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Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo
Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine
New documentary tracks the return of looted art from France to Benin
Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”, which won top honours at the Berlin International Film Festival, takes a pensive and unconventional approach to its subject
Following David Velasco's dramatic dismissal, Tina Rivers Ryan is named Artforum's next editor-in-chief
A curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, she brings a focus on digital and hopes that the publication will "participate in activism"
Documentary offers a close-up on the foul-mouthed Frida Kahlo
New film about the Mexican artist quotes extensively from her unguarded, strident diaries and notebooks
Olga Yarutina is the new publisher and editor of The Art Newspaper Russia
The mission is to remain "an independent platform for debate and discussion"
Veteran cartoonist sacked by The Guardian over depiction of Netanyahu
Steve Bell's unpublished drawing of the Israeli prime minister shows him performing surgery on his own stomach, which has drawn parallels with the antisemitic 'pound of flesh' trope
Barbenheimer has lessons for us all
Could museums replicate the unlikely film pairing that became a massive hit?
Pulling at loose Threads: should the art world sign up to the latest social media app?
Art world figures are forging new personalities on the new 'Twitter clone' from Meta
Uma Thurman kills it as dodgy dealer in Hollywood's latest art-themed film
'Preposterous' plot involves a New York art dealer who teams up with a hitman to launch a money laundering scheme
Wellcome Collection show explores the ‘terrible fictions’ within scientific racism
The artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s witty films challenge the biases of Victorian pioneers
The Art Newspaper launches Turkish edition
The Art Newspaper Türkiye is owned by Ali Güreli, the founder of Contemporary Istanbul, and will be published 11 times per year
Artists who stayed in Ukraine navigate cultural war and actual warfare in new documentary
“Rule of Two Walls”, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows artists in Ukraine after the launch of Russia’s invasion
Dynamite Doug podcast is a pioneer in ‘looted heritage’ genre—but not its peak
The programme offers a compelling narrative for art crime beginners but more depth is needed when it comes to colonial repatriation
On Succession, art has nothing to do with aesthetics and everything to do with power and value
As the hit HBO show draws to a close, its production designer discusses the significance of the art hanging on the Roy family's walls
Instagram’s new tools prove ‘shadowbanning’ is real—and now artists are trapped
Many users are beginning to wonder if the platform's guidelines have any positive value
Oh Snap! Social media app is connecting the art world with accessible augmented reality
Celebrity artists are collaborating with Snap on its Lens filter, but artists working with causes such as Black History Month and Pride are creating the more powerful projects
Real Housewives of Art Basel in Miami Beach: reality tv hits the art world
Beginning with an Apprentice-style dating show, a flurry of television shows will follow the lives of affluent dealers as they navigate the choppy waters of the art world
'Pretty little thing ain’tcha?' Art critic John Berger played Cockney gangster in a Grand Theft Auto game
Author of Ways of Seeing did some impromptu voice acting for the violent video game after recording in the same studio
The artist who brought the great outdoors inside—for her cats
Abi Palmer wanted her indoor cats, adopted during Covid-19 lockdowns, to experience the passage of the seasons, a process she documented in a new video series
Digital shadows: what happens to an artefact's data after it is restituted?
Museums are stepping up efforts to return physical objects to their original owners—but repatriation policies often do not consider the digital information associated with them
NFTs crashed last year—does Art Dubai fair show signs of a ‘Crypto Spring’?
Plus, How Video Transformed the World at MoMA and the art of modernist ceramics
Don’t delete art! Project documenting censorship on social media launches manifesto
New campaign hopes to convince companies like Facebook and Instagram to bring artists into the content moderation process
'AI will become the new normal’: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industry
Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value
The Smithsonian and MTV are launching a reality television art competition
The winner of “The Exhibit” will receive $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum
New online safety laws aim to protect children—but will they harm artists?
As the UK’s troubled Online Safety Bill finally looks set to become law, there are still concerns about whether it will get the balance between online safety and censorship right
The Louvre shot on a mobile phone—20 artists make three-minute films inspired by the Paris museum
‘Louvre Looks’ videos will be posted weekly on Instagram
Bookforum, Artforum’s literary sister magazine, ceases publication
The publication’s sudden closure comes just days after Penske Media Corporation acquired Artforum
‘Artists have a lot in common with sex workers’: OnlyFans becoming popular platform for artists censored elsewhere
Censorship by more mainstream social media platforms has artists turning to OnlyFans to promote their work
Penske Media expands art publishing empire with acquisition of Artforum
New York journal joins ARTnews and Art in America under same corporate umbrella