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How a controversial bust of Winston Churchill made its way back to the Oval Office

President Donald Trump has returned the statue—one of an identical pair—to his office, but it has not been a simple journey

Gareth Harris and Philippa Kellyabout 12 hours ago

Aaron De Groft, Orlando Museum of Art director fired in Basquiat forgery scandal, has died, aged 59

Following successful stints at museums in Virginia and on Florida’s Gulf Coast, De Groft’s career became mired in the Basquiat fakes fiasco

Benjamin Suttonabout 10 hours ago

Documentary on Jewish dealer Max Stern’s collection finds answers and absurdity

A new film focuses on two paintings Stern was forced to sell as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, which ended up at the Düsseldorf City Museum

David D'Arcyabout 8 hours ago

Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian culture workers return home to rubble

Artists and cultural activists tell The Art Newspaper what they have found on their return

Sarvy Geranpayehabout 18 hours ago

Major shake up at Artnet as founder retires after more than three decades

The annual general meeting in February will propose new board and fresh blood for the online art market business

Georgina Adamabout 16 hours ago

World Economic Forum in Davos

From Refik Anadol and Sougwen Chung to Misty Copeland and Tom Daley: what to see and listen to at Davos

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum features a glacier-themed opening concert, specially commissioned exhibitions from leading digital and craft-based artists and a cultural table featuring global figures from arts and sport

Louis Jebb1 day ago

Davos loses out on key Modern and contemporary collection after voters reject Kirchner Museum extension

The Ulmberg collection, comprising works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, may go to the city of Chur

How the World Economic Forum is offering a global stage for collaboration between art and technology

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting in Davos

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: the artist’s life in Davos

For 20 years, the troubled Expressionist found refuge, respite and inspiration in the Alpine town

Maria Balshaw: ‘Attitudes towards sustainability have shifted much faster in the last three to five years’

The director of the Tate discusses the measures that the global museum sector is taking to address the climate and environmental crisis

Singapore Art Week 2025

Singapore Art Week 2025 runs 17-26 January and brings together more than 160 events for the city’s biggest celebration of the visual arts

Let there be light: Singapore Art Week brings art to every part of the city

Visitors to this year's Singapore Art Week are spoilt for choice, with more than 160 events and exhibitions to take in, from art fairs to shows of established and emerging Southeast Asian artists

In partnership with National Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week

From organisations nurturing young talent to a successful new art fair, Singapore's art scene is hitting its stride

As this year's Singapore Art Week kicks off, we take a look at the development of the city-state's museums, galleries and wider arts ecosystem over recent years

In partnership with National Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Tini Aliman

The sound artist describes creating ‘poetic cartography’ that retells the stories of the land

In partnership with National Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Yeo Shih Yun

The founder of INSTINC art space on the DIY spirit of Singapore’s art scene

In partnership with National Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Robert Zhao Renhui

The artist on how the city’s art scene is becoming more focused on sustainability and ecological themes

In partnership with National Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week

Art market

How galleries can get to grips with Trump 2.0

A round up of practical solutions for those braced for turmoil

Tim Schneider2 days ago

Paintings depicting the infamous Maralinga nuclear bomb tests to feature at Melbourne Art Fair

The Indigenous artist Harriette Bryant Created delves into the human cost of the tests conducted by the UK in South Australia in the 1950s

‘The market is still the domain of famous male artists’: Guerrilla Girls open their first commercial gallery show in New York

The feminist art collective’s commercial debut in their hometown, at Hannah Traore Gallery, is intended to introduce their activist work to a new generation

Frieze will proceed with Los Angeles fair following deadly wildfires in the city

A fair spokesperson said the decision came after “careful consideration and extensive conversations with galleries, partners and city-wide stakeholders”

‘Can you match the colour of your work to my couch?’: Inside the world of private art commissions

Artists are regularly asked to create pieces to suit the particular tastes of buyers—but taking direction suits some more than others

Museums & Heritage

How National Galleries of Scotland aced the sustainability transition

The Edinburgh institution is leading the way for cultural institutions to reduce their environmental impact with a deeply-embedded, long-term strategy

Joanna Moorheadabout 17 hours ago

January acquisitions round-up: Lavinia Fontana’s Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales goes to Tokyo museum

Other acquisitions this month include a Bronze Age Peebles stone hoard, and Yatreda Art Collective’s Abyssinian Queen NFT

Hannah McGivernabout 19 hours ago

Sara Raza to lead revamped Centre for Contemporary Art in Tashkent

The London-born curator, who has previously organised shows at events such as the Venice Biennale, has been appointed as the artistic director and chief curator of the museum in Uzbekistan’s capital

Joe Ware2 days ago

Vancouver Art Gallery gifted collection of 122 Modern and contemporary works

The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more

Exhibitions

‘The market is still the domain of famous male artists’: Guerrilla Girls open their first commercial gallery show in New York

The feminist art collective’s commercial debut in their hometown, at Hannah Traore Gallery, is intended to introduce their activist work to a new generation

Buyers can name their price at gallery that challenged artists to create hard-to-sell works

Haul Gallery in Brooklyn, which recently transitioned to a non-profit model, is offering conceptually or physically difficult works for as little as $1 apiece

The self-styled ‘first English abstract artist’ Paule Vézelay gets an overdue exhibition

The show at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol will explore the little-known artist’s remarkable life and career

‘The event as spectacle’: how Weegee’s photographs were more than just documentations of life

An exhibition at the International Center of Photography will explore the larger-than-life photographer’s ability to create sensational images, whether photographing the hoodlums of New York or stars of Hollywood

Tadek Beutlich, from Second World War soldier to master weaver in the picturesque village of Ditchling

An exhibition at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft untangles the life and work of the Polish-born artist who reinvented craft weaving as an art form

Book Club

‘The painter in me did not die’: novelist Orhan Pamuk turns his hand to art

Notebooks filled with the Turkish author's drawings reflect events spanning the past decade

An expert’s guide to Brazilian Modernism: five must-read books on the subject

All you ever wanted to know about the topic, from its impact on global Modernist art to a novel capturing the “atmosphere of heady excitement”—selected by the curator Rebecca Bray

‘An impossible stillness that artists have chased’: Alvaro Barrington on Piero della Francesca’s Baptism of Christ

In this exclusive extract from a new book, the London-based artist explains why Piero’s painting is his favourite in the National Gallery collection

Magnum’s opus of America: a new photography compendium reveals the many sides of the US

The publication’s co-editor Peter van Agtmael chooses seven key images from legendary agency’s new book

Opinion

Comment | Why seeing art by train should be the next big thing

Flying to an exhibition is increasingly unjustifiable. But by choosing the train, visitors can enjoy endless, inspiring encounters with art and life

Comment | What happens behind the scenes at the museum is what really matters

From delicate cleaning to forklifts, the unseen, but crucial, investment often goes unnoticed

Comment | Why the road to the sale of Frieze is a winding one

The potential sale raises questions around how to value the prestigious and unique art brand

Comment | Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’

In viral essays and beyond, those who bemoan the dominance of identity politics in museums often reveal more of their own biases than of the art world's

The Year in Review: escalating art attacks and responses to war

This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people

The Week in Art

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

Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, a Hokusai drawing manual—podcast

How the most devastating fires in Southern Californian history are affecting artists and art workers, plus chats about the work the WMF is doing to protect world heritage and a new book about Katsushika Hokusai’s methods

Obituaries

David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America’s dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78

Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades

Pippa Garner, art and gender provocateur, has died, aged 82

Garner's witty deviations in form, text and body addressed the consumerism and sameness plaguing US culture

Jimmy Carter, the US president and Renaissance man who believed in art and rock and roll, has died, aged 100

The Southern Baptist peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, was a dedicated amateur portraitist and made a deep cultural impact when in office

Joe Average, Canadian artist and Aids activist, has died, aged 67

Known for his bold, bright-hued paintings, prints and murals, Average was a pillar of Vancouver’s creative community

Zilia Sánchez, Cuban artist renowned for shaped, abstract canvases, has died, aged 98

Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career

Books

Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence

Catalogue accompanying exhibition at London’s Design Museum explores the US film-maker’s unique aesthetic

Two books explore Piet Mondrian's journey into abstraction—and his posthumous influence on 1960s fashion

How, two decades after his death, did Mondrian become a brand icon, and make a lasting contribution to the “youthquake”?

This newly translated volume compiles the photographic traces of a libidinous love affair

Author Annie Ernaux and journalist Marc Marie’s collaborative memoir documents a passionate yet haunted relationship

The arts should be recognised as a key part of what it means to be human, argues a new publication

An urgent treatise on the decommodification of culture by the professor of cultural economy Justin O’Connor

A brush with... podcast

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

A brush with… Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset — podcast

In the first episode of A brush with featuring an artist duo, Elmgreen and Dragset discuss their influences, and the cultural experiences that have shaped their lives and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by 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.

Diary

The art of retail—artists take over Selfridges store in London

Shoppers can browse a range of works in a special Sarabande foundation pop-up called House of Bandits

The Art Newspaperabout 17 hours ago

As part of a new campaign, David Hockney is encouraging the nation to get drawing

The artist's Draw! project is part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

En suite art? London exhibition opens in an Airbnb

East End show highlights the ‘commodification of the domestic’ say the organisers

Stellar work: Mercury crater named after artist Ruth Asawa

The Japanese-American sculptor is the 23rd woman to be given the honour—compared with 100 men

Elon Musk serves up disconcerting AI art

The controversial billionaire failed to spot a contemporary car in Caillebotte picture altered using artificial intelligence by Luma

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.

Oliviero Toscani, Italian photographer known for his provocative fashion campaigns, dies aged 82

His work for brands such as Benetton sparked conversations about issues including the Aids crisis and anorexia

Technologyfeature

Immersive inspirations: three key developments from 2024

It was a big year for immersive art, with major institutions getting involved, new virtual reality kit, and a groundbreaking event in Venice

Does Trump’s return spell boom or bust for the NFT art market?

Experts are sceptical that the NFT market will ever rebound to its 2021 levels, but the crypto asset sector may still manage to take over the art world one way or the other

Palestine Museum US launches NFT collection in support of Gaza artists

The museum released a non-fungible token of a work by the Gazan artist Mohammed Alhaj to kick off the new initiative

AI artnews

‘It surprised me’: artist finds inspiration in what AI art gets wrong

Charlie Engman is creating a counter to the “internet nerd culture” imagery widely associated with generative art