Frieze New York 2026
Image by Casey Kelbaugh/CKA. Courtesy of FRIEZE.
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.
The latest edition of Frieze New York is open now and we hear all about this year’s fair from The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, and our art market editor, Kabir Jhala.
Gagosian, Frieze New York 2026
Image by Casey Kelbaugh/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze.
Cupid Complaining to Venus (1526-27), a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the National Gallery in London has long been known to have a complicated provenance and was once in the possession of Adolf Hitler. In The Art Newspaper’s May print edition, a photograph of the work in Hitler’s Munich apartment is reproduced for the first time in an English-language publication. Ben Luke talks to Martin Bailey, our special correspondent in London, who has been following this story since the 1990s, about the latest news.
In this early 1940s photograph, later published in a 1978 furniture auction catalogue, the Cranach painting is just to the right of the door
Auktionskatalog Hermann Historica, Munich
And this episode’s Work of the Week is the Glamour Posse series from the early 1990s by the British photographer Ajamu X. The work features in Gender Stories, a UK touring exhibition that this week opens at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Ben speaks to the head of the gallery, Charlotte Keenan.
Ajamu X's Glamour Posse series (photographed in 1993, printed in 2023): Curtis Agard (left) and Rikki (right)
Artwork © the artist; installation view courtesy Walker Art Gallery (Cultural Gifts Scheme)
Celebrating the “negative joy” of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill
What’s behind the troubles facing auction houses and galleries? Plus, Sasha Skochilenko recounts her experience of being arrested—and incarcerated—in Russia, and the story behind a 1937 Surrealist painting by Ernst
Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger