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4 February 2026

'Still young and going strong': Berlin's pioneering contemporary art space Hamburger Bahnhof turns 30

Born out of the merger of East and West Germany's collections, the institution, which propelled the careers of Anne Imhof and Tomás Saraceno among many others, is celebrating its birthday with a year-long programme of events and a star-studded gala

Philippe Regnier
2 February 2026

Aiza Ahmed: ‘I’m finding ways to explore humanity’

The young Pakistan-born, New York-based artist is showing new works from her Doha residency programme at Art Basel Qatar

Annabel Keenan
10 December 2025

The spirit of the north: Oulu is about to begin its year as European Capital of Culture

The Finnish city, close to the Arctic Circle, will play host to hundreds of arts and cultural events

7 November 2025

California nonprofits keep losing funding in what new study calls ‘the shadow of the pandemic cliff’

The latest Otis College Report on the Creative Economy paints a sombre picture of arts nonprofits in the US’s most populous state

Scarlet Cheng
3 September 2025

Comment | I used to think it wasn’t cool to like Andy Goldsworthy—now I see how he helps us appreciate the natural world

Two recent Goldsworthy shows, one at the National Galleries of Scotland and the other at Jupiter Artland, have radically changed my view of the artist, writes Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck
5 August 2025

Five new art books to look out for this autumn, including publications on US monuments and Vermeer close-ups

Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead

Jacqueline Riding
5 August 2025

‘It was absolutely terrifying’: Thom Yorke on his long journey back to becoming a visual artist

The Radiohead frontman and his long-time collaborator Stanley Donwood give an exclusive interview ahead of their first museum show opening this week

Anny Shaw
18 July 2025

Palestinian Museum seeks new ways to reach audiences as crisis escalates

The museum in the occupied West Bank is adapting to regional violence by focusing on digital exhibitions, international shows and works by contemporary Gazan artists

Sarvy Geranpayeh
23 June 2025

Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

Figures behind the Fine Art Group and Arte Collectum explain why now is the right time to launch a fund

Anna Brady
23 May 2025

Dexter Dalwood: ‘If we want art history to change, we need to include artists in creating shows’

The Bristol-born artist has been back in the UK to co-curate a show at the National Gallery dedicated to José María Velasco, a painter well known in Dalwood’s adopted home, Mexico, but virtually unheard of here

Joanna Moorhead
23 May 2025

Remembering Koyo Kouoh, one of the most influential curators in the global art world, and one of its most original thought leaders

The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Louis Jebb
2 May 2017

Cornelia takes on Corbyn and May

By The Art Newspaper
15 February 2020

Plans for Berggruen Institute's 'scholars' campus' in the Santa Monica Mountains move forward

First cohort of artist fellows includes Nancy Baker Cahill, Agnieszka Kurant and Pierre Huyghe

Gareth Harris
2 July 2016

International Council of Museums conference: institutions asked to think beyond collections

Participants in Milan will ponder the relationship between museums and the cultural landscape<br>

Emily Sharpe
8 September 2020

Hauser & Wirth appoints Fortnum & Mason head as first global chief executive

Ewan Venters will join the mega gallery in January with a focus on leading the business while co-presidents concentrate on the artists

Anna Brady
23 January 2024

Liverpool Biennial announces curator for 2025

Marie-Anne McQuay previously worked at the city's Bluecoat art centre, and currently holds positions including member of Arts Council Collection’s acquisitions committee

Alexander Morrison
22 April 2021

Launch of Artists Commit intensifies the push to act on climate change

Organisation aims to put pressure on galleries to adopt sustainable practices

Annabel Keenan
6 August 2018

Potty about pictures: ancient Athenian vases are an important historical resource—but this book fails to deliver

Large gaps in the material and a lack of thorough explanation make this volume less useful than it could be

John Boardman
17 April 2020

Coronavirus lockdown creativity continues with Grayson Perry’s art club and the isolation art school

Louisa Buck
2 September 2022

September book bag: from Lucian Freud’s love letters to an Edie Sedgwick biography

Our roundup of the latest art publications

Gareth Harris
26 January 2016

Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world

Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office

Cristina Ruiz
31 March 2003

Spring books: US. Decorative arts to the fore

Photography, Asian art, the art of antiquity, Old Masters, and historiography are also among the topics covered

Donald Lee
27 November 2024

Is social media one of the worst things to happen to artists? Yes, says US artist Josh Kline

Artist argues it has turned art into a business and negatively affected quality

Aimee Dawson
8 March 2019

Art in sensitive times

In the face of turbulent times the public art museum has a difficult, but essential role to hold open an open space for dissenting experiences of art and culture

Maria Balshaw
17 April 2025

Getty Museum acquires painting by Spanish Renaissance master Luis de Morales following extensive conservation

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo

Benjamin Sutton
12 January 2018

Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda named co-curators of next Taipei Biennale

Exhibition opening in November will explore grassroots communities

Lisa Movius
15 February 2018

Hirshhorn to reschedule Krzysztof Wodiczko’s monumental projection after Florida school shooting

The 30-year-old piece showing two hands holding a gun and a candle is "strangely familiar and at once unbearably relevant", the artist says

Gareth Harris and Helen Stoilas
7 July 2021

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new Hirshhorn sculpture garden will create a more open and artistically inspired future for the museum

The artist’s designs for the sunken sculpture park creating a more inviting space for visitors coming from the National Mall

Kerry Brougher
31 May 2010

Interview with Sprüth and Magers: “We didn’t want to become bigger, we wanted to become smaller”

Dealers Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers discuss the benefits of teamwork and the Berlin art scene

Charlotte Burns
24 January 2022

Simone Leigh statue of African deity installed at former site of Confederate monument in New Orleans

Leigh’s sculpture was unveiled at the symbolically charged site in the city centre during the closing weekend of the fifth Prospect New Orleans triennial

Benjamin Sutton
1 December 2023

Influential French curator Vincent Honoré, who put on shows at Tate Modern and Palais de Tokyo, has died

Art world figures including Nicolas Bourriaud pay tribute

Gareth Harris
16 July 2018

‘Pleasure and critical thinking’: Ralph Rugoff unveils curatorial direction of 2019 Venice Biennale

Exhibition is titled May You Live in Interesting Times, after counterfeit Chinese curse

Hannah McGivern
16 May 2017

The road to the Venice Biennale is paved with good intentions

Curator Christine Macel’s worthy aims of saving the planet and helping refugees has seriously backfired

By Cristina Ruiz
9 July 2021

A redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden prompts questions about artistic vision

As Hiroshi Sugimoto’s revitilisation project comes up for review this month, it is important to understand the symbiosis of the whole museum campus

Charles A. Birnbaum
31 July 2019

A reflective journey: Doug Aitken’s hot-air balloon touches down in the Berkshires

The final stop of the artist’s unpredictable tour across Massachusetts included a few final tethered flights and a live concert at a historic home

Osman Can Yerebakan
28 October 2022

Rubell Museum DC opens in former school, with a mission to champion ‘the unique role of artists as teachers’

Collectors Don and Mera Rubell, who also operate a museum in Miami, have added a major contemporary art space to the US capital’s cultural offerings

Benjamin Sutton
18 February 2020

Saudi art organisation acquires vast collection of Middle Eastern art from Dubai's bankrupt Abraaj firm

Works from the Abraaj Group Art Prize will be managed by Art Jameel with some works going on show at the Dubai space Jameel Art Centre

Aimee Dawson
5 October 2019

'London’s resilience, creativity and innovation will help us to keep open for the world'

As the art world turns out in the capital during Frieze, Justine Simons, London's deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries, wonders what the rest of the world must be thinking

30 May 2019

Video pioneer Ericka Beckman gives patriarchal canon a bashing

The works and installations of the overlooked peer of Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince go on show at MIT List Visual Arts Center

Margaret Carrigan
22 May 2024

Los Angeles non-profit LAXART prepares to re-open in new home with new name

The art space's first commission under its new name, the Brick, is a mural of Pope.L by the 3B Collective

Jori Finkel
1 December 2016

200,000 incantations a day to enliven his art

The art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Tankai

Joe Earle
5 March 2020

Critics demand explanation after quiet departures of Museo Jumex’s curator and director

Faults including a lack of transparency and a capricious programme have been cited following a change in management at the private museum

Natalie Schachar
3 May 2023

Art for Tomorrow conference | What can art do for our democratically depleted, digitally distracted societies?

The role of art in a time of crisis was the subject of a three-day discussion between leading cultural figures in Florence last week

Scott Reyburn
27 June 2022

From Whitechapel to Saudi Arabia: Iwona Blazwick takes up a new post as AlUla public art supremo

Drive to rebrand Middle Eastern country as a cultural destination underpinned by human rights concerns

Gareth Harris
6 December 2017

Design Miami award goes to artist-backed school in Africa

Art classes will be key to the school in Zambia, supported by Rashid Johnson and New York-based charitable foundation

Anny Shaw
30 June 2008

Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women

New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men

Christopher Lloyd
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
24 August 2023

Shanay Jhaveri—the Barbican Centre’s first non-British head of visual arts—reveals his plans for the London institution

The Indian curator, appointed a year after a racism dispute at the centre, hopes to diversify audiences and expand the presence of art across the Brutalist complex

Kabir Jhala
9 May 2022

London Gallery Weekend: the must-see exhibitions in South London

On Saturday 14 May, the focus of the event shifts south of the river. Our critic Louisa Buck picks out the shows you should visit

Louisa Buck
8 June 2023

Curator named for John Akomfrah's British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Tarini Malik, formerly of the Whitechapel Gallery and the Hayward Gallery, will seek to "extend the reach" of Akomfrah's work at a "critical, transitional moment" for the UK's visual sector

Tom Seymour
13 August 2020

An-My Lê: ‘Landscape is not a narrow category—it is a source of surprise’

With her first career survey now open in Pittsburgh, the photographer discusses her background in Vietnam and the West Coast of the US, and the influence of Walt Whitman

Tom Seymour
30 September 2012

Books: Raphael—all things to all ages

Three new monographs show the artist is still the equal of Leonardo and Michelangelo, if not so popular

Sally Korman
26 November 2020

Grizedale launches campaign to turn historic Lake District pub into rural arts centre

Louisa Buck
23 July 2020

New works by Thomas J. Price and Larry Achiampong on The Line extend the debate on public sculpture

Louisa Buck
5 July 2024

UK general election 2024: what art world figures want from the new Labour government

After a landslide victory for the Labour party, we asked museum directors, artists and art historians what they hoped the new political era could mean for culture

Gareth Harris
15 June 2015

Art Basel opens with works that invite visitors to be part of the art

Experiences at the fair range from reclining in a hammock to enjoying an ice cream

Melanie Gerlis
30 April 2025

Comment | Art world attitudes towards the climate emergency are changing, but the time to secure a viable future is now

After three years spent critiquing the art world's response to the climate crisis for this column, Louisa Buck takes stock of what's been achieved—and what remains to be done

Louisa Buck
30 November 2023

As Saudi Arabia wins bid for 2030 World Expo, a new book lifts the lid on the Kingdom’s push to be a key art world player

Publication examines how the conservative Middle Eastern state is pouring resources into its culture sector

Gareth Harris
2 December 2019

Michael Rakowitz wants to pause his video work at MoMA PS1 as a protest against museum's ties to 'toxic philanthropy'

"It's censorship", the artist says of curators' denials to suspend work that is part of show on the artistic legacy of the Gulf War

Zachary Small
17 November 2023

‘As a tool, meaning has its limits’: Pope.L on being inspired by the romantics and the power of the absurd

As his South London Gallery show opens, the self-proclaimed “friendliest Black artist in America” explains why creating new versions of his work is so important

Margaret Carrigan
20 December 2023

New displays at Imperial War Museum come at a crucial time for world peace

The London museum's thematic approach to conflict references current conflicts as well as historic ones

Louisa Buck
1 January 2014

Ethics and aesthetics: the increasing prominence of socially engaged art

Away from the glitz of record-breaking auction prices and extravagant art parties, austerity has given strength to a new movement of socially engaged artists

Christian Viveros-Fauné
28 November 2022

‘I like to be confrontational’: artist Roberto Lugo on how propaganda inspires his work

The sculptor and ceramicist has made works in response to the decorative arts collection at Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Museum, and created a mural with local communities

Helen Stoilas
31 August 2001

Interview with museum director and curator Udo Kittelman: “The curator should never be more important than the artist”

The new director of Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art is self taught (he trained as an optician), curator of the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, and passionately involved in contemporary art

Marina Sorbello
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
7 May 2024

Final exhibition with Richard Serra’s input shows the value of estate planning for artists

Details pre-agreed between artist, his team and David Zwirner solved the first dilemmas of posthumous market management—though later decisions will be made based on a breadth of considerations

Riah Pryor
31 May 2010

François Pinault poaches leading Paris fair director

Martin Bethenod to head collector’s Venice venues as disquiet grows over stalled exhibition programme

Enrico Tantucci and Gareth Harris
30 March 2017

How Eduardo Paolozzi channelled the chaos of Modern life

The artist’s relevance to our disruptive digital age shines through in a Whitechapel survey

By Simon Martin
19 October 2022

Paris+ par Art Basel's director on his long-term vision for the inaugural fair—and how it compares to Fiac

The fair, which opens today, sees 156 galleries gather at the Grand Palais Éphémère

Interview by Alexandre Crochet
6 December 2017

Collector's Eye: Steven Guttman

The entrepreneur tell us his preferred way to buy art and which work he would save if his house was on fire

Sarah P. Hanson
1 January 1991

Jennifer Mundy argues conservative art can also be good art: On Jane Lee's new Derain monograph

The Tate curator discusses moving on from Fauvism and the relationship between originality and quality

The Art Newspaper
14 October 2022

Van Gogh landscape coming up for auction should fetch a record price of over $100m

The orchard blossom scene, from the collection of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is being sold by Christie’s

a blog by Martin Bailey
26 July 2021

An expert’s guide to Sophie Taeuber-Arp: five must-read books on the Swiss artist

All you ever wanted to know about Taeuber-Arp, from a children’s book full of inspiring projects to a publication exploring the dynamics of artist couples—selected by the Tate curator Natalia Sidlina

José da Silva
31 August 2012

Music to the ears of the post-war avant garde: exhibitions mark the 100th anniversary of composer John Cage's birth

The celebrations of his life show how much he influenced—and was influenced by—some of the greats of American 20th-century art

Ben Luke
1 February 1994

A major private museum of Impressionism and Greek art for Athens

Architect of the Louvre pyramid, I.M. Pei, is its designer

Jason Edward Kaufman
1 January 2008

Interview with Cai Guo-Qiang on the eve of his retrospective: “I am eternally optimistic; I am Chinese”

The artist discusses his materials and his potentially explosive new book

Cristina Carrillo
1 November 2016

Modernism goes Latin American at MoMA

Collectors’ gift is part of wider trend in US museums as they redefine American art

Javier Pes and Julia Halperin
30 November 2023

Remembering Henry Kissinger, master of art politics, whose Cold War diplomacy still had resonance in 2023

Kissinger, one of the most photographed men of his time, with an instantly recognisable pair of spectacles, was a powerful graphic gift to artists including Philip Guston

Louis Jebb
1 October 2024

Amid cutbacks, big art market players are still chasing growth

Mega-dealers and auction houses are shrinking some areas while expanding others

Anny Shaw
6 May 2022

Jane Hall, Assemble: ‘It wasn’t about changing architecture; it was that we loved building something together’

The Turner Prize-winning art, design and architecture collective has a new show, which takes a Lina Bo Bardi drawing as a launchpad to work with Nottingham schools

Louisa Buck
8 April 2022

Girls girls girls: Simone Rocha curates all-women group show at Lismore Castle in Ireland

Louisa Buck
7 March 2018

Elon Musks's Tesla Roadster: Is it art? Or is it ‘garbage in space’?

The entrepreneur has begun implementing his plan to colonise Mars and make us a “multi-planetary species”

Cristina Ruiz. , additional reporting by Alec Evans
29 April 2020

If the sea destroys Venice, can digital technology rebuild it?

The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May

Anna Somers Cocks
21 June 2016

What is art for? Taking risks and looking for ‘essential value’

The hedge fund manager and art collector J. Tomilson “Tom” Hill III explains why a work’s staying power is more important than its market price

The Art Newspaper
6 July 2017

Remembering Khadija Saye, the artist who died in the Grenfell Tower fire

Artist Nicola Green, gallery director Ingrid Swenson and Tate curator Andrew Wilson share their memories

By Ingrid Swenson, Nicola Green and Andrew Wilson
31 March 2009

Interview with Chuck Close on how his grandma’s crochet inspired his artistic vision

On the eve of a show at PaceWildenstein in New York, the veteran US artist discusses the importance of the year he spent with his grandmother when he was eleven

Brook Mason
8 August 2024

Bony Ramirez: from construction worker to coveted emerging artist

A museum solo in the artist's adopted hometown accompanies steady demand among buyers and curators

Osman Can Yerebakan
11 November 2019

From the archive | Louvre pyramid architect I.M. Pei on the church-like museum he designed for the Goulandris collection

In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists

Jason Edward Kaufman
13 February 2020

Frieze Los Angeles diary: glass orbs of LA smog and a Baldessari biscuit

Plus, Eric Doeringer pranks the Broads and Serpentine Galleries embraces the golf cart

The Art Newspaper
2 September 2019

As Prado becomes hub for Fra Angelico works, new show builds on museum's exceptional collection

Paintings by Florentine artist at Madrid institution are beautifully and sensitively displayed alongside an impressive range of works in other media

Laura Llewellyn
14 February 2024

Despite the no vote, Australia reinforces First Nations voices

While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives

Tim Stone
4 August 2020

Art, enlightenment and plenty of sex: life according to John Giorno

Some takeaways from the late US artist and poet’s new memoir Great Demon Kings

Gareth Harris
13 December 2024

Lorraine O’Grady, conceptual artist who dissected language and dualities, has died, aged 90

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more

Benjamin Sutton
3 May 2010

Serota on a sustainable future for museums: why Tate needs to change in a changing world

Moving on from traditional didacticism and adapting to a new level of modern communication

The Art Newspaper
17 March 2022

Rising sea levels imperil French church that inspired the Impressionists, including Monet

Coastal erosion in Normandy means that the Saint-Valery church in Varengeville-sur-Mer may soon disappear

Georges Waser
15 November 2016

Why the ‘Uber effect’ is proving elusive for online platforms

Business is growing but no one has truly disrupted the market—yet

Melanie Gerlis
1 March 2024

Rita McBride: ‘I can draw through space, and it’s infinite’

The artist’s installation at the Hammer Museum dissolves space and time with laser beams and a uniquely science-fiction-flecked optimism

Torey Akers
18 September 2019

Chicago Architecture Biennial reckons with displacement, privation and segregation

Artists’ works address a history of colonialisation and marginalisation and its impact on contemporary urban realities

Lauren DeLand
15 June 2015

Why curators can't get enough of Marcel Broodthaers

The late Belgian poet and conceptual artist is due to get his first US retrospective since 1989 at MoMA next year

Gareth Harris
11 October 2024

Fairs are one of the art world's biggest sources of emissions, so how can they become more green?

Travel, shipping and temporary structures all have a huge environmental impact. So some of the biggest fairs, including Frieze, have now committed to monitor and reduce their emissions

Joe Ware
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 February 1999

V&A Director Alan Borg says, “The idea of keeping museums separate from the trade needs to disappear, particularly for the contemporary world”

V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce

Sarah Greenberg
19 September 2023

Private sector picks up the pieces as UK government cuts art education funding

While university arts departments are being dismantled, dealers and auction houses provide learning programmes

Scott Reyburn and Anny Shaw
9 May 2016

From drones to fair use: the hottest topics in museum law

Nationalistic appropriation, brand control in reality TV shows, YouTube take-downs: American Law Institute’s annual course covered it all

Martha Lufkin
31 May 2011

Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken and Matthew Barney are leading the way in a new kind of theatrical art

"In long, durational performance, you change the performer and the public" says Abramovic

Linda Yablonsky
27 February 2024

Dubai market shifts towards emerging homegrown artists

As the latest Art Dubai fair opens, the city's art scene is maturing, with international collectors and curators snapping up young Emirati artists

Melissa Gronlund
23 June 2015

How the Cranachs made Luther unmistakable: Joachim Whaley on the Luther Decade

Part two of a series on Luther’s favourite painter and publicist

Joachim Whaley
1 February 1997

Vast exodus of art from Hong Kong due to fears of a Chinese clamp-down after the handover

Collectors fear changes to export regulations after British departure

Martin Bailey
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