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).
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
The Postal Museum: a ride into the story of mail that really delivers
The newly opened museum takes visitors on a journey underground and reflects major shifts in the nature of human connection
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Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum
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From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum
NewsDiscoveries
Newly discovered Michaelina Wautier painting added to first major show on Baroque’s forgotten female master
And experts are convinced that “many more works will pop up”
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.
InterviewArt Basel 2018
Sam Gilliam: a life beyond the frame
With a show of his unstretched canvases at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the lyrical abstractionist is enjoying a late resurgence in popularity
NewsArt Basel 2018
Liste feels the weight of Cuban history
Cuban artist uses exact amount of black ink used to write key parts of constitution for work
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Match of the day: football vs art
The two may seem unlikely bedfellows, but plenty of artists are football fans—and they are making their allegiances known during this summer’s World Cup
NewsArt Basel 2018
Artist paints Dana Schutz's child in response to controversial Emmett Till work
The Somali-Australian artist Hamishi Farah is showing the work in Basel at the Liste fair
PreviewExhibitions
Juergen Teller tackles football’s highs and lows in Moscow show
Exhibition at Garage Museum includes stalker-like snaps of Pep Guardiola and live work charting Germany’s World Cup success—or failure
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From the Hayward Gallery’s sparkly and surreal Lee Bul survey to the final paintings of Howard Hodgkin
NewsBiennials & festivals
‘Global’ contemporary African art comes to rural Portugal—despite growing visa issues for artists travelling to Europe
New festival Evora Africa includes key works by Malick Sidibé, Romuald Hazoumé and Cheri Samba
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From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble
NewsCensorship
Instagram deletes photographer Dragana Jurisic's account and Facebook censors her work
Image is no more contentious than those shared on the platforms by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, supporters say
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
We go behind the scenes as the Royal Academy celebrates 250 years
Delve into the heart of the revamped London institution—expanded, embellished and eccentric as ever
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From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery
NewsBruges Triennial
In Bruges: sea plastic, Chinese crabs and a Spanish pool take centre stage at triennial
Commissions for the second edition of the Bruges Triennial are closely linked with the city’s famous canals
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Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library
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From the high emotions of Taryn Simon’s professional mourners to photography galore at Somerset House and the Hayward Gallery
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The Brazilian Modernists who helped with the war effort, and the last chance to see Winnie-the-Pooh
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From Michael Rakowitz’s winged bull soaring above Trafalgar Square to the last chance to have a swing at Tate Modern
AnalysisArt's Most Popular
The world's most popular exhibition? Ancient sculptures in Tokyo versus Modern masters in Paris
Plus record crowds in US, UK and Australia
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The price of gallery-going in London—and how it compares with Paris and New York
Blockbuster shows don't come cheap
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Three to see: London
From Tacita Dean's double-header, including films of David Hockney and fermenting pears, to a Tate Modern takeover by Joan Jonas
NewsExhibitions
'Overlooked' pioneer of Abstract Expressionism Richard Pousette-Dart gets first UK show
US artist was first of New York group to create large-scale paintings—before Jackson Pollock
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From the Deutsche Börse photography prize to Rockefeller's collection including Gauguin and Picasso
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From the glitz and glamour of ocean liners to post-Brexit politics by the official election artist Cornelia Parker
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From photographs of real northern soul to Lydia Ourahmane's golden teeth and trembling floor
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From a triumphant show of Charles I's collection at the Royal Academy to an Andreas Gursky retrospective at the revamped Hayward Gallery
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From a huge light show across the city to the final week of Rachel Whiteread's retrospective
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Three to see: Condo London 2018
Third edition of art-fair alternative and new exhibition model opens this weekend
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From Michael Armitage’s powerful Gauguin-like scenes at the South London Gallery to Marguerite Humeau's hypnotic installation at Tate Britain
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From the Merrie Monarch's display of power at the Queen's Gallery to a family-friendly Winnie-the-Pooh show at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Museums
David Batchelor lights up the Hayward Gallery
The British artist has unveiled Sixty Minute Spectrum (2017), a new light installation incorporating the London gallery’s distinctive roof
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From Rose Wylie’s parade of footballers and royalty to Arthur Jafa’s powerful video collage
NewsBiennials & festivals
New Orleans triennial Prospect.4 looks to Louisiana history, warts and all
Event coincides with the city's tricentennial next year
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From Pussy Riot's immersive penal colony installation to a final chance to see Francis Kéré’s Serpentine Pavilion
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From the British Museum's Lion Man to Matisse's studio studies at the Royal Academy
NewsCity of Oslo Art Collection
Oslo looks to track down 1,600 missing works of art
Works are from City of Oslo Art Collection, which has pieces displayed in around 1,000 locations throughout the Norwegian capital
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Nothing is quite black and white at the National Gallery, while Marie Jacotey’s enigmatic illustrations provide further mysteries
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From Cézanne’s ballsy portraits to a Tove Jansson survey showing that she was much more than Moomin’s mother
NewsFrieze 2017
Frieze news in briefs
Ian Cheng gets Serpentine show, Jasper Johns's potter and the most Insta friendly art at the fair
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The unlikely friendship of Dalí and Duchamp is explored at the RA, while Superflex turn Tate Modern into a playground
NewsFrieze 2017
The best things in life are free—and now you can find them at Frieze
Peter Blake complementary tote bags flew off Waddington Custot's shelves
InterviewFrieze 2017
Superflex swings into political action
The Danish collective’s new commission extends beyond the cavernous space of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
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From slick and surreal photographs at the Serpentine to art in canal boats for the Art Licks Weekend
NewsBiennials & festivals
What to see (and hear) at the 14th Biennale de Lyon
From a live band that are ‘The Art’ to dripping taps and nuclear explosions, this edition of the biennial is making a racket
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From Rachel Whiteread’s mummified air to the burial rituals of the mysterious Scythians
NewsExhibitions
First major UK survey of Oceanic art comes to the Royal Academy in 2018
London institution will also host shows on Klimt and Schiele, Charles I and Tacita Dean as part of its 250th anniversary year
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The arts festival erupting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Walk & Talk programme includes exhibitions, performances, residencies and workshops on volcanic island
NewsExhibitions
Personal recordings immerse visitors in lives of Modern British artists
The Lightbox gallery features the voices of artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi and Elisabeth Frink
NewsArt market
Breasts, bears and Barbie: what you might have missed in Hirst's Venice show
British artist has added a number of small inside jokes throughout vast exhibition
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Jewellery worth up to £3m stolen from London's Masterpiece fair
Metropolitan Police investigating theft from stand of Geneva-based Boghossian
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Hockney topples Hirst as Tate’s most popular living artist
Recent exhibition at Tate Britain is sure to boost museum’s declining visitor figures
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Three to see: London
From the subterranean delights of East London to Sargent’s lesser-known paintings
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Is Dalí the daddy?
Artist’s body to be exhumed after Spanish woman claims he was her biological father
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Rare drawing from Brian Sewell’s collection to feature in Wyndham Lewis survey
Retrospective at IWM North in Manchester is the largest-ever exhibition of the controversial avant-garde artist's work
NewsExhibitions
Three to see: Basel
From the Beyeler's first photography show to Delvoye’s excrement-making machines
NewsArt Basel 2017
Must-see shows in Basel this week
From shit machines to abstract paintings made by one very artistic robot
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Grayson Perry draws inspiration from Brexit—and The Art Newspaper—for Serpentine show
One recent work responds directly to our annual attendance figures survey
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Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends
Among the 13 new commissions, Judy Chicago has designed a giant psychedelic mural while Jeremy Deller has produced a series of billboards and a secret performance
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Tate Modern continues to champion female artists with shows on Anni Albers and Joan Jonas in 2018
Major show on figurative painting at Tate Britain will feature Freud and Bacon while Tate Liverpool will host Egon Schiele survey
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Photo London satellite shows: Peckham 24 leads the way as the UK capital gets snappy
Images of Cairo shot on iPhone, surreal domestic interiors and unearthed pictures of 1980s London among top photography shows opening this week
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Cosa? UK artist John Smith uses translation app in Venice show
Video will feature alongside key works from 1970-80s in artist's first solo exhibition in Italy
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Tomás Saraceno collaborates with 7,000 spiders to make largest-ever exhibited web
Argentinian artist’s solo show in Buenos Aires also includes a sound piece played by an arachnid
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London’s Flat Time House reopens after Italian foundation steps in to save it
Closure last year of former home and studio of conceptual artist John Latham was expected to be permanent
NewsVisitor Figures 2016
Visitor figures 2016: Christo helps 1.2 million people to walk on water
While the Whitney breaks the hold of New York’s Met and MoMA
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Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave
Series of exhibitions dedicated to live art will be annual with BMW's support
NewsPublic art
Replica of statue destroyed by Isis and whipped cream to top London’s Fourth Plinth
Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson announced as winners of the next two sculptural commissions for Trafalgar Square
NewsExhibitions
How an art work could literally save lives in Syria
Danish collective SUPERFLEX's hospital equipment installation will be shipped to war-torn country after exhibition
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Tate Britain banks on David Hockney retrospective to pull in the crowds
Wide-ranging show includes 150 works by the California-based artist, spanning 60 years
NewsExhibitions
Five must-see shows at Condo 2017 in London
UK capital plays host to 36 international galleries in the second edition of this antidote to the uniformity and expense of art fairs