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Comment | Works of art are living things—so should we let them die?
The cost—financially and environmentally—of preserving works of art can be huge. Perhaps it is time to rethink how we look after them
Comment | Balanchine is Modern master whose impact on contemporary art should not be overlooked
The choreographer’s formal gestures and patterns make him crucial to contemporary performance art
Tristram Hunt: 'The government needs to cancel the British Council’s debt'
The V&A director on the dangers of the cash-strapped cultural organisation disappearing
A descendant of people trafficked aboard the slave ship Clotilda on learning from history’s unsung heroes
Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860
A quantum era is coming. What does this mean for art?
New technology will support artists as they produce enquiring new work
Comment | Plunging sales see shine come off luxury goods at auction
'The so-called “gateway drug” effect of luxury has been overstated'
The art fair dilemma as in-crowd VIP collectors reduce fair attendance
Long-term buyers are going to fewer fairs while the growth in numbers is from people less likely to buy
Comment | The exhibitions I adored this year—and the one I didn’t
2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor
Comment | The Barbican’s survey of Indian art avoids the pitfalls that plague so many political shows
This exhibition successfully traverses the terrain of art and geopolitics—an area often littered with clunkiness and earnest failure
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'
Running an art school in London is not easy, but in The Art Academy the capital finally has a space that breaks the mould
The institution, which is about to welcome the first students to its new home, takes a refreshing and genuinely democratising approach to art education
The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity
All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing
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
Why it's time for museums to take risks—or risk obsolescence
Jorrit Britschgi, executive director of the Rubin Museum of Art, on ‘embracing non-attachment and impermanence’
Why writing off the Mona Lisa would serve the Louvre better than worshipping it
The Paris museum should forget about the hugely costly move of the Leonardo painting and focus instead on the myriad other masterpieces in its collection
Ready for the art-world reckoning?
The Readying the Museum group has created a blueprint to help institutions address inequity within their own walls—and to make the public, rather than trustees, their key priority
Sasha Skochilenko: I just happened to be the winner of the ‘Hunger Games’
The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Welcome to the slow museum, where less is more
In an effort to deepen existing programming and community engagement, some institutions are choosing to stage fewer exhibitions
The €5 tourist tax to enter Venice kicks in: 15,700 tickets sold but this will not solve the city’s problems
Day visitors should pay €25 as for the Uffizi but be made proud to help save the city
'Enjoy the Venice Biennale, everyone—but be aware it's taking place in a dying city'
Venice can still be saved from the rising water level: here’s how
'Building your way to sustainability is a bad idea, no matter how green your new building is'
Renovations need to win out over new extensions, says sustainability professor Martin Müller, and museums need to 'get back to basics'
Being ‘discovered’ late in life can be maddening—but it can have advantages
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum just opened a Stanley Whitney retrospective—the 77-year-old artist's first museum survey
It’s time to end the predatory practices of 'sleeper hunters'
Sleeper hunter dealers must recognise they have an asymmetrical relationship to vulnerable people pressured by circumstance to sell off their treasured heirlooms
Is the Royal Academy's 'Entangled Pasts' exhibition radical? Yes—for the Royal Academy
The London institution may have woken up to its responsibility of presenting its role in Britain’s imperial past. But please don't go back to sleep...
The dawn of the entrepreneurial museum
With traditional philanthropic models on the wane, US institutions like the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Andy Warhol Museum are engaging in unconventional partnerships and launching spin-off businesses
A string of new exhibitions shows that textile art is finally being taken seriously
The historical association of textiles with gender, sexuality and identity norms make them ripe for subversion and reimagining
The Parthenon Marbles and the myth of the slippery slope
There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece
Auction houses use lucrative tools to prop up the art market—could they become victims of their own success?
Shielding art prices from organic market conditions doesn't always pay off
How museum guides are being enlisted in the US culture wars
Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums
Time for the UK to adopt US-style rules on holding artists' funds
Primary-market sale proceeds should be held on trust so artists are never left out of pocket by a gallery's insolvency, writes IP and art lawyer Jon Sharples