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The annual general meeting in February will propose new board and fresh blood for the online art market business

Shoppers can browse a range of works in a special Sarabande foundation pop-up called House of Bandits

Artists and cultural activists tell The Art Newspaper what they have found on their return

Other acquisitions this month include a Bronze Age Peebles stone hoard, and Yatreda Art Collective’s Abyssinian Queen NFT

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how European icons became incorporated into the African country’s traditions

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum features a glacier-themed opening concert, specially commissioned exhibitions from leading digital and craft-based artists and a cultural table featuring global figures from arts and sport

Trump spoke to donors at the National Building Museum one day after JD Vance hosted supporters at the National Gallery of Art

The spa complex was thought to have been owned by a powerful politician

The Indigenous artist Harriette Bryant Created delves into the human cost of the tests conducted by the UK in South Australia in the 1950s

But art world commentators say focus should instead be on the “parlous state of the arts”

A round up of practical solutions for those braced for turmoil

The London-born curator, who has previously organised shows at events such as the Venice Biennale, has been appointed as the artistic director and chief curator of the museum in Uzbekistan’s capital

The co-founder and director of Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film on her upcoming exhibitions and the best place to see the city’s skyline

Ning Chong is the co-founder of the private gallery The Culture Story with her father Chong Huai Seng

As well as the big museums and fairs, Singapore Art Week gives smaller projects
a chance to shine

The artist on how the city’s art scene is becoming more focused on sustainability and ecological themes

The founder of INSTINC art space on the DIY spirit of Singapore’s art scene

The sound artist describes creating ‘poetic cartography’ that retells the stories of the land

As this year’s Singapore Art Week kicks off, we take a look at the development of the city-state’s museums, galleries and wider arts ecosystem over recent years

Visitors to this year’s Singapore Art Week are spoilt for choice, with more than 160 events and exhibitions to take in, from art fairs to shows of established and emerging Southeast Asian artists

The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently acquired the work, which is being exhibited at the de Young Museum ahead of Martin Luther King Jr Day

A fair spokesperson said the decision came after “careful consideration and extensive conversations with galleries, partners and city-wide stakeholders”

The 9.3-mile bike and pedestrian path will connect the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art, Mass Moca and other cultural and historical sites in western Massachusetts

The owners of works the FBI seized from the Orlando Museum of Art have filed an eight-figure claim, but the insurers say “coverage is unavailable because… the property was inauthentic”

The feminist art collective’s commercial debut in their hometown, at Hannah Traore Gallery, is intended to introduce their activist work to a new generation

Haul Gallery in Brooklyn, which recently transitioned to a non-profit model, is offering conceptually or physically difficult works for as little as $1 apiece

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provides an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners

The artist’s Draw! project is part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

This idea of exposing working-class school students only to the stories of working-class heroes, at the expense of “middle-class pursuits” such as museums, is misguided

How the most devastating fires in Southern Californian history are affecting artists and art workers, plus chats about the work the WMF is doing to protect world heritage and a new book about Katsushika Hokusai’s methods

Artists are regularly asked to create pieces to suit the particular tastes of buyers—but taking direction suits some more than others

The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum’s annual meeting in Davos

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change

The Ulmberg collection, comprising works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, may go to the city of Chur

Released after being wrongly imprisoned for 41 years, the US artist spreads a message of hope and optimism

The American Pop art pioneer’s mural project is closely tied to the concerns of the World Economic Forum’s annual gender gap report

This pioneer in conservation photography combines her passion and skill to capture our planet’s fragility

The director of the Tate discusses the measures that the global museum sector is taking to address the climate and environmental crisis

For 20 years, the troubled Expressionist found refuge, respite and inspiration in the Alpine town

Flying to an exhibition is increasingly unjustifiable. But by choosing the train, visitors can enjoy endless, inspiring encounters with art and life

Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades

The Halsted A&A Foundation is displaying its recent acquisition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago starting 25 January

Taking place from 17-26 January, the week includes everything from museum shows to one-off pop-ups

Group behind the UAE’s biggest fair has selected Alexie Glass-Kantor as executive director, curatorial, and Dunja Gottweis as fair director

The gallery-sharing event, spread across different parts of the UK capital, features participants from Guatemala, Lebanon, Los Angeles and more

The institution has described the protests at the opening of its New Contemporaries exhibition as “misguided”

The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin

The artefacts, found on the island of Bornholm, were “sown” into the ground in the hope of bringing back the sun and saving the crops, new research reveals

The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund will provide support to artists and cultural workers affected by the fires

A Chinkana, or labyrinth, with three branches has been found beneath the ancient city of Cusco

The Ace Gallery founder has also been ordered to pay back millions in restitution

He will be replaced by the president of Christie’s America, Bonnie Brennan

For the first time, the list of threatened heritage sites raises awareness beyond Earth’s atmosphere

Calder Gardens, which will be housed in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, has also appointed a senior director of programmes

Around 100 members of United Voices of the World, who are employed by the external contractor Wilson James, will take strike action later this week

Proceeds from the sale of the polished bronze work—the identity of was lost to time after it was bequeathed in the 1960s—will go towards student bursaries

Industrial farming in Brazil and off-road racing in Chile continue to threaten geoglyphs that are so big, they can only be properly appreciated from the air

Semi-derelict for almost 50 years, the Palais de Danse—where the sculptor created some of her most famous monumental works—will aim to engage the local community in the Cornish town as well as housing an exhibition about the artist