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2 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw
Folk is making a comeback. In music, film, dance—and now, even the visual arts. Stroud, where a handful of grassroots art galleries have opened in recent years, is one of the British epicentres of this growing phenomenon.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw
Museums and galleries are failing women artists—and the majority, particularly those over 65, are now bypassing the traditional art world to create their own networks and sell their art directly to collectors.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw |Ermanno Rivetti |Scott Reyburn
The art market is one of the many international business sectors that is wondering what is going to happen to its sales figures in 2025 as US President Donald Trump’s wildly unpredictable executive orders—and a whole lot else—disrupt the global economy.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw
Ireland’s Lismore Castle, built in 1185 by King John on the site of a seventh-century monastery, could be said to serve as a kunstkammer—or cabinet of curiosities—of sorts. It boasts one of Ireland’s finest collections of art, furniture and craftwork and a banqueting hall designed by the Gothic Revival architect Augustus Pugin.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Anny Shaw |Holly Howe
Both The Netherlands and Lithuania have announced their artist selections for the 2026 Venice Biennale (9 May-22 November 2026), the most influential art platform in the world. Dries Verhoeven, who has been selected to represent The Netherlands, will be the first artist to present a performance piece in the Dutch pavilion.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo |Georgina Adam |Anny Shaw
The British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare was given carte blanche for his first major solo exhibition on the African continent. Safiotra [Hybridities] at the Fondation H in Antananarivo, Madagascar, will include several of Shonibare’s sculptures, such as Alien Woman on Flying Machine (2011) and Refugee Astronaut X (2024), as well as some of his lesser-known quilt works.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Anny Shaw |Ben Luke
A sculpture by Eric Gill outside BBC Broadcasting House in central London has been unveiled following restoration works and the addition of information on the artist's “abusive behaviour”. The repairs come after attacks on the sculpture in recent years; the BBC said the estimated total costs of the restoration and protective work was £529,715. The restored work, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, is now housed in a protective glass case.
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1 month ago | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Anny Shaw
Oliver Lee Jackson has always been wary of politics. That is not to say that the artist, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1935, at a time when very few African-American working-class men made their way to art school, has not been involved in political movements virtually his entire career.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw
Writing in The New York Times last month, Charles Kenny, the author and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, noted that we may still be in the “chaos phase” of a pandemic cycle. “Our global economy and politics are suffering their own form of long Covid,” he wrote. Five years on from the first lockdowns, the art market is far from back to full health, and art fairs, once the powerhouses of the industry, are struggling to regain their footing.
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1 month ago | 
standard.co.uk | Anny Shaw
Culture | ExhibitionsAs a new exhibition of his work opens at the Lisson Gallery, American artist Oliver Lee Jackson tells us about how his work was influence by music and why Trump’s American conceals a deeper rotOliver Lee JacksonM. Lee FatherreeAnny Shaw2 minutes agoOliver Lee Jackson has always been wary of politics.
