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Taliban pledges to protect Buddhist city by mining underground

Afghan minister says that copper extraction by a Chinese company at Mes Aynak, an important archaeological site, will avoid damage to relics

Melissa Gronlundabout 12 hours ago

Nazi-looted Monet returned to heirs after the FBI traces it to New Orleans

Missing for more than 80 years, the 1865 pastel will be handed over in a ceremony today after the couple who bought it relinquished it voluntarily

Catherine Hickleyabout 3 hours ago

'Venus, morning star, sweet potato': Gagosian pairs Basquiat painting with ancient Roman sculpture for new Paris show

Exploring the theme of classical art in the American artist's work, the gallery is bringing together a 1982 canvas with a marble figure of Venus from the rarely seen Torlonia Collection

Anny Shawabout 12 hours ago

Lisa Nandy: 'We want to get the nation’s great artworks out of the basement and into our communities'

The UK culture secretary named Denzil Forrester as the winner of the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2024 at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport

Tom Seymour1 day ago

Students at multiple US art schools face tougher policies on protests this autumn

After a spring semester defined by widespread pro-Palestine demonstrations, some top art universities have imposed new restrictions

Anni Irish1 day ago

Frieze London 2024

The top stories, gossip and shows from this year's edition of Frieze London and Masters

‘I’m drawn to artists who are abolitionists, troublemakers, revolutionaries’: AI expert Ebele Okobi on the appeal of a rebellious streak

The chair of the development board at the Museum of West African Art, Nigeria, discusses why she collects works from artists who are “dangerous to empire”

Carlie Porterfieldabout 3 hours ago

Nairy Baghramian: ‘Dissent is part of society, it is a healthy freedom’

The Iranian-born, Berlin-based artist, whose work is currently on show at the discusses the beauty that lies in “in-between spaces”, and the relationship between art and democracy

Ben Lukeabout 4 hours ago

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 Michaelsabout 5 hours ago

'Our artists are lights in the dark': as war rages in Lebanon, Beirut's galleries find refuge at Frieze

Although their spaces at home remain closed, two Lebanese galleries are showing work at the London fair

Gareth Harrisabout 22 hours ago

'Very active participants in their own careers': why joint representation is proving popular for young artists

Emerging artists art discovering that working with smaller galleries alongside blue-chip firms can provide the best of both worlds

Anny Shawabout 22 hours ago

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with…Sonia Boyce — podcast

An in-depth interview with the Golden Lion-winner, discussing her shift to social practice, the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and how William Morris’s wallpaper designs have made their way into her work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David. Clackabout 11 hours ago
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Art Market Eye

Pricking the art market bubble?

New report makes grim reading in run-up to London’s autumn sales season

Georgina Adamabout 12 hours ago

Art market

Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists

Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today

‘It’s a little bit of a testing period’: inaugural Atlanta Art Fair opens with buzzy VIP turnout

Dealers hope the city’s first art fair will help Atlanta artists build a bigger collector base

Emily Carr painting bought for $50 at barn sale could bring $148,000 at auction

The 1912 painting is believed to have been gifted by the artist to friends who later moved to the Hamptons, where a discerning dealer nabbed it decades later for a bargain

More than 100 artist donated works to fundraise for Kamala Harris

Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Amy Sherald and many others are offering works through the Artists for Kamala fundraising sale and auction

Kasper König’s collection fetches €6m at Cologne auction

Top lots at the auction arranged by the esteemed curator before his death in August included two “date paintings” by On Kawara, a close friend

Museums & Heritage

Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia

Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

$3.9m restoration project breaks ground in Brooklyn to preserve remnants of a 19th-century free Black community

Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration

Ancient throne room of powerful Moche woman discovered in Peru

The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” is one of two elaborately decorated spaces archaeologists recently uncovered at Pañamarca

Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted

Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'

New Niki de Saint Phalle documentary chronicles her personal struggles and aesthetic triumphs

Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Niki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan

Exhibitions

Five not-to-miss PST Art shows at Los Angeles galleries

From the atomic to the astronomic, and the natural to supernatural, these exhibitions make the most of the Getty’s sweeping science-meets-art agenda

Jori Finkel2 days ago

What a catch! Italian artist trio to serve up fish market performance in New York

After an inaugural outing in Milan last year, Canemorto is transforming an East Village gallery into an irreverent market for handcrafted fish art

New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project

Art festival in Norway embraces the sounds of the Arctic Circle

At the Lofoten International Art Festival, music and sound art complement a majestic landscape of fjords and mountains

PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives

From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation

Book Club

‘The artist the critics love to hate’: the colourful life of sports star painter and Playboy illustrator LeRoy Neiman

We speak to the author of a new biography that reassesses the legacy of the “hustler” artist who rubbed shoulders with celebrities

An expert’s guide to Helen Frankenthaler: five must-read books on the Abstract Expressionist

All you ever wanted to know about Frankenthaler, from a seminal monograph to the story of the bohemian world that forged her—selected by the curator and writer Douglas Dreishpoon

In Pictures | Artist billboards across America tell a story of US politics today

Ahead of the November presidential election, a new book by the For Freedoms organisation brings together the topical and political posters that it has commissioned since 2016

Lady Gaga makes the Mona Lisa smile in Joker movie promo

Paris museum plugs forthcoming 'Madman' show in canny marketing move

Artist Glenn Ligon blasts Janet Jackson over 'nasty' Kamala Harris comments

The pop star re-ignited a row over the presidential candidate's heritage

Barbed art critic Brian Sewell is back—in AI form

The late writer known for his poison pen will make an appearance in a new London magazine

The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again in New York

Luna Luna, featuring a carousel by Keith Haring and David Hockney's enchanted forest, is travelling to The Shed

Monet is back in Vogue thanks to editor’s makeover

Edward Enninful is partnering with the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie to create prints inspired by the artist

Opinion

The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity

All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing

The case for a cross-border approach for recovering Europe's Nazi-looted art

If governments are committed to the Washington Principles, they should create a co-ordinating body

Ten years on from the genocide, Yazidi culture is still absent from Western museums

Institutions have a moral duty to better represent the persecuted Kurdish religious minority

Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

Rachida Dati has been reappointed as France's culture minister—but does she have the will to protect heritage?

The debacle over the commissioning of Notre-Dame's stained-glass windows highlights the politician's propensity to ignore expert advice

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill — podcast

Celebrating the “negative joy” of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill

Adventures with Van Gogh

Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.

Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes

A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway

Books

The life and art of Mabel Nicholson: new volume tells of the career catastrophe of domestic bliss

How lovingly raising her artistic family cost an artist of “tensile strength” her own fame

Two publications show how, in Caspar David Friedrich's world, mankind is puny against nature’s power

The German artist's work is pored over in two hefty tomes, one a smart overview, the other a comprehensive guide

'Go, thou, and do likewise': a field guide to Britain’s stone circles delivers both scholarship and romance

An authoritative and engaging read for fans of the UK's mute monoliths—be they academic or sentimental

Five of the best art books hitting the shelves this autumn

Our literary editor Jacqueline Riding selects some of the tempting titles that are scheduled for publication over the coming months

Take a romp through Ancient Rome’s great buildings with this handy (almost) pocket-sized book

Ostensibly a guide to the city's top 50 sites, a new publication by Paul Roberts offers far more

Museum Reinhard Ernst

Abstract art draws in the crowds in Germany

Over 60,000 visitors have flocked to the Museum Reinhard Ernst in Wiesbaden, Germany, in its first 100 days

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Obituaries

‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80

Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs

Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur

The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation

An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists

The artistic director of Serpentine, recalls 35 years of friendship and collaboration with the cultural impresario who was one of the most important curators of the second half of the 20th century

Remembering Alain Delon, screen idol and dedicated art collector, who has died aged 88

A personal memoir recalling the French actor’s “serious case of collectoritis” that saw him acquiring works by Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Géricault and Georges Braque

Technology

News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.

Artist on trial for website satirising Icelandic company’s alleged role in the Fishrot scandal

Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson’s spoof of the Samherji Group’s website featured a prominent apology, seemingly acknowledging its alleged role in the Namibian fishing scandal

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

Technologycomment

Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history

What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?

Diaryblog

What if women ruled the world? The Art Newspaper takes part in summer celebration of Judy Chicago at the Serpentine

The London art world came out in force to celebrate the American visionary's exhibition “Revelations” and to enjoy a tech-powered interaction with her quest to create a world where power is equally shared