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A comprehensive overview explores the “paradox” of Weegee’s work and how he went from taking tabloid photos of murder to making distorted celebrity portraits

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The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country

Inaugurated in January by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the revamped yet unfinished galleries devoted to Mexico’s living Indigenous cultures reflect the dominant party’s agenda, not scholarship or a curatorial vision

The show promises free tasters that may “provoke delight or disgust, depending on your memories of school food”

Several dealers are taking a “less is more” attitude by, for example, giving little away in press releases—and it’s making a notable difference

The forensically researched volume on the British artist’s oil paintings offers a depth of scrutiny that he himself was famous for

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New York

The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner talks about his comprehensive new biography spanning from 1900 to today

All you ever wanted to know about Asawa, from a graphic novel biography to tales from her time at the celebrated Black Mountain College—selected by the curator Janet Bishop

Ahead of the opening of his largest UK exhibition to date, the Italian artist discusses what will make this show unique

Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025

Some institutions have ditched their accounts in protest, while others
have chosen to “quiet quit” and stopped posting on the Elon Musk-owned platform

Visitors have streamed back after Covid-19, but the influx has been a double-edged sword, forcing some institutions to consider their long-term sustainability

In the wake of its recent announcement, the group is turning to gastronomy, with recipes for Vincent van Gazpacho and Hieronymus Borscht

A new museum in Shanghai leaps into our top ten and European museums continue their strong performance, but our exclusive annual survey finds that some British institutions are still lagging behind

The inaugural event will take place from 6 to 13 April across the city

As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm

All but the most elite art schools risk losing crucial funding through grants and federally supported student financial aid programmes

The exhibition, originally staged in a publicly accessible café, will reopen in a building that is not open to the public

The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation

Just in time for Halloween, the museum will celebrate with a 24-hour open house

The UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”

Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery

World Monuments Fund is investigating the extent of the damage to religious and cultural buildings after the earthquake struck the Southeast Asian country last week, killing at least 1,700 people—with neighbouring Thailand also affected

The curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on her cultural passions

A new breed of auction sleeper hunter—and my own doom-scrolling about the geopolitical realities of 2025—have led me to consider other occupations

The two statues were seized during investigations into international smuggling networks including that of notorious trafficker Subhash Kapoor

The IFPDA Print Fair’s crowded preview and the launch of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair echo recent signals that the medium is increasingly in demand

Visitors to the museum’s pirates exhibition may spot ongoing tributes from staffers

Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museum’s director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions

The Art Newspaper’s pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

The career survey of the Portuguese abstract painter starts in Venice before moving to Bilbao

The Turner Prize winner, who is having his first UK institutional exhibition in two decades, explains his process, the interplay of time and space within his work, and why he had a brief career as a sign painter

Rarely seen works and other treats will go on show in worldwide exhibitions, starting in Milan and Munich this April

Using the museum’s vast archive, this exhibition highlights the impact of war followed by optimism

In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career

A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public

EA Studios alleges that the estate and its director bad-mouthed the Calgary-based gallery in an attempt to steal its customers

The co-founder of Hong Kong’s 3812 gallery, which is moving its London outpost into a new development of the Whiteley building, talks about his life in collecting and offers tips on Art Basel

The exhibition, featuring loans from the Palace of Versailles and The Palace Museum in Beijing, celebrates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations

Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai inspires an outdoor installation, Louise Bourgeois brings rarely-seen sculptures and eight artists from across the region are spotlit

As fires approached the Getty and Norton Simon Museum campuses in early January, those museums’ leaders called far-away lenders to reassure them that their art was safe

As art institutions—particularly in Washington, DC—succumb to the White House’s anti-diversity directives, a veteran of the museum world warns of the dangers of giving in to the whims of the Trump administration

Now owned by New York’s MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston

Plus: revolution on the dancefloor, Pacific Place invasion and despots with a difference

The city’s creatives are gaining wider recognition amid pressure from the National Security Law and Covid

A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a discussion about a sea-themed work by the last great ukiyo-e master

‘Night Charades’, an AI animation by the Singaporean artist that will be projected on to the facade of the M+ museum, uses classic Hong Kong films to also look towards the uncertain future

The gallery Addis Fine Art, which has branches in Ethiopia and London, has partnered with Esther Schipper and James Cohan to promote Berhanu internationally, which shows the positive potential of shared representation

The Taiwanese artist encourages the audience to make their mark on his vast installation, an evocation of Picasso’s 1930s masterpiece, at M+ in Hong Kong

A racial justice activist by trade, Ashish Ghadiali’s show at Thelma Hulbert Gallery is his first as an artist

Shin Min wins MGM’s $50,000 award for her portrayal of the “harsh reality” faced by fast food workers in South Korea

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe

While many jurisdictions are making it increasingly hard for Palestinian artists, Scotland’s hospitality has been heartwarming, says the Connecticut-based institution’s director

Vice President JD Vance will oversee the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” and deny funding to exhibitions that “degrade shared American values”

The painting, which was commissioned in 2019, caught the ire of the president, who claimed it was “purposefully distorted”

Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal

Two hours east of Los Angeles, a road trip worth the journey to outdoor projects by Alison Saar, Agnes Denes, Jose Dávila and others

The controversial climate campaign group, whose protests have included throwing orange cornflour at Stonehenge and supergluing themselves to various works of art, says its final action will take place in April