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2 February 2026

Dutch national photo collection opens in new Rotterdam home

Nederlands Fotomuseum has appointed a new director ahead of reopening in a former coffee warehouse on 7 February

Senay Boztas
12 January 2026

Ai Weiwei’s first India solo exhibition to open in New Delhi

A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India

Kabir Jhala
31 December 2025

Art market 2026 predictions: underwhelming rebound and another Frieze fair

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

Melanie Gerlis
11 December 2025

Despite turmoil, the cultural plan to mark the 250th anniversary of the US is taking shape

After government shutdown and firing of organising committee leader, plans for shows and events advance

Helen Stoilas
11 December 2025

From hard borders to soft power: how did the art world fare in 2025?

In a year of turbulence and uncertainty, new museums and dazzling shows were proof of art as a positive force

J.S. Marcus
5 December 2025

‘I think of immersion as a state of perception’: Lawrence Lek on his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach

The artist, who says his practice is “like a continuously expanding universe”, spotlights nonhuman intelligence in his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art

Alex Estorick
13 November 2025

In a risk-averse market, Paris Photo offers diversity

Japanese galleries return in full force this year, while the percentage of women photographers shown has increased

Tom Seymour
13 November 2025

K11 founder Adrian Cheng on Hong Kong’s art scene, the future of collecting and the creative potential of AI

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

Louis Jebb
13 November 2025

Why former Sotheby's chief executive Tad Smith is bullish on blockchain art

Ahead of the sale of a Robert Alice blockchain-based painting at Sotheby's New York, Smith discusses his support for bitcoin and collecting digital art

Anna Brady
11 November 2025

Artificial installation: artist hangs own AI-generated work in Welsh museum

The rogue print was on show at National Museum Cardiff for a few hours before it was spotted by staff

Gareth Harris
11 November 2025

World Economic Forum and J. Paul Getty Trust bring art world leaders together to find ‘Connection in Times of Division’

A group of business leaders, cultural figures, innovators, and curators, and institutional leaders met in Paris in October to discuss the health benefits and political soft power of art and culture

Louis Jebb
3 December 2024

Artist being electrocuted to show the sinister implications of AI among highlights of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 11

The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held

Elizabeth Fortescue
11 October 2022

Artist robot goes to UK parliament—and gives politicians nightmares

“Contemporary art project” Ai-Da gave evidence to the House of Lords, taking questions from bemused members

Gareth Harris
20 March 2023

Lego Lilies? Ai Weiwei recreates Monet's giant masterpiece

Reinterpreted "Water Lilies"—with the addition of a mysterious dark door—debuts at London's Design Museum in April

The Art Newspaper
30 September 2015

Ai Weiwei to write art history of China

Javier Pes
7 April 2025

Jeu de Paume puts on wide-ranging survey of work created by artists working with artificial intelligence

With “Le Monde Selon L’IA”, the Paris media art centre takes a broad look at work made using both analytical AI and generative AI

Eana Kim
6 July 2015

China relaxes de facto ban on showing Ai Weiwei’s art

Artist surprised after four exhibitions are allowed to open in Beijing—but international travel is still off-limits

Lisa Movius
23 July 2015

Have passport, will travel: where will Ai Weiwei go?

The Chinese artist-activist is due to visit Berlin, London and Melbourne

Gareth Harris
7 February 2025

Christie’s staging auction made up entirely of AI art

The Augmented Intelligence sale is the first of its kind to be held at a major auction house

Carlie Porterfield
14 January 2016

Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash

Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”

Hannah McGivern
8 March 2018

Big data meets Old Masters at Tefaf Maastricht

As artificial intelligence becomes more common, the market is embracing tools that might help to bring digital natives into the Golden Age

Anna Brady
15 August 2019

Puccini gets political: Ai Weiwei to direct opera in Rome about Hong Kong crisis

The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year

Gareth Harris
30 April 2014

Collector Christopher Tsai wants to open first Ai Weiwei museum

The proposed museum would probably be in New York

Melanie Gerlis
25 April 2019

Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases

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

Aimee Dawson
30 April 2016

Ai Weiwei's first feature-length film to focus on refugees

Chinese artist documents humanitarian crisis from Lesbos to Lebanon

Anny Shaw
27 October 2025

How Ai Weiwei gave a classic Italian opera a political twist

A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’

Scarlet Cheng
31 May 2014

Ai Weiwei digs deep in Warsaw's Brodno Sculpture Park project

Ai Weiwei has created a new work for Warsaw that will be invisible to the public

Julia Michalska
16 March 2018

Ai Weiwei makes triumphant return to Sydney to open biennial

Giant refugee lifeboat is one of two works by Chinese dissident artist in the Biennale of Sydney

Elizabeth Fortescue
4 July 2016

Ai Weiwei to festoon Palazzo Strozzi facade with lifeboats

The Art Newspaper
1 February 2016

Acquisitions, February 2016

Hannah McGivern
6 June 2025

How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The American artist, whose work is currently on show in New York, makes the invisible impacts of technology visible

Aimee Dawson
16 September 2025

How AI-trained robots are helping to root out fake paintings tied to a notorious forgery case

The Norval AI tool is being used to determine the authenticity of works alleged to by the Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau

Hadani Ditmars
1 February 2016

Wuzhen enters the art world with a splash

Venice has its biennale—why not Wuzhen too?

Lisa Movius
7 December 2023

Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works

Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks

Alexander Morrison
6 April 2016

Ai Weiwei’s first show in Greece will aid refugees

Charities will receive percentage of exhibition takings at Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens

Anny Shaw
26 August 2016

Ai Weiwei dropped from Yinchuan Biennale in China

Museum's artistic director reveals how decision was taken out of her hands by “higher officials”

Lisa Movius
11 June 2024

AI on AI: Alex Israel uses artificial intelligence to re-engage with memory

The Los Angeles-based artist is presenting his "REMEMBR" installation, which riffs visually, musically and emotionally on users’ smartphone camera rolls, in London

Louis Jebb
17 March 2020

'Stay home and stay together': Ai Weiwei offers coronavirus advice in new video

Chinese artist's video is part of Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project for users during lockdown

Aimee Dawson
28 February 2023

What are the implications of artificial intelligence for the future of art? The robot artist Ai-da and her creators discuss

Ai-da is an artist, she marks a challenge to the category, and it is in this sense that she becomes Duchampian, argue her creators

Lucy Seale and Aidan Meller
21 March 2023

Artificial intelligence is helping researchers identify and analyse some of the world’s oldest art

New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily

Kimberly Hatfield
24 September 2024

Refik Anadol Studio reveals plans for world’s first museum of AI arts

Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district

Louis Jebb
4 March 2025

Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology. Recent exhibitions of artificial intelligence art and a sale at Christie's New York highlight new approaches to collective ownership and governance that are applicable to the wider community

Louis Jebb
31 May 2017

Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian refugee toddler once again

Chinese artist recreates harrowing scene at Israel Museum after Donald Trump visit

By Anny Shaw
31 March 2020

Here are 2019's most visited contemporary art exhibitions

Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in big crowds in Paris—but who beat him to claim the top spot?

Ben Luke
24 February 2025

Ayoung Kim, builder of vivid digital worlds, wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

The artist is known for creating futuristic, interactive environments that reflect on contemporary geopolitical and socioeconomic issues

Benjamin Sutton
22 March 2016

New film on Uli Sigg's life takes Chinese art collector back in time

Documentary screened in Hong Kong this week revisits China as Bamboo Curtain was lifted in the 1980s

Javier Pes
4 October 2019

Frieze London diary: Ai Weiwei's shopping list, Boy George hits the deck and Alan Measles does his bit

Plus: Goodman Gallery's speedy opening and Jane Fonda's Barbarella-inspired work

The Art Newspaper
4 October 2024

All together now: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on their AI choir at the Serpentine

The groundbreaking musicians and artists see every part of their London show as a form of art

Louis Jebb
18 October 2024

Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence

German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future

Louis Jebb
16 April 2019

Ai Weiwei creates Lego portraits of missing Mexican students

The installation investigating their disappearance is part of the artist’s show at MUAC

Gil Camargo
28 March 2025

Ho Tzu Nyen on how AI leads to the cinematic past

‘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

Eddy Frankel
10 March 2025

An architect’s dream: Refik Anadol launches AI tribute to Frank Gehry at Guggenheim Bilbao

The media artist presents “Living Architecture: Gehry”, generated from a new large architecture model containing visual data from the LA-based architect’s 65 years in practice

Louis Jebb
25 November 2019

Public Art Fund adds four new members to its board, including artist Ai Weiwei

Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard Murphy also join the nonprofit to help bring more free arts programming to New York City

Zachary Small
11 March 2025

Director’s cut: Dominique Savelkoul shares her picks of Tefaf Maastricht 2025

From Ai Weiwei's Lego work to Hokusai's watefall

Dominique Savelkoul
17 September 2018

Josh Roth, Hollywood deal-maker who was the head of UTA's fine arts division, has died, aged 40

His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei

Jori Finkel
30 September 2016

Ai Weiwei dropped from new Chinese biennial in Yinchuan

Lisa Movius
31 August 2008

MoMA buys Chinese contemporary photographs including works by Ai Weiwei and Sheng Qi

Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh

Helen Stoilas
1 December 2012

With new party leaders in China, observers wonder whether censorship or liberalisation is on the agenda

Is this change in China a cause for celebration?

Chris Gill
27 May 2025

Tracey Emin and Ai Weiwei pay tribute to BBC broadcaster Alan Yentob

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

Gareth Harris
6 September 2023

The market for photography is on a roll

The launch of Photofairs New York during Armory Week reflects a resurgent market for photographs and related media

Alexandra Bregman
30 September 2016

A study in contrasts

Julia Halperin
7 December 2023

Inaugural $100,000 Sfer Ik Award will support creation of AI-powered habitat for bats

The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle

Benjamin Sutton
31 May 2016

Artists and museums find ways to help refugees feel welcome

Plight of thousands fleeing war zones inspires creative humanitarian responses

Anny Shaw
27 March 2018

Ai Weiwei: ‘I’m like a high-end refugee’

The artist talks about his refugee-orientated show in Hong Kong—and his plans for South America

Aimee Dawson
26 February 2024

Harold Cohen's pioneering AI works provide essential context for conversations about generative art

The Whitney Museum of American Art is spotlighting the late art and technology innovator's prescient "AARON" series

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
21 October 2015

Iwan and Manuela Wirth top ArtReview’s Power 100 list

They are only the second dealers to take the number one spot in 14 years

Anny Shaw
22 March 2018

State of the art in Dubai

Works at Art Dubai mirror city’s vision of high-tech future

Anny Shaw
30 September 2010

Visitors to Art Gwangju regarded the fair as 'a kind of museum exhibition'

More officials than collectors?

Marisa Mazria Katz
7 March 2022

Collector Budi Tek donates contemporary Chinese works to Lacma, including Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads

The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition

Scarlet Cheng
5 September 2022

Trigger Warning: a new column on censorship in art today, from must-read books to which algorithms are policing creative content

Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context

Gareth Harris
9 October 2024

Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub

Chris Michaels
9 June 2021

New Shenzhen DnA event this autumn aims to fill southern China's dearth of contemporary art fairs

New art and design fair in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen launched by organisers of Art021 in Shanghai and JingArt in Beijing

Lisa Movius
7 March 2018

Ai Weiwei: 'I'm impressed Qatar wants my show about refugees'

The dissident Chinese artist on why he's tackling the global refugee crisis in his first exhibition in the Gulf

Aimee Dawson
15 September 2022

Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

Gareth Harris
20 June 2018

Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it

Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence

Helen Stoilas
1 March 2016

Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast

Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space

Javier Pes
11 September 2015

What will they crowdfund next?

The Art Newspaper
9 October 2023

Trigger warning! Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona to display banned works by Ai Weiwei and Goya

Museu de l’Art Prohibit is founded by the Catalan businessman Tatxo Benet

Gareth Harris
23 July 2018

Beijing’s Caochangdi galleries given two weeks’ notice to relocate ahead of demolition

Among those affected are the Hong Kong-based de Sarthe Gallery, which opened in Beijing in 2014, and X Gallery

Lisa Movius
15 February 2022

Inaugural Hawaii Triennial considers social activism, climate change and the Westernisation of Asia-Pacific

The exhibition, which began as a biennial, has been curated by Melissa Chiu, Miwako Tezuka and Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick

Gabriella Angeleti
8 December 2023

Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception

Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibition explores the evolution of illusion through a contemporary lens

Torey Akers
16 September 2015

The Buck Stopped Here: Ai Weiwei’s earthquake steel, Kentridge’s refugee march, painterly pairings and Tuyman’s abstract pals

Louisa Buck
4 July 2025

Art’s new hybrid economy: who is making creative waves in a sector where analogue and digital media exist together?

Practitioners such as Simon Denny, Chris Dorland, Sara Ludy and Jenna Basso Pietrobon are doing thought-provoking, transmedia work while being offline and online simultaneously

Alex Estorick
24 September 2021

From Marina Abramovic to Greta Thunberg: the legacy of Joseph Beuys lives on

A host of artists and activists have followed in the footsteps of the pioneering artist who would have turned 100 this year

Catherine Hickley
25 October 2017

#Glasgow International 2018 goes cyber

The Art Newspaper
12 September 2017

Istanbul fair keeps calm and carries on

Contemporary Istanbul is upping its game for its 12th edition.

Anny Shaw
12 June 2024

Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?

The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week

Aimee Dawson
3 March 2023

Art Dub-AI: artificial intelligence is latest buzzword at fair

The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far

Aimee Dawson
31 May 2012

Uli Sigg's huge gift to Hong Kong museum M+

The Swiss collector is donating 1,463 Chinese contemporary works, with plans to sell another 47

Javier Pes
16 September 2024

How tech is powering the art market’s expansion into luxury, finance and science

Three years on from the NFT explosion, growth in new markets continues

Alex Estorick
1 September 2020

Ai Weiwei: If you do not question Chinese power, you are complicit with it—that goes for art organisations too

Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values

Cristina Ruiz
16 January 2020

Cecily Brown will fill grand birthplace of Winston Churchill with images of broken Britain

UK artist says exhibition at Blenheim Palace is a timely opportunity to examine the country's current tumult

Gareth Harris
11 January 2023

Artist Ai Weiwei reads Dalai Lama's new letter to the world: 'The Art of Hope'

The video and message are part of the digital art platform Circa's new art commissions for public screens and billboards around the world

The Art Newspaper
2 June 2016

Indian artist heads up new biennial in northwest China

Bose Krishnamachari has invited 80 international artists including Anish Kapoor and Santiago Sierra to take part

Lisa Movius and Gareth Harris
29 March 2019

Shortlist for inaugural Sigg Prize announced

Six artists in line for Uli Sigg’s $64,000 Chinese contemporary art prize

Julia Michalska
11 December 2015

The Art Newspaper's 12 best Christmas gifts

We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights

Hannah McGivern, Aimee Dawson, José da Silva, Julia Michalska, Melanie Gerlis and Katherine Hardy
3 March 2022

SFMoMA receives gift of 350 works and $10m bequest from late American trustees

The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone

Gabriella Angeleti
31 March 2012

"Art in the Twenty-first Century" brings big personalities to the small screen

This US television series offers insights into the history and practice of artists from Marina Abramovic to Ai Weiwei

Iain Miller
13 June 2016

Herzog & de Meuron: six degrees of separation from Tate Modern

How the Basel-based architects were influenced by the ideas and art of Donald Judd and Rémy Zaugg

Javier Pes
23 February 2016

Hong Kong gets first major view of Uli Sigg’s collection for the M+ museum

Exhibition’s opening night was packed with luminaries from the Chinese art world

Alexandra Seno
17 February 2021

After more than two decades together, artist duo Broomberg and Chanarin commit 'creative suicide'

A "posthumous retrospective" in Barcelona will divide their joint estate

Louisa Buck
13 September 2019

Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week

From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots

Catherine Hickley
1 July 2021

Ai Weiwei’s animals feel the heat as conservators treat them to al fresco waxing at Lacma

Sculptures arrived from China ahead of a show of works of Chinese contemporary art

Scarlet Cheng
21 December 2023

The Gray Market: Our art market soothsayer looks back on his 2023 predictions

How did his forecasts weather the roughest turbulence the trade has experienced in years? Read on to find out

Tim Schneider
2 September 2025

New York's digital art gallery reboot

The opening of the NFT platform SuperRare’s physical space and Heft Gallery, both on the Lower East Side, signal growing collector interest and institutional acceptance

Annabel Keenan
9 December 2017

ARTificial intelligence

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?

Anny Shaw
3 September 2024

Art Gallery of Ontario receives 37 works from late telecoms executive's estate

Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others

Larry Humber
10 December 2018

2018 in the market: the price is right for pale males

David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year

Anna Brady
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