NewsPrizes
Portrait of veiled mother of nine fishing in Yemen wins World Press Photo award
Pablo Tosco’s image from amidst world’s worst humanitarian crisis tops awards, with 45 photographers garlanded from 28 countries
NewsContemporary art
Manipulated images of smiling Khmer Rouge victims prompt Cambodia to threaten Vice media with legal action
Irish artist Matt Loughrey’s reworked pictures of people murdered in Cambodia’s Killing Fields, published by Vice, may have broken country’s Archives Act
PreviewExhibitions
Lockdown easing: the best gallery shows to see in London right now
Eerie wooden cabins, rural quiltmakers and dismembered, tentacular dolls are among our highlights from the city's commercial exhibitions
PreviewExhibitions
South Korea confronts legacy of 1980 massacre at this year's Gwangju Biennale
The biennial will highlight the conflicting narratives of the deadly uprising that paved the way for democracy
NewsNFTs
Jeremy Deller mints his first NFT: here is his advice for other artists
The British artist has entered the fray of crypto collectibles, collaborating with The Art Newspaper to auction an NFT for charity. How will an established artist fare in this brave new world?
NewsPhotography
Photographer David Alan Harvey resigns from Magnum after sexual abuse allegations
Agency “recognises the victims and survivors” of Harvey’s abusive behaviour but victim says "it has done more damage than he or Magnum could ever imagine”
NewsPhotography
A year after Covid-19 is confirmed as a pandemic, World Press Photo prize reminds us of photography's vital role in playing witness to history
Highest prize for photojournalism includes images from 28 countries that capture a year when the coronavirus intertwined with global issues of social injustice and territorial conflicts
NewsCommercial galleries
Art world reels as New York gallery Metro Pictures announces closure
Long-standing Chelsea gallery was synonymous with the artists of Pictures Movement—including Cindy Sherman, discovered while working as a receptionist
NewsPrizes
First art prize dedicated to female African artists launches today
Accra-based Gallery 1957 organises prize to celebrate its fifth birthday, with all-star jury set to announce cash prizes for three winners
InterviewVideo, film & new media
Magnum photographer Khalik Allah releases epic film portrayal of social and racial injustice on the streets of Harlem
Created in just 8 months, IWOW: I Walk On Water is a sprawling three-hour long paean to some of New York’s most marginalised people
NewsContemporary Photography
How Magnum Photos is cleaning up its act
Agency acts after 11 women allege in magazine article they were harassed by veteran photographer David Alan Harvey
FeatureObituaries
Remembering Brigid Berlin: Mainstay of Andy Warhol's Factory who pioneered art of self-representation using Polaroids and cassettes
An upper-class rebel who became Warhol's best friend and "the only person who could yell at him"
NewsPrizes
London teenagers in cancelled prom outfits win Taylor Wessing Prize
Alys Tomlinson spent three months during lockdown taking the portrait of teenagers in the midst of their “lost summer”
InterviewBook Club
Benedikt Taschen: from selling comics in Cologne to hanging out with Hockney
As the Taschen publishing house turns 40, its founder talks about starting out in his parents’ kitchen and the importance of “planting seeds”
NewsPhotography
Magnum suspends photographer David Alan Harvey for a year
Long-term member required to undergo anti-harassment training, while reinstatement is dependent on meeting “conditions attached”
FeatureVideo, film & new media
Take five: Steve McQueen quintet crowns an art-centred London Film Festival
Turner Prize winner’s series led a programme that celebrated the electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and explored an unlikely allegiance of artist and criminal
NewsObituaries
British photographer Chris Killip remembered after battle with cancer
Harvard professor's depiction of Newcastle's industrial decline became an icon of British documentary photography
NewsVenice
Ocean art space in Venice church confronts city's perilous battle with climate change
Multimedia installation synthesises three years of scientific research into marine transformation across the planet
PreviewArt market
Analogue to digital: Photo London goes online as director slams UK government's communications with arts organisations
Covid-19 messaging is “inconsistent, contradictory, all over the place” says Michael Benson, who has had to cancel physical fair twice
PreviewExhibitions
Japan's leading photography festival comes to Kyoto this weekend
The eighth edition of Kyotographie will include exhibitions in venues ranging from traditional wooden townhouses to shopping arcades
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Jadé Fadojutimi's purposeful paintings at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to Trevor Paglen's floral AI animations at Pace
PreviewExhibitions
Reap what we sow: Trevor Paglen’s new flower works take an allegorical view of AI
Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity
NewsPhotography
Magnum photographer Alec Soth defends similarities with work by Chicago artist Tonika Johnson
On commission for the New York Times, Soth says he had "no knowledge" of the long-term project by the Chicago resident and documentary photographer
AnalysisBiennials & festivals
As crowds are banned, Riga’s art biennial transforms into a three-week live set for a feature film
Riboca2 shows “the fragility of our world, and our vulnerability within it”
NewsArt market
Photo London abandons socially distanced fair to go online
Decision "feels like natural progression for the market”, exhibitor says
NewsArtists
Alison Jacques 'removes all trace' of late photographer Saul Fletcher—and calls on art world to follow lead
Respected London gallerist says “it's not ok to continue to promote his work” in wake of Fletcher’s killing of the curator Rebeccah Blum prior to his own suicide
NewsControversies
After allegations of child abuse imagery in their archive, Magnum photo agency announce major review
Experts call for a “transparent” investigation ran by an independent expert in child protection, and to “urgently investigate the conduct” of some its members
InterviewAn-My Lê
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
NewsMental health
In wake of murder-suicide, artists speak out over a lack of mental-health provision in the art industry
"A lot of people suffer in silence and behind closed doors," an anonymous artist says following the deaths of Saul Fletcher and Rebeccah Blum
NewsObituaries
'Remember her name and nobody else's': shock at suspected murder of curator Rebeccah Blum
Artist Saul Fletcher—who is believed to have committed suicide at Blum's country home—killed her in his Berlin flat where her body was found
NewsPhotography
World Press Photo—which has all-white supervisory board—accused of structural racism
Photographers have criticised the Amsterdam-based photojournalism organisation, which states its core values are “accuracy, diversity, and transparency”
NewsPhotography
Martin Parr’s resignation from photo festival sparks ‘cancel culture’ debate
How industry elites are treated, and how historical photographs are viewed, now under the microscope in wake of anti-racism campaign
NewsPhotography
Martin Parr steps down as artistic director of Bristol Photo Festival after student's anti-racism campaign
The photographer has publicly apologised after lending his name to “offensive and demeaning" photography book
PreviewExhibitions
Star curators take on Henri Cartier-Bresson in Venice
Wim Wenders and Annie Leibovitz among those showing their unique interpretations of the French photographer’s own master collection at the Palazzo Grassi
InterviewAppointments & departures
'The show must go on': new Rencontres d’Arles director promises 'less is more' approach after pandemic scuppers this year's edition
Head-hunted from Paris Photo, Christoph Wiesner will begin role as Luma Foundation officially opens its headquarters in the French city
NewsPhotography
Magnum signs five new photographers after its lack of diversity comes under attack
As the photographic agency shows signs of moving towards greater inclusion, affirmative action is a hot topic at the annual general meeting
NewsLi Zhensheng
In memoriam: Chinese dissident photojournalist Li Zhensheng, chronicler of China's Cultural Revolution
Li, who died aged 79, spent his life “striving to bear witness and document history”
NewsArt market
New Annie Leibovitz show jettisons signature portraits to focus on interior life during lockdown
Hauser & Wirth online exhibition, launching today, includes limited edition print sold in aid of Covid-19 relief efforts
Newscoronavirus
Carrie Mae Weems launches new public-facing art initiative to resist Covid-19
Syracuse street art explores why pandemic has disproportionately impacted non-white communities
PreviewExhibitions
Riga’s Riboca biennial defies Covid-19 by transforming into an arthouse feature film
Unfinished exhibition space will be used as a set, while the public programme moves online
FeatureBook Club
How the photographer Gordon Parks upended stereotypes of policing and crime in America
As protests over the death of George Floyd continue to rage across the US, a newly released monograph on The Atmosphere of Crime series from the 1950s remains timely
NewsPhotography
Online exhibition calls for release of ‘disappeared’ Bangladeshi photographer Shafiqul Islam Kajol
The photojournalist went missing after publishing an investigation into a Dhaka sex-ring. Discovered in a remote prison, he now faces a possible seven years behind bars
NewsExhibitions
The photographer Lorna Simpson on how Covid-19 has revealed the ongoing segregation of America
“This moment is a hard one. It’s definitely going to be difficult to get through,” the artist says
NewsPhotography
Resistance, subversion and identity at the heart of Fotofest's first African focus
The complicated kinship between photography and colonialism is exposed at this year's festival in Houston
ReviewExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From David Hockney's portraits to a photography show radically rethinking masculinity
NewsExhibitions
Picasso packs a punch: photography show offers unseen candid glimpses of artist's personal life
Exhibition at Le Vieux Chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, shows images captured by the war photographer David Douglas Duncan
PreviewArt fairs
Arco Madrid reforms selection process following criticism of lack of transparency
The 39th edition, opening tomorrow, has exhibitors from across Latin America, including Peru, Cuba, Chile and Colombia
NewsArtists
British artist calls for 'unethical' Unseen fair to cease operation after bankruptcy and buy-out
The Amsterdam-based photography event has failed to pay Felicity Hammond for commissioned work, but still plans to host a 2020 edition
PreviewExhibitions
From trans to the Taliban: Barbican to explore the many sides of masculinity
Sweeping photography show will shine a light on the fluid and plural nature of what it means to be a man
PreviewExhibitions
Survey show reframes novelist Wright Morris as pioneering Depression-era photographer
Amsterdam's Fotografiemuseum exhibition aims to show how the writer's images of dust bowl America are as compelling as those of his more famous peers
ReviewFairs
Premium vintage prints dominate Paris Photo
The world's largest photography fair aims to champion diversity and young blood, but new works from the medium's biggest names tower over this year's edition
NewsPhotography
Martin Parr and Bernd and Hilla Becher remember a lost Wales
As part of a major photography launch at National Museum Cardiff, Wales' "last world" of industry is movingly resurrected, and the country of today celebrated
NewsExhibitions
Photojournalist Shahidul Alam—who served time for his activism—gets retrospective at the Rubin Museum
After spending months in a Bangladeshi jail, the artist continues to speak out against injustice
PreviewFairs
Paris Photo turns its lens on youth in preparation for 2020 New York launch
Photography fair opens this week in French capital with a section focussing on marginalised artists
ReviewArt market
Art X Lagos 'pursues own mandate' as fair doubles in size
In its fourth edition, Nigerian event exhibits artists from 24 countries but maintains a focus on West Africa and growing local collector base
InterviewPhotography
The media industry 'has changed beyond all recognition': Magnum's new CEO on adapting to the digital landscape
Caitlin Hughes has also promised to “bring the voices of its members together” as the photo agency targets a "more nimble" approach to client partnerships
NewsPhotography
Photography exhibition revisits Iceland’s most notorious murders
Jack Latham’s “forensic photography” exhibition coincided with the reopening of a criminal investigation dating to 1974
InterviewThomas Struth
Thomas Struth on being taught by Gerhard Richter and how he almost cancelled his Guggenheim Bilbao show
A retrospective of the German photographer opens this week and includes more than 130 works spanning four decades
ReviewPhotography
Diversity drives Unseen Amsterdam as 19 new galleries arrive
New artistic director Marina Paulenka takes the reins of the annual photography festival this year
NewsArt fairs
'It was painful, it was hardship': Marina Abramovic on her ill-fated, epic walk towards Ulay across the Great Wall of China
Three decades after the artists made the journey, in the dying throes of their relationship, PhotoFairs Shanghai is showing the work for the first time in the country
NewsInternational
Photography collective takes a stand against wildlife crime
Internationally renowned photographers join forces to publish a crowdfunded book in English and Mandarin that raises awareness of China’s illegal trade in animals
NewsExhibitions
Martin Parr gives a wedding photographer his own big day
Bristol exhibition reveals Ian Weldon's documentary approach to "all the indiscretions, bad dancing and excessive behaviour" of a British wedding
NewsJeff Wall
Jeff Wall returns to his painting roots for new work in White Cube show
As his new exhibition opens in London, the conceptual photographer tells us about the Fauvist-like work and the theory behind it
PreviewExhibitions
Les Rencontres d'Arles celebrates 50 years with 50 shows
For its landmark edition, the festival is focusing on photographers chronicling a world in turmoil
PreviewExhibitions
Cindy Sherman gets first UK retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition will explore the influence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and how it all began with a humble family album
PreviewPhoto London
Photo London reacts to surge of interest in vintage photography
Fair is responding to market’s current return to tradition, while Brexit looms large in the minds of exhibitors
NewsPhotography
After years of copyright limbo, Vivian Maier comes to London
Her heir was not apparent, her life full of mysteries, now a major collection of Vivian Maier’s work is available to British collectors for the first time at Photo London
NewsPhotography
Photo London rescinds partnership with Brunei's Dorchester Collection after protests
The London fair is “undertaking urgent steps” to exit a contract with hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after the kingdom made gay sex punishable by stoning to death