NewsArt market
Global auction sales up 25% to $11.2bn in 2017
Contemporary art leads market recovery at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, according to ArtTactic report
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Female artists really do earn less than men, survey finds
According to a new report, works by female artists are rated lower by wealthy men, contributing to a 50% pay gap at auction
NewsArt Basel 2017
Welcome to Basel (and Mulhouse)
Artists—some also refugees—respond to the migration crisis in shows in Swiss- and French-border cities
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David Claerbout: the Nazi Olympics in ruins
Artists’s epic video at Basel’s Schaulager transports visitors 1,000 years into the future
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Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘It’s the great album tracks that didn’t become singles’
The artist reveals the ideas behind his solo show at the Fondation Beyeler—the Basel museum’s first photography exhibition
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Fondation Beyeler builds on 20 years of success
Architect Peter Zumthor adds three new wings to expand museum founded by Basel gallerist
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Where does all the art go after a fair?
In an exclusive extract from her forthcoming book, Dark Side of the Boom, Georgina Adam discovers why most art is destined for a crate-filled, high-security storage facility
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Interview: Wim Delvoye digests the Tinguely Museum
Belgian artist’s shit-making machines join Jean Tinguely’s kinetic works
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Kunstmuseum Basel presents Serra as you’ve never seen him
Early films and videos by the US artist known for his colossal sculptures are on show
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Kasper König: in praise of an artists’ curator
The artistic director of Skulptur Projekte will be in conversation at Art Basel, celebrating five decades as a champion of public art
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Interview: the name’s Charrière, Julian Charrière
The Swiss artist who brings an up-close view of Chernobyl to Art Basel’s Unlimited is not afraid to leave his comfort zone
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Cézanne: the sketch artist exposed
The French artist’s lifelong experimentation with line drawing revealed at the Kunstmuseum Basel
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Interview: Claudia Comte unveils her Circus maximus at Art Basel
The artist behind the chainsaw spectacular in the Messeplatz
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Must-see shows in Basel this week
From shit machines to abstract paintings made by one very artistic robot
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Beyond the Messeplatz: Art Basel satellite fairs
Our pick of the Basel fairs and where to find them
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Size matters: the large and very small art of Alighiero Boetti
Fondazione Cini’s Minimum/Maximum exhibition reconsiders the Arte Povera maverick
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Collaterals and extras: the Venice Biennale’s other shows
Don't miss the ambitious events outside the national pavilions and the main exhibition open across Venice
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The path to other dimensions: Christine Macel’s Viva Arte Viva at the Venice Biennale
The French curator behind this year’s main show discusses her belief in art’s transcendent power and her desire to create a focused exhibition
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Art world's tips for the Venice Biennale
Leading figures tell us what they're looking forward to and how they unwind in the Italian city
NewsFairs
The artist who wants to get under your skin—via your nose
For Anicka Yi’s Hugo Boss Prize exhibition, the phrase “it’s alive” very much applies
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Kaari Upson: unfinished artist
Upson, whose first solo show in New York has just opened at the New Museum, tells us about the constantly evolving nature of her work
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Great art in New York's great outdoors
A peek at some projects around the city
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The best shows in town during Frieze New York
Our pick of the top exhibitions around the city this week
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Satellite dish: what to see at fairs outside the Frieze New York tent
In addition to the main fair, a number of other events offer a range of events, exhibitions and enticements across the city. Here are some things to look out for this year.
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Monochrome mania: Boetti’s obsession with the Xerox machine
Colour = Reality show lights up artist’s photocopy fetish
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Diary of a pavilion: Wales in Venice
James Richards’s contribution to the Welsh presentation at the Biennale is a multifaceted installation set in a Castello church. Here, the entire process, from application to installation, is described by the exhibition’s curator— the director of visual arts for Chapter, in Cardiff
NewsArchitecture
How a design for Hong Kong launched Zaha Hadid's career
Drawing on Chinese and Russian art, the late architect’s dramatic images for the Peak, a deluxe leisure club, brought her to international attention
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New M+ director brings Asia-Pacific vision to West Kowloon flagship
Rooted in Hong Kong, Suhanya Raffel is reaching out to MoMA and the Tate
NewsExhibitions
Hadid’s paintings take on a life of their own
Virtual-reality experience is the result of a collaboration between the late architect’s studio, the Serpentine and Google
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Sean Scully’s grand finale opens in China
Abstract artist enjoys critical acclaim with two career surveys in as many years
NewsPhotography
Korean photographers and mysterious Mr K gain global recognition
New wave of Korean artists embrace photography, and institutional support grows
NewsBiennials & festivals
Asian artists flock together as biennials offer bigger stage
Artist-curators are playing a key role in increasing collaborations
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Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in 2017
From the Louvre Abu Dhabi to Cape Town's Zeitz Museum via London, Los Angeles and lots more
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The top worldwide biennials and events this year
From the Venice Biennale to Sculpture Projects Münster, 2017 promises to be a heavyweight year
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Top art stories from a memorable 2016
What's next for culture after a seismic year?
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The year in museums: the building boom and the expanding canon
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The year in the art market: instability rules
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Leading figures’ highlights and lowlights of 2016
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A year of wonder or an annus horribilis?
For some, 2016 was a bumper year—for others it was just a car wreck
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The year in heritage: digital scanning promises a brave new world
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Art Basel in Miami Beach 2016
Our daily edition from Art Basel in Miami Beach, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
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Year in Review 2016
The sublime to the ridiculous: 2016 as we reported it
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Why a collection of British photography is probably going abroad
Lack of support from UK institutions could mean that James and Claire Hyman donate vast collection elsewhere
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In praise of the lesser- known photographer
For the collector and dealer Michael Hoppen, big names can get in the way of the image as compelling evidence
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‘Photography has become the seismograph for contemporary society’
Christoph Wiesner, the artistic director of Paris Photo, identifies new trends in collecting ahead of the fair’s 20th edition
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Tate makes up for lost time with the help of Elton John
Singer and other collectors are helping photography come in from the cold
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Centre Pompidou surveys a decade of collecting
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New York’s ICP reopens with survey of surveillance
Curator Charlotte Cotton reveals the ideas behind the radical show
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Five photography shows coming up this year
From masterworks of French photography in Philadelphia, to the 1970s feminist avant-garde in London, to mass media images in Los Angeles
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MoMA book revisits New Documents show
Exhibition was organised by John Szarkowski in 1967 and included the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand
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When Weston shot Whitman
Overlooked photographs from the 1940s finally enjoy recognition at the Huntington
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Ed Ruscha, the occasional photographer
Five decades after he documented every gas station from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City, US artist reveals that today he rarely takes photographs
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Bay Area collectors reach critical mass
Pier 24 show provides a kaleidoscopic window into what makes the San Francisco photography scene so dynamic
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Paris Photo Month on the move
The biennial festival is moving its dates from November to April
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Our pick of Paris’s photography centres
The French capital is home to many institutions dedicated to the medium
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Photography Review
Who’s collecting photography in London, Paris and San Francisco
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The ground is laid for the next revolution
As Tate Modern open its new extension, a £260m brick-clad ziggurat designed by Herzog & de Meuron, we consider the museum’s seismic effect on the art scene in London and internationally
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Views from the art world
We asked leading cultural figures about Tate Modern’s effect on the art scene at home and abroad
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Nicholas Serota: The great transformer
The Tate director knew Tate Modern would need to expand before it even opened. It has happened sooner than expected
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Oil, pearls and roundabouts: shaping Dubai for tomorrow
Global Art Forum 10
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Art Dubai, the commercial dynamo of the Gulf art scene
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Doha: alien New York Times conference out of tune with new policies
Art for Tomorrow 2016
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Sharjah's March Meeting: talking to itself or the wider community?
The 2016 March meeting kicks off tomorrow and will discuss education, participation and engagement in the Middle East and beyond