Artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin win the Prix Marcel Duchamp
David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin©GranduchyThe Paris-and Luxembourg-based duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin have won the Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s…
Sprawling contemporary art centre Large opens on island near Paris
An exterior view of Large, created from materials including Corten steel, aluminum and glassPhoto: Nicolas TrouillardThe French capital's newest contemporary…
October Book Bag: from Taryn Simon’s intriguing Guggenheim installation catalogue to a publication about Hans Arp’s paper sculptures
A detail from Taryn Simon's A squad agent informed me I’d be babysitting, (2026) (detail), which features in the book…
Art Basel Paris dispatch: what to see beyond the fair this week
At the entrance to Paris InternationaleThe Art NewspaperParis InternationaleThe twelfth edition of Paris Internationale, which champions emerging galleries, opened earlier…
Students stage protest performance over closure of Chicago's DePaul Art Museum
The Waiting protest outside the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago on 8 October Photo: Ruth LopezThe closure in June of…
Comment | How do we protect artists from gallery insolvency?
The panel “Supporting artists as sustainable businesses” at the Art Business Conference 2026 in London Photo: David OwensA monthly look…
‘These are photos that tell stories about Israeli society’: photography exhibition opens ahead of consequential elections
In Levac’s Bathers in Bental Reservoir in Ramat Hagolan, August 2026, people studiously ignore warning notices Courtesy the artist“Danger of…
Anselm Kiefer painting too large to exhibit gets its own David Chipperfield pavilion
The Anselm Kiefer Pavilion (left) at Museum Würth 2 displays Kiefer's Black Flakes (2007, right) © Anselm Kiefer, photos: Studio…
Comment | Art does not function like other commodities, so why is it being priced like one?
Over a barrel? There are parallels between the way the oil market worked in the 1980s with how the art…
Major London museums join forces for new South Asian arts festival
Giants on the Move: A Puppet Street Parade, directed by Dadi Pudumjee, The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust and presented by…
Could proposed bill give the French state too much control over privately owned art?
Gustave Caillebotte’s Boulevard vu d’en haut (1880) was designated a trésor national in February 2026 and its export remains barred…
What to expect from Centre Pompidou’s vast new conservation-focused site in the Parisian suburbs
The front of the Centre Pompidou Francilien, with an exterior created using Douglas fir, overlooks a lake and a parkPhoto…
Comment | Foundations can be catalysts in a changing cultural landscape
Sharon Lockhart, WINDWARD, 2025 (still). Co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation and the National Gallery of…
Monet's monumental ‘Iris’ makes €50m in Paris
Aurelie Vandervoorde fielding bids during Sotheby's Paris sale of The Schlumberger Collection © Micha Patault / Sotheby’s Monet's monumental Iris…
Art Basel Paris to close early due to protests
Art Basel Paris is held at the Grand Palais© Art BaselArt Basel Paris, which opened at the historic Grand Palais…
Found objects and fall-outs: publication reveals new sides to Donald Judd and his work
Donald Judd’s To Susan Buckwalter (1964) art: © 2026 Judd Foundation / ARS, New York; Photo: Alex Marks © 2026…
Giant mirrored globe will rise on Miami Beach during art week
Digital rendering of Christopher Joshua Benton’s A Lore Supreme on Faena Beach Courtesy the artist and Faena ArtA monumental, mirrored…
Miami dealer sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for selling fake Warhols
Leslie Roberts’s Miami Fine Art Gallery the day after the FBI raided it in April 2025 Photo: Carolina Ana DrakeThe…
Modernists brought into the mix at 1-54 Contemporary African art fair
Hassan Hajjaj’s Our Motherland Collective (2023) from his My London Rockstars series of portraits Courtesy the artistFor its 14th London…
De Kooning sets European record but still falls flat at muted Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale
Willem de Kooning’s Untitled (1977) sold for £9.8m after fees, setting a record for the artist at auction in Europe…
What does an Old Master smell like? Meet the perfumer commissioned by Sotheby's
Lyn Harris qualified as Britain’s first classically trained female perfumer in the 1990s Courtesy Perfumer HArt of Luxury magazine, published…
Frieze London Diary: A dinner dance with a twist, Barbie gets the blues and Warhol’s feline showstoppers
Mind the china: Holly Blakey and her dancers mesmerise guests at the Frieze Collectors’ DinnerArt world glitterati descended on the…
Will the real Arts Council England please stand up? A new book tells an incomplete history of the funding organisation
Comma Publishing/Arts Council EnglandThis is a book that nobody needs, and only a few arts bureaucrats want. It is presented…
Not just bricks and mortar: how can gallerists operate without a permanent space?
Bolanle Contemporary, founded by Bolanle Tajudeen, has exhibited at No.9 Cork Street and Sadie Coles HQ, and is the only…
All six of Edward Hopper’s early oils, long thought to be original works, revealed to be copies
Edward Hopper's Old Ice Pond at Nyack (around 1898-1900, top) is in fact a copy of Winter Sunset by Bruce…
‘I like to take time to understand the work and its maker’: collector Helen Sunderland-Cohen on what she has bought and why
Helen Sunderland-Cohen is the custodian of the Sunderland Collection of rare historical maps, atlases and globes, which was established by…
Found objects and fall-outs: a new book reveals new sides to Donald Judd and his work
Donald Judd’s To Susan Buckwalter (1964) art: © 2026 Judd Foundation / ARS, New York; Photo: Alex Marks © 2026…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West closes after visitor killed by wind-blown debris
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona Photo: Andrew Horne, via Wikimedia CommonsTaliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona—Frank Lloyd Wright’s former…
Tate Modern exhibition explores Pictorialism and the birth of soft-focus photography
Luo Bonian’s Drawing Water from a Well (1932) Courtesy Luo Bonian Art Foundation and Three Shadows +3 Gallery“This is probably…
Hungarian art community takes stock of populist Orbán era’s enormous toll
Sweeping away the past: the intervention Deep Cleaning in Progress at Budapest’s Kunsthalle by a group of artists and curators…
Henry Chalfant’s legendary archive of New York graffiti goes on show for first time in Northern Europe
Henry Chalfant at the opening of Art is Not A Crime. Credit: Emiro SmoldersWhen Henry Chalfant began photographing New York’s…
In pictures: boundary-pushing works in Frieze London’s Focus section
Jayeeta Chatterjee, The Infinite Weft (2026) David OwensAs is so often the case, the Focus section, for solo stands by…
François Pinault to launch permanent display of his collection at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi
The French billionaire art collector François Pinault has announced plans to launch a permanent display of his holdings at the…
At museums across London, Old Masters cuddle up to the contemporary—what makes this curatorial approach so appealing?
The cutting edge of history: Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews (around 1750, above left) and Yinka Shonibare’s response, Mr…
Revealed: How Vincent van Gogh’s brother Theo gave Monet his first exhibition in London
Left: Claude Monet (1899) and right: Theo van Gogh (1889) Paul Nadar (photo © Aguttes) and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam…
London exhibition throws stark light on tragedy in Gaza
One of the works in the show is a video featuring footage of a mock “press conference” held by children…
An artist’s poetic rumination on the political promise of Opec
A scene from Sanaz Sohrabi's documentary An Incomplete Calendar (2026) © Sanaz SohrabiThe new film An Incomplete Calendar, by the…
British Museum’s Red Ball sparks Energy Embargo for Palestine protests
Protestors in front of the British Museum during its Red Ball fundraiserThe Art NewspaperThe British Museum’s Red Ball fundraising gala…
Jewellers Buccellati create collection inspired by Venetian lace-making
A Serenissima collection necklace in white and yellow gold, set with brilliant-cut diamonds; the centrepiece of the pendant is a…
‘You think you have a good radar and then you realise it’s full of holes’: collector Charles Asprey on what he has bought and why
Charles Asprey began his career in the 1990s, working for the dealer Andrea Rosen in New York Courtesy Charles AspreyCharles…
Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco di Giorgio—podcast
Frieze London 2026Image by Lyndon Douglas. Courtesy of FriezeFrom breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the…
Roll up, roll up! Exhibitions celebrate the splendour of the circus and the artists it inspired
Fernand Léger’s Le Cirque Médrano (1918) © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. GrandPalaisRmThis autumn, two exhibitions on either side of the…
‘I’ve learnt I can enjoy a work without having to acquire it’: Dasha Shenkman on her approach to art collecting
Dasha Shenkman works closely with the Contemporary Art Society, to which has donated many works to public collections Courtesy Dasha…
Frieze London Diary: pirate-turned-artist Johnny Depp heads to London, an authentic Boer war experience and fake news at the fair
Artist Marcus Jefferson cosplays an undercover reporter at Harlesden High Street gallery’s standThe power of the press is on display…
Suspects in Renoir paintings heist were planning separate robbery at Fondation Maeght, police chief says
The main suspect in the investigation into the theft of the Renoir paintings was seen visiting the Fondation Maeght in…
Peter Nagy—Nature Morte gallery founder who transformed Indian contemporary art market—has died
Peter Nagy (1959-2026)Courtesy of Nature MortePeter Nagy, the US-born gallerist and artist whose experimental taste shaped Indian contemporary art, has…
New Abu Dhabi cultural district announced ahead of the emirate’s inaugural Frieze fair
Frieze Abu Dhabi will take place in the Saadiyat Cultural District, home to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, due to…
Collection of Monsoon founder Peter Simon becomes highest value single-owner collection ever sold at Christie's London
Adrien Meyer, Christie's global head of private sales and co-chairman, Impressionist and Modern art, selling Wassily Kandinsky's Das bunte Leben…
Staff strike at Goldsmiths is now the longest in UK university history
Staff at Goldsmiths in London began their strike over restructuring and proposed redundancies in April Courtesy of Joe NewmanMore than…
Is the energy of the 1990s returning to London’s art market?
A series of self-portraits by the YBA Sarah Lucas spanning the 1990s are on show at the stand of Sadie…
House museum of Spanish ‘master of light’ Joaquín Sorolla reopens in Madrid
Installation view of Behind the Artist’s House: The Architecture of the Sorolla Museum, 1905–2026 inside the Sorolla Museum's new extension…
Frieze Masters balance shifts towards Global South
Making waves: Loft Art Gallery has sold a work by the Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi for €180,000, with two more…
New London Invitational art fair moves into former US Embassy
The calm ambiance of the Chancery Rosewood offer some respite from Frieze London’s hectic tent Franklin Parrasch PhotographyWith a golden…
At London’s new Latin American art fair Paraíso, a decade-in-the-making exhibition finally debuts
La Primera (2016), from Felipe Ehrenberg’s mail-inspired series Courtesy of Paraíso Latin American Art FairAt the entrance of Paraíso, one…
Brazil’s Centre Pompidou outpost delayed until 2029
A rendering of the future Centre Pompidou Paraná, designed by Solano Benítez Courtesy Solano BenítezThe Centre Pompidou Paraná, the French…
Slow down and look: the simple complexity of Robert Ryman is revealed in Barbican exhibition
Robert Ryman in 1974; he taught himself to paint while working as a guard at MoMA Photo: Philippe De Gobert;…
‘Artist-first’ Fair Play launches to strong attendance but slow sales during London Frieze week
Crowd control: Fair Play's private view on Thursday evening attracted large numbers Donna FordOf all the various satellite fairs within…
Artists impacted by Stephen Friedman gallery closure out in force at Frieze London
Paintings by Clare Woods, including The Peace (left) and Fading Effect (right), sold early on the opening day at Victoria…
It’s a wrap: the art world implications of the EU’s new packaging regulations
Art institutions will need to be stringent with their labelling, as well as their approach to compostable and recyclable packaging,…
Comment | The Bayeux Tapestry should prompt a conversation about the environmental war we are living through
The Bayeux Tapestry is displayed in a 70m-long display case at the British Museum© The Trustees of the British MuseumThe…