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The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity
All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing
Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer
Why it's time for museums to take risks—or risk obsolescence
Jorrit Britschgi, executive director of the Rubin Museum of Art, on ‘embracing non-attachment and impermanence’
Why writing off the Mona Lisa would serve the Louvre better than worshipping it
The Paris museum should forget about the hugely costly move of the Leonardo painting and focus instead on the myriad other masterpieces in its collection
Ready for the art-world reckoning?
The Readying the Museum group has created a blueprint to help institutions address inequity within their own walls—and to make the public, rather than trustees, their key priority
Sasha Skochilenko: I just happened to be the winner of the ‘Hunger Games’
The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Welcome to the slow museum, where less is more
In an effort to deepen existing programming and community engagement, some institutions are choosing to stage fewer exhibitions
The €5 tourist tax to enter Venice kicks in: 15,700 tickets sold but this will not solve the city’s problems
Day visitors should pay €25 as for the Uffizi but be made proud to help save the city
'Enjoy the Venice Biennale, everyone—but be aware it's taking place in a dying city'
Venice can still be saved from the rising water level: here’s how
'Building your way to sustainability is a bad idea, no matter how green your new building is'
Renovations need to win out over new extensions, says sustainability professor Martin Müller, and museums need to 'get back to basics'
Being ‘discovered’ late in life can be maddening—but it can have advantages
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum just opened a Stanley Whitney retrospective—the 77-year-old artist's first museum survey
It’s time to end the predatory practices of 'sleeper hunters'
Sleeper hunter dealers must recognise they have an asymmetrical relationship to vulnerable people pressured by circumstance to sell off their treasured heirlooms
Is the Royal Academy's 'Entangled Pasts' exhibition radical? Yes—for the Royal Academy
The London institution may have woken up to its responsibility of presenting its role in Britain’s imperial past. But please don't go back to sleep...
The dawn of the entrepreneurial museum
With traditional philanthropic models on the wane, US institutions like the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Andy Warhol Museum are engaging in unconventional partnerships and launching spin-off businesses
A string of new exhibitions shows that textile art is finally being taken seriously
The historical association of textiles with gender, sexuality and identity norms make them ripe for subversion and reimagining
The Parthenon Marbles and the myth of the slippery slope
There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece
Auction houses use lucrative tools to prop up the art market—could they become victims of their own success?
Shielding art prices from organic market conditions doesn't always pay off
How museum guides are being enlisted in the US culture wars
Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums
Time for the UK to adopt US-style rules on holding artists' funds
Primary-market sale proceeds should be held on trust so artists are never left out of pocket by a gallery's insolvency, writes IP and art lawyer Jon Sharples
'Italy is an alcoholic in denial over Venice'
By 2100 the water-level will ring rise one metre, and yet it aims to block UNESCO in-danger listing
Does the search for US museum leaders lack transparency?
Julia Halperin examines the often mysterious recruitment procedure for new museum directors in the US, which has come under increased scrutiny
'Never trustee an MP: why politicians should stay off boards of cultural institutions'
The "arm's length" principle, which frowns on political meddling in museums, is being eroded by policy hawks, writes artist and activist Bob and Roberta Smith
Ignore the nay-sayers: great things can happen when art forms collide
'It turns out that dancing about architecture—or filming about music—can produce great art'
'Forget the Brexit blues: for art, London is still where it’s at'
There are plenty of encouraging dynamics in the city this summer
'We need to talk about class in the art world'
A recent list of young art "disruptors" published by a UK newspaper underlines the insidious dynamics of privilege which continue to define our industry
Could we be on the verge of another art market crash?
With auction sales faltering and a respected commercial gallery going into administration, Ben Lewis sees echoes of the slump of 2008
Labour’s education revolution will put the arts and culture centre stage
The UK's shadow culture minister sets out the Labour party's plan for arts and culture if they win the next election
At last, Venice’s authorities admit the risk from sea-level rise
At a conference organised by the new Venice Sustainability Foundation in June, major public figures agreed for the first time that sea-level rise is the main problem facing the city now
AI might now be powerful enough to be ‘using’ artists
It is time to think about the extent to which technology itself has power over us, independent of people in tech companies
'As politicians look away, we need artists like Steve McQueen more than ever'
The British artist invited dozens of MPs to view his film about Grenfell Tower at London's Serpentine Galleries, but most only showed up after subsequent guilt-tripping