Art crowd saddles up at the High Desert Art Fair
The Pioneertown Motel, home to the High Desert Art Fair. Courtesy PioneertownCould the future of art fairs look less like…
From technology to Gen Z collectors, Adrian Cheng shares the key trends in Hong Kong’s art scene
Cheng says he is “particularly excited by the calibre of international artists showing across the city” during Art Basel Courtesy…
Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District signs partnerships with 12 international institutions
Summit speakers and MOU signatories from global arts and cultural institutions, along with representatives from the WKCDA, gather at Xiqu…
Plan to build border wall along the Rio Grande in Texas threatens prehistoric rock art, locals warn
A rock art mural known as the "white shaman" along the Lower Pecos River in Texas Photo by Robert Shea,…
Germany to create council to oversee restitution of colonial-era acquisitions
Left: the Cameroonian Restitution Commission visits Berlin’s Ethnological Museum in 2023. Right: the female figure known as Ngonnso, which has…
Art trade stays buoyant amid global turmoil
While firefighters deal with the impact of the US-Israeli military strikes in Tehran, Iran, the dealings of the ultrarich continue…
Guillaume Cerutti departs as president of the Pinault Collection after 13 months
Cerutti still chairs the boards of Christie’s auction house as well as Stade Rennais Football Club, both of which are…
Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US
Adolf Hitler presents a Hans Makart painting to Hermann Göring as a birthday present in 1938 Library of CongressOn 16…
New £5m cultural centre in Northampton, UK to pursue model that ‘embeds artists in social and economic fabric of a place’
Part of Giles Round’s The Northampton Rooms, a civic, social and educational space within Arts Collective Photo: Melanie Issaka; ©…
Keeping up with the Kleins: exhibition brings together Yves’s talented artist family
Family pack: the Stedelijk show features (from left): Yves Klein’s Planetaire reliëf ‘Regio Grenoble’ (RP 10) (1961); Trou noir (around…
Ten must-see works in Art Basel Hong Kong's new section
Hyun Nahm, Hive (2025) Photo: Ian Yang; © Artist and WhistleContemporary art moves so fast that it can be hard…
Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie's and other positions in Pinault’s companies
Guillaume Cerutti has spoken out in a Linkedin post after leaving all of his positions associated with François Pinault's companies…
Gullah artist Sam Doyle’s narrative portraits shine at Outsider Art Fair in New York
The Gallery of Everything's stand devoted to works by Sam Doyle at the Outsider Art Fair. Courtesy The Gallery of…
Chile's leading art fair foregrounds affordable works, often with a political edge
Fernando Andreo Castro’s stand at Chaco Photo: Mario RodriguezThis year marks the 16th edition of Chile Arte Contemporáneo (Chaco), with…
Excavations at Alexander the Great's rediscovered city in Iraq postponed due to war
The walls of the ancient city of Alexandria© Charax Spasinou Project (Stuart Campbell 2017)Excavations at an ancient “lost” city in…
Exhibition explores connection between textiles and spirituality in Asia
Chinese artist Liu Xuan’s Lilayati (2025) from the Chat exhibition Courtesy of the artistUpon entering Threading Inwards at the Centre…
German artist Anne Imhof to be subject of ‘ambitious’ Hong Kong solo exhibition
Anne Imhof's AI Winter (2022) Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz & Sprüth Magers The German artist Anne Imhof, who…
Comment | Inside the preservation of the largest fortress in the Americas
Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti Photo: Gibran Torres/United States Army, via Wikimedia CommonsIt took a car, a motorcycle and a donkey to…
Trevor Paglen wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award
Trevor Paglen Photo: Michael Avedon © Trevor Paglen. Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco and Pace Gallery, New York and Trevor…
Demise of world's largest mangrove forest inspires Bangladeshi artist Soma Surovi Jannat's new works
Soma Surovi Jannat's In a Timeless Sweet Land (2023) Collection of the artist. © Soma Surovi JannatIn this monthly column,…
New Hong Kong fairs offer fresh opportunities for a changing market
Li Wang’s Cold Spring (2023)Courtesy of Fragment, New YorkVisitors to Hong Kong Art Week this year will have several new…
Who owns the seas? Shahzia Sikander's new animation on world trade beamed onto M+ museum facade
A still of Shahzia Sikander’s animation 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026), co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel Courtesy of…
Important collection of Minimalist art could bring big results at auction
Sculptures by Dan Flavin and Donald Judd in the McNeil family home. Photo by Max TouheyDuring the marquee spring auctions…
Swimming pools and school rules: artist Chan Wai Lap on the unusual themes behind his installations
Chan Wai Lap’s empty swimming pool Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars was installed outside the Hong Kong…
‘I have not walked this path alone’: South African artist Gabrielle Goliath on showing her cancelled Venice Biennale project outside the main event
Gabrielle Goliath says she intends to continue her legal battle against the cancellation of her project for South Africa’s Venice…
Exhibitions to see during Art Basel Hong Kong
Qiu Anxiong’s Peach Blossom Spring Wonderland – Encounter with a Snake (2025) is showing at Pearl Lam ProjectsBearing the Unseen,…
French government blocks sale of newly discovered drawing by German Renaissance master Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung Grien’s Portrait of Susanna Pfeffinger (1517)Courtesy of Beaussant LefèvreThe French culture ministry has intervened at the last minute…
Art Fund launches new fellowship scheme for global majority curators
Empowering Curators Residency at Ashorne Hill, January 2026 © Hydar Dewachi The Art Fund charity in the UK is launching…
Researchers at Art Gallery of Ontario identify painter and subject of 18th-century portrait of Black woman
Jeremias Schultz. Portrait of Eleonora Susette, 1775. Oil on canvas. Overall: 80cm by 56.2cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with…
Unesco-protected monastery in Lviv damaged by Russian drone strike
Smoke billows from the Bernardine Monastery after a drone strike on 24 MarchPhoto: Olena Znak/SOPA Images/Sipa USAA Russian drone strike…
Comment | Museums must be the leaders in a moral revolution
Big-picture thinking: “Seeing the bigger picture” is the slogan of the National Gallery in London’s current advertising campaign Photo: Jaroslav…
Members of European Parliament call on EU to pull Venice Biennale funding over Russian participation
The Russian pavilion in the Giardini Photo: Marco CappellettiAt least 34 members of the European parliament have signed a letter…
German artist Anne Imhof to be subject of ‘ambitious’ Hong Kong solo exhibition in 2027
Anne Imhof's AI Winter (2022) Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz & Sprüth Magers The German artist Anne Imhof, who…
Contemporary Jewish Museum puts its Libeskind-designed building in San Francisco up for sale
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Photo: Allan Ferguson, via FlickrThe Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has decided to sell its…
Hong Kong show offers 'most comprehensive survey' of 21st-century Chinese art
Musquiqui Chihying’s video installation The Link (2024), from the Stay Connected exhibition © Tai Kwun ContemporaryThe past can be a…
UK government to ‘explore’ charging international visitors to museums in England
The outgoing director of the Tate, Maria Balshaw, has been among those to criticise the idea of charging international visitors…
Dalí painting that inspired Schiaparelli dress to be shown in UK for first time
Rosalind McKever, the V&A curator of paintings and drawings, installing Salvador Dalí's painting Necrophiliac Spring (1936) ahead of the opening…
Sales at Art Basel Hong Kong reflect a deepening Asian market
Taro Nasu's stand at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026© Art BaselArt Basel Hong Kong is the latest event on the…
‘Every minute was a minute to create’: Paris show presents Henri Matisse’s dazzling finale
Henri Matisse’s Intérieur rouge, nature morte sur table bleue (1947) from the Grand Palais show © BPK, Berlin, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Walter…
Pride of place: the rise of LGBTQ+ art in Hong Kong
Inhwan Oh’s Where He Meets in Seoul (detail) (2020) is showing at Spectrosynthesis Seoul until 28 June at the Art…
Understanding Nifty Gateway’s demise is paramount for NFTs’ fans and critics alike
SOPA Images Limited / AlamyPress any key to continue is a monthly column about the ways technology is reshaping contemporary…
'The human-machine creative entanglement': artist Sougwen Chung on her technology-based practice
Sougwen Chung’s studio process for Recursion 3 (2026) Courtesy of the artistSougwen Chung is presenting new works as part of…
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama considering legal action after alleged police assault
Ibrahim Mahama speaking at a press conference on 23 MarchCourtesy of SCCAThe Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has allegedly been assaulted…
Comment | All hail the rise of the art internship
Increased debt, grade inflation and AI are making it harder for graduates to break into the art worldEvgenii ChernetcovIs getting…
Russia’s pavilion at Venice Biennale will be closed if it features propaganda, city’s mayor says
Russia’s pavilion in Venice Photo: BoumenjapetRussia’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be shut down if it engages in propaganda,…
‘We are trying to preserve the memory of our people’: archaeologists create map tracking damage to Iran heritage sites
Damage to Tehran's Sa’dabad Palace after an airstrike on 17 MarchAs the number of historic sites damaged by US-Israeli strikes…
Hong Kong’s contemporary art scene is blossoming in difficult times
Along with its global role, Hong Kong is increasingly nourishing local artists, including Chan Wai Lap, who continues exploring pools…
New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford – podcast
The expanded New Museum on the Bowery in New York has doubled in size to 120,000 sq. ft. Attached to…
Michaelina Wautier’s work was lost, hidden or misattributed to men—now her rediscovered paintings are going on show in London
Little is known about Michaelina Wautier, whose self-portrait (around 1650) is on show at the Royal Academy of Arts Photo:…
Goldfish on cars and ceramic flowers: artists take over the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong
The Peninsula Hong Kong Swimming in Light by Angel Hui at The Peninsula Hong Kong, part of Art in ResonanceA…
Helen Legg appointed artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts
Helen Legg Photo: Emma CaseHelen Legg has been appointed the artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts (RA). Legg,…
Museums in Shenzhen and Guangzhou are building bridges between Hong Kong and mainland China
A rendering of Róng Museum in Shenzhen’s Houhai district, part of the M80 cultural complex, is slated to open in…
Van Gogh goes to China, with a more affordable early painting
Van Gogh’s A Girl in a Wood (Meisje in het bosch) (August 1883)Christie’s Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly…
British artist Simon Fujiwara’s new Luxembourg exhibition tackles Guernica, syphilis and the death of a Japanese pornstar
Simon Fujiwara, ‘A Conquest’, (2020–ongoing)Photo: Andrea RossettiThe UK artist Simon Fujiwara has taken on Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica (1937)…
Damien Hirst offers his hot take on art dealers
Damien Hirst waxed lyrical about his manager—less so about dealers Associated Press/Alamy Stock PhotoThe now not-so-young British artist Damien Hirst…
London exhibition celebrates Konrad Mägi, Estonia’s mystic Modern master
Landscapes, such as Lake Kasaritsa (1916-17), anchor the Konrad Mägi exhibition Courtesy of the Art Museum of EstoniaThe first UK…
The Met’s blockbuster Raphael exhibition looks beyond the artist’s idealised Madonnas
The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia (around 1515-16)Scala / Art Resource, NY With the last half-millennium in mind, Raphael has arguably…
Police investigating DJ’s comments at Sydney Biennale opening following antisemitism allegations
Sydney’s art biennale opened its doors on 14 MarchPhoto: wagner_mdA police investigation has been launched following allegations of antisemitism at…
Comment | Climate change is forcing tough choices—how much heritage can we save before it is too late?
Archaeologists have also been experimenting with more out-of-this-world technology to preserve heritage: researchers plan to install two muon receptors inside…
Comment | Cow in MSCHF project survives, but should the project have happened at all?
The titular protagonist of MSCHF's current project, Our Cow Angus (2024-26), will live the rest of his life at an…