Artists

'Frank conversations on certain topics can lead to real prison terms': Russian artist duo finds haven on Long Island

Dmitry Okruzhnov and Maria Sharova, who opposed Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, are now working from a New York studio

Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian culture workers return home to rubble

Artists and cultural activists tell The Art Newspaper what they have found on their return

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Yeo Shih Yun

The founder of INSTINC art space on the DIY spirit of Singapore’s art scene

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Comment | Don’t try to keep working-class students in a narrow educational lane

This idea of exposing working-class school students only to the stories of working-class heroes, at the expense of “middle-class pursuits” such as museums, is misguided

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‘Can you match the colour of your work to my couch?’: Inside the world of private art commissions

Artists are regularly asked to create pieces to suit the particular tastes of buyers—but taking direction suits some more than others

Sougwen Chung: meet the boundary-pushing pioneer of robot art

The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum

Art in the rubble: how Gaza’s artists are documenting the war

Amid destruction and a deepening humanitarian crisis, Gaza’s artists are using whatever materials they can find to express their reality

Behind Ukraine and Russia's battle over 19th-century seascape painter

Both countries lay claim to Ivan Aivazovsky and his works, many of which were in Crimea when it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014

‘I added apology notes from the mothers’: Andrea Chung on the histories that inform her new Miami exhibition

Harrowing histories from the Atlantic slave trade are at the heart of the artist’s solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

‘Putting concrete numbers to what many of us already feel’: new grassroots census tracks challenges facing Miami artists

The Miami Artist Census, launched by a group of local artists, aims to equip South Florida’s creative communities with empowering data that will help them improve their working and living conditions

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Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, the godfather of contemporary conceptual art

The French-born London-based artist merged the once-siloed worlds of art and design to create inimitably intimate participatory experiences

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‘I never pursued the big four or five galleries, they always scared me’: Joan Snyder on her first blue-chip show, roses, and the glass ceiling

The American artist is having her first solo exhibition at the London outpost of Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, which now represents her

Notre-Dame de Paris in seven works of art

Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse for painters, photographers and more

In Minnesota, a no-strings-attached cash programme for artists is gaining momentum

Springboard for the Arts is expanding its funding to support a greater number of artists

Hew Locke to ‘disrupt’ statue of Belgium monarch who oversaw brutal Congo regime

The British-Guyanese artist will place five masts in front of the depiction of Leopold II, whose administration was characterised by “systematic brutality and atrocities”

The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa—podcast

Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre

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Who wore it best? A century of artists’ style

The fashion writer Derek Guy—perhaps best known for his pithy menswear observations and advice, dolled out via X—talks us through his sartorial favourites, from David Hockney to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

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A slither of hope: ‘artivists’ bring colour and snake-themed protest to Cop29

The Artivist Network organised a range of actions at the summit that both highlighted the serious costs of climate breakdown and interrupted what can be a drab visual environment

‘Like Picasso, everything he touched was wonderful’: the art world pays tribute to Frank Auerbach

Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output

Accra Cultural Week shines a light on Ghana’s burgeoning art scene

A host of globally recognised artists, a growing number of art world tourists and a domestic gallery boom are all contributing to the country’s reputation on the international stage

Remembering Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, who has died aged 93

The German-born British painter, a leading figure in the School of London, produced some of the most enduring and perceptive observations of what it meant to be alive during his time

‘Almost everything was washed away’: leading Spanish photographer’s studio wrecked by floods

Ricardo Cases says he lost 90% of his work and equipment after more than a year’s worth of rain fell on his town, near Valencia, in just eight hours

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

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

In pictures: a tour of Frieze Masters' immersive presentations with Sheena Wagstaff

The fair’s creative adviser takes a closer look at six of the ten artists showing in this year's Studio section, where each installation seeks to “evoke the spirit” of the studio

With help from Lubaina Himid, Glenn Ligon and more, Frieze's Artist-to-Artist initiative is supporting new talent

The initiative offers established names the chance to give promising emerging artists a platform

'I did think it was a bit weird when they asked me': rocker Billy Childish turns Frieze London into his studio

The artist and musician set up his easel at Lehmann Maupin’s stand to paint live alongside his two children

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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