FeatureFrieze 2019
Woven: a special section at Frieze London links traditional influences with contemporary textile art
Eight solo gallery presentations explore textiles, from knotted biomorphic hemp forms to Bauhaus-inspired geometric compositions in silk, cotton and paper at this year's fair
InterviewMaurizio Cattelan
'Art's most high-profile provocateur' Maurizio Cattelan on his new Blenheim Palace show
Known for this dangling horse and gold toilet, the Italian artist's exhibition is in the unlikely setting of Winston Churchill's birthplace
FeatureFrieze New York 2019
Out and proud: Stonewall at 50
Art After Stonewall, a touring exhibition of works covering gender, sexuality and Aids, shows how queer culture was shaped by the Stonewall riots
FeatureVisitor Figures 2018
Art in the age of Instagram and the power of going viral
As visitors to exhibitions are increasingly sharing their experiences online, should curators plan shows for maximum hype?
FeatureExhibitions
How museums are stepping up exhibition design
A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?
FeaturePhotography
Edward Woodman: the light and space of a golden era
UK retrospective freeze-frames often ephemeral works from the 1980s and 1990s
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Larry Poons: Art isn’t business
The octogenarian painter stars in The Price of Everything, a new film about the machinations of the market airing on HBO
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Troubled waters: Elmgreen & Dragset dive into politics for new London show
The Scandinavian duo build a swimming pool in the Whitechapel Gallery and address their anger at populist leaders
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Taus Makhacheva: art as a balancing act
She discusses her tightrope of Dagestani art and how she is combining beauty treatment and sculpture at the Liverpool Biennial
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Is the biennial model busted?
Riga, Bangkok, São Paulo—every modern city wants a biennial. But is this good for contemporary art? Leading curators join the hot debate
FeatureMarcel Duchamp
What was it like to conduct Marcel Duchamp's only live television interview?
Fifty years on, Joan Bakewell remembers speaking to the pioneering artist for the BBC, shortly before his death
FeatureArt Dubai 2018
Is interest in African art on the rise in the Middle East?
An increased presence of African galleries at this edition of Art Dubai could signify a flourishing regional market
InterviewFeatures
Tacita Dean on her three major London shows
From genre fluidity to the British artist's love of analogue film
InterviewArtist interview
Yinka Shonibare: a change in the wind
Central Park is an ideal location for the British-Nigerian artist’s latest sculpture
FeatureLost art
Lost art: Field of the Cloth of Gold
Noah Charney on the hundreds of works that were described those who saw them as wondrous, but which were only ever meant to be temporary
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East German ‘arseholes’ are reappraised
The painter Georg Baselitz once profanely dismissed artists behind the Iron Curtain—but their work is now experiencing a long-overdue rediscovery
FeatureArtist interview
Mark Dion: Welcome to my Wunderkammer
The US artist discusses theatricality, science and the need for a greater environmental commitment in art
FeatureLost art
Lost art: Rogier van der Weyden’s Justice cycle
Noah Charney on works that were more influential to history than those that survive
PreviewArtist interview
Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth
The Algerian-British artist explores her family’s experiences living in the shadow of colonialism
FeatureVictoria & Albert Museum
A new era for heritage reproduction
Digital technologies are at the heart of a declaration by major museums and heritage organisations to record and sometimes reproduce works of art
FeatureGoogle
How Google became a major producer of cultural content
The Google Cultural Institute’s We Wear Culture fashion stories are its latest museum collaboration, its director Amit Sood tells us.
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach
ARTificial intelligence
A string of shows across the US, starting in Miami, examines the impact of technology on identity and raises the question: what does it mean to be human?
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach
Miami’s museum makeover
The city’s art scene has grown beyond recognition in the past few years, but can it sustain so many institutions?
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Riders on the storm
How dedicated staff at PAMM and Vizcaya braved Hurricane Irma to keep the museums and collections safe
NewsProtest
'In Russia, either be brave or be silenced… there is no middle ground'
Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991
InterviewArtist interview
Oscar Tuazon: Living as a sculptural process
The Los Angeles artist, who made one of the standout works at this year's Skulptur Projekte Műnster, is heading for the great outdoors
InterviewArtist interview
Judy Chicago: Catwoman
As three exhibitions open showcasing her work, including her Kitty City watercolours, the Los Angeles-based artist talks about being at the centre of a revival of interest—and having her early life story turned into a TV series
FeaturePolitics
The sculptures that unite America
As the debate rages about divisive Confederate monuments, five leading US scholars and curators pick the nation’s greatest memorial sculptures
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Encore! Tate’s New Performance plan
Artists like Marvin Gaye Chetwynd have prompted a rethink in the Tate’s approach to live art
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Venice can’t manage its tourists—yet it’s encouraging more to come from China
The town council proposes digital monitoring and a charge to enter St Mark’s Square
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On the side of the angels
Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month
FeatureArtist interview
Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict
As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”
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Summer art pilgrimages
Artists and curators tell us about the journeys they have embarked on, or hope to make, to see something special. Compiled by Ben Luke
FeatureArtist interview
David Lamelas: time zones
The peripatetic Argentinian artist has explored memory, space and time in works made across the world. In September, his first full career survey opens in Los Angeles as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative
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The importance of being Ettore Sottsass
Diverse work by the larger-than-life designer who rejected Modernist good taste goes on show in Basel, Venice and the Met soon
NewsExhibitions
Venice Biennale: triumphs and talking points
Leading figures give their impressions of Christine Macel’s main show, Viva Arte Viva, and their pick of the national pavilions
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Frank Lloyd Wright: a force of nature
As MoMA’s show of his vast archive confirms, the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest architect” was an inspired talent-spotter, employing brilliant female assistants
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Nairy Baghramian: check your privilege
As she features in Documenta 14 and takes centre stage in Münster this summer, the Berlin-based artist discusses her approach to these major public exhibitions and the need to be wary of sensation and spectacle
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Freeing Tania Bruguera
The artist takes a turn on the psychiatrist’s couch in a new documentary by Lynn Hershman Leeson that delves into the psychology of government oppression
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Frieze New York gets theatrical
For this year’s Frieze Projects tribute, four artists will recreate and riff on Galleria La Tartaruga’s historic Teatro delle Mostre exhibition, which turned experiences into works of art
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Symbiotic siblings: Alberto and Diego Giacometti
As a major survey opening this month at Tate Modern confirms, Alberto Giacometti’s reputation as a 20th-century great is assured. But his younger brother Diego’s role cannot be overlooked
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Death, destruction and deity: painting Guernica
As exhibition opens in Madrid, new research shows how Picasso was inspired by church paintings to create Spanish Civil War rallying cry
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Cerith Wyn Evans: Light Fantastic
As the Welsh artist fills Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, ahead of showing in Venice and Münster later in the year, he talks about his varied inspirations, from Duchamp to Japanese Noh theatre
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The Antarctic Biennale: a crazy idea becomes reality
In little more than a year, the artists and scientists—and, crucially, the funds—have been gathered for a unique biennial. The journey begins this month
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The other lives of artists
The exhibition Michelangelo & Sebastiano at the National Gallery in London reflects the younger artist’s sharp decline in production once he became keeper of the papal seal. But second jobs did not stop Rubens and Velázquez painting
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The art machine: the Centre Pompidou at 40
As the Parisian cultural behemoth hits a landmark anniversary, figures from the world of art and architecture discuss its legacy
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‘Paintings untethered to notions of taste or intention’
It was love at first sight when the artist David Salle first saw Francis Picabia’s strange, late paintings based on magazine pin-ups, which are now on show at MoMA. Salle describes their provocative appeal
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Remembering the ‘mud angels’
The Italian floods of 1966 prompted a strong—and lasting—international response
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A museum for a time of doubt
Over a decade in the making and due to open in 2017, the Louvre Abu Dhabi has evolved into a museum that has gone beyond being merely a showcase for historical European art into one that is a truly global institution reflecting a new kind of universalism
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Philippe Parreno creates a public ritual at Tate Modern
As he takes on the Hyundai Commission in the Turbine Hall, the French artist on exhibitions as works of art, why he dislikes the word “installation” and engaging with Londoners
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Getting digi with it: how the art world is grappling with new media
As new technology is increasingly adopted by artists, can curators and collectors keep up?
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New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos
Charles Jencks revisits his article written for The Art Newspaper in 2000 to survey how museum architecture has evolved since the millennium
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How to give artists life after death
A new book advises executors and heirs that managing artists’ estates can be a painful and exacting process
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A cerebral matter: the common ground between brain science and art
Eric Kandel’s new book finds similarities in the approach of neuroscientists and abstract painters
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William Kentridge: an animated life
As a major show and opera come to London, the South African artist reflects on his multimedia installations’ disparate influences, from his homeland’s politics to Wallace and Gromit
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Unveiled: Rodin’s adoration of a young english actress
Sybil Mignon Cooke left a touching wreath at the sculptor’s London memorial during the First World War. A new cache of letters, analysed here for the first time, reflects the extent of their affection
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Ragnar Kjartansson: New Romantic
As a major show of his work opens at London’s Barbican, the Icelandic artist discusses his fascination with Romanticism and explains why he gets his mother to spit in his face every five years
FeatureArt market
William Hamilton’s prize possession
A new book on the history of private collectors describes how Emma Hamilton became inextricable from her husband’s often erotic collection of ancient art
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How the Spanish Republic saved the Prado’s masterpieces
General Franco ensured that his left-wing enemies got no credit for protecting hundreds of works by Velázquez, Goya and others in the Spanish Civil War—but their efforts were heroic
NewsAuctions
New York sales cool but don’t freeze
Auction results were stellar 12 months ago, but sense and caution meant the houses had to work hard for more sober results this time round
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La Bella Principessa: still an enigma
The forger Shaun Greenhalgh’s boast that he made this chalk drawing may be fantasy, but claims that it is the work of Leonardo continue to be seen as equally dubious
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What academics can teach us about Isil
The Warburg Institute’s director is tapping into its founder Aby Warburg’s approach to historical images to explain Daesh’s shocking brutality
NewsFairs
Art on film: why filmmakers are drawn to artists
Movies about artists may not be nailed-on money-spinners, but more and more are appearing—and some are even box-office hits.
NewsFairs
Move over Chelsea and Brooklyn: Harlem is where the art is
Real-estate price hikes have hastened the development of a northern gallery hub
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Volkswagen: the motor of a global arts network
The German car-maker takes cultural sponsorship very seriously, as shown by its arts education policy and links with MoMA
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The fine art of craft
London Craft Week celebrates makers from across the world in more than 120 events. Five of the 200-plus makers at the festival tell us about their work
NewsArt market
Museums and the art trade: dangerous liaisons?
The relationship between public institutions and private dealers has historically taken many forms, and is anything but simple
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How art went back to basics
Fifty years after its opening, the pioneers of Minimalism recall the groundbreaking exhibition Primary Structures
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Singapore show adds Southeast Asia to the story of Modernism
The new National Gallery Singapore joins forces with the Centre Pompidou
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DADA: 100 Years On
Horrified by the slaughter of the First World War, the Dadaists espoused irrationality to ridicule the logic that had led to war. But Dada’s influence has stretched far past 1918
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Do Ho Suh: the fabric of life
As shows of his work open at opposite ends of the US, the nomadic Korean-born artist explains how his coloured cloth installations reflect his transient existence
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Mark Wallinger: ‘Facing up to myself’
The UK artist has been doing some soul-searching. He tells us about his latest works, partly inspired by Freud, and his own experiences of psychoanalysis
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Welcome to the virtual world
With the ground-breaking Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset hitting the mainstream later this year, a growing number of artists and museums are incorporating this and other new technologies into their work
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John Akomfrah: Sea Change
As his Venice Biennale film makes its UK debut, the British film-maker discusses growing up as a communist, the perennial issue of human migration—and why he has moved away from cinema and towards art
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Tehran: Soft Power, Hard Bargains
With its infamous Modern art collection, a Tehran museum has enticed international curators and struck lucrative deals with institutions in the West. But has it sparked a wider renaissance in the Tehran art scene?
FeatureBooks
My father and music: how Mark Rothko’s love of Mozart made his paintings sing
In an extract from his new book, Christopher Rothko explains how the master of abstraction absorbed the stylistic principles and emotional contradictions of the 18th-century genius
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The artist helping stateless Syrians build a democracy
The Dutch artist Jonas Staal is working in Syria’s autonomous Kurdish region, alongside freedom fighters whose philosophy includes a radical feminist rejection of the state, in an attempt to challenge the accepted view of democracy and the role of the artist within it
NewsArt schools
It’s a long way from Black Mountain College
Art schools are at a crossroads as student numbers boom, tuition fees soar and traditional assumptions are challenged.
NewsArt fairs
Who is making Land Art now?
As a new film hails the pioneers of the movement, a new generation of artists are staking out their own territory
NewsExhibitions
Miami reconnects with Cuba
As relations improve across the Florida Straits, a string of exhibitions makes the most of the cultural ties between Miami and Havana.
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Paying homage to YSL: partner’s sale of rare books will fund two new museums
The late Yves Saint Laurent’s partner, Pierre Bergé, is auctioning his world-class personal library over two years to help build spaces in Paris and Marrakech
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Rebirth into a strange new world
The Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas talks about his troupe of collaborators and how we are all sculptors—as well as sculptures
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Unesco at 70: fit for a purpose
Once the idealistic creation of intellectuals, Unesco is now dominated by diplomats and hamstrung by budget collapse, the debasement of its gold-standard heritage lists by narrow economic and nationalist interests, and a huge and rigid governance structure
FeatureFeatures
Frank Stella: A romantic, after all
As a major retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the US artist reflects on how beauty is “a given” in art—and how, after nearly 60 years, he is still pursuing “the problems of painting”
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Jewels with a past and a soul: Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani on his collection
As an exhibition of his jewellery opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Qatari prince discusses his love of England, his passion for the applied arts and how, through constant reading, he continues to refine his taste
NewsContemporary art
Where have all the artists in central London gone?
Property price rises and rapid redevelopment in the capital are forcing artists to seek studio space in the suburbs and beyond.
NewsFeatures
When the West went crazy for all things Asian
The seeds of globalisation were sown by Europe and the Americas’ insatiable appetite for exotic goods
NewsContemporary art
Iran’s artists begin to shine on London stage
Country's artists are reaping the benefits of a diplomatic thaw between Iran and the West
NewsArt fairs
Frieze Frame: Welcome to our kunstkammer
When Frieze Masters pitches its elegant tent, a corner of Regent’s Park becomes a temporary kunstkammer. Here are six rare and intriguing works—and the stories behind them—in our very own cabinet for the curious
NewsArt fairs
It's Pop art but not as we know it
Artists from Brazil to Japan are emerging from the shadows at Frieze and in museums
NewsCollectors
Collectors can find a new niche at Frieze Masters
David Bailey’s torn portraits, sculpture from Borneo and netsuke put the eclectic into Collections
FeatureExhibitions
Exhibition impossible: the shows that can’t be staged
It may be because works are never lent or simply cannot be moved, or because historical figures become unfashionable or controversial, or because living artists prove reluctant, but some of the most cherished ideas of leading curators and directors have never come to fruition—yet<br>
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Agents of change: how dynamic directors have transformed the UK’s regional scene
Funding cuts spell trouble for the UK’s smaller museums and galleries, but their directors are making great strides through imaginative programming, striking buildings and links with their national peers<br>
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Conversations with Bacon: Marking Grey Gowrie's 75th birthday with his poem on the artist
Gowrie, a former UK arts minister, art dealer and chair of Sotheby’s and the Arts Council, is also a poet
ArchiveConservation
Fixing - or not fixing - the works in Berlin's sculpture collections damaged in 1945
Should they be left as a reminder of a dark past or restored to reflect the artists’ intentions?
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The British Museum’s battle on the home front during the First World War
The museum’s archive reveals how air raids threatened the collection and George V intervened to stop the building being requisitioned
ArchivePhyllida Barlow
Interview with Phyllida Barlow
Since retiring from teaching at the Slade school after 40 years, the sculptor has found her large, site-specific works in great demand—not least at Tate Britain, where her new show opens later this month
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When art fought the Cold War: A touring exhibition recreates the CIA’s 1946 secret weapon that scandalised conservatives
The ill-fated collection finally comes together
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Anthony Haden-Guest’s New York: Gallerist Eli Klein, Restoin Roitfeld's "Hue and Cry" at Sotheby's, Catherine Johnson's Warhol biography, and Steinway's artist-in-residence
“I think it’s interesting the way Warhol polarises people,” says Catherine Johnson. “Some people love to hate Andy”
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Music to the ears of the post-war avant garde: exhibitions mark the 100th anniversary of composer John Cage's birth
The celebrations of his life show how much he influenced—and was influenced by—some of the greats of American 20th-century art