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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Gareth Harris |Carlie Porterfield |Jason Foumberg
Kings and Queens of Africa: Forms and Figures of PowerThis exhibition claims to be the first major show of Sub-Saharan African art in the Middle East. With more than 300 objects, it is certainly wide in scope, covering multiple cultures and a millennium of history. All the exhibits are connected to the continent’s rulers, including royal attire, royal portraits, sculptures and ceremonial objects.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hadani Ditmars |Stephanie Sporn |Chinma Johnson-Nwosu |Lee Cheshire
The architect Lina Ghotmeh has been chosen to design Qatar’s permanent pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The announcement was made last week by Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the chairperson of Qatar Museums. Once completed, the Qatar pavilion, located in the heart of the Giardini della Biennale, will be only the third pavilion added to the historic Giardini in more than 50 years. Ghotmeh has described her practice as an “archaeology of the future”.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Aimee Dawson |Alexander Morrison |Gareth Harris
Meaning “gateway” in Arabic, the Bawwaba section of Art Dubai offers artists an entry point to the fair. It is made up of ten solo presentations of artists both established and less well-known. All of the works were made either in the past year, or especially for the fair. This year the section has been curated by Mirjam Varadinis, the curator-at-large at the Kunsthaus Zurich. “I felt this would be a good moment to reflect on the idea of co-existence,” she says.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Lee Cheshire
21 hours agoSudan - April 15, 2025 Sudan's rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they had taken control of Zamzam camp in Darfur, home to more than 700,000 displaced civilians. More than 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, were killed in the fighting, humanitarian officials said. Relief International reported its clinic was targeted in the violence, and thousands have been forced to flee with no access to food, water, or shelter.
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3 weeks ago | 
artnewspaper.fr | Lee Cheshire |Elena Goukassian
La lente remontée après les confinements imposés par la pandémie de Covid-19 est terminée. Les musées sont maintenant revenus à ce que nous pourrions considérer comme leur « niveau naturel », où le nombre de visiteurs est déterminé par des facteurs tels que la popularité de la programmation, les contraintes physiques ou des tendances plus larges. Nous commençons à nouveau à voir les chiffres augmenter ou diminuer légèrement chaque année, tout en restant généralement dans une fourchette cohérente.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Elena Goukassian |Emily Sharpe |José Da Silva
Many museums lost visitors in 2024—and that is a good thing. Why? Because it shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and now museums are back at what we might consider their “natural level”, where visitor numbers are determined by factors such as the popularity of the programme, physical constraints or wider trends. We are once again starting to see numbers rise or fall by small amounts each year, but generally staying within a consistent range.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas |Torey Akers |Lee Cheshire |Tom Seymour
For art museums, building bigger is not necessarily better, and offering free admission may actually make the most financial sense. This is according to a new report by Remuseum, an independent research project organised by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The project aims to help museums think outside the institutional box.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |José Da Silva |Gareth Harris |Martin Bailey
The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey—the full version of which will be published in April—behind the Musée du Louvre and the Vatican Museums. Like most other museums, the British Museum’s visitor numbers plummeted in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Larry Humber |Lee Cheshire |José Da Silva |Anna Sansom
The Textile Museum of Canada will close its doors on 16 February, with a re-opening date still to be determined but tentatively expected in September. Funding is a major concern, along with accessibility—the building’s elevator is in need of serious repair. Board chair Urmi Desai, who has been involved with the downtown Toronto museum for nearly a decade, told the Toronto Star the building is “no longer safe”. “We were already going to close due to the elevator,” Desai tells The Art Newspaper.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Kealey Boyd |Martin Bailey |Lee Cheshire |Theo Belci
In music, a pause for the player can be indicated by a caesura, sometimes referred to as “railroad tracks”. Caesura is also the title of a new collaborative graphic musical score by the artists and composers Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo that will be performed on 1 February at the Albuquerque Rail Yards in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
