Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Art Basel Miami Beach, Notre-Dame reopens in Paris, and Parmigianino’s Vision of St Jerome—podcast

Dispatches from the mega fair, a chat with a chief architect behind the rebuilding of Notre-Dame cathedral, and up close with Parmigianino’s Mannerist masterpiece

Trump ‘bump’ or Trump ‘slump’? What dealers expect from the next four years

On the second day of Art Basel Miami Beach, leading dealers, advisers and market experts are split on the US president-elect’s tax and tariff plans

Trump tariffs will take a toll on art market

The US dominates the global art industry, but new President's proposed additional 10% levy on paintings from China and possible tariff on imports from Europe will damage trade

Opinioncomment

Comment | Why it's important to find hope for—and through—the arts after the US election

The divisions within American society cannot be ignored, but let’s focus on where the country is united, and how the cultural sector can foster that unity

Jamie Bennett and Suzy Delvalle

Bill that would allow Trump to designate art non-profits as 'terrorist organisations' advances to US Senate

The controversial bill has raised worries among Democrats who fear that Trump will exploit it for personal retribution

Phillips's contemporary art auction in New York, hampered by Basquiat flop, brings in slim $44.2m

The night’s total take took a major hit when it was revealed that its second-biggest lot, a Basquiat self-portrait, had failed to sell

‘A lot of damage can be done’: the art world reacts to Donald Trump’s victory in US election

While some are confident that certain democratic institutions and safeguards will hold, many expressed fear, shock and dismay

US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath — podcast

What is at stake for the US cultural sector as the nation chooses its next president? Plus, a tour of 14th-century Sienese masterpieces and a conversation with Goliath about her ongoing video series Mango Blossoms

Artist-designed billboards opposing Donald Trump and supporting Kamala Harris go up in battleground states

The campaign, organised by the non-profit People For the American Way, includes images by Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Kass, Alyson Shotz, Christine Sun Kim, Hank Willis Thomas and others

Where the US presidential candidates stand on the arts

Neither major party has a clear policy on art and culture, but the candidates' past actions offer hints at their priorities

Artists and collectors rush to support Kamala Harris campaign

Since Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, much of the US art world has embraced Harris. Meanwhile, conservative patrons remain split on the Republican candidate, former president Donald Trump

Diaryblog

Trump posing with my book is ‘comical’, says Andres Serrano

The artist on how the former president might not be in on the joke

Photographyanalysis

How this photograph of Trump speaks to the power of the image

Evan Vucci’s instinctive composition recalls some famous art of the past, but its real importance may only be felt in the future

Leaderscomment

How artists are uniting to defeat Donald Trump at the polls

The Artists For Democracy 2024 project is working with world-renowned artists including Shepard Fairey and Carrie Mae Weems to mobilise voters

Donald Trump dines with NFT mega-collectors during break from New York hush-money trial

Between days of testimony by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006, the former president is meeting NFT collectors at Mar-a-Lago

Booksreview

Graphic memoir charts an ominous journey from Fidel Castro’s Cuba to Donald Trump’s America

Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez, labelled a “worm” for fleeing Cold War Cuba in 1980, tells story of his progress from impoverished boyhood to creating alarming covers for Time magazine

Last resort: antiquities Israel loaned to Trump are stranded at Mar-a-Lago

Originally loaned to the White House in 2019, the items followed Donald Trump to his Florida residence and have yet to be returned

Biden re-establishes presidential arts committee whose members resigned en masse over Trump’s response to Charlottesville riots

Trump had dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities following members’ mass resignation in 2017

Donald Trump’s political action committee gives Smithsonian $650,000 to pay for presidential portrait commission

The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery

Former Trump lawyer's contemporary art collection makes star turn in 6 January committee hearings

Eric Herschmann, a former senior advisor to Donald Trump who represented him in his first impeachment trial, displays works by Rob Pruitt and others during committee testimony

Lawsuit challenging Trump Tower Black Lives Matter mural is dismissed

The lawsuit was brought by a women’s group that supported former president Trump and had sought to create its own mural near the Manhattan skyscraper

Biden administration reverses Trump-era restrictions on federal art commissions

In the waning months of his presidency, Donald Trump’s administration imposed a ban on commissioning abstract or modernist art for federal buildings

Trump protest work recovered by FBI four years after being stolen by white supremacists

He Will Not Divide Us was subjected to multiple attacks from far-right extremists before being snatched in a raid in Tennessee in 2017

Officials reveal full extent of damage to US Capitol’s art after pro-Trump rampage

Officials explore harm to busts and paintings in the House from chemical sprays and describe frantic efforts to change airflows as melee unfolded

In pictures: Donald Trump’s presidency as the art world saw it

As Trump leaves office, we look back at the legacy of his four years leading the US and how artists captured it

Chinaanalysis

'A win for internationalism': what a Biden presidency will mean for the Chinese art world

Donald Trump's trade war and 'cold war mentality' led to uncertainty and a fractured relationship

QAnon: the Italian artists who may have inspired America's most dangerous conspiracy theory

An anonymous left-wing art group known in the 1990s as Luther Blissett are wondering what they have unwittingly helped create

'Consigned to history': Trump Baby blimp donated to Museum of London collection

Creators of inflatable effigy hope work serves as a "reminder of the fight against the politics of hate" that took place during Trump's presidency