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‘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
Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble
The Graffiti-strewn building became a pilgrimage for devotees of the singer when it opened 32 years after his death—but despite healthy ticket sales, the institution has racked up huge debts, with its backers accused of mismanagement
US judge allows artist Deborah Roberts's copyright infringement lawsuit against New York gallery to proceed
The lawsuit brought by Roberts in 2022 has received a mixed ruling from Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall, but she denied dealer Richard Beavers's motion to dismiss it
Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
Former museum curator accuses city in Arizona of censorship in lawsuit
The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition
The Week in Art
A podcast bringing you the latest news from the art world, every week
American sculpture: race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris — podcast
A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish museum has journeyed through political change towards opening, and a discussion of Ribera’s “most moving” work
Art market
In search for missing artist Sarah Cunningham, London police find woman’s body in tube station
The 31-year-old painter's gallery, Lisson, has confirmed her death
Co-creator of UndeadApes NFTs found guilty of fraud and money laundering in 'rug pull' scheme
Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr, known in the NFT community as "Repulse" and “Zayous”, faces up to five years in federal prison
Mumbai gallery Mirchandani + Steinruecke to open Delhi location
It is the latest Indian gallery to expand to a second city
Artist jailed in Cuba invites biennial visitors to 'become part' of his work in prison
Activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara plans to spend time with a fan of his work at a maximum-security penitentiary during Havana Biennial
Art Cologne faces economic gloom and a tough market ahead of VAT reduction
While a long-awaited cut to value-added tax this January has been welcomed, Germany’s contracting economy has “scared” a number of gallerists, says director of world’s longest-running art fair
Museums & Heritage
Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year
British Museum still taking money from tobacco firm
Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut
Artist demands Stedelijk Museum remove his work amid row over 'refused' loan request
Ahmet Ogut claims a request to loan ‘Bakunin’s Barricade’ to Gaza protesters was denied by the Amsterdam museum
‘It’s good to be back at these famous steps’: Kamala Harris holds final rally before US election at Philadelphia Museum of Art
The event featured speeches and performances by Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, Lady Gaga and others
Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection
“Interwoven Power” uses a fresh curatorial lens to change the way viewers engage with Indigenous art
Exhibitions
Leila Zelli foregrounds Iranian women’s protest movement at the Toronto Biennial
The artist’s videos and installations reinterpret acts of resistance staged in the streets and on social media
The Guggenheim presents a new view of Orphism—the movement that time forgot
Featuring 82 works by 26 artists, this New York show tells the story of the short-lived style and its main protagonists
‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe
A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work
Leonardo Cartoon was ‘presentation drawing’ in Florence commission bid
Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month
November’s must-see exhibitions: Leonardo, Orphism and a beautiful exploration of 14th-century Siena
The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month
Obituaries
Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India
Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals
Paul Lowe, conflict photographer and teacher lauded for Sarajevo siege photographs, dies, aged 60
Acclaimed photojournalist's teenage son charged with his murder on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles
François Duret-Robert, art market journalist, professor and collector, has died aged 92
The former editor of Connaissance des Arts was a leading figure in the French art market
‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80
Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs
Derek Boshier, British Pop artist widely known for his collaborations with David Bowie, has died, aged 87
Boshier’s work was often critical of US politics and consumerism
Diary
Burner phones and erotic art go under the hammer in Banksy sale
Steve Lazarides, the street artist's former driver and dealer, is putting his archive on the block in Los Angeles
Erection of phallic sculpture in Naples sparks heated debate
Gaetano Pesce’s new public sculpture enflames city councillors
Grayson Perry and Rana Begum take the 10gram sculpture challenge
Forty artists have contributed to The Royal Society of Sculptors fundraising campaign
Lady Gaga makes the Mona Lisa smile in Joker movie promo
Paris museum plugs forthcoming 'Madman' show in canny marketing move
The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again in New York
Luna Luna, featuring a carousel by Keith Haring and David Hockney's enchanted forest, is travelling to The Shed
Opinion
Comment | In the run up to the US election, Boston's Museum of Fine Art is hopeful about art's role in a democratic future
The museum's latest exhibition explains and scrutinises democracy through objects spanning 2,500 years
Steve McQueen delves into family history at Dia Chelsea
Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially motivated violence told by his father against images of the actor Al Jonson in blackface
Comment | Paris vs London debate is a 'non-troversy', says Christie's Guillaume Cerutti
Auction house chief executive argues that of greater concern is the decline of Europe's art market as America and Asia charge ahead
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'
The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity
All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing
Books
A sensitive portrait of collector Isabella Stewart Gardner—Boston's millionaire Bohémienne
A biography of Gardner captures her extraordinary life story with empathy
A new monograph highlights Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody as one of Britain's most important Modernists
Moody defied family expectations to pursue his art, and is now celebrated in an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield
The life and art of Mabel Nicholson: new volume tells of the career catastrophe of domestic bliss
How lovingly raising her artistic family cost an artist of “tensile strength” her own fame
Two publications show how, in Caspar David Friedrich's world, mankind is puny against nature’s power
The German artist's work is pored over in two hefty tomes, one a smart overview, the other a comprehensive guide
Five of the best art books hitting the shelves this autumn
Our literary editor Jacqueline Riding selects some of the tempting titles that are scheduled for publication over the coming months
Book Club
‘The artist the critics love to hate’: the colourful life of sports star painter and Playboy illustrator LeRoy Neiman
We speak to the author of a new biography that reassesses the legacy of the “hustler” artist who rubbed shoulders with celebrities
An expert’s guide to Helen Frankenthaler: five must-read books on the Abstract Expressionist
All you ever wanted to know about Frankenthaler, from a seminal monograph to the story of the bohemian world that forged her—selected by the curator and writer Douglas Dreishpoon
In Pictures | Artist billboards across America tell a story of US politics today
Ahead of the November presidential election, a new book by the For Freedoms organisation brings together the topical and political posters that it has commissioned since 2016
October Book Bag: from a publication about money in art to tales of London art market rogues
Our round-up of the latest art publications
A brush with... podcast
A podcast that asks artists the questions you've always wanted to
A brush with…Sonia Boyce — podcast
An in-depth interview with the Golden Lion-winner, discussing her shift to social practice, the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and how William Morris’s wallpaper designs have made their way into her work
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.
Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2025: the global programme revealed
Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo...
Technology
News, background and analysis on the latest tech developments—artificial intelligence tools; Web3, the blockchain, NFTs; virtual and augmented reality; social media platforms—and how they affect the art market, museums, artists and curators.
How auction houses are embracing artificial intelligence
New services such as AI-enhanced translation are proving popular, even as human involvement remains crucial
From roving gallery to London’s Mayfair: Unit’s social media journey, 11 years on
Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt didn’t have any of the traditional things needed to start a gallery—but they did have the power of Instagram
New York's Salon 94 is feeling the TikTok visitor effect
A content creator's positive post has led to a massive uptick in the gallery's footfall
Artists Amoako Boafo, Hans Haacke and Deborah Butterfield among thousands to sign statement against AI content scraping
Artists and organisations across the creative industries have come out in opposition to the practice of AI firms training their technology with copyrighted, unlicensed material
Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence
German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future
Spirit of the late Pop artist Keiichi Tanaami lives on in new show
The artist’s first large-scale retrospective opened at the National Art Center, Tokyo, just two days before he died at the age of 88
‘My poems are as important to sustaining my life as my art’: Rei Naito, one of Japan's best-kept artistic secrets
The enigmatic installation artist shares the thinking behind her minimal yet profound meditations on human existence
Everything is elemental: the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition
Guest curator Mami Kataoka tells the stories behind five highlights of her cosmic-inspired show
Back and forth in time: the Art Week Tokyo video programme
'Between Contrail and Mountains' brings together works by 13 international artists evoking 'different ways of relating to our life here on Earth'
During Art Week Tokyo, one exhibition is rediscovering the art of Japan’s ‘lost decades’
From Neo-Pop to the Zero Zero Generation to 3/11, the Ryutaro Takahashi collection traces the past 30 years of Japanese contemporary art