Object lessons

Object Lessons: from a pioneering wooden chair to a hypnotic Delvaux painting

Our highlights from January's fairs and auctions

Object lessons

Object Lessons: from Palermo's mummies to a drawing by a man wrongfully convicted of murder

Our pick of highlights from January's auctions

Acquisitions

Top five acquisitions of the month

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a vintage Hawaiian shirt to an heirloom Chinese art collection

Photography

MFA Boston brings Ansel Adams into the present day

“You can’t tackle the subject of American western photography without coming to grips with him,” says the shows curator

Acquisitions

A Baroque #MeToo heroine, a censored video and an 'unprecedented deal': the year in museum acquisitions

We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018

Art Basel in Miami Beach

In pictures: Curator Philipp Kaiser picks his top works at Art Basel in Miami Beach

Design Miami

In pictures: must-see works at Design Miami

From lady lamps that light up at the touch of a nipple to experimental Italian design, here are some pieces from the 14th edition that caught our eye

Art Basel in Miami Beach

In pictures: tapestries are on trend at Art Basel in Miami Beach

From repurposing commercially made tapestries to weaving works themselves, contemporary artists take on textiles

Art Basel in Miami Beach 2018

First on to the floor: we spot VIPs at Art Basel in Miami Beach

We spotted curators, collectors, artists and, of course, celebrities—although the ever-present actor and collector Leonardo di Caprio evaded our lens

Art Basel in Miami Beach

In pictures: 15 years at Art Basel in Miami Beach

From the fair's director Marc Spiegler playing football on the beach to the collector Jorge Pérez getting a lift from rapper Wyclef Jean, some of our favourite images from the archive

Heritage

Analysis: impact on sea-level rise on ten World Heritage sites around the Med

How many World Heritage sites around the Mediterranean will be saved?

Object lessons

Object Lessons: from children's book illustrations to a bronze-cast scooter by Subodh Gupta

Our pick of highlights from December's auctions

Art market

Object Lessons: London Old Master week

Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book

Wolfgang Tillmans

In pictures: Wolfgang Tillmans's set design for the English National Opera

The Turner prize winner unveils a sculptural piece and projections during the War Requiem oratorio

Art market

Object Lessons: from a Song Dynasty scroll that could smash auction records to a small but foxy 19th-century garment toggle

Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe

Art market

Object Lessons: From a marble mask by Henry Moore to a powerful Namibian wooden sceptre

Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe

Photography

Picture this: from €10,000 to €1.3m, what to buy at Paris Photo

Prices for photography tend to be lower than standard art market price ranges but Richard Avedon’s famous Warhol image has a seven-figure price tag

Biennials & festivals

Bangkok’s first biennial is a blissed-out affair

Artists from 33 countries explore theme of happiness at event with works shown in galleries, temples, shopping malls and hotels

Books

Seven cookbooks for art lovers

From Mondrian-inspired cakes to Dalí's Surreal concoctions, these books offer recipes for all (art) tastes

Art market

Object Lessons: from sixth-century Chinese figurines to Snoopy's sidekick

Our picks from fairs and auctions around the globe this coming fortnight

Exhibitions

In pictures: UK’s biggest art prize Artes Mundi brings international politics to Wales

Among the works on show are an exploration of the steel industry and its workers, a film about Jean Genet and the Black Panthers, and a close look at military bases and satellites

Art market

Object lessons at the Fine Art Print Fair: from an apocalyptic landscape by Tacita Dean to lithographs by Bruce Nauman

Our pick of three works for sale at the International Fine Print Dealers Association’s 27th edition of the fair

The Buck stopped here

Alternative Miss World contest brings psychedelic extravagance to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Art market

Object Lessons: from a medieval manuscript of women's woe to an Italian Baroque #MeToo icon

Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe

Frieze London 2018

In pictures: six budding stars at Frieze London

The Focus section for younger galleries and artists is always the most dynamic element of the fair

Frieze London 2018

Five works that will make you cry at Frieze

Our selection of works is guaranteed to have you showing some emotion

Frieze London 2018

In pictures: Adam Pendleton's pick of Frieze Masters

The US artist's current exhibition seeks to fill the gaps in the history of conceptual art

Exhibitions

Step inside the world of Zardulu the Mythmaker

The artist trickster behind some of the internet’s most bizarre hoaxes has published a cryptic book for her first solo show

Frieze London 2018

How-to Guide: Achieve your perfect Frieze face in six easy steps

Make sure you stand out from the crowd at London’s hottest art event

Art market

Private View: our pick of October gallery shows

From Kerry James Marshall's all-new paintings in London to Zoe Leonard's decade-long photo series in Los Angeles, these are the commercial gallery shows to see

Art market

Object lessons: from a Qianlong-era Chinese vase to a painting by the master of Nigerian Modernism

Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions

Exhibitions

A first peek at Yayoi Kusama’s newest Infinity Room in London

Exhibition of Japanese artist's work that opens later this week has already sold out for October

Exhibitions

In pictures: how humans have captured the moon, from Galileo Galilei to Camille Henrot

A new show at the Louisiana museum in Denmark gathers 200 different takes on earth’s nearest neighbour

Object lessons

Object lessons at Paris's La Biennale: from a huge 1960s mural by Bernard Buffet to a tiny Inuit treasure

Our pick of three works for sale at the art fair's 30th edition

Exhibitions

In pictures: Santiago Sierra’s show of polar odysseys brings border issues into sharp focus

Exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts documents artist’s black flag installation at North and South Pole

Biennials & festivals

Five must-see shows and events at Edinburgh Art Festival

From Shilpa Gupta's voices of silenced poets to Rembrandt in all his glory

Exhibitions

Largest exhibition ever of Mario Merz igloos to take over Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca space

Major loan show is based on 1985 display of the Italian artist organised by pioneering curator Harald Szeemann

Liverpool Biennial

In pictures: five of the best new commissions at Liverpool Biennial 2018

Theme of tenth edition invokes turmoil of global politics, but artists react in individual ways

Museums

In pictures: the hallucinatory new Pharos wing at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art

Immersive installations by artists such as James Turrell and Richard Wilson fill first major expansion of David Walsh's "adult Disneyland"

Frieze Sculpture 2018

In pictures: Frieze Sculpture 2018 comes out to play in Regent's Park

The London fair's annual outdoor display opens ahead of the autumnal fair with 25 sculptures, including 15 new works (until 7 October).

Museums

In pictures: around the world in five objects at London's Horniman Museum

New World Gallery of anthropology lives up to founder’s aim to “bring the world to Forest Hill”

Obituaries

In pictures: South African photographer David Goldblatt, who captured the harsh reality of apartheid, dies aged 87

Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg says it will represent his legacy and estate with “honour, respect and responsibility”

Art Basel 2018

In pictures: AA Bronson selects his favourite works at Art Basel

The artist, an Art Basel veteran of four decades, has championed female artists, including Sylvie Fleury, in his selection

Art Basel 2018

Presidential portraits : All the president’s men (and one first lady) at Art Basel

Presidents past and present are a recurring theme at Art Basel this year; here is a selection of different takes on presidential portraits found at the fair.

Art Basel 2018

In pictures: must-see works at Art Basel's Unlimited

The art fair's section dedicated to monumental works is full of plastic, plants—and lots of gold

Frieze New York

Marilyn Minter's top Frieze New York picks

Activist art gets Minter's vote

Frieze New York

In their own words: ten Frieze New York artists tell us about their works for the Frame section

Co-organised by Andrew Bonacina of the Hepworth Wakefield in the UK and Laura McLean-Ferris from the Swiss Institute, New York, the fair’s Frame sector gives emerging galleries (eight years or younger) space for solo-artist displays. We asked the artists to describe their work at the fair.

Joan Miró

Exclusive images of Joan Miró at work and play

The photographs are included in an exhibition of the Spanish artist's sculptures at the Centro Botín in Santander

Restoration

In pictures: Bayreuth's Margravial Opera House reopens to the public

The Unesco World Heritage Site had been closed for restoration since 2012

Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018

Love it or loathe it, you can’t ignore it: Hong Kong's first sculpture park

Tim Marlow, the project's co-curator, speaks about bringing public art to a city where space is often contested

300

From the archives: take a look at six of the best front pages published by The Art Newspaper

Stop the press!

Art Dubai 2018

Seen on Dubai's art scene

Artists, collectors, curators and royalty spotted roaming the aisles at Art Dubai's VIP opening

Armory Extra 2018

Artist profiles: the names you should know at Armory

At a fair with hundreds of works, it can be hard to know where to start looking. Here are some artists to keep an eye out for at the Armory

Exhibitions

An immersion of solid light for new Hepworth Wakefield exhibition

Solid Light Works is the first major UK exhibition from Anthony McCall in over 10 years

Museums

Van Gogh Museum hunts four lost Gauguin paintings for new exhibition

The pictures were made during the artist's visit to the Caribbean island of Martinique

Exhibitions

Tate Liverpool show to pair Francesca Woodman’s intense portraits with Egon Schiele’s erotic drawings

The US photographer’s innovations are re-examined in joint exhibition that looks at the ‘physical tensions of the human body’

Exhibitions

In pictures: rare show of North Korean graphic design to open in London

Exhibition revealing notoriously closed-off society comes to House of Illustration in February

The Hayward Gallery

In pictures: the Hayward Gallery opens with Andreas Gursky

Highlights of the upcoming photography exhibition by the German photographer

Lumiere

In pictures: light festival Lumiere brightens up London

Four-day festival includes more than 50 public works by artists such as Tracey Emin and Patrice Warrener

Ron Mueck

In pictures: Ron Mueck's biggest-ever installation

Mass, an arrangement of 100 fibreglass and resin skulls, is a highlight of the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural triennial

London

London lights up for Christmas

As Christmas tree season begins, we look at some of the most artistic decorations to be found in the capital

Art Basel in Miami Beach

Inside the artist’s studio

Miami-based painters, sculptors and videographers share their workspaces, from a riverside lair to a living sketchbook

Architecture

In pictures: six global Guggenheim museums that never happened

As the Guggenheim Bilbao turns 20, we look back at some of the cities that considered, but abandoned, their own branch of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum