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This month’s New York auctions could bring up to $2.3bn

Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year’s November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby’s consignments

Carlie Porterfieldabout 9 hours ago

Do museums need to crack down on selfies?

The Uffizi in Florence is restricting selfies, and New York’s Frick Collection bans all photography—but other museums encourage them

Philippa Kellyabout 17 hours ago

A new hope: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art sets September 2026 opening date

The $1bn museum co-founded by the ‘Star Wars’ director George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, will open its futuristic doors next autumn in Los Angeles

Benjamin Suttonabout 14 hours ago

On the ground at Art Week Tokyo: amid shifting national politics, Japan’s ‘sleeping beauty’ art scene is waking up

The fifth edition of the “post-art fair” event, which took place earlier this month following the election of Japan's first woman prime minister, received largely positive reviews from gallerists and visitors alike

Gareth Harrisabout 17 hours ago

The Big Review | Manet & Morisot at Legion of Honor, San Francisco ★★★½

Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one of her series. But her intimate paintings struggle to compete with his bolder works

Jori Finkelabout 18 hours ago

Art market

'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

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

‘Complete shock’: Trump tariffs upend decorative arts trade in US

Dealers are scaling back international purchases to avoid having to pay new import duties, some of which are set to rise to 50% in January 2026

Lagos art fair defies macroeconomic headwinds to reach double figures

The growth of commercial galleries across Nigeria’s biggest city has been fuelled by the ongoing success of Art X Lagos—a regional hub for collectors of African art

A centenary of style: why Art Deco's market appeal is evergreen

Celebratory exhibitions, fairs and events around the world are giving the Modernist style fresh momentum

Museums & Heritage

Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, devoted to ceramics, reopens after $11m renovation

The museum now boasts a gallery dedicated to Indigenous ceramics, expanded education facilities and enough space to display around 40% of its collection

Larry Humber1 day ago

Artificial installation: artist hangs own AI-generated work in Welsh museum

The rogue print was on show at National Museum Cardiff for a few hours before it was spotted by staff

Gareth Harris1 day ago

New York’s Studio Museum—known for championing Black artists—reopens in $300m new home

The legendary institution, which took seven years to build, reopens with an exhibition devoted to the works of Tom Lloyd

Fired director sues Philadelphia Art Museum

Sasha Suda claims in a lawsuit that she was terminated after she “clashed with a small, corrupt and unethical faction” of the museum’s board of trustees

Inside Lambeth Palace, the historic building that will be home to the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally, who was appointed to the role last month, will be the first occupant of the palace following its £40m renovation

Joe Ware1 day ago

Exhibitions

The elusive artist Cady Noland has made a shock return: will it impact her reputation?

The American artist has recently broken a long silence with major gallery shows in New York—and the reaction hints at her work’s continuing relevance

Tim Schneiderabout 18 hours ago

Torkwase Dyson and Alia Farid among artists commissioned for next Carnegie International

More than a dozen participating artists have been announced for the 2026 edition of the longest running recurring exhibition in North America

Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’

The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances which subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he discusses these remarkable pieces

Exclusive: Dana Awartani to represent Saudi Arabia at Venice Biennale 2026

The artist has a particular interest in craft traditions—and frequently addresses the fragility of cultural heritage in her work

Three key takeaways from Lagos’s newest African art symposium

Amid Lagos Art Week and Lagos Photo, this event brought together cultural practitioners for wide-ranging conversations about African and Afro-diasporic art archives

Abu Dhabi Art

Seeing beyond: Issam Kourbaj on mentoring three young artists for Abu Dhabi Art

New works by Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum and Alla Abdunabi will go on show at the fair and in the city of Al Ain, before touring the world

In partnership with Abu Dhabi Art

ICOM Dubai 2025

ICOM Dubai 2025 will reframe the future of culture

The International Council for Museums’s triennial general conference will be held in the Middle East for the first time

In partnership with ICOM Dubai 2025

The Week in Art

A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week

MFA Boston returns work by enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi—podcast

Ben Luke discusses the landmark agreement with a curator at the Boston museum, meets the team behind MoMA's new Lam show, and explores a new book on the children of the Renaissance

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

A brush with... podcast

A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to

A brush with… Peter Doig—podcast

Peter Doig talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
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Adventures with Van Gogh

Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries.

Book reviews

The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brief but dazzling life, as told by an art-world insider

A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death

How the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti spoke truth to power

A new book explores Siena's heyday—the good, the bad and the sceptical

New book highlights Vorticism’s toxic side—and puts its women pioneers back in the frame

James King’s study places Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders at the centre of the movement

Martin Parr steps out from behind the camera lens in informal autobiography

An intimate and chatty biography gives the artist space to reflect on his career in photography and the practice’s evolution

From royal visitors to extortionate eBay sales: new book offers rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vermeer blockbuster

A collection of essays about the Rijksmuseum‘s show also fascinating insights into the struggle for loans and what accompanying research revealed about its 17th-century subject

Opinion

Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient

The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives

Comment | A spate of dealer anniversaries offers hope amid art market doomerism

Several New York galleries have hit major milestones in recent months—what lessons can those in charge impart?

Comment | Museums can't get enough of anniversary exhibitions—but surely there's better ways to serve the public

This year museums are falling over themselves to celebrate Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But, asks Julia Halperin, who is it really all for?

Comment | Executive odour: Trump’s fervour inspires more flag burning

Trump’s order attempting to criminalise the burning of the US flag has led to defiant actions from artists and activists

No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign

Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach

Francis Bacon’s Paris pad honoured with plaque

The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s

Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

Despite past legal drama, Madonna still seems hung up on the V&A

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month

Obituaries

Agnes Gund, collector and philanthropist who helped transform MoMA, has died, aged 87

In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives

Remembering Robert Redford, the Hollywood star with the sensibility of a struggling painter

Redford, an Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of the Sundance Institute, died yesterday at his home in Utah

Rosalyn Drexler—Pop Art painter, polymath, and travelling wrestler—has died aged 98

Drexler, who was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early 1960s, was also a member of an all-women wrestling troupe under the pseudonym Mexican Spitfire

Giorgio Armani, designer who changed how museums engage with fashion, has died aged 91

As well as for his iconic designs, Armani will be remembered for his broad cultural legacy

Sylvain Amic, ‘open spirited’ head of Musée d'Orsay, has died aged 58

His death was announced on Sunday by the French culture minister, Rachida Dati

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