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Adventures with Van Gogh
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
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
19 November 2025

In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice

A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”

Stephanie Sporn
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
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
7 July 2025

Less than two years after opening, the Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona has closed its doors

A statement from the museum, which displayed works by Ai Weiwei and Goya, attributes the closure to disruption caused by strike action

Gareth Harris
26 June 2025

Miami arts organisations face existential crisis amid funding collapse

Cuts in federal, state and county funding—sometimes to nil—are pushing South Florida’s arts ecosystem to the brink

Nicole Martinez
14 May 2025

Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others

Benjamin Sutton
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
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
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
15 July 2024

Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI?

Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day

Jori Finkel
8 July 2024

Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display

The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September

Benjamin Sutton
8 December 2023

American Second World War museum uses AI to tell veterans’ stories

As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive

Allison C. Meier
16 September 2019

Ai Weiwei was not 'thrown out' of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, artist confirms

Activist was demonstrating in support of workers' rights in the face of cost-cutting at the museum

Catherine Hickley
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
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
13 September 2017

Lest we forget: Ai Weiwei’s first show in Turkey is a meditation on refugee crisis

Chinese artist’s biggest exhibition to date uses porcelain as a way of bridging Turkey’s historic connections with the East

Anny Shaw
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
10 August 2015

Ai Weiwei meets the Moomins in Helsinki

The Art Newspaper
1 February 2016

Acquisitions, February 2016

Hannah McGivern
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
21 October 2016

Ai Weiwei returns to New York with four solo gallery shows

The Chinese activist-artist, who lived in the city during the 1980s, comes back with new tree sculptures and an installation of cast-off clothing from refugee camps

Dan Duray
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
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
28 February 2019

Ai Weiwei show brings out tensions between Canada and China

Survey at Gardiner Museum ranges from artist’s broken Han Dynasty urn to zodiac signs

Joobin Bekhrad
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
30 July 2018

West Coast wave of Ai Weiwei shows puts Chinese artist in Los Angeles spotlight

Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA

Gareth Harris
15 April 2019

Nineteenth-century realists pull in mega-crowds as Russian museum attendance peaks

Exhibitions in Russia of homegrown artists attract proportionally greater numbers than blockbusters in other countries

Sophia Kishkovsky
17 January 2025

Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change

Louis Jebb
23 September 2024

‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening

The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna

Gareth Harris
17 November 2016

Three to see: Vienna

See Francis Alÿs’s dreamy paintings and Dürer’s apocalyptic nightmare during Vienna Art Week<br>

José da Silva, Emily Sharpe and Julia Michalska
1 September 2020

Museums grapple with ethics of China projects

Institutions including the Tate, V&A and Pompidou are forging partnerships with the country despite terrible human rights abuses

Cristina Ruiz
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 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
22 September 2017

Chinese hotelier-collector opens Shanghai's newest private museum

Zheng Hao's How Art Museum shares works with his 'art hotel'

Lisa Movius
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
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
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
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
31 March 2013

Warning over Qatar’s human rights record

UK museums’ close ties questioned after poet imprisoned for 15 years

Cristina Ruiz
25 March 2024

Hong Kong arts hub West Kowloon Cultural District opens summit with raft of global agreements

Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired

Gareth Harris
7 October 2019

Tim Marlow leaves Royal Academy of Arts to head London’s Design Museum

Announcement of RA artistic director's new appointment comes after Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black stepped down as co-directors

Hannah McGivern
18 May 2020

Sculpture confronting Germany's colonial past installed at Berlin’s long-awaited Humboldt Forum

Kang Sunkoo’s bronze Statue of Limitations shows a black flag at half-mast

Catherine Hickley
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
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
16 September 2024

Bizarre optics at Cai Guo-Qiang’s fiery kick-off event for Getty’s PST Art initiative

Fireworks by the Chinese artist ran counter to the point of many PST Art projects

Jori Finkel
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
31 March 2016

Visitor Figures 2015: Jeff Koons is the toast of Paris and Bilbao

But Taipei tops the most visited exhibition list, with a show of works by the 20th-century artist Chen Cheng-po

José da Silva, Javier Pes and Emily Sharpe
20 December 2019

Tim Marlow finally receives a big shiny medal as he waves goodbye to Royal Academy

Louisa Buck
30 October 2015

Hong Kong debut for M+ museum’s founding collection

Exhibition from the Sigg Collection of Chinese contemporary art coincides with show in Switzerland

Javier Pes
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
25 September 2016

New York museum and galleries celebrate Richard Pousette-Dart centenary

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the late artist’s foundation has also undertaken the conservation of his hospital triptych Presence, Healing Circles

Pac Pobric
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
4 January 2024

Fairs, auction houses and AI: five predictions for the art market in 2024

Will Patrick Drahi sell a stake in Sotheby’s? Will Frieze acquire more regional fairs? Watch this space…

Tim Schneider
24 September 2024

Community curators: artists chosen by public vote for exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image

Finalists will be shown on the New York museum’s media wall with visitors able to mint a fragment of each work on the Tezos blockchain

Louis Jebb
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
19 October 2015

Cultural co-operation a cornerstone of Chinese presidential visit

But a visit to Ai Weiwei Royal Academy show is not on the agenda

Martin Bailey
21 July 2021

No luck getting tickets for immersive Van Gogh show? San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab

The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient

Scarlet Cheng
30 September 2005

The great Chinese gold rush: Chinese art scene continues to blossom

Tate’s director of collections has visited China twice this year and MoMA trustees are also on their way

Jonathan Napack
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
31 March 2020

Art's Most Popular: here are 2019's most visited shows and museums

Ai Weiwei was a hit in Brazil, records were broken in London and Paris—but is this the final year of museum visitor growth?

Emily Sharpe and José da Silva. Research compiled by Valentina Bin, Erin Irwin and Vanessa Thill
22 March 2019

Collector Qiao Zhibing's delayed Tank Shanghai museum opens on West Bund waterfront

The reborn oil tanks host shows by teamLab, Adrián Villar Rojas and assorted Chinese artists

Lisa Movius
20 November 2023

Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?

Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder

Aimee Dawson
31 March 2016

2015's most popular exhibitions by genre and city

We look at the shows that topped their categories

The Art Newspaper
30 June 2011

Budi Tek plans “serious” space in Shanghai to join his collection of private museums

The collector builds bridges with Tate and MoMA, and buys work by Kiefer, Cattelan and Hatoum

Cristina Ruiz
1 June 2021

First the Louvre's pyramid, now the actual Pyramids—JR to create show-stopping project in Egypt

Street artist hints he might make a photo collage at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site as part of exhibition organised by Art D’Egypte

Aimee Dawson
23 October 2017

Brazilian arts group calls out censorship by 'arrogant fundamentalists' in open letter

More than 1,000 artists, curators and professionals have signed the protest document published by the pro-democracy collective Pela Democracia

Gabriella Angeleti
10 January 2025

The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings—podcast

From the reimagined Frick Collection to Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
10 April 2020

With ‘no reserves and no endowment’, Bloomsbury group’s country home needs £400,000 to survive

Charleston, a ramshackle farmhouse complete with painted interiors by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, has launched an emergency crowdfunding appeal

Hannah McGivern
28 October 2019

‘I won’t be bringing in a load of artists’: Tim Marlow on leading the Design Museum

Royal Academy’s artistic director is an unexpected choice

Caroline Roux
23 January 2020

Thomas Campbell, former Met director, sizes up challenges for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

After more than a year in his new job, we interview the director about his priorities

Jori Finkel
16 May 2019

Czech culture minister resigns amid outrage over dismissals of museum chiefs

Antonin Stanek’s sudden firing of National Gallery director Jiri Fajt sparked international protests and a petition

Catherine Hickley
12 August 2021

The best art books for summer—as recommended by curators, directors and dealers

As we enter the final weeks of the season, check out these riveting reads, from “the best novel about painting” to a book with no words at all

Compiled by José da Silva and Gareth Harris
14 November 2024

Catch them if you can: shows to see before the Venice Biennale closes

Ahead of the Biennale's closing week, we highlight the talking-point exhibitions and events that there's still time to catch

Gareth Harris
1 December 2015

The rest of the past month at a glance, December 2015

Hannah McGivern, Pac Pobric and Julia Halperin
23 April 2021

Winner: The Art Newspaper's podcast The Week in Art is named Best Special Interest Podcast

Judges of the Publisher Podcast Awards described the category as "one of the most competitive"

The Art Newspaper
5 September 2022

Rachel Whiteread and Roger Hiorns shortlisted for major new UK land art project

The Deep Time initiative on West Cumbria coastline also includes works by Susan Philipsz and Ryan Gander

Gareth Harris
4 July 2023

National Gallery London masterpieces show in Shanghai sets record for visitor numbers

Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger

Cristina Ruiz
30 June 2015

Manchester show is a taster of what’s to come at Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum

The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art

Ben Luke
3 May 2023

New Istanbul Modern museum finally unveiled after five-year construction

Major new contemporary art space designed by Renzo Piano opens ahead of key elections

Gareth Harris
30 April 2015

Japan’s contemporary artists fare better overseas

Dealers need to participate in international art fairs and have spaces abroad to gain respect back home

Alexandra Seno
11 April 2022

Venice Biennale 2022: where to eat and drink

You can’t look at art all day. We asked artists, curators and other artworld insiders for recommendations of the best places to refuel or unwind

The Art Newspaper
28 April 2022

Anderson Ranch Arts Center to honour Yinka Shonibare with annual international award

The Colorado art destination announces its prestigious annual award, given to a globally recognised artist who demonstrates the highest level of artistic achievement

Jacoba Urist
13 November 2023

Indian steel tycoons to launch art centre near historic site of Hampi

The billionaire Jindal family will open the exhibition venue and artist residency space in February next year

Kabir Jhala
1 March 2009

Lady Foster opens gallery and bookshop in Madrid

A former garage becomes an art space, as the Ivory Press publisher inaugurates building designed by her husband

Cristina Carrillo
26 February 2024

‘The things we make are time machines’: Cannupa Hanska Luger on his PST Art exhibitions

In three exhibitions in Southern California this September the artist imagines future worlds for Indigenous peoples — and allows children to create their own world with Velcro

Alina Cohen
24 February 2020

Where is the West? Art world should be supporting China during coronavirus crisis

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

Philip Dodd
10 June 2024

'Almost everyone I talk to has an interesting story and something to teach me': Ryan Zurrer on getting the most out of Art Basel

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

Carlie Porterfield
19 December 2024

Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2025

The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo

Andrew Pulver, Gabriella Angeleti, Allison C. Meier, Marigold Warner and Dale Berning Sawa
9 October 2015

Top London shows during Frieze week

Our pick of the city's must-see exhibitions—just the tonic to avoid art-fair fatigue

The Art Newspaper
17 May 2023

Photographer's haunting images of the traces of Nazi extermination resonate with today's Bloodlands of Ukraine

Judy Glickman Lauder's photographs taken around 1990 take on new meaning with the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Anna Somers Cocks
1 January 2008

The auction houses are distorting our understanding of Chinese art

Chinese auction house data deemed unreliable and misleading as not all artists have made it to the salesroom yet

Michael Hue-Williams
29 August 2024

‘A collective adventure’: Paris exhibition celebrates a century since the birth of Surrealism

André Breton’s rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto will take centre stage at a Centre Pompidou exhibition, which includes masterpieces of the movement and gives prominence to overlooked artists

Dale Berning Sawa
1 November 2013

Sifang Art Museum opens in a Nanjing forest while two private museums in Shanghai are near completion

Amidst a period of rapid growth for Chinese museums

Lisa Movius
27 January 2020

How serious are the dangers of market sponsorship of museum exhibitions?

Involvement from galleries and auction houses is on the rise as public institutions face dwindling government funds and increased scrutiny over toxic philanthropy

Anny Shaw
30 September 2015

The Art Newspaper turns 25: a story for every year

And celebrations supported by Volkswagen

Anna Somers Cocks and Ermanno Rivetti
3 October 2018

Hans Ulrich Obrist: secrets of a super-curator

The Serpentine Galleries' artistic director reveals how he is resisting extinction, declares that shows must find new ways to connect and insists that stopping is not an option

Interview by PIERRE HUYGHE
30 November 2021

Home is where the art is: trio of contemporary shows take over former London houses of Van Gogh, John Soane and John Latham

Louisa Buck
1 February 2011

Interview with Peter Weibel: Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe “will be the Louvre of media art”

Peter Weibel, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, on the Moscow Biennale and subverting military technology to create virtual sculpture

Rita Pokorny
28 March 2019

Liu Xiaodong: an interview with China’s great documentary painter

The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”

Lisa Movius
7 November 2023

'Where the museum and the market blend': third edition of Art Week Tokyo attempts a more holistic way to measure success

Some 50 galleries and institutions participated this year in the Art Basel-backed event

Alison Cole
29 May 2020

Will the loss of Hong Kong’s special trade status and stricter oversight from Beijing end its appeal as Asia’s biggest arts hub?

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

Vivienne Chow
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