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Mona Hatoum
2 February 2026

In pictures: Wael Shawky’s pick of Art Basel Qatar

The artistic director of the inaugural edition of the Doha-based fair talks us through his highlights

The Art Newspaper
27 January 2026

Antony Gormley and Brian Eno donate works to auction for Gaza health workers

The pair are among 21 artists to take part in a charity gala auction in London this February

Joe Ware
24 December 2025

The waves that disappeared—Art duo Cooking Sections track lost tides in new installation

Centro Botin presentation also taps into community concerns about dredging and port expansion

Emily Steer
15 December 2025

The best exhibitions of 2025, as chosen by curators and museum directors

From Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou to Linder at the Hayward, these are the shows that stood out this year

Compiled by José da Silva
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
30 October 2025

Comment | Exhibitions comparing artists can be problematic, but the Barbican brings Giacometti, Bhabha and Hatoum together with perfect judgement

Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue

Ben Luke
16 October 2025

‘We are in a very special situation as collectors’: Petr Pudil on opening the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, and the art he collects

Alongside catching London’s museum shows, the co-founder of the Pudil Family Foundation likes to jog along the Thames and head out for a curry

José da Silva
16 June 2025

National Gallery of Canada receives gift of 61 works valued at $16.8m

The donation, from the Vancouver-based collector and businessman Bob Rennie, is the largest in the gallery's history

Hadani Ditmars
12 June 2025

Gallery lures collectors to Spain’s abandoned region with large-scale sculpture trail

The sprawling sculpture trail is the latest initiative by Albarrán Bourdais, a project that is filling Matarraña, the country’s least populated area, with architecture

Alexandra F. Coego
15 April 2025

This art historian is on a quest to ensure the story of Arab art is not lost

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts

Melissa Gronlund
3 February 2025

Parkinson’s charity sale presents cubed art by Rana Begum and George Shaw

Works by 118 artists, on show at Bonhams, will be sold in aid of the Cure3 initiative

The Art Newspaper
31 May 2002

Interview with Mona Hatoum: Pass the electric fork, please

The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger

Louisa Buck
17 September 2019

Mona Hatoum and William Kentridge among international recipients of £100,000 Japanese art prize

The Praemium Imperiale Award will be presented in Tokyo in October

Martin Bailey
31 January 2018

Crystals and contemplation: Mona Hatoum celebrated as Whitechapel Gallery’s 2018 Art Icon

Louisa Buck
13 May 2016

Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern: the art of war in our time

Lebanon-born artist tackles world politics but the intimate and the personal shine brightest

Jane Morris
1 November 2003

Mona Hatoum is the latest artist to curate an Artist's Choice exhibition at the MoMA

The show is named “Here is elsewhere” since “most of the artists in the exhibition, because of their gender, sexual orientation, colour, or cultural background, speak from a critical position outside the status quo”

Sarah Douglas
30 September 2009

Vancouver collectors open private art museum

The inaugural exhibition at the Rennie Collection will showcase sculptor Mona Hatoum

Lindsay Pollock
21 July 2017

Artists including Mona Hatoum design prayer rugs for San Francisco show

Visitors will be able to sit on 36 wool rugs arranged across the floor of a former interfaith chapel

By Victoria Stapley-Brown
12 August 2020

As public art comes under increased scrutiny, New York's High Line asks the people to help pick its next installation

Around 80 artists—including Nick Cave, Mona Hatoum and Rafa Esparza—have submitted proposals for the elevated park on Manhattan's West Side

Gabriella Angeleti
19 June 2019

Can art bring the walls down? Washington DC show explores the migrant experience

Exhibition at the Phillips Collection is curated by Massimiliano Gioni and will include works by Arshile Gorky, Mona Hatoum and Vija Celmins

Nancy Kenney
18 April 2022

Artists for the next Sharjah Biennial, initiated by late curator Okwui Enwezor, revealed

The biennial’s 2023 edition will feature more than 140 artists including Kader Attia, Hassan Hajjaj, Mona Hatoum, Lubaina Himid and Carrie Mae Weems

Benjamin Sutton
23 June 2015

“The whole world is a political hot spot caught up in war, conflict and unrest”

Mona Hatoum returns to the Centre Pompidou this week, 20 years after it held her first solo museum show. The Lebanese-born, London-based artist looks back on her daring early performances and her openness to working in different media<br> <br>

Luana De Micco
27 June 2016

The painful auf wiedersehen of Wolfgang Tillmans’s anti-Brexit images, Mona Hatoum's over-egged symbolism and much more in this week’s London exhibition round-up

Louisa Buck
15 November 2018

Cerith Wyn Evans wins 2018 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

New £30,000 award goes to the established Welsh artist who has “moved into new territory”

Gareth Harris
30 September 2005

MoMA reveals restock of its contemporary galleries in yearly rehang

Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum

Charmaine Picard
1 November 1996

Women artists provide alternative view at the Whitechapel

“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December

The Art Newspaper
5 December 2024

‘One of a kind’: Barbican and Fondation Giacometti to collaborate on 2025 exhibition series

Historic pieces by the acclaimed Swiss sculptor Giacometti will be brought together with works by three leading contemporary artists at the Brutalist London venue

Gareth Harris
8 March 2017

Greek artists get a share of the spotlight at Documenta 14 in Kassel

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens will send part of its collection to Germany for the international exhibition

By Laurie Rojas
10 August 2017

São Paulo’s dealers team up to organise a homegrown art fair

Semana de Arte, a week of cultural programming throughout the city this August, will be capped off with boutique fair held at the Hotel Unique

By Sara Roffino
4 November 2016

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (partially) open at last

The public gets a peek inside the long-delayed building with the temporary exhibition Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp

Helen Stoilas
5 January 2023

Tracey Emin, Frank Bowling and NFT artists create works in aid of Parkinson's research

Fourth edition of Cure3 selling exhibition trials "a new format of charitable giving in the crypto world"

Gareth Harris
14 September 2021

James Turrell and Sebastião Salgado among international recipients of £400,000 Japanese art prize

Japan Art Association drew up the all-male winners list for award dubbed ‘Nobel Prize for the Arts’

Gareth Harris
24 October 2023

Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker donate works to Freedom from Torture charity auctions

Ai Weiwei’s taxi window crank sculptures will also go on the block at the Sotheby's live sale

Gareth Harris
9 February 2016

Goya, Magritte and Cai Guo-Qiang feature in Arab art show

Qatar Museums presents key works from collection in Bank of Santander’s Madrid space

Javier Pes
21 November 2018

Cerith Wyn Evans bares (nearly) all and is worthy winner of Hepworth sculpture prize

Partial nudity and a full-frontal rally against Brexit from the Welsh sculptor

Louisa Buck
16 May 2022

Gilane Tawadros appointed director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London

The head of artist copyright society Dacs will replace Iwona Blazwick, who served as head of the East London institution for 20 years

Gareth Harris
31 May 2016

In the trade, June 2016

Aimee Dawson
13 September 2023

Vija Celmins and Olafur Eliasson win £90,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes

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

Gareth Harris
1 February 2008

Meet the Danish collector whose Hirsts have just gone on show in Copenhagen

Jyte Dresing has loaned eight works to Copenhagen's Arken Museum of Modern Art

Martin Bailey
22 June 2023

Frieze turns 20: London fair teams up with star artists from Tracey Emin to Alvaro Barrington for anniversary edition

Eight artists have been invited to select one of their peers for solo stands at this year's fair

Kabir Jhala
3 June 2018

Kerry James Marshall on painting, politics and P Diddy’s record-breaking purchase of his work

The artist’s retrospective opens at the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, the largest private owner of his work

Hadani Ditmars
31 August 2016

In the Trade, September 2016

Brook Mason and Ermanno Rivetti
9 September 2024

Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah among 4,000 arts professionals urging UK government to stand up for culture

The Venice Biennale artists are backing a collective manifesto which calls for new policies to support the visual arts

Gareth Harris
3 January 2023

From Sharjah to São Paulo: 2023's most interesting biennials

From Okwui Enwezor’s final project to an Indigenous-inspired Liverpool Biennial, here are some key dates for your exhibition calendars

Gareth Harris
10 July 2017

Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection come to CCS Bard

No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects spans over two decades of art from Arab countries

By Gabriella Angeleti
29 April 2016

Montblanc steps up its art patronage

Luxury brand recruits curators to re-energise and expand corporate collection

Hannah McGivern
1 December 1998

Christie's Contemporary auction report: Basquiat as a pricing phenomenon

His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations

Laura Tansini
20 October 2017

Imperial War Museum explores artists’ responses to war and terror after 9/11

Show of more than 40 artists includes Jenny Holzer, Grayson Perry and Gerhard Richter

Anny Shaw
13 September 2015

Comfort blankets: White Cube show examines the politics of quilts and tapestries

New works by contemporary artists will hang alongside textiles by Gee's Bend and Amish women

Anny Shaw
20 August 2019

Inaugural Rabat Biennale to be made up (mainly) of female artists

Curator Abdelkader Damani explains the reasons behind launching Moroccan show in already saturated biennial landscape

Gareth Harris
26 September 2017

Jerusalem, a divided city, comes to life in two exhibitions

Exhibitions at the Israel Museum and the new Palestinian Museum offer differing perspectives

Aimee Dawson
11 October 2018

Three exhibitions to see in New York

From Yasumasa Morimura’s play on Western paintings at Japan Society to Leonor Fini’s freedom at the Museum of Sex

Nancy Kenney and Victoria Stapley-Brown
21 June 2018

Three to see: New York

From a smiley snowman to an "awareness of death"

Victoria Stapley-Brown, Gabriella Angeleti and Ivy Olesen
5 September 2024

Tate shows works donated by Greek tycoon Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Philanthropic gift of over 110 works integrated into displays at Tate Modern, Britain and St Ives

Gareth Harris
3 September 2024

Deutsche Bank re-hangs massive collection at new London headquarters

German conglomerate also commissions works by four artists for UK base

Gareth Harris
1 February 2004

The British Council releases its artistic programme for 2004

The international line-up includes projects in Libya, Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Territories

Martin Bailey
3 May 2022

May Book Bag: from the Hirshhorn Museum’s collection catalogue to Tom of Finland’s sketches of bulging, er, muscles

Our roundup of the latest art publications

Gareth Harris
5 August 2022

New interactive encyclopaedia traces history of Palestinian art and culture

Digital project from the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut explores how the Palestinian people have used art to express their social and political history

Hadani Ditmars
15 January 2020

Artists in PS1 Gulf War show urge museum to sever ties with toxic philanthropy

After Michael Rakowitz paused his video, 37 artists have signed an open letter condemning investments by MoMA board members Larry Fink and Leon Black into private prisons, weapons manufacturing and defense firms

Wallace Ludel
12 August 2022

Gandhi's handwritten notes to Lord Mountbatten on the eve of India's partition go on show

Group exhibition at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton is curated by the Mumbai artist Jitish Kallat and includes works by Kader Attia and Zarina

Kabir Jhala
25 July 2017

Edinburgh Art Festival: artists look to Maori traditions, 19th-century botany and jellyfish

Jupiter Artland’s new permanent piece by Pablo Bronstein joins two ten-metre-high pavilions in a Gothic and Chinoiserie style

By Tim Cornwell
13 April 2020

Santander bank chairman and art collector Ana Patricia Botín appointed to International Monetary Fund advisory board

Group has been formed to tackle major financial issues including the coronavirus and its global economic impact

Anny Shaw
2 July 2019

'Game-changer' museum to open in Istanbul in time for city's biennial

Turkish non-profit contemporary art space Arter is relocating to a state-of-the-art exhibition space in Dolapdere district

Hannah McGivern
14 June 2016

Tate Britain a new sense of identity

Arguably the museum that most immediately suffered from Tate Modern’s success was its sister institution upriver

Ben Luke
21 June 2017

Spain’s new Centro Botín shuns the ‘Bilbao effect’

Architect Renzo Piano rejects comparisons between Santander’s latest art centre and the Guggenheim museum

By Hannah McGivern
20 July 2017

Private museum of Arab art in the pipeline for Beirut

Pop-up shows and international loans will pave the way for 2020 opening

By Aimee Dawson
5 September 2019

Dóra Maurer: 'a lack of market was positive for my work'

White Cube announces representation of the Hungarian avant-garde artist with an exhibition of paintings from the past 30 years

Anny Shaw
10 September 2024

My five-year-old could do that! The impact of childhood on the work of artists

A new book gathers together anecdotes from artists' early years and looks at how these formative experiences shaped their careers

Aimee Dawson
24 May 2022

Chinese Museum in Vancouver aims to rewrite Canada’s racist history

The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art

Hadani Ditmars
29 December 2015

Art-world experts on their highs and lows of 2015—and their top tips for next year

Figures including Sarah McCrory and Serge Lasvignes reveal their highlights and biggest disappointments

Gareth Harris
19 April 2022

Move over Venice! Sunderland reveals its heart of glass with four new artist commissions in north-east England

Louisa Buck
28 October 2022

Laila Shawa—a revolutionary Palestinian artist who found international fame—has died, aged 82

The artist and activist, described as the ‘mother of Arabic revolutionary art’ has work in the collections of the British Museum and the Ashmolean

Hadani Ditmars
10 February 2021

Oaxaca museum in Mexico is locked in standoff with private foundation

Director spends night inside as the institution’s funders fail to pay salaries

Elizabeth Mistry
20 February 2017

What defunding the NEA would mean for US museums

The country's cultural institutions speak out about the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts, as President Trump's office drafts a new budget

By Helen Stoilas
17 March 2016

Call to action at the heart of sixth Marrakech Biennale

Palestinian curator’s ‘living art’ project draws on colonialism, conflict and activism

Myrna Ayad
1 February 1996

The collectors and the artists they choose to collect

Gemma de Angelis Testa, Eliana Guglielmi, Corrado Levi, Marcello Levi, Marco Rivetti, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

The Art Newspaper
29 January 2016

A tale fit for Homer: the decade-long odyssey of Athens’s National Museum of Contemporary Art

The saga behind a much-delayed home for the city’s contemporary art collection reflects many of modern Greece’s woes

Fotini Barka
1 September 2020

European museums defend their partnerships in China

As China faces growing criticism over its detention of Uyghers and crackdown in Hong Kong, Tate, V&A and the Pompidou explain why it is important to continue working in the country

Statements from Tate, V&A and Centre Centre Pompidou
14 October 2024

Art Basel Paris's new incarnation at the Grand Palais is lifting spirits high

The Paris fair's third edition will welcome 195 galleries—41 more than last year—from 42 countries

Vincent Noce
25 February 2020

The ripple effect of the Arab Spring

Political upheaval across the region presents challenges—and opportunities—for artists and collectors

Gareth Harris
1 January 1996

News from London: All the Turner prize gossip, while Lopez returns to Spain but Lisson gets bigger

Horsing around at the Serpentine doesn't hit the right spot for Wallinger collector

Roger Bevan
1 February 2017

From the archive | The art machine: the Centre Pompidou at 40

As the Parisian cultural behemoth hits a landmark anniversary, figures from the world of art and architecture discuss its legacy

By Ben Luke
1 March 1997

First Interview with MoMA's new director Glenn Lowry on modernising the Modern

Gertrude Stein asks: museum or modern? MoMA’s director replies

Jason Edward Kaufman
1 March 1998

Moderna Museet's David Elliot on maintaining the institution's legacy as it moves into new premises

Amid the frenzy of Stockholm ‘98, the museum's new director takes art seriously

Louisa Buck
30 September 2006

Where is the art from the ‘Sensation’ show? A list of the collectors in 2006

An Art Newspaper investigation tracks the ownership history of art from Charles Saatchi's collection shown at the Royal Academy in 1997

Georgina Adam
1 February 1991

Charles Saatchi: the man and the market. The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste

As “Sensation!”, the exhibition of the Saatchi collection of young British art, opens at the Royal Academy we ask what drives Saatchi to buy, and risk, so much

Roger Bevan
1 February 1991

As Charles Saatchi's collection of young British art opens at the Royal Academy, we ask what drives the collector to buy, and risk, so much

The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste

Roger Bevan
1 September 1997

Charles Saatchi: the man behind the Young British Art collection showcased in the 'Sensation' exhibition

As show opens at the Royal Academy, we ask what drives Saatchi to buy and risk so much, using access to his collection's archive to chart a 25-year transformation in his taste

Roger Bevan
12 August 2016

Three to see: London

Channel spirits at the Courtauld Gallery and find “found” objects at the Foundling Museum <br>

José da Silva
24 July 2017

Paris exhibition and auction throw spotlight on refugee NGOs in France

Works by Cindy Sherman and Glenn Ligon to go on show at the Palais de Tokyo and on the block in Christie’s sale

By Gareth Harris
22 September 2017

Arab artists respond to dictatorship, surveillance and civil war at Beirut Art Fair

Strong showing of Syrian art across the event including by artist Saad Yagan whose Aleppo studio was destroyed in 2012

Tim Cornwell
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 July 2001

Art Basel 2001 report: collectors motivated by passion rather than stock market swings

This year has served as a good barometer of the Modern art market

Philippe Regnier
26 February 2020

EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens finally opens its doors

The institution welcomes the first visitors to its renovated home in the former Fix brewery this week, after years of delays

Ioanna Gkomouza and Charis Kanellopoulou
11 September 2017

London exhibitions part 1: female Surrealists reclaim the body, a peek into Matisse’s studio and an exploration of the artist-sitter dynamic

Louisa Buck
11 September 2017

London exhibitions part 2: black rights on both sides of the Atlantic and Middle Eastern spaceship diners

Louisa Buck
29 April 2016

What does a female artist have to do to get a major solo show?

Statistics show that less than a third of the biggest exhibitions in the US go to women <br>

Gareth Harris, Javier Pes and Julia Halperin
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