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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the atmosphere at the fair after a long downturn in the art market and underwhelming auctions last month in New York.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison |Carlie Porterfield
Art Basel has long been considered the ultimate art fair. This year is no different—but even Art Basel is not impervious to market conditions and factors like rapidly developing trade wars, international conflict and threats of recession. During this year’s fair, galleries have reported strong sales, but there are signs of shifts in the landscape and question marks about how both the fair and dealers will adapt. Dealers agree that Art Basel stands above all other fairs when it comes to quality.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison |Carlie Porterfield
This week Liste Art Fair Basel celebrates its 30th birthday, a very adult milestone for a fair that has always prioritised youth and encouraged exhibitors to display works by artists under the age of 40. But even going into its fourth decade, Liste stands manage to delight visitors with subversive art and buzzy international galleries. Being a Tree Sometimes III (2022, pictured above)“Nahum B.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. Ben Luke visits the gallery to talk to her about the paintings—giant and tiny—in the show. The latest Liverpool Biennial has just opened in that great British city; Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, joins Ben to review the show.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change the mood? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay, the managing director of Ames Yavuz, which is opening a new London gallery to coincide with the weekend events, and Jeremy Epstein, co-director of the Edel Assanti gallery, who is the co-founder and co-director of London Gallery Weekend.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison
Three tombs dating from more than 3,000 years ago have been discovered near the city of Luxor, close to the famed Valley of the Kings, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced earlier this week. The tombs, which date back to the New Kingdom (around 1550-1070 BC), are believed to have belonged to three officials and were found by an all-Egyptian mission.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the godfathers of kinetic and auto-destructive art. Ben Luke speaks to Roland Wetzel, the director of the Tinguely Museum in Basel about the artist’s life and work, and the events marking the centenary. In Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Fenix, a museum about migration, has just opened, featuring a dramatic stainless steel tornado form on its roof.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town and had been invited to curate next year’s Venice Biennale died on 10 May. There has been an outpouring of moving tributes to Kouoh from artists, curators and gallerists across the world, and Ben Luke speaks to Nolan Oswald Dennis, the Johannesburg-based artist who has a current show at Zeitz, and Liza Essers, the owner and director of Goodman Gallery, about her life and work.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The gallery has also rehung its entire collection and Ben Luke takes a tour of both the revamped building and the new displays with the National Gallery director, Gabriele Finaldi.
