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Commentcoronavirus
Business can and should help the arts through this crisis
The pandemic has laid bare the betrayal of the cultural sector, but corporations and individuals can alleviate the hardship
Thomas Girst
CommentMuseums & Heritage
'Museums need to press the reset button and become more radical'
Directors and curators should consider this challenging moment as an opportunity diversify the stories they tell and the staff that tell them
Ben Luke
CommentMonuments
The problem with Marc Quinn's Black Lives Matter sculpture
Racism runs far deeper than representation, says the artist Thomas J. Price
Thomas J. Price
CommentDiary of an art historian
'When the politics change, so must the statues'
History can teach us a lot about how to—and how not to—deal with problematic historic monuments
Bendor Grosvenor
CommentPhotography
Photographs are the monuments of our online visual culture
But which ones will ascend to a more permanent station in today’s social imagination?
Kevin Moore
CommentMuseums & Heritage
'If a person of African descent wants a career in the arts—well, good luck'
Only by looking backwards can we start to tackle inequality in the arts sector, says Gus Casely-Hayford, the director of V&A East
Gus Casely-Hayford
CommentArt market
Can the art market be an ally in the fight for racial equality?
The industry remains subtly discriminatory and must abandon some obsolete ways if it is to truly change for the better
Olivia Anani
CommentArt market
We need to talk about guarantees. And art loans
Dealers who finance deals by taking out loans against art may well find themselves in difficulty because of the Covid-19 pandemic
Georgina Adam
CommentArt market
No rest for the frazzled for many in the art world
As galleries and auction houses slowly awaken from lockdown (some of them, at least), this summer will be one of work, not rest
Melanie Gerlis
CommentRacial injustice
If we want more artists like Khadija Saye, we need to give young BAME people the help they need
Would-be artists from ethnic minorities have it harder than most—which is why a new programme will continue Saye’s inspiring work, says the artist Nicola Green
Nicola Green
CommentMuseums & Heritage
US needs monuments celebrating African American history, not Confederate statues
Telling America’s overlooked stories is fundamental to building a true national identity, says preservationist Brent Leggs
Brent Leggs
Podcast
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
Plus, artist Rita Keegan on her postponed show and Julia Peyton-Jones on Leonardo. Produced in association with Christie's
Hosted by Ben Luke and Aimee Dawson. Produced by Julia Michalska and David Clack
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Institutions need to follow artists’ lead to make a material impact on the world
Museums can learn a lot from artists like Mark Bradford, Shan Wallace and Rick Lowe about how to more effectively engage with their communities
Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel
CommentArt market
What’s the ideal post-pandemic art market? One that's no longer a Disneyland for the rich
Capitalism has gobbled up the art world over the past decade—it is high time for a reset
Jane Kallir
Commentcoronavirus
Oxford Economics report: an emergency fund for the UK creative sector 'needs to come soon'
It is time for a Creative New Deal amid the coronavirus crisis, says Caroline Norbury the chief executive officer of the Creative Industries Federation
Caroline Norbury
CommentFunding
Museums will need ethical funders all the more after the coronavirus crisis
As institutions reopen their doors to a world that has changed significantly, public scrutiny of private money is not going away
Joe Dunning
CommentArt market
Who are the art market's virtual winners?
As digital fatigue sets in, a little editing goes a long way with online viewing rooms—and sometimes a humble PDF with a few human touches makes a welcome break
Melanie Gerlis
CommentDiary of an art historian
Museums are about to reopen—but should they?
Social distancing measures mean a lot of money will be spent on a small number of visitors, institutions should be focusing on their online presence instead
Bendor Grosvenor
CommentMuseums
Eight ways museums could make the most of the coronavirus crisis
Failure to seize this opportunity to make changes would be a graver error than any breach of etiquette
Adrian Ellis
Commentcolonialism
Edward Colston monument: 'UK must face the truth of what helped it become a mighty power'
Once it is fished out of the water in Bristol, the statue of slave trader Edward Colston should go in a museum. But what kind of a museum?, asks writer Bonnie Greer
Bonnie Greer
CommentProtest
Dread Scott: America God Damn
The multidisciplinary artist and social justice activist reflects on the recent protests in response to the killing of George Floyd and the history of racialised police violence in the US—and how change may finally be underway
Dread Scott
CommentBlack Lives Matter
The Art Newspaper's statement on the Black Lives Matter movement
We will redouble our efforts to shine a light on prejudice, injustice, tokenism and hypocrisy, to call for real diversity in the workforce, including our own team of writers and staff
The Art Newspaper
CommentArt market
What sort of art will we want after the pandemic ends?
Performance out, domestically-sized painting in
Georgina Adam
CommentExhibitions
Must London always win? National Gallery of Scotland cancels Titian show for all the wrong reasons
By bowing out of the Renaissance blockbuster tour, the Edinburgh museum has not only let down the Scottish public but shown its priorities are misplaced
Bendor Grosvenor
Commentracism
The US has a big racism problem and the art world is not helping
A looted Kaws sculpture and museums' silence reveal a predatory not progressive industry as protests flare following the killing of George Floyd
Margaret Carrigan
CommentMuseums & Heritage
After Covid-19, museums need to plan ‘must see’ exhibitions instead of blockbusters
The Brooklyn Museum’s director of exhibitions explains how institutions can rethink their offerings going forward
Sharon Matt Atkins
Commentcoronavirus
Why I made a mountain of fortune cookies in my little London flat during lockdown—all in the name of art
Biscuit sculptures have sprung up worldwide as part of a global initiative to celebrate the late artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Gareth Harris
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Our mission is to be Miami’s art museum—that’s why we spent $145,000 to buy works from local galleries
Franklin Sirmans, the director of the Perez Art Museum Miami, explains the impetus behind the Collectors Council’s largest group acquisition ever
Franklin Sirmans
CommentSustainability
Art museums should use their endowments to help battle climate change
In April, Harvard University announced plans to realign its $40bn endowment to reflect “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—other US institutions can do the same
Anna Raginskaya
CommentDeaccessioning
Why the Association of Art Museum Directors’s move on deaccessioning matters so much
Decision to relax rules on selling art exposes chinks in a fortress
Mark S. Gold and Stefanie S. Jandl
CommentPersonal stories of coronavirus
After years of sanctions and political upheaval, the pandemic is a new hurdle for the fragile Iranian art scene
Pejman Foundation in Tehran opened a museum at the start of this year only for it to close soon after as coronavirus struck
Carolyn Tso
CommentArt market
Auctions are like dating: you can do it online, but sparks only fly in the flesh
The coronavirus lockdown is boosting lower level virtual sales, but only a major live auction will kick-start the top end of the art market and revalidate prices
Philip Hook
Commentcoronavirus
Britain's young artists had a hard time before the pandemic. What will happen to them now?
Inequality is rife in British society, not least in the arts, where decades of ‘class-cleansing’ policies have made it harder than ever to be an artist and designer
Scott Reyburn
CommentArt law
Selling art online? Here are the legal pitfalls to avoid
Lawyer Petra Warrington on how to protect your business if you are holding online auctions, exhibiting and selling works on Instagram, or entering into sale contracts by email
Petra Warrington
CommentDiary of an art historian
'Being an art historian now is easier and more productive than it’s ever been'
Publishers and libraries are extending their online access to help art historians put their period of enforced seclusion to good use
Bendor Grosvenor
Commentcoronavirus
When this is all over we must reimagine the infrastructure of the arts
Our enforced isolation during the coronavirus crisis gives us time to think about the role of culture in the public realm
Robert Hewison
CommentBiennials & festivals
Why we cancelled the 2020 FotoFocus Biennial and dispersed its $800,000 budget as arts grants
As the coronavirus pandemic raised concerns about their 10th anniversary event plans, the leaders of the Cincinnati festival explain why they decided to support the local arts community instead
Mary Ellen Goeke and Kevin Moore
CommentArt Market Eye
Auctions: what will change, post-Covid-19?
In the era of social distancing, auctioneers may have to conduct sales to an empty room
Georgina Adam
CommentMichael Craig Martin
'Politicians have failed us': Michael Craig-Martin's thoughts from isolation
The great plagues and wars of the past were followed by dramatic changes in the arts—the same will happen again, says the conceptual artist
Michael Craig-Martin
CommentNew Deal
UK artists deserve a New Deal
Instead of commissioning creatives to respond to the current crisis as if this were a war, the country should pump millions into community art projects
Ben Luke
CommentMuseums
Greetings from a museum leaving lockdown: lessons from Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
Philip Tinari, the director and CEO of the Chinese museum, shares what the institution has learned during closure and its future plans
Philip Tinari
CommentMuseums
Museums must adopt new models to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
Institutions need visionary leaders to find ways to adapt to a dramatically altered culture
Susan Lubowsky Talbott
CommentArt market
‘I’ve always been wary of big business’: Paula Cooper on weathering adversity and building better social systems
The veteran New York dealer shares her concerns about the current coronavirus crisis—and what the art world needs to stay focused on
Paula Cooper
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Notes from the lockdown: Making a situated museum in Queens
The director of the Queens Museum reflects on how the coronavirus pandemic may change how communities use public spaces, and how museums can help rebuild these communal experiences
Sally Tallant
CommentA message from
A message from... Yayoi Kusama: 'Let us joyfully sing this song of a splendid future'
Japan's beloved artist has penned a poem of hope for the world
Yayoi Kusama
CommentPersonal stories of coronavirus
'We are all Surrealists now': how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
Joanna Moorhead, the biographer and relative of the rediscovered Surrealist woman artist, talks about learning to adventure creatively from the confines of home
Joanna Moorhead
CommentReligious art
Pope Francis, his crucifix and the Virgin Mary: miraculous or merely traditional?
Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again
Anna Somers Cocks
CommentArt crime
Don't let your guard down: three things you can do now to protect your art during the pandemic
With sparse personnel and visitors, some criminals will try to see if the “closed” sign actually means “open”, say K2 Intelligence FIN's art crime experts
Jordan Arnold and James Wynne
Commentcoronavirus
Mourning a ‘golden' exhibition season curtailed by coronavirus
Major shows by male artists dominated the London museum landscape before the crisis, now women and non-binary artists are missing their turn
Ben Luke
CommentEconomics
Don’t forget to support our artists, the chroniclers of such crisis
Suzy Delvalle, the president of Creative Capital, urges us all to help artists hurt by the coronavirus pandemic
Suzy Delvalle
Commentcoronavirus
Will coronavirus-related cancellations spell the end of ‘fairtigue’?
When the merry-go-round restarts, it will be in a changed landscape. While fairs have been postponed and others cancelled, there may be benefits
Georgina Adam
CommentPhilanthropy
Please send help: a letter to the Getty Trust
Our Los Angeles correspondent Jori Finkel asks the world's richest cultural organisation to support the city's struggling arts community during the coronavirus pandemic
Jori Finkel
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Tristram Hunt: 'When the lights come back on, our museums will need support'
What coronavirus is really forcing us to address is the societal function and justification for public culture in the 21st century, says the Victoria and Albert Museum's director
Tristram Hunt
CommentEconomics
US artists need a federal bailout now
Congress needs to protect this country’s creative workforce
Janet Hicks and Theodore Feder
Commentcoronavirus
The BBC fights back with 'Culture in Quarantine' against the UK government’s plan to destroy it
A leading Italian art critic says that it is dictators and populists who fear culture and that the BBC’s creativity will be vital to coronavirus Britain, now and in the aftermath
Franco Fanelli
Commentcoronavirus
Letter from Spain: Arco exhibition centre is now a coronavirus hospital
The 'panorama is desolate' for the country's culture sector, says Manuel Fernández-Braso, president of the association of Madrid art galleries
Manuel Fernández-Braso
Commentcoronavirus
'The real ideological war has just begun and Covid-19 is only the starting point': Ai Weiwei on China's response to the outbreak
The Chinese artist and activist reflects on how authoritarian political systems have been able to tackle the crisis more effectively
Ai Weiwei
Commentcoronavirus
Letter from the editor
During the coronavirus crisis, we will continue to bring you breaking news, analysis and helpful resources from the art world
Alison Cole
Commentcoronavirus
A message from...Shirin Neshat: 'We will get through this'
The US-Iranian artist shares a hopeful image from her garden in Upstate New York
SHIRIN NESHAT
Commentcoronavirus
Letter from Italy: the churches—open, but without services—are the only place to see art
The Art Newspaper's founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks on the impact of Covid-19 on Turin, where she is in lockdown
Anna Somers Cocks
Commentcoronavirus
With the coronavirus shutdown, smaller heritage sites such as the Mary Rose face a fight for survival
The charity that runs the historic battleship needs help from the government and the public, says its chief executive Helen Bonser-Wilton
Helen Bonser-Wilton
Commentcoronavirus
A message from...David Hockney: 'Do remember they can’t cancel the spring'
UK’s leading artist, David Hockney, sends a message of hope
The Art Newspaper
CommentLaw
The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act
Sam P. Israel
CommentSponsorship
Museum top brass are losing the oil money plot
Decision by London's British Museum and Science Museum to continue accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies risks alienating the public they serve
Ben Luke
CommentLetters
Letters to the editor | Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?
Debate rages on our Letters pages over whether Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was responsible for the famous urinal that is attributed to Duchamp
Readers of The Art Newspaper
CommentTefaf Maastricht 2020
Patrick van Maris is leaving Tefaf after five years: but has he left the fair in too much flux?
In an increasingly competitive, mixed-category art fair environment, the president of the Dutch fair group made everyone apply each year
Melanie Gerlis
CommentArt Market Eye
Death of a wannabe 'mega' gallery—was the closure of Blain Southern an outlier or the canary in the mine?
Gallery's demise could be symptomatic of the growing polarisation of the art market
Georgina Adam
CommentSudan
It is time to support Sudan’s artists in their fight for democracy
Freedom of expression was at the forefront of the fight to overthrow Omar al Bashir, now the political cartoonist Khalid Albaih asks the US to keep an eye on its own dictatorial leaders
Khalid Albaih
CommentChina
Where is the West? Art world should be supporting China during coronavirus crisis
Our beleaguered art colleagues need our help and we must not turn our backs on Chinese art institutions, says Philip Dodd, head of Made in China
Philip Dodd
CommentBTS Connect
Why I'm working with the South Korean boyband BTS on an art project
The curator of the global public art collaboration Connect, BTS suggests that new definitions of art are required to democratise it
Daehyung Lee
CommentEducation
‘Art history is a global discipline’
The head of Yale’s art history department explains the university’s decision to change its introductory survey course
Tim Barringer
CommentArt market
Condo’s grassroots collaborative spirit is infectious
The London gallery sharing initiative feels like a significant step in a healthier direction
Melanie Gerlis
CommentControversies
Don't be angry that Tate's 'Head of Coffee' gets £39,500—be mad that salaries in both hospitality and the arts aren't higher
The London museum's job advert has upset the art world but these industries should not be pitted against one another, says barista Celeste Wong
Celeste Wong
CommentBrexit
Brexit: what's next for the UK art market?
Leaving the EU will make business with its member states more difficult but is likely to offer opportunities further afield
Daniel Dalton
CommentLeonardo da Vinci
Doubly lost: why the Salvator Mundi's failure to show up at the Louvre is to be greatly regretted
Insurance measures allowed the Leonardo painting to be included in the Louvre’s blockbuster if the loan was confirmed by 1 January. Now that date has passed, Martin Kemp laments its disappearance
Martin Kemp
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