We often overlook gaps in provenance, or disagreement between experts, simply because we want to believe in fairytales

If culture is to recover from the pandemic, the sector must value the self-employed more so that the next generation—of all backgrounds—can afford to live a creative life

The UK communities secretary Robert Jenrick's plans to prevent the removal of controversial monuments reveals his inability to view the past as shifting and complex

If institutions keep admission limits in place, they’ll come out of the coronavirus crisis in better health, says art critic Blake Gopnik

Our art market editor-at-large looks back on three decades of booming sales and soaring prices, from Middle Eastern emergence to the evolution of auction houses

Capitalism has gobbled up the art world over the past decade—it is high time for a reset

The coronavirus lockdown is boosting lower level virtual sales, but only a major live auction will kick-start the top end of the art market and revalidate prices

"Art" is a loaded term, freighted with associations of class and power

The former UK minister for culture, Ed Vaizey, weighs in on which of the two candidates for prime minister would best serve the arts

Book looks at what they like and how they think it helps their own work

The rise of Big Data means that connoisseurship is being replaced by "intel", which has far-reaching implications for the art world

A truly environmentally friendly art world requires that we give up the 'freedom, privilege and progress to which we are so accustomed'

Matisse's 1900 painting of the gothic cathedral risked taking on elegiac significance before the fire was extinguished

Certain subjects have become off-limits—but no one knows exactly what can or cannot be discussed

In the face of turbulent times the public art museum has a difficult, but essential role to hold open an open space for dissenting experiences of art and culture

Brazil’s cultural sector must respond to hard-right politics by reconnecting with the wider community

Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose

While this year's A-level results show a rapid decline in arts subjects in the UK, countries outside of the West are stepping up teaching of creative subjects

The official spokesman of the wild-trade monitoring organisation responds to The Art Newspaper's article on the trade in elephant ivory—and we respond to him

Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit

Unless the Art Gallery of New South Wales begins to focus more on exhibitions, there is every reason to believe that Sydney Modern will be a gigantic and costly flop

France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs

Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees

Christie's sale of 46 works from La Salle collection will diminish the museum and its academic programme

Slick marketing produced stupendous sale price for Salvator Mundi, but it sparked revulsion as well as elation

It’s time to stop letting the controversy over Jimmie Durham’s ancestry overshadow his art

Britain will pay a high price if its creative industries are ignored in negotiations to leave the European Union

Sam Durant’s Scaffold is a powerful work that should provoke anger about the death penalty, not the artist’s ethnicity

Damien Hirst’s exhibition in Venice this summer is part of a long tradition of counterfeiting history—but the UK artist has added a contemporary twist