NewsObituaries
Dealer Inge Baecker, a pioneer of the Fluxus movement, dies in German floods
The gallerist was ill at home in Bad Münstereifel, one of the worst-hit towns
NewsArt market
US galleries survive: despite a stark decline in revenue in 2020, many galleries have a positive post-pandemic outlook, report says
The Art Dealers Association of America 2021 survey shows many galleries intend to increase their artist roster in 2021 and slowly hire back employees
NewsArt market
Autumn fair calendar is fit to burst as Fiac relaunches in new temporary Paris venue near Eiffel Tower
Dealers must decide which fairs to prioritise as Art Basel in Switzerland and Frieze in London are scheduled just weeks apart
InterviewArt market
Abuja, Miami, Seoul: gallery director Dolly Kola-Balogun maps out her path to African art’s world domination
The 27-year-old powerhouse founder of Retro Africa talks about her expansion plans and how she is helping to build a contemporary art scene in Nigeria
NewsHudson Valley
Want to escape New York for the weekend? Here’s what to see at the Second Saturday Hudson Gallery Crawl
Galleries are hosting artist receptions, shops and restaurants are open late and buskers will line the streets of the upstate city
NewsArt market
Is performance art finally collectible? New London gallery event aims to move medium into mainstream market
Performance Exchange will show work this weekend by artists including Helen Cammock, Abbas Zahedi and Tim Etchells in collaboration with ten commercial spaces
NewsLondon
What to see during Mayfair Art Week in London
From portraits of Napoleon and his wife reunited after nearly 200 years to Rafael Nadal's buttocks
NewsArt market
Abstract art, mid-century furniture and contemporary design all under one roof at new London gallery
LAMB opens this week in the Georgian townhouse formerly occupied by Bernard Shapero rare books
NewsCommercial galleries
It’s coming home: Art gallery to open in the grounds of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
New space is run by the publishers of OOF, a magazine which marries art and football
NewsArt market
Sun, sea and Esther Schipper: Berlin gallery pops up in Mallorca and Taipei this summer
This is the first time the Berlin-based gallery will open temporary spaces
AnalysisArt market
As the Euros kick off, we ask…what has football got to do with art? Quite a lot, actually
The European Super League, an elite alliance betraying football’s roots, was scuppered by fans. These same power structures exist in the art world – so where’s the resistance?
NewsArt market
Hauser & Wirth expands its already large footprint in Los Angeles
The gallery is opening a second space in West Hollywood, in a former car showroom
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Carroll Dunham: You have to love painting to try and subvert it
During a new show at Galerie Max Hetzler, the American artist discusses the archetypal nudes in his canvases and his "uptight and conservative" attachment to painting
NewsArt market
Galleries: London's oldest shopping mall needs you
Burlington Arcade has 12 empty units and its owners want art businesses to help fill them
NewsThe Art Newspaper Live
What now? How London’s gallery scene can survive in a post-pandemic world. Sign up for our live online talk on 3 June
We're looking at the full effect of Covid-19 on the commercial sector and the ways to protect against it. Featuring Sadie Coles, Bomi Odufunade and Jeremy Epstein. Moderated by Louisa Buck. Sponsored by Crozier
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Our critic's choice of London Gallery Weekend shows: Central
It's not just blue-chip galleries that have made our list of top exhibitions to see in central London where the city-wide event kicks off on 4 June
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Our critic's choice of London Gallery Weekend shows: South
The spotlight turns on south London on 5 June where exciting young artists are getting their debut shows and veterans who represented Britain at the Venice Biennale are making a comeback
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Our critics' choice of London Gallery Weekend: East
Much like the area itself, the galleries of east London are presenting an eclectic mix of exhibitions, so our critics have joined forces and picked some of their favourites
CommentLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Why are there so few black-owned galleries in London?
Despite the stars of so many artists of colour rising in the West, the trend is not reflected within the dealer community
InterviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Meet Jade Montserrat, the Black artist who took on the British art establishment
As her first major solo show opens at Bosse & Baum during London Gallery Weekend, we speak to the artist about her art, her activism and what it was like growing up in rural Yorkshire
NewsArt market
London gallery hub Cromwell Place partners with Abu Dhabi Art fair to show emerging artists
Fair will show works by Emirati artists Hind Mezaina, Afra Al Dhaheri and Afra Al Suwaidi in South Kensington this June
NewsPhotography
Magnum Photos announces major new Paris gallery space
News comes as the agency prepares to reopen London space with a show of German fashion photographer Herbert List
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Best shows for... discovering the next hot name
From gabber-inspired altarpieces to repurposed Brazilian matchboxes—here are four of the best emerging artists showing during London Gallery Weekend
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Best shows for... art history nerds
Tear yourself away from museums and libraries for one weekend to catch a rare revival of Jean Dubuffet’s “living painting” performance and Takis’s first European show since his death in 2019
PreviewLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
Best shows for... families with children
Commercial galleries are getting down with the kids and welcoming little ones during London Gallery Weekend
CommentArt market
Will gallery weekends replace art fairs?
There are advantages to staying local in a post-pandemic world
FeatureLondon Gallery Weekend 2021
New kids in the Enclave: how Deptford became south London's hottest gallery hub
Peckham move over, there's a new artistic Mecca in town
PreviewArt market
Art Basel in Hong Kong: fair still on track to open amid calls to boycott city and tough coronavirus restrictions
Exhibitors are down from 242 to 104 in a condensed fair that runs alongside Art Central in the same venue from 21 to 23 May
NewsArt market
Lehmann Maupin opens a summer popup in Taipei, expanding further into the spirited Asian market
The space will open in the Neri & Hu designed Kimpton Hotel Da An in Taiwan
NewsArt market
Thaddaeus Ropac is the latest Western gallery to open in Seoul
With its resilient economy through the pandemic, South Korea is attracting the art industry's attention, with rumours of Frieze launching a fair in Seoul next year
NewsArt market
Out of Africa and into Messums: UK gallery launches new photography department with vintage prints of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya
Some of the images taken by the younger brother of the Danish author, whose memoir became an Oscar-winning film, reflect colonialist attitudes that the exhibition aims to confront
NewsMuseums
Pinault's Bourse de Commerce plans to finally launch on 22 May as Macron gives French museums the green light to reopen
Health passes to certify visitors are Covid-free will be mandatory at cultural venues
AnalysisArt market
Busy Gallery Weekend Beijing brings city's art scene back to life
This year's event, delayed from March, included 30 galleries and museums across the city
NewsArt market
White Cube announces exclusive worldwide representation of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi
British gallery will work in collaboration with the Noguchi Museum in New York
NewsArt market
Flight of the Balloon Dog: Jeff Koons leaves Gagosian and David Zwirner galleries for Pace
The gallery will now represent the shiniest and most expensive living artist worldwide
AnalysisArt market
NFTs in IRL: the rise of digital art galleries in physical spaces
Bricks-and-mortar commercial spaces are bringing crypto art to life, "providing an experience beyond the artwork living on a cell phone”
NewsClimate Change
Launch of Artists Commit intensifies the push to act on climate change
Organisation aims to put pressure on galleries to adopt sustainable practices
AnalysisArt market
As the market for their artists booms, African galleries take control by expanding to the West
With outposts springing up from London to Los Angeles, dealers are putting their artists on the global map
PreviewExhibitions
Lockdown easing: the best gallery shows to see in London right now
Eerie wooden cabins, rural quiltmakers and dismembered, tentacular dolls are among our highlights from the city's commercial exhibitions
NewsArt market
French galleries sue state over Covid-19 closure
The gallery association CPGA is going to court, claiming its members are “victims of a distortion of competition” as auction houses are allowed to stay open
InterviewArt market
How three New York galleries are expanding against the odds
Despite the pandemic, Grimm Gallery, Salon 94 and PPOW are all taking on new spaces in Manhattan—here they tell us why
NewsArt market
First London Gallery Weekend to feature a whopping 87 galleries including David Zwirner, Gagosian and Sadie Coles
Citywide event launching in June will focus on three different areas of the UK capital
NewsArt Basel Art Market Report
Art Basel/UBS report: global art market shrinks by almost a quarter to $50.1bn during Covid-19 crisis
Online sales, a growing pool of billionaires and reduced overheads all helped sustain the trade when physical art fairs and auctions all but disappeared
NewsArt market
Berlin dealer Johann König opens new space in Seoul
Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace
NewsCommercial galleries
Art world reels as New York gallery Metro Pictures announces closure
Long-standing Chelsea gallery was synonymous with the artists of Pictures Movement—including Cindy Sherman, discovered while working as a receptionist
ReviewAbstract Expressionism
Jeanne Reynal, a woman Abstract Expressionist who ‘painted in stone’, gets overdue recognition
Her monochrome mosaics using cement, gemstones and sometimes teeth are now on view in New York
NewsCommercial galleries
Garrett Bradley is now represented by Lisson Gallery
The Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker who has work currently at MoMA and the New Museum, said she was drawn to the gallery’s artist roster and international reach
NewsCommercial galleries
Poacher turned gamekeeper? Stefan Simchowitz opens Los Angeles gallery
“I support so many artists and I’d like to provide exhibition opportunities for them,” says the controversial dealer and art advisor
NewsArt market
After San Francisco loses Gagosian, the city's galleries are collaborating to survive
Mega-gallery's closure will not affect Californian city's small but vibrant art scene, local dealers say—this is "not a place that responds to grandiose braggadoci"
InterviewA brush with
As new gallery platform South South launches, collaborator and curator Elvira Dyangani Ose reveals her greatest cultural influences
The director of non-profit gallery The Showroom in London discusses her love of Audre Lorde's poetry and the music of Thelonious Monk
NewsArt market
Hauser and Wirth's Menorcan 'quarantine island' will open in July with Mark Bradford show
Warning: contains graphic images of sun-drenched Balearic art idyll
NewsArt market
House of Frieze: fair company reveals more details about new London gallery space
No.9 Cork Street will launch in October, to be hired out to galleries for pop-up exhibitions and used for Frieze talks and events year round
InterviewExhibitions
Mary Heilmann: My work follows 'no linear time. It's all a chunk'
As her Hauser & Wirth exhibition launches online, the 81-year-old artist tells us about her early influences, being taught by David Hockney, and why pink is punk
AnalysisArt market
Pandemic prompts New York artists to leave the city in search of more affordable space
Tara Donovan, GaHee Park and artist-owners of Brooklyn's Elijah Wheat Showroom are among those who are leaving in pursuit of nature
NewsGermany
Germany doubles pandemic aid for arts with an extra €1 billion funding
Some galleries received funding in the first package for exhibitions they can’t open in lockdown
NewsArt market
Russian contemporary art pioneer embarks on $2m project to restore Isaak Levitan's former Moscow studio
Vladimir Ovcharenko won a state tender for the crumbling studio of the 19th century artist and now he must turn it into an art space within seven years
CommentArt Market Eye
Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?
The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene
NewsCommercial galleries
Galleria Continua opens new Paris space with JR-curated show
Amid Covid-19 pandemic, Italian gallery hopes to "generate smiles" with second outpost in France
NewsArt market
Social media replaces fairs as the third most successful sales channel for galleries in 2020, study reveals
Websites have replaced walk-ins as the second best way to sell art, but staying in top position is outreach to existing clients, according to Artsy Gallery Insights 2021 Report
NewsArtists
‘Britain’s most important political artist’ Peter Kennard joins London gallery
Richard Saltoun exhibition will include artist’s earliest works incorporating newspaper images
BlogThe Buck stopped here
'A global conversation'—in face of pandemic, 21 galleries launch a collaborative exhibition programme
NewsArt market
With new Chelsea space, Nara Roesler expands Brazilian presence in New York
Gallery moves from Upper East Side to larger Chelsea space and will launch residency program to promote Brazilian curators in the US
NewsArt market
Courtney Willis Blair becomes partner at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
She is one of a small few Black partners at white-owned galleries in the US
NewsArt market
New online platform puts London’s emerging art scene on the map—literally
Credit X has created digital map and database of less established art spaces and galleries in the hopes of balancing out an art world "shaped by market forces", it says
NewsArt market
Frieze takes gallery space on London's Cork Street for 'ambitious' exhibitions
Magazine publisher and fair organiser plans to rent the premises on a permanent basis
NewsArt market
New gallery platform South South launches to promote art from outside the dominant US-Europe axis
Goodman Gallery's Liza Essers came up with the idea in lockdown and plans an online selling event, called Veza, using auction technology in February
AnalysisArt market
Art market 2020: the year of cancel culture and bricks-and-clicks
A year marked by wholesale event cancellations and job losses has also seen the art market innovate to keep businesses going.
Newscoronavirus
Colourist painter and Royal Academician Philip Sutton opens new gallery—at the age of 92
Artist—who is now blind in one eye and lives in a sheltered care home—is launching a space in Bridport, England, to sell his own works
NewsArt market
'A crisis is always a good time to unite': Russian art galleries form new alliance to boost industry
The Association of Galleries aims to simplify the country's customs procedures and secure government funding
NewsArt market
Pace to take over Blain Southern's former gallery in London expansion
Announcement comes as two of the gallery's presidents in the US are facing allegations of abuse in the workplace
CommentArt market
Pastures new: why some top gallery staff are moving on from longtime jobs
Without art fairs and hectic travel, the pandemic has transformed the way most of us work—and some are branching out rather than returning to their old lifestyle
NewsArt market
Gagosian director Sam Orlofsky let go following allegations of ‘unacceptable and repugnant’ misconduct against women
Gallery brought in outside counsel to investigate claims against the senior New York-based digital-focused director, who was suspended without pay last month
NewsArt market
London galleries to accommodate collectors ‘by appointment’ during second coronavirus lockdown
Some dealers say they will continue to hold private viewings for buyers, while opening hours are extended in the West End tonight
BlogThe Insiders
Activist art steps in when words are not enough
Fiona Banner drops a klanger outside Defra while Laure Provost takes language to new levels
PreviewPrivate view
Our pick of must-see gallery shows opening around the world in November
From new works by the emerging artist Collins Obijiaku in Accra to a pre-election tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in Los Angeles
NewsYayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama on 2020: ‘O demons of unwonted fate. We will stand and face you’
New publication—described as “most personal book to date”—will focus on artist’s use of language
NewsReal estate
The pull of Palm Beach proves irresistible for blue-chip galleries—but for how long?
Lehmann Maupin and Paula Cooper are the latest to join dealers like Acquavella and Pace in setting up seasonal spaces in the Sunshine State
NewsArt market
Richard Saltoun Gallery builds entire 2021 exhibition programme around late political philosopher Hannah Arendt
Her work addresses relevant issues today such as tyranny, fascism and totalitarianism, dealer says
NewsCovid-19
Exclusive survey: how small US galleries are surviving the coronavirus crisis as Trump tables relief plans
With a second federal aid package stalled until after the election, our study reveals the financial straits some galleries are finding themselves in—and how they are responding
NewsAugmented reality
Place Michael Eden’s intricate sculpture in your own home with The Art Newspaper’s new AR app feature
View museum-worthy works in your surroundings with a click of a button
NewsClosures
Marian Goodman to close London gallery
The New York-based art dealer will instead launch a project initiative in the city, with no permanent space, starting next autumn
NewsArt market
Miami Beach launches residency programme to help artists and businesses in lieu of Art Basel tourism revenue
The initiative encourages property owners to lend their vacant spaces for free and offers $2,500 stipends to artists—but they may still need to pay rent
NewsArt market
Fancy a free Takashi Murakami work? Perrotin gallery launches art treasure hunt in Paris
French gallery is hiding 20 valuable works in the empty nave of the Grand Palais—and the public have 48 hours to find them and take them home
NewsArt market
From flat white to white cube: Lévy Gorvy opens gallery in former Pret a Manger in Mayfair
Firm now plans to extend its lease after Long Museum buys huge Tu Hongtao painting on show in the new space
InterviewArt market
'The art world had become extremely aggressive': Rachel Lehmann on a return to localism and intimacy in the art market
As Lehmann Maupin opens at London's Cromwell Place, its co-founder speaks about systemic change—and addresses recent allegations against the gallery
NewsShanghai
British-Chinese artist Gordon Cheung left out of pocket by Shanghai gallery
Ten years on, defunct Other Gallery owes the artist almost £44,000 and has yet to return 16 works
NewsCommercial galleries
Superblue unveils installations by James Turrell, Es Devlin and teamLab to inaugurate its Miami space
An outgrowth of PaceX, the experiential art centre is the first in a series of planned galleries that focus on the intersection of technology and art
InterviewWilliam Kentridge
William Kentridge on turning his drawings into films, being inspired by dreams—and catching Covid-19
The South African artist talks about his new animation City Deep, now on show at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg
PreviewFrieze London 2020
Your guide to London's Frieze Week 2020
Including: the seven best shows • align your chakras, Frieze Week is getting spiritual • the challenges of making sculpture during a pandemic and more
NewsArt market
In search of la bella vita, Mendes Wood sets up in bucolic Italian villa
Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Cristina Canale, Vojtěch Kovařík, Paulo Nazareth and Brice Guilbert at Villa Era as clients seek a more rural art experience during pandemic
BlogThe Insiders
Galleries start to clean up their environmental act with new climate coalition
PreviewPrivate view
Private view: must see gallery shows opening in October
From Theaster Gates's black bricks at Gagosian to Gillian Wearing's contemplative lockdown self-portraits at Maureen Paley
NewsArt market
Paula Rego leaves Marlborough gallery for Victoria Miro
The 85-year-old artist will have a major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2021
InterviewArt market
'I'm always amazed, in this business, by how seriously some people take themselves': Stephen Friedman on 25 years as an art dealer
The Canadian came to London as a 22-year-old, fell in love with the city and never left
NewsMuseums
Paris court case shines a light on growing cosiness between curators, state museums and galleries
Marlborough gallery and a retired Guimet Museum curator are accused of bribery in their promotion of the artist Chu Teh-Chun—but say they broke no rules
NewsArt market
Lisson, Sadie Coles HQ and Stephen Friedman to open (temporarily) on London's Cork Street during Frieze week
In lieu of an October fair, the blue-chip galleries will congregate around the Mayfair street during what would—under normal circumstances—be the London art market's busiest month
AnalysisArt market
The fairs are back in town: greater China reopens for business
Art021, West Bund Art & Design Fair and Art Taipei among fairs due to open in the region this autumn despite travel restrictions, shipping woes and Covid-19 fears
NewsCommercial galleries
Cancel art galleries? Staff take grievances against employers to Instagram
Anonymously posted incidents of racism and sexism are forcing greater scrutiny towards problematic behaviour within the industry
CommentContemporary art
'If you are of the camp that wants to keep the art world an exclusive club, then look away now'
Silos are tight in the arts, but here's how musicians, artists and writers and can work together to bring in new audiences
Chibundu Onuzo