Commercial galleries

Mexico City street market gallery makes art accessible

Galería Tianguis Neza offers affordable works in an approachable setting

Art fairspreview

India Art Fair strengthens its role as launchpad for South Asian talent

The New Delhi stalwart, which has raised the profile of many artists, increasingly reflects the growing interest in Indigenous art

Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel—podcast

We discuss the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion and the artist’s attempt have the decision overturned, pay tribute to the lauded gallerist Marian Goodman, and hear about Cezanne’s famous ‘The Card Players’

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Alexander Morrison and David Clack

US art spaces from New York to Los Angeles close in protest of violent Ice actions

Commercial and non-profit galleries are participating in the national day of action on 30 January, which comes after federal immigration enforcement agents killed US citizens in Minneapolis and Los Angeles

Hundreds of galleries across Spain will strike next week to protest 21% tax on art

While its neighbours slash their VAT rates on art sales, Spain's remains stubbornly high, leaving its galleries in a "position of complete irrelevance"

Filmreview

Natalie Portman tries to sell a corpse and film-makers traffic in art-market stereotypes in The Gallerist

The new black comedy, co-starring Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zach Galifianakis and Charli xcx, puts its blue-chip talent up to derivative humour

Renowned gallerist Marian Goodman has died, aged 97

The dealer was known for her support of conceptually challenging artistic practices, and credited with bringing key European figures like Gerhard Richter and Marcel Broodthaers to the US

Naomi Campbell reflects on Picasso’s muses for exhibition in Swiss Alps

The supermodel has penned an essay for Nahmad Contemporary's upcoming show in Gstaad

London show of Lee Miller photographs is fundraising to save thousands of her negatives

Gallerist Lyndsey Ingram is working with the Lee Miller Archives to support the conservation of the photographer’s works and Sussex home

Lehmann Maupin takes permanent space in Mayfair’s No. 9 Cork Street

It is the first year-round tenant in the Frieze-run central London gallery hub

Irannews

Iranian galleries close amid protests and communications blackout

Uncertainty has gripped life and art in Iran as unrest continues—Trump's threats of military intervention, meanwhile, have ramped up tensions

‘Creative, provocative, controversial’: Truth Social ads for Nazi-owned art spark heated debate

The gallery behind the adverts has huge holdings of art associated with the Third Reich, and has loaned works to major museums

Mumbai Gallery Weekend looks beyond the city's historic art district

The event's 14th edition is co-led by two dealers with spaces far from the gallery hub neighbourhoods of Colaba and Fort

Art marketcomment

Art market 2026 predictions: underwhelming rebound and another Frieze fair

Our columnist gazes into her crystal ball to spot the major trends—from London regaining its lustre to AI fatigue—that are set to dominate the trade over the coming 12 months

Art marketfeature

In 2025, new ‘independent and nimble’ art fairs began redrawing the market map

A series of small-scale, affordable events are challenging the dominant scene

Comment | After a market shake up in 2025, it's time to create a right-sized art trade

From collaboration to consolidation, some dealers are adapting to a changing market that many agree should not return to its previous peak

Hauser & Wirth will expand gallery empire to Italian city of Palermo

The blue-chip gallery has acquired a 19th-century palazzo in need of restoration in Sicily

Southern Guild gallery to close in Los Angeles, open in New York

The South African gallery announced a plan to shift its US base east as it participates in its first Art Basel Miami Beach

Karma gallery debuts representation of Yvonne Jacquette in Miami

The late artist’s captivating bird’s-eye-view paintings are featured on the gallery’s stand at Art Basel Miami Beach

The new art conglomerate: Pace Gallery, Emmanuel Di Donna and David Schrader join forces

The power threesome will launch Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries, specialising in secondary market sales

Repeat art fraudster arrested for stealing Courbet painting

By the time London dealer Patrick Matthiesen realised the person he had handed “Mother and Child on a Hammock” over to was not who he claimed to be, it was too late

Stephen Friedman to close New York gallery, two years after opening the Tribeca space

The decision is framed as a “strategic evolution for the gallery as it consolidates its operations in London”

New York gallery Sperone Westwater to close after 50 years amid lawsuit between co-founders

The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December

Art sector could collectively cut over five million tonnes of CO₂ a year, report suggests

Gallery Climate Coalition’s inaugural Stocktake Report shows the difference the art sector can make when it comes to the climate—but the next five years are crucial, says chair Frances Morris

Hauser & Wirth charged with breaching UK’s Russia sanctions

The UK gallery is being prosecuted for allegedly making available a work by George Condo to a person connected with Russia after the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Pursuing ‘a different economy’, London gallery Herald St will open new space in Bologna

At a time when mid-sized galleries are suffering from hasty expansions, Herald St Bologna reflects a more sustainable attempt at growth

'I never imagined we'd get here': Beirut gallery Marfa' Projects turns ten

As she opens an anniversary show drawing on her global gallerist network, Marfa' founder Joumana Asseily recounts a decade of major challenges and milestone achievements

After 14 years with Pace, Yoshitomo Nara's work now represented by David Zwirner

The popular Japanese artist will have his first show with David Zwirner in New York