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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A brush with... Hew Locke-podcast

2 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Philippa Kelly |David Clack

Hew Locke was born in 1959 in Edinburgh, UK, to the artists Donald and Leila Locke. The family sailed from the UK to Guyana in 1966 and Hew was based there until 1980. He returned to the UK to study art in 1980 and now lives in London. Over more than three decades, Locke has explored a panoply of imagery about nationhood, culture and power.
Ancient Egyptian queen’s statues were not destroyed out of hatred but ‘deactivated’, study finds

3 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Garry Shaw

An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the persecution of her memory, as previously believed, but ritually “deactivated”. The statues were excavated during the 1920s at the ancient site of Deir el-Bahri in Luxor, 500km south of Cairo.
The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Hadani Ditmars

A new exhibition at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art in New York State offers a unique perspective on Iraq’s post-colonial art. All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.
The tale of a French psychiatric asylum that harboured Second World War resistance fighters-and where patients became artists

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | David D'Arcy

From 1936 to 1939, Spain endured a brutal civil war won by Nazi-aligned fascists. This led to mass exile to France, mostly in the south, eventually numbering half-a-million people. When France surrendered to the Nazis in June 1940, Spanish socialist refugees were interned and many were deported along with Jews to concentration camps.
Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse-podcast

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.
Revealed: how two Van Gogh drawings were exchanged for butter and bacon

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Martin Bailey

In early 1945, just before the end of the Second World War, Vincent van Gogh’s nephew gave two of the artist’s drawings to the owner of a cheese business—in exchange for 35 packets of butter and a little meat. One of the drawings, Head of a Peasant Woman, left profile , will be offered at Sotheby’s on 25 June, estimated at £400,000-£600,000. This suggests that the pair of Van Goghs would now be worth around £1m.
No more business-as-usual: Art Basel demonstrates how dealers can adapt to thrive

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.
In Basel, alternative art fairs spring up in new places

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

The number of satellite selling events in Basel is growing, as dealers respond to an ever more overcrowded field by offering alternative modes of engaging with art. The latest is Maison Clearing , a pop-up group exhibition by the New York and Los Angeles-based Clearing gallery.
Curator Francesco Bonami on art fairs: ‘33% waste of time and 10% boring’

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire

Few people have more experience at art fairs than the Italian curator and writer Francesco Bonami. “My first visit to Art Basel was in 1985. I was a struggling artist, then belonged to a group who would go to the fairs and waste time there,” he says. “Now there are many more fairs than there used to be, so going to all of them can become a sole source of entertainment.”Bonami, who curated the Venice Biennale in 2003, says he has an ambivalent relationship with art fairs.
Julian Charrière: ‘The deep sea is a phantasmagorical space’

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | J. Cabelle Ahn

In his show Midnight Zone at the Museum Tinguely, the French Swiss artist Julian Charrière plunges viewers into the oceanic abyss to explore the social, cultural and temporal urgencies of underwater ecologies. Featuring four new commissions alongside earlier works, the exhibition charts Charrière’s multidisciplinary approach informed by fieldwork across extreme geographies.