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A gallery installation featuring two nature photographs mounted on a large wall covered in white textured modules connected by concentric red-outlined rectangular spirals, in a raw concrete space.

Sweating the Future at Riga Art Week

From underfloor heating to private patronage, Riga Art Week revealed an art scene wrestling with the comforts and contradictions of post-Soviet capitalism

Joe Bobowicz29 May, 2026

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Opinion

Help I Hate… My Friend

Charlotte Jansen advises on a uniquely intense friendship formed in the early stages of a creative career

Charlotte Jansen
A man in a dark suit speaks expressively behind a desk crowded with various news microphones during a dimly lit press conference.

Help! I Hate... My Artist

Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises an independent gallerist defending a controversial artist in public while harbouring private doubts

Charlotte Jansen
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Help! I Hate... My Pavilion

In her second Agony Aunt column, Charlotte Jansen soothes a Venice Biennale curator with an emotional hangover

Charlotte Jansen

Help! I Hate... Networking

The Art Journal's resident artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers your questions about access, gatekeeping and sticky social problems

Charlotte Jansen
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 An abstract installation featuring large, translucent sheets of photographic film in shades of amber, navy, and charcoal draped over metal supports to create layered, sculptural folds.

Art with a Designer Label

Will the shifting culture of commercial patronage in the arts cause the 61st Venice Biennale to look materially different?

Emily Burke
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A gallery installation featuring two nature photographs mounted on a large wall covered in white textured modules connected by concentric red-outlined rectangular spirals, in a raw concrete space.

Sweating the Future at Riga Art Week

From underfloor heating to private patronage, Riga Art Week revealed an art scene wrestling with the comforts and contradictions of post-Soviet capitalism

Joe Bobowicz
Palermo's Palazzo Forcella De Sata, the future home of Hauser and Wirth, a grand palazzo foregrounded by trees.

Can Palermo’s Art Market Fulfil its Potential?

Palermo experienced a surge in tourism in the 2010s on the back of the Sicilian capital’s rehabilitation as a cultural capital. Now, as the city is once again reshaped by outside forces, can its nascent art market establish a state of self-dependence?

Izabela Anna Rzeczkowska-Moren

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