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Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection

“Interwoven Power” uses a fresh curatorial lens to change the way viewers engage with Indigenous art

Torey Akersabout 11 hours ago

In Lebanon, many galleries have closed, and staff and artists have fled—but others are carrying on

As Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah, ‘art spaces allow people to escape’, says the gallery founder Saleh Barakat

Sarvy Geranpayehabout 19 hours ago

Climate change, racial violence, systemic inequity: New Orleans triennial confronts many of society's biggest problems

The latest edition of Prospect looks at how the city has been a harbinger for different issues, such as the climate crisis and the traumas of racial violence

Benjamin Suttonabout 16 hours ago

‘Obscenity’ dispute imperils nudes by major Indian artists F. N. Souza and Akbar Padamsee

The fate of seven works, seized by Mumbai customs last year due to their sensitive content, hangs in the balance

Kabir Jhalaabout 12 hours ago

Leonardo Cartoon was ‘presentation drawing’ in Florence commission bid

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

Martin Baileyabout 20 hours ago

The Week in Art

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

American sculpture: race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris — podcast

A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish museum has journeyed through political change towards opening, and a discussion of Ribera’s “most moving” work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrisonabout 17 hours ago

Art market

In the face of economic uncertainty, Art x Lagos focuses on non-commercial programming

The fair—opening with Nigeria’s naira in a slump—has carried forward its “concise” gallery section format from last year and expanded its broader activities

Gameli Hameloabout 13 hours ago

'A real leap of faith': Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

The move fuels the debate about whether artificial intelligence can replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship

Gareth Harris1 day ago

Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures

Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years

The ADAA Art Show spotlights the Houston art scene

The fair's new "Spotlight On..." programme will call attention to a new city each year

Two-for-one: double-sided Van Dyck to be sold at Christie's

An Andalusian horse was last sold at the auction house in 2000, after which another landscape was discovered, hidden on the back

Anna Brady2 days ago

Museums & Heritage

Come one, come all: Museum of Sex finally opens in Miami

After postponing for more than a year, the museum’s second location celebrates with a debaucherous Halloween party

Nazi-looted art panel rejects claim from Grosz's heirs

The panel said there is no evidence that the works, which are held in the collection of Bremen Kunsthalle, were lost as a result of Nazi persecution

A new study seeks to establish ethical collecting practices for US museums

The Penn Cultural Heritage Center’s three-year national study amplifies ongoing calls for transparency and will provide a collecting framework

New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing

The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial

After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month

The museum is preparing to open a major new building in the heart of the Polish capital

Exhibitions

Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection

“Interwoven Power” uses a fresh curatorial lens to change the way viewers engage with Indigenous art

Torey Akersabout 11 hours ago

November’s must-see exhibitions: Leonardo, Orphism and a beautiful exploration of 14th-century Siena

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

Sameer Farooq’s library of flatbreads at the Toronto Biennial serves as a map of the city’s diasporic communities

The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community ovens where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020

Christine Tohmé appointed curator of 18th Istanbul Biennial

The announcement follows a row over the initial appointment of Iwona Blazwick as the curator of the edition

Gareth Harris1 day ago

Artists Kim Schoen and Kim Schoenstadt make light of mistaken identities in collaborative show

This Venn diagram of a gallery exhibition leans into the ongoing confusion of the Los Angeles artists

Obituaries

Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India

Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals

Paul Lowe, conflict photographer and teacher lauded for Sarajevo siege photographs, dies, aged 60

Acclaimed photojournalist's teenage son charged with his murder on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles

François Duret-Robert, art market journalist, professor and collector, has died aged 92

The former editor of Connaissance des Arts was a leading figure in the French art market

‘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

Burner phones and erotic art go under the hammer in Banksy sale

Steve Lazarides, the street artist's former driver and dealer, is putting his archive on the block in Los Angeles

Erection of phallic sculpture in Naples sparks heated debate

Gaetano Pesce’s new public sculpture enflames city councillors

Grayson Perry and Rana Begum take the 10gram sculpture challenge

Forty artists have contributed to The Royal Society of Sculptors fundraising campaign

Lady Gaga makes the Mona Lisa smile in Joker movie promo

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

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

Opinion

Comment | In the run up to the US election, Boston's Museum of Fine Art is hopeful about art's role in a democratic future

The museum's latest exhibition explains and scrutinises democracy through objects spanning 2,500 years

Phoebe Segal

Steve McQueen delves into family history at Dia Chelsea

Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially motivated violence told by his father against images of the actor Al Jonson in blackface

Comment | Paris vs London debate is a 'non-troversy', says Christie's Guillaume Cerutti

Auction house chief executive argues that of greater concern is the decline of Europe's art market as America and Asia charge ahead

Comment | I thought I knew Stevie Wonder’s music until Arthur Jafa showed it in a new light

American artist Jafa's recent video work recontextualises Wonder's song 'As' as well as the film 'Taxi Driver'

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

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

Books

A new monograph highlights Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody as one of Britain's most important Modernists

Moody defied family expectations to pursue his art, and is now celebrated in an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

From roving gallery to London’s Mayfair: Unit’s social media journey, 11 years on

Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt didn’t have any of the traditional things needed to start a gallery—but they did have the power of Instagram

New York's Salon 94 is feeling the TikTok visitor effect

A content creator's positive post has led to a massive uptick in the gallery's footfall

Artists Amoako Boafo, Hans Haacke and Deborah Butterfield among thousands to sign statement against AI content scraping

Artists and organisations across the creative industries have come out in opposition to the practice of AI firms training their technology with copyrighted, unlicensed material

Prizesnews

Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence

German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future

Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art

German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology

Art Week Tokyo

In partnership with Art Week Tokyo

Back and forth in time: the Art Week Tokyo video programme

'Between Contrail and Mountains' brings together works by 13 international artists evoking 'different ways of relating to our life here on Earth'

Emily McDermottabout 18 hours ago
In partnership withArt Week Tokyo

During Art Week Tokyo, one exhibition is rediscovering the art of Japan’s ‘lost decades’

From Neo-Pop to the Zero Zero Generation to 3/11, the Ryutaro Takahashi collection traces the past 30 years of Japanese contemporary art

Reuben Keehan1 day ago
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