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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
27 January 2026

Museum wall texts are an art in their own right—but will they survive the digital age?

With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether

Emma Riva
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
12 December 2025

Comment | The worlds of analogue and digital art may be splintering

At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”

András Szántó
20 November 2025

Inside the new AI-driven platform generating ‘adviser-grade’ art market insights

Sam Glatman, the co-founder of Artsignal, which recently received a major vote of confidence in the form of investment from Christie’s Ventures, predicts that it will become the “dominant intelligence layer for the art world”

Aimee Dawson
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
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
24 October 2025

What does winning an arts prize really mean?

Sparkly accolades punctuate the art world calendar and are honey pots for museums and artists alike

Philippa Kelly
27 September 2025

Director of Contemporary Istanbul urges Turkish art to remain ‘radical and clever’ in face of political tension

The 20th edition of the fair brings together 51 galleries from 16 countries

Payal Uttam
25 March 2024

London's Serpentine Galleries calls for artists and institutions to become ‘stewards’ of data in face of rising interest in AI

The London gallery's fourth annual Future Arts Ecosystems report addresses a pressing need for bodies to address the use of artificial intelligence, for their own benefit and for the public good

Louis Jebb
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
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
17 December 2018

We must not let the art market hoodwink us in the AI debate

The AI work that was sold at Christie's is profound in its conservatism, but others reflect how the technology can impact on art in fascinating ways

Ben Luke
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
14 June 2019

The human side of AI

How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI

Ben Luke
2 September 2025

Comment | 'AI will transform the art market—just not how you expect'

The unglamorous world of art market logistics is set to become much more efficient, says Convelio shipping founder Edouard Gouin

Edouard Gouin
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
26 December 2024

The art of the algorithm: new magazine dedicated to AI artworks launches

Biannual publication spotlights 'visual experiments and conceptually refined pieces'

Gareth Harris
5 April 2024

On process: Refik Anadol seeks to demystify AI art by showing how it is put together

The media artist's "Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive" at Serpentine Galleries, London, goes for radical clarity on its raw data sources and the make-up of Anadol's artificial intelligence Large Nature Model

Louis Jebb
20 May 2021

‘I’ll be back’: the return of AI art

After being pushed out by NFTs, machine-made art is making a comeback with London shows ranging from the "world's first ultra-realistic AI robot artist" to the first artificial intelligence ink artist

Gareth Harris
26 December 2023

AI to Z: an art and tech alphabet for 2023

Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media

Louis Jebb
12 September 2023

Mexico’s Sfer Ik launches $100,000 award to support creation of AI art project

The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency

Benjamin Sutton
23 December 2024

AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024

The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year

Louis Jebb
4 December 2019

Ai Weiwei confronts Amazon destruction in new unreleased film work

Dissident artist is exploring the disappearance of the Brazilian rainforest alongside China’s growing influence in South America

Anny Shaw
6 August 2018

Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing

The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign

Lisa Movius
22 October 2018

Will the market for artificial intelligence art take off?

With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand

Margaret Carrigan
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
22 November 2019

New Berlin foundation turns AI into immersive art

Light Art Space wants visitors to understand the world through a computer’s eyes

Catherine Hickley
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
1 February 2016

Acquisitions, February 2016

Hannah McGivern
22 May 2025

Football great Lionel Messi chooses favourite goal for Refik Anadol to transform into an AI portrait for charity

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Louis Jebb
27 May 2020

AI you ready for this? Bucharest Biennale to be curated by artificial intelligence called Jarvis

The 2022 edition will exist in virtual reality and use data harvested from universities, galleries and art centres to select artists

José da Silva
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
6 June 2025

London Gallery Weekend 2025: must-see shows for digital art lovers

Artists whose work demonstrates the porous boundary between digital and physical formats are to the fore in exhibitions across the UK captial

Louis Jebb
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
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
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
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
22 March 2018

State of the art in Dubai

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

Anny Shaw
18 January 2017

Who will design baby Pia’s Wendy House for Julia Peyton-Jones?

By The Art Newspaper
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
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
1 December 2007

Fontainebleau Hotel commissions major artists to become a true 'art hotel'

The Fontainebleau will show works by Turrell, Ai Weiwei and Rauschenberg

Judith H. Dobrzynski
11 July 2019

Two Beijing art districts abruptly evicted to make way for demolition

Police in riot gear escort hundreds of artists working in area studios from the premises

Lisa Movius
8 March 2022

Can slime mould grow into artificial intelligence? Centre Pompidou show considers interactions between human and non-human entities

Group exhibition is the fifth in the Paris museum's Mutations/Creations series

Ben Luke
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
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
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
5 May 2020

'Born digital': the stalwart institutions that have been producing online art since long before Covid-19

As museums rush to upload online content during lockdown, we speak to some of the people who have been championing innovative digital work for years

José da Silva
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
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
15 April 2025

Podcast | Art Dubai 2025: is the city emerging as a global hub for digital art?

As Art Dubai 2025 kicks off this week, Aimee Dawson speaks with experts in the digital art world to find out if the emirate’s art scene is as futuristic-looking as its skyline

Hosted by Aimee Dawson. Produced by David Clack
19 October 2016

Peripatetic curator Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview's 2016 Power 100 list

Three artists—Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans and Ai Weiwei—are in the top ten this year

Pac Pobric
15 March 2021

After more than a decade, Hong Kong's M+ building is finished and will open in 2021—even if international travel ban persists

Herzog & de Meuron-designed museum will not shy away from displaying controversial works, director assures

Vivienne Chow
1 March 2018

The Met's new admissions fee goes into effect

Many visitors responded to the change with a shrug, although some were more critical of the mandatory charge

James H. Miller
30 May 2024

More than 600 artefacts worth a total of €60m are repatriated to Italy from the US

Italian authorities are using artificial intelligence to identify works of art up for sale that may have been stolen or trafficked

Carlie Porterfield
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
28 March 2025

From artisans to AI: London exhibition explores the legacy of William Morris

A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public

Alexander Morrison
31 January 2018

London's Serpentine Gallery to open pavilion in Beijing

Space designed by Jiakun artchitects will draw inspiration from Confucianism

Lisa Movius
13 May 2015

Smashing works to feature in Art Basel’s Unlimited

Ai Weiwei, David Shrigley and Kader Attia amongst 74 artists taking part this year

José da Silva
6 April 2018

Kehinde Wiley—the artist behind Obama's presidential portrait—signs with Hollywood talent agency

Brillstein Entertainment Partners will licence the US artist's paintings and "identify directing opportunities"

Cristina Ruiz
14 October 2019

Badiucao: meet the Chinese artist illustrating the Hong Kong protests

China’s ‘artful dissident’ has attracted worldwide attention through his drawings of protests, but he is still little-known in the art world

Vivienne Chow
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
15 December 2017

Serpentine 2017 pavilion snapped up by Malaysian buyer

Francis Kéré’s structure in London will head to Kuala Lumpur next year in deal struck with Ilham Gallery

Gareth Harris
10 February 2020

South African architectural practice Counterspace to design 20th Serpentine summer pavilion

Structure is inspired by places where people gather across London including migrant community hubs

Gareth Harris
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
2 February 2024

Face time: how the art world is preparing to work with the Apple Vision Pro

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?

Louis Jebb
28 January 2024

Going big: digital artists who show on a grand scale at immersive institutions

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

Louis Jebb
5 May 2020

Game on: artists turn to the virtual world of video games during the pandemic

As lockdown continues, video games are proving to be ripe territory for artists and budding curators to experiment (and play)

Helen Stoilas
30 December 2015

The Year in Review: from idealism to iconoclasm

As The Art Newspaper marks its 25th anniversary, the optimistic world of 1989 has given way to a more troubled age

Ermanno Rivetti and Jane Morris
4 October 2019

Tania Bruguera’s 2018 Turbine Hall commission becomes permanent at Tate Modern

The museum will continue to name its main building after local community activist Natalie Bell

José da Silva
25 September 2019

'Open, exciting and global': Frieze out to beat Brexit blues

London-based fair strikes international note as gallery roster expands

Anny Shaw
30 June 2009

Is China ready to recover from the collapse in prices that saw the disappearance of scores of galleries in the first months of this year?

Despite state subsidies and heavy promotion, not everyone is feeling the benefit

Chris Gill
23 June 2017

Julia Peyton-Jones to join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

The former head of the Serpentine will take over as senior global director of the commercial gallery in September

By Dan Duray
19 March 2024

Is the art trade choosing to ignore a wider world in crisis?

Amid threats to freedom, career moves and censorship become hard to tell apart

Scott Reyburn
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
21 September 2023

Art Basel reaches outside art trade for new chief officers of growth and digital

Hayley Romer and Craig Hepburn will work to bolster the brand's year-round presence and "engage ever broader cultural audiences"

Kabir Jhala
31 August 2015

Expo Chicago: Art goes above and beyond the gallery walls

The fair’s fourth edition will have works hanging from the ceiling, public art around the city and the first Greater Midwest Curatorial Forum

Rachel Corbett
30 September 2011

We have an obligation to share collections abroad says V&A director

The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing

Martin Bailey
15 June 2016

Design Miami branches out in Basel by doubling its cutting-edge Design Curio section

Thought the fair was all about French Modernism? Director Rodman Primack wants you to think again

Hannah McGivern
26 March 2024

Big brother is watching: museum visitors are being monitored by AI-powered cameras

Sophisticated technology is helping institutions count people but it also has the capability of tracking demographic data, ensuring people are well behaved and even detecting if visitors are enjoying themselves

George Nelson
25 July 2016

Undermined by silence: lack of provenance is devastating flaw of al-Sabah collection catalogue

Scholarly assessment is greatly hampered by the lack of detail on where and how the objects were acquired

Jane Jakeman
31 January 2024

London's newest gallery seeks to combat a market obsessed with painting

The pair behind Palmer Gallery hope to be a “spiritual successor” to neighbouring Lisson Gallery by showing works that might struggle to get a commercial platform

Alexander Morrison
18 July 2022

What is generative art and why does it matter?

As Phillips presents the first ever auction dedicated to the medium, we consider what it is and how it is curated

Gretchen Andrew
14 April 2016

New Tate Modern will present a 'fully global' view of art

Museum’s extension, which is due to open in June, will help broaden story of Modernism—but £30m still needs to be raised

Javier Pes
31 May 2011

This year's Art Basel prepares to surpass last year with adjustments to layout

Art Parcours heads indoors to the city’s historic quarter, while the Messeplatz remains sculpture-free

Melanie Gerlis
18 September 2021

'Women in the arts are winning the battle for equal employment—but they haven’t yet won the war'

The latest UBS Art Basel report finds that top jobs are finally going to women—even at the mega galleries

Melanie Gerlis
1 October 2018

Art Berlin's debut in former Tempelhof airport is a homegrown hit

Galleries and collectors praised fair's new location but visitors remain largely German

Laurie Rojas
24 July 2025

AI portrait of footballer Lionel Messi's favourite goal raises $1.87m for charity

Refik Anadol's re-imagination of the Argentine star’s 2009 header sold in an online auction at Christie's New York

Louis Jebb
28 January 2021

‘UK’s biggest art exhibition’ gets underway—and they want your work, too

Louisa Buck
1 November 2019

Don’t make a hash(tag) of it: how to—and how not to—use hashtags on Instagram

We look at some of the best trending art campaigns by museums and those that have been a flop, plus how artists use them

Aimee Dawson
27 March 2019

Collector's Eye: an interview with William Zhao

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

Gareth Harris
14 December 2021

Richard Serra, Kara Walker and other artists urged the Met to remove Sackler name

In an open letter started by Nan Goldin, world-renowned artists denounced the museum’s ties to the Sacklers due to the family’s role in the opioid crisis

Gabriella Angeleti
17 April 2025

SXSW London's exhibitions line-up puts emphasis on art and technology and artists from London’s Caribbean diaspora

Andy Warhol, Alvaro Barrington, Tavares Strachan, Beeple, Alberta Whittle, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst among featured visual artists in June shows in Shoreditch, east London

Louis Jebb
25 May 2022

UK's 'largest immersive arts experience'—showing huge digital images of Cezanne and Klimt—planned for London

Frameless, which will open in Marble Arch this autumn, hopes to tap into a booming industry for multi-sensory and interactive art attractions

Kabir Jhala
13 June 2023

Cindy Sherman on AI experiments, lockdown pottery and being a woman in today's art market

Artist has created new body of work for solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich

Anny Shaw
18 May 2021

Art Basel in Hong Kong: fair still on track to open amid calls to boycott city and tough coronavirus restrictions

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

Lisa Movius
8 November 2022

Five years after #MeToo, what has changed for female artists?

Recently, some major galleries have signed high-profile women, many of whom launched artistic careers long before the industry cared

Anny Shaw and Scott Reyburn
31 August 2015

Emerging from Ai Weiwei’s shadow: China’s new art

As the Royal Academy hosts a major show of China’s best-known artist, the curators of a forthcoming exhibition of new commissions by Chinese artists argue that the latest art from the country is increasingly global in form and outlook<br>

Wenny Teo and Ella Liao
1 February 2019

New report says South Asian gallery sales are on the rise but does that ring true at India Art Fair?

Speculative buying in the region has also increased, ArtTactic’s 2019 South Asian Art Market Report concludes

Kabir Jhala
17 September 2020

Lisson, Sadie Coles HQ and Stephen Friedman to open (temporarily) on London's Cork Street during Frieze week

In lieu of an October fair, the blue-chip galleries will congregate around the Mayfair street during what would—under normal circumstances—be the London art market's busiest month

Kabir Jhala
25 February 2020

New digital art fair in Paris hopes to attract tech tycoons

Cadaf Paris claims to be Europe's only fair dedicated to new media and will coincide with Vivatech conference in June

Anna Brady
13 August 2018

Tadao Ando designs Chicago art space dedicated to architecture and socially engaged work

The inaugural show at Wrightwood 659 will focus on Ando and Le Corbusier

Ruth Lopez
23 March 2016

Lucky number 13: Edinburgh Art Festival announces packed programme

The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski

Helen Stoilas and Dan Duray
3 January 2023

Five insider tips and trends for art world social media in 2023

Digital experts in the cultural field—Alec Ward, Adam Koszary and Chris Unitt—share their predictions for platforms this year

Aimee Dawson
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