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Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach
The installation in the fair's new Zero 10 digital art section features robotic creatures with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech moguls
Medieval triptych ventures out of Dorset to sell for £5.7m in London Old Master auctions
“The Five Miracles of Christ” sold at Sotheby’s to a Christian foundation on Tuesday night, while an early Gerrit Dou led Christie’s evening auction at £3.8m
Artists and Gulf royalty top ArtReview Power 100 list
Ibrahim Mahama takes first place in 2025 ranking of the art world's most influential people, becoming the first African artist to take the top spot
Seven bullet holes discovered in Marseille basilica's Madonna and Child
The hidden holes in the gilded copper statue, located on top of the French city's Notre-Dame de la Garde, were inflicted by German troops during the Second World War
London's National Gallery announces £750m fundraising drive towards new wing and expanded collection
The gallery has also revealed the architecture firms shortlisted to design its planned extension
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025
‘Christmas came early’: Art Basel Miami Beach opens with avalanche of blue-chip sales
The most valuable sale reported was an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter for $5.5m, from David Zwirner
Remembering Rauschenberg’s decades in Florida
Though the artist—who was born 100 years ago this year—lived and worked in countries around the world, for nearly 40 years his life and work was centred in the Sunshine State
‘I’ve always been interested in the invisible’: Woody De Othello on his new solo show at Pérez Art Museum Miami
The artist's homecoming show is full of sculptures exploring ancestral beliefs and the African diaspora
In pictures: Flora and fauna at Design Miami
Works at the fair’s 20th edition feature organic shapes, leafy accents and creeping creature comforts
Art Basel Miami Beach Diary: a pettable bronze piece, an un-buttoned up party and tarot in a grotto
Plus: data-driven sculptures delight hotel guests
Art market
Cracked it: rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg sells for record £22.9m in London
Dubbed the ‘Mona Lisa of the decorative arts’, the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction
The new art conglomerate: Pace Gallery, Emmanuel Di Donna and David Schrader join forces
The power threesome will launch Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries, specialising in secondary market sales
Jorge Pérez donates more than 80 photographs to the Pérez Art Museum Miami
The works by Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Vik Muniz and others are the subject of an ongoing special exhibition
A crystal Fabergé egg set to break records and a hippo with a bar in its belly: our pick of the December auctions
Plus, versions of famous images by Bruegel and L.S. Lowry are on sale this month
More than 160 artists selling their work to raise funds for medical, humanitarian aid in Gaza
Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Doig and Olafur Eliasson are among the artists raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières' efforts in Gaza
Museums & Heritage
Two more mega museums open in Abu Dhabi
The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island
British Museum's looted ewer set for return to Ghana on long-term loan
The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the British Museum ever since
Louvre to raise ticket prices by 45% for most non-EU visitors
The Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord have also announced new pricing structures
Giant holes near Stonehenge were carved out by humans 4,000 years ago, new studies reveal
Pit diggers may have been trying to connect with the underworld, archaeologist Vincent Gaffney says
New UK law makes restitution easier—but excludes national museums, such as the British Museum
Legislation allows non-national museums established as charities to transfer property on a “moral basis” depending on its value
Books
The best art books of 2025, as picked by The Art Newspaper’s editors
The publications that delighted our literary team this year, from important exhibition catalogues and overdue surveys to personal reflections and playful illustrations
An expert’s guide to late Pablo Picasso: five must-read books on the second half of the Spanish artist’s career
The best publications about Picasso's later years, from an esteemed biography to a book about his animal drawings—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
December Book Bag: from a photographic record of a lost nightclub to the tale of an accidental art heist
Our round-up of the latest art publications
The Rembrandt robber: five takeaways from an insider’s book on a notorious art thief
The security expert Anthony Amore provides insights into the curious case of Myles Connor, who stole Rembrandt’s Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn
When Masha met Ragnar: Pussy Riot member’s life-changing encounter
In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson
Exhibitions
Venice, Sydney, Gwangju: the most interesting biennials to visit in 2026
Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year
Despite Putin’s repressive regime, a new private museum opens in Moscow
Zilart will house the huge collection of St Petersburg property developer Andrey Molchanov and his wife, Yelizaveta Molchanov
Sixteen must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week
From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian
New exhibition explores how Max Beckmann's hard-edged signature style first emerged in his drawing
Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War
A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds
The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with… Kader Attia—podcast
Kader Attia talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in Ottawa—podcast
Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, about the selection of Alma Allen for the US pavilion, explores a new exhibition on queerness in Islamic art and meets curators from Canada's National Gallery
Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.
Van Gogh’s family used an erotic Gauguin ceramic as a flower vase
Gauguin gave the 'Cleopatra Pot' to Vincent’s brother Theo, just after the disastrous end of the two artists’ collaboration in Arles
Opinion
Comment | Turner gets all the kudos, but it was Constable who was the truly radical painter
John-Paul Stonard argues the case for honouring Constable at London's soon-to-be expanded National Gallery
Comment | Want to truly read a painting? Forget the present, and focus on the past
To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor
Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient
The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives
Comment | Exhibitions comparing artists can be problematic, but the Barbican brings Giacometti, Bhabha and Hatoum together with perfect judgement
Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue
Comment | A spate of dealer anniversaries offers hope amid art market doomerism
Several New York galleries have hit major milestones in recent months—what lessons can those in charge impart?
Diary
No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign
Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach
Francis Bacon’s Paris pad honoured with plaque
The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s
Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum
Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar
Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo
An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages
Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A
The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month
Obituaries
Llyn Foulkes, art world iconoclast, has died, aged 91
An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaves behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture, animation, music and more
Remembering John Morgan, radical typographer and designer who transformed the Church of England's books
From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture
Carla Stellweg, influential critic, gallerist and scholar of Latin American art, has died, aged 83
The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator
Tony Fitzpatrick, indefatigable artistic polymath from Chicago, has died, aged 66
A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more
Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87
In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives















































