The New Museum: Back to the Future
The New York institution's director talks about the promise of tomorrow, getting past the ‘stupor’ of the masterpiece and rethinking the art museum
Do Only Women Get to Suffer in Public?
Across contemporary art, depictions of cancer are strikingly gendered: female and queer artists are praised for public candour, while male illness is more often muted or mythologised. Why, in an age of self-disclosure, does male suffering still struggle to be seen?
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Is Belgrade's Art Market an Ornament for Urban Rebranding?
A cluster of new galleries has emerged in the Serbian capital, despite deep-seated structural problems and concerns of an 'urban and political facelift'
Market
TEFAF Maastricht 2026: A ‘Closed’ Chapter for the European Antiquities Market?
Dealers at TEFAF 2026 report increasing constraints on the antiquities trade following the recent implementation of EU cultural heritage regulations.
The Global Art Market is Becoming More Local
The art market returned to modest growth in 2025, but new data suggests a massive structural shift may be underway.
Trust, After the Photograph
At the Moody Center for the Arts, Imaging After Photography argues that the key question is no longer whether images are real, but how they are produced – and why we might still believe them
Making Room for Milton Avery
Sidelined by his peers, Milton Avery is being recast as a model of modernism – but how is the market responding?
After the Avatar: Tilly Norwood and the Representation Market
An AI platform designed to be iterated, refined and redeployed across media has been signed by a major Hollywood agency - what does this mean for the art market?
Opinion
Private Views: Champagne Socialism at the Whitney Art Party
In the first dispatch from a new column on the New York art scene, the politics of socialism, Gaza and art-world patronage collide on the dancefloor, at the Whitney’s champagne-soaked fundraiser.
Was Martin Parr Just Taking the Piss?
Behind the ice creams, leisure parks and plastic excess lay a photographer who turned consumer culture back on itself – and refused to play the art market’s scarcity game
AIDS Is Not Over. Why Does Its Art Feel So Historical?
HIV is not a closed chapter, yet AIDS-related art is increasingly treated as one. As institutions and markets embrace this work, what is lost when urgency becomes history?
Features
The New Museum: Back to the Future
The New York institution's director talks about the promise of tomorrow, getting past the ‘stupor’ of the masterpiece and rethinking the art museum
After Nuremberg
Eighty years on, exhibitions, markets and museums continue to reshape how art handles Nazi crimes and Holocaust memory, raising uneasy questions about who gets to represent trauma – and to what end?
The Wii Effect: How Gaming Rewired the Art of Performance
Twenty years on, the Nintendo Wii’s gesture-based games feel less like a gimmick than a rehearsal – training a generation to perform for, and be interpreted by, machines
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Climate Culture and the Politics of Caution
Ten years after Paris, climate is at the centre of cultural programming. But can art still challenge extractive power, or has it settled for optics?
Television as Medium: How a Century of Broadcasting Reshaped Art
Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence
News
EU Threatens to Withdraw Funding from Venice Biennale over Russia Pavilion Return
European commissioners and 22 culture ministers have urged organisers to reconsider allowing Russia to reopen its national pavilion at the 2026 exhibition.
Diya Vij Appointed New York City Culture Commissioner
Brooklyn-based curator and arts administrator will lead the Department of Cultural Affairs amid funding pressures and sector contraction
Henrike Naumann, German Installation Artist Selected for Venice Biennale Pavilion, Dies
Berlin-based artist, known for installations using post-reunification furniture and design to examine far-right violence and East German history, has died aged 41 shortly before presenting at the German Pavilion in Venice.
British Museum Scrubs Use of ‘Palestine’ in Middle East Displays
Labels and maps in several ancient Middle East galleries have been updated after complaints about anachronistic geographic terms.
Artists Address Marshall Islands’ Nuclear Legacy in National Maritime Museum Show
Works developed after a 2023 Cape Farewell expedition bring together art and research on sea-level rise and nuclear testing in the remote Pacific nation.
A Ming Painting Donated to Nanjing Museum Resurfaces at Auction, Prompting Investigation
Authorities launch inquiries after a scroll given to the museum in 1959 appears on the market with an eight-figure estimate
Ukraine Pavilion to Spotlight Evacuated Sculpture at Venice Biennale
Zhanna Kadyrova’s suspended concrete deer will anchor exhibition examining failed security guarantees and wartime displacement
Trump Officials Push for Expanded Portrait Display at Smithsonian
Discussions about adding multiple images of the president come amid wider tensions between the White House and the Smithsonian Institution
AlUla Contemporary Art Museum Plans Advance with Pompidou Partnership as Cultural Strategy Draws Scrutiny
A Lina Ghotmeh–designed museum in northwest Saudi Arabia will focus on landscape, heritage and artist archives as part of wider AlUla cultural development
Places
Is Belgrade's Art Market an Ornament for Urban Rebranding?
A cluster of new galleries has emerged in the Serbian capital, despite deep-seated structural problems and concerns of an 'urban and political facelift'
After a Landslide Victory, Will Sanae Takaichi’s Election Reshape Japan’s Art World?
The unlikely mandate of a new Prime Minister raises pressing questions about the future of Japan's art ecosystem, both domestically and internationally.
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?
Hong Kong, Beyond the Fair
Angelle Siyang-Li outlines a route through Hong Kong away from Art Basel, from the best local restaurants to the galleries, neighbourhoods and escapes that shape the city's cultural life
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Liquidity Is Not Permanence: Lagos and the Limits of Market Infrastructure
Despite a growing local commercial scene and a major retrospective of Nigerian Modernism at Tate in London, Nigeria's largest city has yet to prove the durability of its art market.
Gibellina and the Limits of Art-Led Regeneration
Rebuilt by artists after the 1968 earthquake, Sicily's Gibellina is once again betting its future on culture. A new state-backed art capital programme asks whether funding and programming can succeed where politics failed.
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Singapore’s Art Market Is Built on Policy, Not Hype
Structural factors including tax design, regulatory stability and wealth concentration are reshaping Singapore’s role as a regional art-market hub