Lee Cheshire

M+ becomes one of the most-popular art museums in Asia, despite Covid closures

The new Hong Kong museum attracted more than 2 million people in its first full year

London museums struggling to regain visitors after Covid closures, our survey shows

The Art Newspaper's annual Visitor Figures survey has found the National Gallery has lost more visitors since 2019 than any other art museum worldwide

Richard Mille Art Prize shines a spotlight on the Gulf's burgeoning art scene

The ten shortlisted artist for this year's prize are showing work in the Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Crop circles: Shaikha Al Mazrou's focus on materials and man-made marks

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Ayman Zedani: examining the future of the Gulf—through whale song

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Vikram Divecha on his ambitious proposal—a museum of walls

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Zeinab Alhashemi on bringing camels—and camel breeder culture—into the contemporary art scene

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Simrin Mehra-Agarwal on how her work as a technical diver inspires her art

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Rand Abdul Jabbar: 'Iraq is a clay culture—my choice to work with ceramics is linked to that lineage'

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Habits, hair and hardware stores: Afra Al Dhaheri on her artistic inspirations

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Manal AlDowayan—one of Saudi Arabia's best known artists—on moving from beautiful aesthetics to harsh concepts

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Elizabeth Dorazio: 'The unpredictability of nature guides my work'

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Dana Awartani on using craft—which is 'seen as a bad word'—in her art

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Head of London's Royal College of Art, Paul Thompson, to step down in 2024

Vice-chancellor of the UK’s highest-rated arts college will leave after 15 years in the role

The big museum openings to look out for in 2023

From the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery in London to the major expansion of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in the US, here is our pick of new museum projects in the coming year

Veronica Ryan becomes the oldest person to win the Turner Prize, at 66

"This is the Turner Prize recognising that artists can have a breakthrough at any moment in their career,” says Tate Liverpool director Helen Legg

'This land has an important history': Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA on their design for the Art Gallery of New South Wales

The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney

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Brutal cuts to London arts organisations as national funds are moved away from capital

“We’ve had to make invidious choices”, says Arts Council England’s chair, Nicholas Serota, as funding portfolio for 2023-26 announced

Collectorsinterview

'If you love it, don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks': restauranteur Jeremy King on what he collects and why

Lucian Freud's favoured dining partner says he still regrets letting a Hirst spot painting slip away

Art fairsfeature

Caterpillars, spiders and silkworms: our six favourite works at PAD London

Creepy crawly-inspired pieces caught our eye at the art and design fair

Anti-colonial statue unveiled on London’s Fourth Plinth—while debate continues about giving it to the Queen

Samson Kambalu’s sculpture Antelope, depicting John Chilembwe who died fighting British rule, is due to remain in place until 2024

‘The rest is spectacular’: Niki de Saint Phalle show in Zürich will reveal another side to French-American artist

The exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich will include works that she shot with a rifle and tiny sculptures influenced by Jean Tinguely and Antoni Gaudí

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art closes for fumigation after paper-eating bugs spotted inside artwork

Silverfish were filmed behind the glazing of a photograph by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Iranian museum

Qatarnews

Koons, Kusama, KAWS: Qatar installs 40 more sculptures in time for the Fifa World Cup

Public works by some of the art world’s biggest names will pop up across Doha

Exhibition traces the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad in unprecedented detail

Show about the Hijrah—Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina—at Saudi Arabia’s Ithra Museum will go on a five-year world tour

Emerging British artist Abbas Zahedi wins 2022 Frieze Artist Award

He will create a large installation for the upcoming Frieze London fair, bringing together a public waiting area and support space

Largest-ever exhibition of work by disabled artists in UK to be staged across museums nationwide, including Tate and Arnolfini in Bristol

Thirty-one artists will "disrupt" institutions with nonsensical and surreal work, inspired by the rebellious spirit of the Dada movement

Making it big: six must-see works from Art Basel's Unlimited section for outsized art

From an explosive painterly sculpture to a work that evokes the West's tension with Russia

Beyond Basel's convention centre: the best public art to see (for free) during the fair

Art Basel's Parcours section places installations across the Swiss city’s Old Town

Fairtigue? Here are the art world's favourite spots to meet and eat in Basel

The best places to relax after a day of pounding the art fair "streets"