Artists

Chloe Wise: ‘I’m trying to put all of these things into a mishmash soup’

Better known as a painter, the artist’s new video and installation show explores extrasensory perception using tropes from science fiction, religion, consumer culture and art history

Uganda’s Umoja Art Gallery team forced to cancel attendance at Africa Basel fair after visas denied

The situation faced by the gallery—which has still sent works to the fair despite its representatives not being present—adds pertinence to a nearby project about barriers in the art world

In Pictures: highlights from Art Basel’s Unlimited section, focused on monumental projects

Curated this year by MoMA PS1's Ruba Katrib, Art Basel's large-scale sector has a monumental air

Ibrahim Mahama: ‘All these things are the stains; they are part of the story’

As he recovers from a brutal physical attack, the artist talks about his Münsterplatz commission and why it is important to preserve the memory of objects that have a complex history

Shuang Li shows how wild weather mirrors our fractured world

For her show at Kunsthalle Basel, the Chinese-born artist has drawn inspiration from the online videos of amateur storm chasers and how they are a metaphor for the current media landscape

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Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’

With a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Turner Prize-winning artist—known for his monumental creations and use of rich pigments—explains why he continues to be drawn to feminine imagery, how rituals are important to his art, and what it is like working with the blackest black

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Call my agent: why artist management companies are making a comeback

A spate of new organisations are challenging traditional gallery models to support artists in different ways

Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale

From Tai Shani to Ekow Eshun, seven leading art world figures reflect on Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, the main exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other collateral and institutional exhibitions

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Colorado passes law giving artists new legal and fiscal tools

The bill, signed into law by the governor on 2 June, allows artists to create companies to help them monetise their labour and retain intellectual property rights

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Lotus Kang channels desire into Bvlgari's Venice Biennale pavilion

The Canada-born, New York-based artist creates works informed by everything from industrial rubber to rat pups

Our pick of the best pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale

From splashing sewage to moments of zen, here is our selection of top national presentations in the Giardini, Arsenale and across town

Lee Ufan: ‘I try to bring together those things which are made and unmade’

The South Korean artist, whose work is on show in Venice's Piazza San Marco during the Biennale, describes how his work combines the natural and industrial, and why he taught himself to draw breath—literally

‘The extremely happy part of the crowd’: Hungarian arts figures hope for change after 16 years of Orbán rule

While it is too early to say how Hungary’s new government will impact the arts, some figures in the industry express hope for increased institutional autonomy and space for criticism

As Cuban crisis deepens, diaspora artists have a message of compassion

Artists in Florida and beyond highlight the desperate choice Cubans must make, between staying in a country in seemingly terminal decline, or making a treacherous journey to a country where they are no longer welcome

New £5m cultural centre in Northampton, UK to pursue model that ‘embeds artists in social and economic fabric of a place’

The Arts Collective complex, five years in the making, will feature galleries, learning spaces and 17 artists’ studios

'The human-machine creative entanglement': artist Sougwen Chung on her technology-based practice

The Chinese-Canadian artist explains the thinking behind the body of work she is presenting at Art Basel Hong Kong

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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama considering legal action after alleged police assault

The artist alleges that he was attacked by members of a special operations team known as ‘Black Maria’ while in a vehicle in Tamale, northern Ghana

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Artists agonise over when a work is finished—but should we viewers care?

The thorny issue is relevant to current exhibitions of work by Howard Hodgkin, Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne

Smells like teen spirit: inside the world’s first scent-lending library

The Seattle-based artist Donna Lipowitz provides a popular service that no one nose they need

Danger and inspiration: Bangladeshi artists divided about country’s future after historic election

A post-revolution election has brought to power familiar figures, but change is still possible, some say

How four Los Angeles artists are doing a year after the wildfires

Kelly Akashi, Christina Quarles, Adam Ross and Kathryn Andrews, all of whom lost their homes in the Eaton and Palisades fires, reflect on the last year

Dóra Maurer, ‘towering figure’ of the Hungarian art scene, has died aged 88

The pioneering multi-media artist found international recognition towards the end of her six decade-long career

Ireland announces long-term income support for artists—but some from pilot scheme say they have been left in limbo

Artists face months of waiting and uncertainty around eligibility before they may receive payments

Henrike Naumann—selected for this year's Germany pavilion at the Venice Biennale—has died

The artist's planned work will be shown posthumously in Venice, organisers say

‘He is a hero to me’: artist speaks out after Ukrainian athlete barred from Winter Olympics for commemorative helmet

Iryna Prots, who created the imagery on Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet—which honours Ukraine’s war dead—says she feels the decision to disqualify him violates the Olympic spirit

Austrian pavilion artist Florentina Holzinger joins Thaddaeus Ropac

The choreographer and performance artist is best known for her radical theatre performances

Ai Weiwei faced vote about his Royal Academy of Arts, London membership after Gaza tweet

After discussions, the institution voted to retain the artist as an Academician

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‘I'm going to miss the quiet life we had’: Greenlander artist Inuuteq Storch on Trump, travel and his ambitions to build a photography museum

As his latest exhibition opens at the Hasselblad Center, Storch discusses his love and hope for his home country

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Mexico City’s fairs give many artist-run spaces pride of place

Art fairs including Salón Acme, Clavo and Material offer various forms of support to alternative art spaces and artist-run projects spread across the country

‘Repressionist’ artist Pavel Krisevich forced to flee Russia

The performance artist, who has faced multiple arrests, now lives in Montenegro