ReviewExhibitions
Unfinished quarters of a Bavarian palace create a striking backdrop for contemporary art
Imaginatively curated, the fourth edition of the Königsklasse exhibition is as monumental as the Herrenchiemsee Palace in which it is installed
InterviewCollecting
Five minutes with… Lorraine Kiang Malingue on the Asian art market
Dealer tells us about the challenges of running a space in Shanghai’s West Bund and how the gallery keeps up with the growing competition
InterviewPainting
Liu Xiaodong: an interview with China’s great documentary painter
The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with William Zhao
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
News
Van Ham to auction 4,000 contemporary works from SØR Rusche collection
Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s
InterviewBrice Marden
Why the process of painting never ends
The US artist Brice Marden takes a new tack in his latest works, on show at Gagosian in London
AnalysisThe Year In Review
The year in art: taking stock of Documenta, the Venice Biennale and Münster Sculpture Projects
Did the grand tour hit the mark?
AnalysisThe Year In Review
From VR masterpieces to PR disasters: 2017's ups and downs
The Art Newspaper team assesses the art world's fortunes in a turbulent year
NewsArt market
Object lessons: late works by Maria Lassnig and Di Cavalcanti and a creative chair by Roy Lichtenstein
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
NewsArt
Art Basel 2017
Our daily papers from Art Basel, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
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Frieze New York 2017
Our daily papers from Frieze New York, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
NewsArt
Frieze London 2016
Our daily papers from Frieze London, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
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Art Basel 2016
Our daily papers from Art Basel, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
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Tate Modern and the London art scene
Behind the Tate’s £260m extension: the people, the art, the architecture and the city that made it happen
NewsArt
Twice the size and seven storeys high: the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ready for lift-off
Galleries filled with blue-chip gifts plus highlights of the Fisher Collection will greet visitors when museum reopens <br>
NewsArt
Frieze New York 2016
Our daily papers from Frieze New York, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
NewsArt
Turner and The Fighting Temeraire chosen for new £20 note
Bank of England's choice delights the Tate, National Gallery and Margate's Turner Contemporary<br>
NewsArt
Antony Gormley backs campaign to create affordable studios across London
Artist helps launch Studiomakers with appeal to property developers and politicians
NewsArt
Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside
In new role US-born James Snyder will continue to foster Jerusalem institution’s global relationships<br>
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: Tori Wrånes submerges Shoreditch in a Norwegian underworld
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: Subodh Gupta cooks up a storm in Somerset, Soviet influence in Africa, and Albert Oehlen paints ‘all kinds of crazy shit’
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: A tale of two cities, from striking poses in Vogue to thowing shapes at Dingwalls
NewsArt
Bridget Riley’s art helps put spin into Louisiana’s Op art show
Survey of eye- and mind-boggling works opens in Danish museum
NewsArt
Destination Bangladesh: art world decamps to third Dhaka Art Summit
Four-day event is billed as “the world’s largest non-commercial platform for South Asian art”
NewsArt
Historic agreement puts V&A in pole position for photography
Move draws criticism as Bradford's National Media Museum transfers 400,000 photographic items to London
NewsArt
Art in shopping malls: it’s all product after all
Art has long been hitched to luxury goods, but it is now becoming a more democratic—or commercial—concept as malls begin to incorporate exhibition space
NewsArt
Why is the art market like a carousel?
Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”
NewsArt
Ellsworth Kelly’s last projects are also firsts: photography show and $23m building
Initiatives in New York and Texas
NewsArt
Breach of trust? Artists try to block sales of works given as gifts
NewsArt
Sotheby’s pays top dollar for the art world’s best address book
Auction house buys art advisers in surprise $85m deal
NewsArt
Italian fast car is the star at slow French auctions
NewsArt
Wildenstein can’t be forced to recognise disputed Monet
French court will not intervene over work that was championed by BBC’s Fake or Fortune
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: London’s ICA celebrates 70th birthday with a family photo
NewsArt
After stint in the doldrums, India Art Fair shows signs of picking up
Event has been repositioned as “the” place to see South Asian art
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: everything is rosy in the Royal Academy garden but it looks like it could be a nuclear summer
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: set sail from London to Bristol for this week’s top shows including Elizabeth Peyton and John Akomfrah
NewsArt
Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law
Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country
NewsArt
Art world heads back to school as Frieze Academy launches
Lectures and courses are designed to further careers of arts professionals
NewsArt
Painting by Rembrandt’s favourite pupil given UK export bar
Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy
NewsArt
Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world
Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office
NewsArt
Lebanese authorities backtrack over high-profile curator's passport renewal
Christine Tohmé says her application was suspended because of ties to culture sector
NewsEgypt
How art is keeping alive the memory of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Five years after the uprisings in Cairo, the spirit of the protests lives on in cultural projects
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: Too much nostalgia on Sir Norman’s watch
NewsArt
Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing
The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”
NewsArt
Stranger than fiction? Did Byron’s bong sell at art fair for £1.1m?
NewsArt
Leila Alaoui, a talent cut short by terrorists in Burkina Faso
33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: a grand send-off for the polymath powerhouse Prof Lisa Jardine
NewsArt
Fischli and David Weiss's Manhattan mural has motivational manifesto
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Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying
Installation accompanies death objects exhibition
NewsArt
Palestinian Museum to open in May
Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with
NewsArt
Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results
162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder
NewsArt
National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park
Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed
NewsArt
Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital
Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic
NewsArt
Artcurial charity auction cancelled after work showing Palestinian activist is pulled
French press partners pull out of sale “in the name of freedom of expression” following lobbying from Israeli embassy
NewsArt
London’s emerging galleries host exhibitors from abroad
Condo event offers international colleagues an alternative to expensive art fairs
NewsArt
Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director
Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: Laura Cumming’s tribute to double Diego
NewsArt
Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash
Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”
NewsArt
British construction boss to open new gallery in Ghana
Marwan Zakhem hopes to create a buzz around the burgeoning scene in the West African country with Gallery 1957
BlogArt
The Buck Stopped Here: the British Empire strikes back, unravelling the Celtic enigma, plus Gavin Turk and Akram Khan
NewsArt
Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub
Dubai Photo Exhibition to launch in March with works from 23 countries
NewsArt
Science fiction in the Holy Land
Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality
NewsArt
Art world commemorates 50th anniversary of Alberto Giacometti’s death
Raft of exhibitions and projects are due to launch this year
NewsArt
Sotheby’s buys prestigious art advisory firm in $85m deal
Founders of Art Agency, Partners will head up new department, along with Marc Porter, former Americas chairman at Christie’s
NewsArt
Turkey’s crackdown on freedom of expression intensifies
Two leading Turkish artists arrested during peace march, but released days later
NewsArt
Three good reasons why Brisbane’s Asia Pacific Triennial is the tops
No commercial influence, no contemporary-art imperialism and no diva curator
NewsArt
Louvre-Lens director Xavier Dectot steps down after five years, and heads for Edinburgh
Medieval expert will head the department of art and design at the National Museum of Scotland
NewsArt
French dealer’s Dubai residence damaged in New Year's Eve fire
Opening of Stephane Custot’s gallery in the emirate has been delayed
NewsArt
Israeli high court says antiquities dealers must document all artefacts online
Antiquities authority hails December ruling as revolutionary
NewsArt
Owner of purported Monet loses case in French court
Work featured on BBC’s Fake or Fortune programme in 2011
NewsArt
The robots are coming
Artists turn to precision engineering as production costs for delivering an industrial aesthetic plummet
NewsArt
Art among the cacti: recurring exhibition to launch in the Southern Californian desert
Site-specific works will be dotted around Coachella Valley for the new Desert X show
NewsArt
Wildenstein tax evasion and money laundering trial begins
Case could shine spotlight on how some in the art world use trusts and tax havens
NewsArt
UK creates £30m fund to fight cultural destruction
NewsArt
France builds grand alliance to protect cultural heritage
Louvre director’s plan calls for co-ordinated response to destruction in Syria and Iraq
NewsArt
Abu Dhabi authorities make a public display of confidence in the future of its museums
NewsArt
Crowds flock to Yoko Ono’s Beijing debut
NewsArt
‘Art provides the answers to questions no one has asked’
The second “What is Art For?” investigation took place in the Hermitage Theatre last month
NewsArt
Greece decides against legal action to reclaim Parthenon sculptures
NewsArt
The rest of the past month at a glance, January 2016
NewsArt
City’s grand plan for culture takes shape
NewsArt
Ai Weiwei visits Greek island of Lesbos to document the plight of refugees
Chinese artist and activist has been sharing photographs and videos on social media
NewsArt
Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa
NewsArt
Jenny Holzer draws on Walt Whitman for Aids memorial
App will allow people to keep memories alive far beyond New York
NewsArt
Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art
Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
NewsArt
Holocaust survivor’s art last seen in Cuba
US foundation claims Castro regime seized paintings that Hitler failed to steal
NewsArt
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation donates Iranian photographer's work to universities
Gift of Shirin Neshat's prints about the Arab Spring is meant to encourage discussions on race, religion and politics
NewsArt
Neil MacGregor announces last acquisitions before retiring from the British Museum
Outgoing director’s portrait by Wolfgang Tillmans and a Lampedusa Cross among works added to collection
NewsArt
Benjamin Genocchio, editor-in-chief of Artnet News, appointed executive director of Armory Show
A change in date for the New York fair might be on the cards under new directorship
NewsArt
Human rights group raises fears over artists imprisoned in Tunisia
Five men have been sentenced under Law52, the anti-drugs legislation enforced by the country’s former president
NewsArt
Margaret Thatcher collection snapped up at Christie’s auction
Former prime minister’s belongings attract bidders from 41 countries
NewsArt
Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial
Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy
NewsArt
Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil
Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists
NewsArt
Artistic director of Also Known As Africa resigns over decision to cancel
Timothée Chaillou not consulted over postponement of new Paris art fair
CommentArt
Matthew Collings on his heady days with David Bowie
The superstar art lover backed the British critic's first forays into book publishing
Matthew Collings