Our columnist gazes into her crystal ball to spot the major trends—from London regaining its lustre to AI fatigue—that are set to dominate the trade over the coming 12 months
At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”
In a year of turbulence and uncertainty, new museums and dazzling shows were proof of art as a positive force
The installation in the fair's new Zero 10 digital art section features robotic creatures with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech moguls
The Hong Kong entrepreneur also spoke about his love for Monet, Matthew Wong and the Medici family in an interview hosted off the back of the latest K11 Art Foundation Salon
The opening festivities for the exhibition’s timely sixth edition were marked by protests over local ties to Israel
The art market is failing to attract the highest spenders, whose sights are set on other investments as the trade plateaus
The fair is unfolding amid market jitters and following a string of gallery closures, but dealers were upbeat and reporting solid sales during the VIP preview
Cuts in federal, state and county funding—sometimes to nil—are pushing South Florida’s arts ecosystem to the brink
Plus: the art of football and an evening poetry reading
Sales analyses show a clear reversal in growth trajectory as the top end continues to cool
Limna valued a painting by Conny Maier at a third of the ticket price
How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI
The Los Angeles-based artist is presenting his "REMEMBR" installation, which riffs visually, musically and emotionally on users’ smartphone camera rolls, in London
Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis
Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media
The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week
The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year
He has described the Chinese artist's detention as “barbaric”
Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks
Dissident artist is exploring the disappearance of the Brazilian rainforest alongside China’s growing influence in South America
Glacier Dreams is being projected on the façade of Theater Basel this week
How the Basel-based architects were influenced by the ideas and art of Donald Judd and Rémy Zaugg
‘Night Charades’, an AI animation by the Singaporean artist that will be projected on to the facade of the M+ museum, uses classic Hong Kong films to also look towards the uncertain future
The opening of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong is a moment to take stock of how technological developments have changed the nature of digital art
For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change
New Yuz Museum will be located in a 8,000 sq m. building with plans to swiftly expand
Hayley Romer and Craig Hepburn will work to bolster the brand's year-round presence and "engage ever broader cultural audiences"
The latest edition of the popular event includes work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei, David Shrigley and Kader Attia amongst 74 artists taking part this year
From the established to the brand new, the Swiss city is teeming with fringe events
The Fontainebleau will show works by Turrell, Ai Weiwei and Rauschenberg
The Swiss collector is donating 1,463 Chinese contemporary works, with plans to sell another 47
A string of shows across the US, starting in Miami, examines the impact of technology on identity and raises the question: what does it mean to be human?
Will Patrick Drahi sell a stake in Sotheby’s? Will Frieze acquire more regional fairs? Watch this space…
Amid threats to freedom, career moves and censorship become hard to tell apart
New art and design fair in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen launched by organisers of Art021 in Shanghai and JingArt in Beijing
The rise of huge immersive venues, with giant, wraparound programmable LED screens, has provided a new canvas, and potential new audience, for digital artists. We look at four of the main players, from widely varied backgrounds
David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year
The work, on view this month at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Reach Plaza, is “not about replacing or erasing him, about remembering him”, Anadol says
Art Parcours heads indoors to the city’s historic quarter, while the Messeplatz remains sculpture-free
Exhibitors are down from 242 to 104 in a condensed fair that runs alongside Art Central in the same venue from 21 to 23 May
The co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron architects on remodelling Messe Basel and the end of Modernity
The venture capitalist, an early champion of digital art through his collective 10F1, admits that his heart belongs to his home city of Zug, Switzerland
The Reel Store in Coventry is the UK’s first permanent immersive digital art gallery
How did his forecasts weather the roughest turbulence the trade has experienced in years? Read on to find out
A host of artists and activists have followed in the footsteps of the pioneering artist who would have turned 100 this year
Exhibition’s opening night was packed with luminaries from the Chinese art world
Six artists in line for Uli Sigg’s $64,000 Chinese contemporary art prize
The latest UBS Art Basel report finds that top jobs are finally going to women—even at the mega galleries
The fair's chief executive Marc Spiegler says greater gallery diversity and a changing global scene have shaped this month’s event
The collector builds bridges with Tate and MoMA, and buys work by Kiefer, Cattelan and Hatoum
History repeats for avant-garde Beijing artists reflecting on groundbreaking exhibition and protests in 1979
New report by Artsy finds that work by women accounted for less than 10% of auction sales in 2022
All the gossip from Art Basel and beyond
Our beleaguered art colleagues need our help and we must not turn our backs on Chinese art institutions, says Philip Dodd, head of Made in China
Art lovers talk about the best and worst works they’ve bought
A new draconian law against protests imposed by Beijing and the end of a more open trade agreement with the US has the city’s arts community worried
In collaboration with the events platform Art Market Minds, the ten-hour programme will dissect the rapidly shifting contemporary art ecosystem
The collapse of FTX has not only devastated the crypto world, but also threatened the ethics of “make money, do good”, touted by its founders
Sigg reveals that he didn’t necessarily like some of the contemporary art he bought
Big excitement over bigger and bigger works
Works at Art Basel and beyond aim to stir the conscience and raise funds in aid of the “biggest challenge of our time”
Cycles in the industry are getting shorter with trends now coming and going within a year
Specialist Hadrien de Montferrand brings a unique mix of influences to his work
The fair’s new director hopes to beat significant competition with big plans for the first edition fully under his control
The mixed reality headset offers astonishing visual quality. But, as it goes on sale at $3,500 a go, how will it enhance curators' dreams of giving global access to high-fidelity experiences of gallery and museum shows?
Inaugural Art Wuzhen features works by Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Marina Abramovic and Damien Hirst but Ann Hamilton steals the show in old-style theatre
After postponing for more than a year, the museum’s second location celebrates with a debaucherous Halloween party
A sea change for the sea town as the outside world comes in
Major auction houses have posted steep falls in turnover for the year so far—but some categories, such as luxury goods, are booming
Some 50 galleries and institutions participated this year in the Art Basel-backed event
The London-based collector tells us what she has bought and why
Plus, an artist-filled prize ceremony in Piccadilly, Thom Browne at the V&A and an entry from the new ”undercover gallerist”
Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online
From Precious Okoyomon's nightmarish animatronic bear to a global survey of Black figurative painting, sci-fi chairs and Dan Flavin
The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”
And celebrations supported by Volkswagen
From the reimagined Frick Collection to Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern
The spotlight tends to fall on big spenders, but what of “professional class” buyers, who often feel intimidated by the art world?
The European Super League, an elite alliance betraying football’s roots, was scuppered by fans. These same power structures exist in the art world – so where’s the resistance?
Art Basel’s director of fairs, Vincenzo Bellis, on his pick of the fair’s curated Insights section
As the mayor pledges to move Silicon Valley to the city, Art Basel in Miami Beach ramps up its NFT offerings
The maverick artist is working with 1OF1, collectors of high-level digital art, to offer owners of his "CHAOS" video sculpture series the chance to have them "fused" into new animations
The Shoreditch-based festival's chief executive looks forward to presenting the cross-disciplinary work of “good, clever people with open minds”, including the actor Idris Elba and the artist and film-maker Jenn Nkiru
The artist Trevor Paglen interrogates the world of mass surveillance and its increasing impact on society
Georgina Adam speaks with three leading art world figures on the key events of last year and what 2019 may hold
The material is hot at the design fair, where the line between decorative and fine art is becoming increasingly blurred
Commercial and non-commercial enterprises combine as the most important event in the German art calendar gets underway
Here are the best known: one Swiss, one Chinese, one Belgian, three American and one British
Trade condemns the move and prepares for mayhem of no-deal Brexit
Now under the directorship of Kamiar Maleki, the UK's largest photography fair returns to Somerset House for its eighth edition
The New York real estate heiress tells us what she's bought and why she loves it
A world of possibility: Cecilia Alemani, the curator of the 2022 Venice Biennale, discusses the show
The Italian curator, who has organised exhibitions and events throughout the world, reveals the thinking behind her female-dominated exhibition The Milk of Dreams
If you are craving creativity and are stuck at home, here are the best arty audios to keep you going
Two books take a look at the past and future of the non-fungible token. Once seen as the creature of market hype, the NFT now promises the first shared technical standard for the digital art world
The former head of the Serpentine will take over as senior global director of the commercial gallery in September
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
At the fair younger artists address China’s most pressing issues
Recently, some major galleries have signed high-profile women, many of whom launched artistic careers long before the industry cared