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Florida art organisations face long recovery after hurricanes Helene and Milton

Museums, residencies and other art non-profits on the state’s Gulf Coast are grappling with a range of impacts from the hurricanes

Anni Irishabout 5 hours ago

Artist sues US city that cancelled her residency over a pro-Palestine painting

Danielle SeeWalker and the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado are suing the town of Vail, alleging its decisions violated her free speech rights

Kealey Boydabout 5 hours ago

Embattled New York adviser Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients out of $6.5m

Schiff will be sentenced on one count of wire fraud early next year

Carlie Porterfieldabout 6 hours ago

London's National Gallery to ban liquids after attacks on paintings

The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"

Philippa Kellyabout 11 hours ago

Brigitte Macron turns heads at Art Basel Paris

The French First Lady took a turn around the galleries at the Grand Palais

The Art Newspaperabout 9 hours ago

Art Basel Paris

The ‘Paris effect’: big-name collectors and a strong start to sales at Art Basel’s French edition

Galleries and buyers rise to the occasion of the fair's debut at the Grand Palais

Anny Shaw and Gareth Harrisabout 14 hours ago

The unmissable museum shows during Art Basel Paris

From a canon-reshaping survey of Surrealism to an unearthing of the zombie myth

Oh La La! aims to spice up Art Basel Paris after its VIP preview days

As part of a rousing new scheme, dozens of exhibitors will unveil notable works only once the fair opens to the general public

Rule-based artist Mark Manders is ready to let loose at Art Basel Paris

The Dutch artist’s famously restrained work will feature at the fair and major European dealer and institutional shows opening in October

Art Basel Paris's new incarnation at the Grand Palais is lifting spirits high

The Paris fair's third edition will welcome 195 galleries—41 more than last year—from 42 countries

Art market

Large Ed Ruscha gas station painting could bring more than $50m at Christie's after star turns at Lacma and MoMA

The 1964 painting was a prominent feature in the artist’s recent travelling retrospective

Prison restaurant refuses to show former convict's 'inappropriate' paintings

Frank Norman's exhibition was cancelled at The Clink in London

What if luxury is art sellers’ salvation, and not their sin

New moves by Gagosian, Sotheby’s and others aim to boost the art trade via high-end retail

Sunny £13.2m 1960s David Hockney brightens Sotheby's Frieze week evening sale

The small 23-lot contemporary art auction last night realised a total of £37.5m

Lucian Freud's Ria leads Christie's Frieze week evening sale at £11.8m

Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap June sales

Museums & Heritage

Iceland plans national gallery overhaul

The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

From the top down: UK art world figures call for government support to decarbonise sector

Experts at galleries, charities and more are hoping that the chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce measures that assist cultural institutions in reducing their carbon footprint

Indonesia's national museum reopens after devastating fire

Exhibition of 2,500 repatriated objects, including the "Lombok treasure", inaugurates the newly refurbished space

The unmissable museum shows during Art Basel Paris

From a canon-reshaping survey of Surrealism to an unearthing of the zombie myth

Painting protests cause 'enormous stress for colleagues at every level', say UK's national museum directors

An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council says "demonstrations now need to be taken away from our museums and galleries"

Exhibitions

A testament to the power of Pueblo ceramics and community-based curation

The exhibition “Grounded in Clay”, opening this month at the MFA Houston, was co-curated by the more than 60 members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective

Parrish Art Museum provides a fitting tribute to Audrey Flack, queen of ‘Post-Pop Baroque’

The New York show celebrates the late artist's melding of contemporary culture with art history

In the first major US survey of Tamara de Lempicka’s work, de Young Museum reveals the many sides of the painter

The San Francisco institution reveals personal details about the artist famed for her female portraits

Igloos, trees and ice: Arte Povera and its legacy explored in Paris exhibition

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev delays her retirement to curate Bourse de Commerce show highlighting many artistic firsts

Five not-to-miss PST Art shows at Los Angeles galleries

From the atomic to the astronomic, and the natural to supernatural, these exhibitions make the most of the Getty’s sweeping science-meets-art agenda

‘Maybe Damien peaked’: Tracey Emin shares her thoughts on male artists over 40

In the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, the UK artist discusses Hirst, royal visits and sacking off slim shady

Lady Gaga makes the Mona Lisa smile in Joker movie promo

Paris museum plugs forthcoming 'Madman' show in canny marketing move

Barbed art critic Brian Sewell is back—in AI form

The late writer known for his poison pen will make an appearance in a new London magazine

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

Monet is back in Vogue thanks to editor’s makeover

Edward Enninful is partnering with the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie to create prints inspired by the artist

Opinion

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'

Ben Lukeabout 16 hours ago

The new auction calendar: everything, everywhere, at every opportunity

All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing

The case for a cross-border approach for recovering Europe's Nazi-looted art

If governments are committed to the Washington Principles, they should create a co-ordinating body

Ten years on from the genocide, Yazidi culture is still absent from Western museums

Institutions have a moral duty to better represent the persecuted Kurdish religious minority

Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

Books

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

'Go, thou, and do likewise': a field guide to Britain’s stone circles delivers both scholarship and romance

An authoritative and engaging read for fans of the UK's mute monoliths—be they academic or sentimental

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

Obituaries

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

Tom Seymour1 day ago

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

Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur

The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation

The Week in Art

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

Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera — podcast

We find out how the London fair went this year, speak to Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad about their new book and to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev about her new show at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

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

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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.

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.

Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art

German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology

Artist on trial for website satirising Icelandic company’s alleged role in the Fishrot scandal

Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson’s spoof of the Samherji Group’s website featured a prominent apology, seemingly acknowledging its alleged role in the Namibian fishing scandal

Refik Anadol Studio reveals plans for world’s first museum of AI arts

Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district

Technologycomment

Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history

What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?