The Global Art Market is Becoming More Local
The art market returned to modest growth in 2025, but new data suggests a massive structural shift may be underway.
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Liquidity Is Not Permanence: Lagos and the Limits of Market Infrastructure
Despite a growing local commercial scene and a major retrospective of Nigerian Modernism at Tate in London, Nigeria's largest city has yet to prove the durability of its art market.
Television as Medium: How a Century of Broadcasting Reshaped Art
Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence
News
EU Threatens to Withdraw Funding from Venice Biennale over Russia Pavilion Return
European commissioners and 22 culture ministers have urged organisers to reconsider allowing Russia to reopen its national pavilion at the 2026 exhibition.
Diya Vij Appointed New York City Culture Commissioner
Brooklyn-based curator and arts administrator will lead the Department of Cultural Affairs amid funding pressures and sector contraction
Henrike Naumann, German Installation Artist Selected for Venice Biennale Pavilion, Dies
Berlin-based artist, known for installations using post-reunification furniture and design to examine far-right violence and East German history, has died shortly before presenting at the German Pavilion in Venice.
British Museum Scrubs Use of ‘Palestine’ in Middle East Displays
Labels and maps in several ancient Middle East galleries have been updated after complaints about anachronistic geographic terms.
Artists Address Marshall Islands’ Nuclear Legacy in National Maritime Museum Show
Works developed after a 2023 Cape Farewell expedition bring together art and research on sea-level rise and nuclear testing in the remote Pacific nation.
A Ming Painting Donated to Nanjing Museum Resurfaces at Auction, Prompting Investigation
Authorities launch inquiries after a scroll given to the museum in 1959 appears on the market with an eight-figure estimate
Ukraine Pavilion to Spotlight Evacuated Sculpture at Venice Biennale
Zhanna Kadyrova’s suspended concrete deer will anchor exhibition examining failed security guarantees and wartime displacement
Trump Officials Push for Expanded Portrait Display at Smithsonian
Discussions about adding multiple images of the president come amid wider tensions between the White House and the Smithsonian Institution
AlUla Contemporary Art Museum Plans Advance with Pompidou Partnership as Cultural Strategy Draws Scrutiny
A Lina Ghotmeh–designed museum in northwest Saudi Arabia will focus on landscape, heritage and artist archives as part of wider AlUla cultural development
Opinion
Private Views: Champagne Socialism at the Whitney Art Party
In the first dispatch from her new column on the New York art scene, writer Gabriella Angeleti tries to pin down Zohran Mamdani's wife on the dancefloor
Was Martin Parr Just Taking the Piss?
Behind the ice creams, leisure parks and plastic excess lay a photographer who turned consumer culture back on itself – and refused to play the art market’s scarcity game
The Ghost of Franco
Fifty years after the dictator’s death, Spain’s artists and museums are confronting a legacy that refuses to stay in the past
AIDS Is Not Over. Why Does Its Art Feel So Historical?
HIV is not a closed chapter, yet AIDS-related art is increasingly treated as one. As institutions and markets embrace this work, what is lost when urgency becomes history?
Features
Liquidity Is Not Permanence: Lagos and the Limits of Market Infrastructure
Despite a growing local commercial scene and a major retrospective of Nigerian Modernism at Tate in London, Nigeria's largest city has yet to prove the durability of its art market.
After Nuremberg
Eighty years on, exhibitions, markets and museums continue to reshape how art handles Nazi crimes and Holocaust memory, raising uneasy questions about who gets to represent trauma – and to what end?
The Wii Effect: How Gaming Rewired the Art of Performance
Twenty years on, the Nintendo Wii’s gesture-based games feel less like a gimmick than a rehearsal – training a generation to perform for, and be interpreted by, machines
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Climate Culture and the Politics of Caution
Ten years after Paris, climate is at the centre of cultural programming. But can art still challenge extractive power, or has it settled for optics?
Television as Medium: How a Century of Broadcasting Reshaped Art
Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence
Market
The Global Art Market is Becoming More Local
The art market returned to modest growth in 2025, but new data suggests a massive structural shift may be underway.
Making Room for Milton Avery
Sidelined by his peers, Milton Avery is being recast as a model of modernism – but how is the market responding?
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Singapore’s Art Market Is Built on Policy, Not Hype
Structural factors including tax design, regulatory stability and wealth concentration are reshaping Singapore’s role as a regional art-market hub
After the Avatar: Tilly Norwood and the Representation Market
An AI platform, designed to be iterated, refined and redeployed across media, has been signed by a major Hollywood agency - what does this mean for the art market?