The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper is a monthly publication available both online and in print, focused on the visual arts, with offices in London and New York. It originated in 1983 when Umberto Allemandi launched the first edition in Turin. In 1990, Anna Somers Cocks established The Art Newspaper under his publishing company, and since 2008, Jane Morris has been serving as the editor.

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Folk is having a revival-in the art world too

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.
A young Richter’s painting of an even younger Polke and a once-grimy Brazilian landscape by Frans Post: our pick of the May auctions

2 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield

Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Phillips, New York, 13 MayThis work, appearing at auction for the first time,connects three of Germany’s most celebrated painters. In Mann mit zwei Kindern, Gerhard Richter painted his close friend Sigmar Polke as a young child on an outing with his family, an early and foundational example of Richter’s photo-like paintings, many of them done in shades of grey.
SFMoMA lays off 29 employees amid $5m structural deficit

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art plans to lay off nearly 8% of its workforce, citing "financial challenges" to its operating model. Twenty-nine SFMOMA employees will be terminated as the museum continues to grapple with increased competition for philanthropic support, low attendance and a $5m structural deficit. “SFMoMA has an exceptional team—one that is immensely dedicated, passionate and talented.
New documentary bringing Metro Pictures gallery to the screen

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | David D'Arcy

Metro Pictures was known for independence and curatorial care—deep commitment rather than deep pockets. That approach worked for four decades. Founded in New York by two women who went to junior-high school together in Los Angeles, the gallery was always a single space: first in Soho, then in Chelsea, with a short-lived branch in East Hampton.
Non-profit Indigo Arts Alliance purchases building it has rented for years

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Annabel Keenan

The Indigo Arts Alliance (IAA), a non-profit and artist residency in Portland, Maine, has purchased the 8,000 sq. ft building it had been renting since its founding in 2018. The building, which was purpose-built and designed with IAA co-founders Daniel and Marcia Minter, houses artists’ studios, offices and spaces for exhibitions and programming that IAA uses to support Black and Brown artists in particular.
The Big Review | The reopening and rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London ★★★★★

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Alison Cole

I was bereft when the National Gallery closed the Sainsbury Wing to facilitate the creation of “a more welcoming entrance”, led by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. For me, it has always been a home from home: a place to experience the serene beauty of a Brunelleschi Florentine church interior, bang in the heart of London.
Refurb and rehang at London's National Gallery, Tate Modern turns 25 and Inge Mahn's ‘Balancing Towers’-podcast

5 days 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.
Korea’s first privately owned Van Gogh unveiled at newly opened museum

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Martin Bailey

Hong Gyu Shin, now a New York-based gallery owner, became the first named Korean to purchase a Van Gogh when he acquired Head of a Peasant (January-March 1885) at Sotheby’s in May 2024. Shin paid $787,000 for the work—a bargain, since the estimate was £1.5m-$2.5m. Head of a Peasant has just gone on display in an exhibition of Shin’s collection in the city of Daejeon (south of Seoul), in the newly opened KAIST Museum. It is on the campus of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Marquee May auctions come at a volatile moment in the wake of Trump's 'Liberation Day'

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

New York’s marquee spring auctions, beginning on 12 May, are already feeling the turbulence of President Donald Trump’s second term, with the chaos of “Liberation Day” leading to casualties in the consignment period. At least one eight-figure work being negotiated for auction by Phillips was held back this season, according to the house’s deputy chairman, Robert Manley. “Our sales next week would have been larger had the tariffs not happened,” he tells The Art Newspaper.
Buzz in New York’s art trade during Frieze week masks uncertainties

6 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

It is a question routinely posed among the trade: how insulated is the art market from wider political and economic realities? Certainly, the brightness of the opening days of New York’s art fair week belies the prevailing atmosphere of turmoil and fear in the US since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. This is, in part, thanks to the unprecedented density of events this week, with at least 12 fairs opening in the space of four days, before the major spring auctions begin.