The 100th anniversary of Austrian artist’s death has arrived just in time for the #MeToo movement
Jane Kallir
CommentSaudi Arabia
Letter to the Editor: Saudi Arabia will collaborate with the world, not only France, to make its cultural heritage accessible
Al-Ula, the most important cultural heritage site in the north-west of the kingdom, will benefit from international standards in heritage preservation and planning
Amr AlMadani
CommentPhoto London
Artists show their power to effect change
In the visual arts, a greater sense of activism is possible, and it’s being helped by the absorption of a broader range of disciplines and media into the canon
Ben Luke
CommentLeaders
Displaying the ruins of demolished social housing at the Venice Architecture Biennale is not ‘art-washing’
The V&A acquired a fragment of London's Robin Hood Gardens before it was demolished
Tristram Hunt
CommentExhibitions
‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition
As told to Helen Stoilas
CommentExhibitions
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers
Anna Somers Cocks
CommentLeaders
Retain or return? It’s complicated
The complex issues behind returning cultural goods to their place of origin
Robert Jackson
CommentPolitics
Vital artistic exchanges will be stifled by Trump's travel ban
The amicus brief signed by more than 100 museums should shame the justices of the US Supreme Court
Ben Luke
CommentTurner Prize
Who should win, who will win, and how smartphones dominate Turner Prize shortlist
Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees
Ben Luke
CommentLetters
Letter to the editor: the Frick's viewing garden is worth preserving
The Art Newspaper readers
CommentMuseums
The Frick’s expansion is a sensitive, elegant plan
The New York museum has shown it is a responsive listener and found ways to add much needed space and public amenities with surgical precision
Brian Allen
CommentLeaders
What we can learn from Saudi art
Suddenly, a lot of money is flowing through the kingdom for the promotion of contemporary art and culture
Chris Dercon
CommentMuseums
Two steps forward, one step back for Holocaust restitution
In a recent decision regarding Picasso’s Actor, the courts need to catch up with US government policy on Nazi-looted art
David Rowland
CommentRestitution
Nazi policies forced Jewish collectors like Paul Leffmann to sell their art, whatever the price
Restitution experts say New York law recognises third party duress, so why did a recent court decision on Picasso’s Actor not recognise this?
Jonathan Petropoulos
Comment300
'Issue one came out in less degraded times: more idealistic, less puffed up by PR machines'
Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor and chairman, looks back
Anna Somers Cocks
Comment300
Then & Now: boom, bust and rebirth of Damien Hirst
How The Art Newspaper has covered the artist's bullish decadence
Anna Brady
CommentMuseums
Then & Now: "Modern art is destroying itself," warned our first issue
Museums have since devoted sizeable resources
Emily Sharpe
Comment300
Then & Now: how The Art Newspaper shaped UK restitution law
Featuring a 900-year-old missal looted during the Second World War
Hannah McGivern
Comment300
Then & Now: the V&A and Queen Woyzaro Terunesh's wedding dress
The story behind the garment
Martin Bailey
CommentMuseums
Museums have a duty to be political
Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them
Jillian Steinhauer
CommentConservation
How refugees are conserving Iraq and Syria's extraordinary monumental heritage
Opening mega museums is not the only way to exercise soft power in the region
John Darlington
CommentLeaders
The mirage of riches in museums’ vaults
Putting aside museum ethics, Martin Gammon looks at the financial viability of museums deaccessioning their collection as a quick fix for financial trouble
Martin Gammon
CommentSaudi Arabia
Crown Prince Mohammed of Saudi Arabia has roped an ancient city into his London charm offensive
The splendid Nabatean site of Mada’in Saleh may be opened to tourists
Anna Somers Cocks
CommentRestitution
The restitution revolution begins
President Macron is ushering in a new era for the return of displaced heritage
Bénédicte Savoy
CommentDeaccessioning
Auction houses must share the blame for university sell-offs
Christie's sale of 46 works from La Salle collection will diminish the museum and its academic programme
Brian Allen
CommentAuthentication
When it comes to understanding authenticity, listen to the dealers and the market—not the academics
Display of works purportedly by Russian avant-garde artists fails to meet three key criteria
James Butterwick
CommentDonald Trump
'While I revile Trump as much as the next man, Nancy Spector was wrong to offer the Golden Toilet'
Georgina Adam on why Guggenheim's chief curator should rise above President and his "swampy" world
Georgina Adam
CommentAndy Warhol
Andy Warhol goes to church
Why the pop artist—a lifelong, closeted Catholic—deserves to be shown at The Vatican
Ben Luke
CommentArt market
Small Italian galleries could suffer from influx of foreign dealers
Il Giornale dell'Arte's deputy editor weighs in
Franco Fanelli
CommentMuseums
New Met charges are an unfair tax on tourists
The museum’s $25 admission fee discriminates against the non-New Yorkers who subsidise its huge tax privileges
Brian Allen
CommentMuseums
Museums must reassert their values in the face of a divisive and malevolent Trump
The 45th president's values are at odds with those that most museums hold at their core
Adrian Ellis
CommentPolitics
How should museums respond to Donald Trump?
We asked directors of prominent US institutions what they can or should do
The Art Newspaper
CommentMuseums
How Egypt is destroying Cairo and civil society
The pharaonic new museum will not make up for misguided policies
Anna Somers Cocks
CommentTurner Prize
Lubaina Himid's win is richly deserved but raises questions about the future of the Turner Prize
It may be impossible for juries to give the award to younger artists ahead of long deserving ones
Ben Luke
CommentLeonardo da Vinci
The Salvator Mundi may have changed the market for ever—but we have been through this before
Martin Gammon on the historical precedents of the $450m sale
Martin Gammon
CommentVenice Biennale
Risk is the key to success at the Venice Biennale
Museum founder David Walsh on Australia's controversial new artist-selection process
David Walsh
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