3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (548+ words) Pier Arts Centre © Frances Scott In the past year, philanthropists have donated vast sums to London’s National Gallery and Courtauld Gallery, while the straitened government purse has brought about revived fundraising efforts from institutions including the British Museum and Tate....

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (197+ words) The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 Rabkin Prize. The annual award honours eight art writers in the US, each of whom receives a $50,000 cash prize. This year’s cohort includes academics, podcasters and The Art…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (289+ words) An image from Zheng Dai and David K. Gifford's study. The image at top left was generated by a model trained on public domain artwork created by 744 artists. Alongside are shown all the images that would have been generated had any…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (637+ words) “The Korean art market is now a destination in Asia for international galleries to stage exhibitions and operate spaces,” says the Hong Kong-based Yuki Terase, the founding partner of art advisory Art Intelligence Global. “It is also a sign of…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (108+ words) Social aspirations in colonial Africa: Seydou Keïta’s Untitled (1954) © Seydou Keïta/SKPEAC, courtesy of the Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection • Jeremy Harding, Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination, Verso, 224pp, £19 (hb), published March 2026 • Tobias Carroll is the author of Political Sign…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (205+ words) A vintage postcard showing a Berlin tram and conductors, from 66 Books from East GermanyCourtesy Foxed Editions The Art Newspaper: Foxed Editions brings together your experience as a collector, antiquarian bookseller and publisher. Does it feel less like a new venture…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (333+ words) The federal government of Canada still cannot locate 111 Indigenous works missing from its art collection, the Canadian Press recently reported, nearly two years after an internal audit found it could not account for 132 pieces. To date, Métellus says, 17 of the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (124+ words) AMTD Group Inc, AMTD IDEA Group, AMTD Digital Inc and The Generation Essentials Group, a subsidiary of AMTD Digital, are pleased to announce the appointment of Benjamin Sutton as Global Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper. As Global Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin will…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (691+ words) Film still from Handmade Future (2026), showing women rugmakers in Morocco A large, deep-blue marble plate with 5,000 inlaid stones sits in Irfan Ali’s workshop in Uttar Pradesh, India. Ali’s family has practiced marble-inlay work (pachchikari) for generations. His ancestors likely even…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (364+ words) The two-year fellowship at Birkbeck, University of London commences this autumn A high-profile collecting couple are funding a new postdoctoral fellowship in history of art and technology at Birkbeck, University of London, focused on artificial intelligence (AI). The two-year fellowship…...