Sarah P. Hanson

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Joanna Moorhead |Karen Chernick |Sarah P. Hanson |Tom Seymour

The World Press Photo award winner for 2025 is announced today, but there was little air of celebration around Samar Abu Elouf when she arrived at the exhibition in Amsterdam where her victorious shot took pride of place. Its subject is a boy called Mahmoud Ajjour, then age nine and now ten, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a little over a year ago. When she took the picture, Abu Elouf says, she was thinking of her own four children, the youngest of whom is 12.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Sarah P. Hanson |Kabir Jhala |Elspeth Moncrieff |Anny Shaw

In a move expected to boost the ailing British art market, the UK Treasury has extended the period during which fine art and antiques from overseas can come into the country free of import duties. Goods can now remain in the UK under Temporary Admission (TA) for four years, rather than two, the exchequer secretary James Murray announced on 11 March alongside a raft of other business policy changes.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Anna Brady |Louis Jebb |Carlie Porterfield |Sarah P. Hanson

Christie’s Augmented Intelligence sale, its first dedicated to art made using artificial intelligence (AI), which ran from 20 February until 5 March, has been contentious to say the least. An open letter posted online on 8 February and garnering almost 6,500 signatures called on Christie’s to cancel the auction (it did not). “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license,” the (brief) letter alleges.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Anna Brady |Sarah P. Hanson |Hilarie M. Sheets

Thaddaeus Ropac has taken on the representation of Jordan Casteel in collaboration with the New York gallery Casey Kaplan, which has represented the American painter since 2016. Ropac’s first exhibition of new paintings by Casteel will take place in its London space in April, followed by her first solo show in Europe at its Paris gallery next year.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Shanti Mattei |Paul Biasco |Constanza Valdes |Sarah P. Hanson

There is perhaps no better place to be in early February than Mexico City for the capital’s Art Week. Zona Maco, arguably Latin America’s most important art fair, runs from 5 to 9 February—its satellites Material and Salón Acme take place from 6 to 9 February—drawing collectors from around the country and globe. But this year gallerists will have to contend with US President Donald Trump’s impending import tariffs, combined with a globally lacklustre market, could put a damper on sales.