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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, courtesy of the Library of Congress

Washington DC’s Kennedy Center Risks Fiscal Collapse

Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post warn that the Kennedy Center faces “fiscal collapse” within weeks, after ticket sales and fundraising plunged amid upheaval following Donald Trump’s takeover

Lucrezia Motta16 September, 2026

News

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, courtesy of the Library of Congress

Washington DC’s Kennedy Center Risks Fiscal Collapse

Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post warn that the Kennedy Center faces “fiscal collapse” within weeks, after ticket sales and fundraising plunged amid upheaval following Donald Trump’s takeover

Lucrezia Motta

Market

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Opinion

Edward Norton as the Narrator in Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher. Courtesy 20th Century Fox

Help! I Hate My...Ennui

Art world Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen offers solace to an art worker who fears she has lost the love for everything that surrounds art – and maybe the work itself


Charlotte Jansen
9 to 5

Help! I Hate My... Boss

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a gallery employee whose boss is getting a little too comfortable in the office

Charlotte Jansen
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Ben Whishaw in the film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). Courtesy Constantin Film

Help I Hate…Their Body Odour

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a museum worker whose colleague is making them feel uncomfortable... because of how they smell

Charlotte Jansen
Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (2012) Courtesy IFC Films

Help! I Hate My... Application

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers an artist wondering why their residency applications keep getting rejected – and how to nail the next one

Charlotte Jansen

Help! I Hate… My Copycat

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers an artist whose peer seems to be taking more than just inspiration from their work

Charlotte Jansen
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Features

Richard Drew’s The Falling Man, photographed in New York on 11 September 2001. © Richard Drew / AP, courtesy AP

The Art 9/11 Made

Before artists could respond to 9/11, images of the event had already circled the world. Twenty-five years later, art still struggles to represent a uniquely cinematic catastrophe, one experienced and understood largely through its visual record

Tom Seymour
Igor Tulchinsky at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2023. Photo: Yuccata86 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

How Is the Bayeux Tapestry’s £5m Backer Linked to the IDF?

Igor Tulchinsky is helping fund one of the British Museum’s biggest ever exhibitions. But he has also reportedly recruited a former Israel Defense Forces major general to lead an Israeli venture capital operation whose investments include "deep-tech" defence technologies

Tom Seymour
Jules LE ROY, Chats dans une commode, 1900, huile sur toile, Roubaix, La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent © Musée La Piscine (Roubaix), Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Arnaud Loubry

The Serious Business of Being Cute

Art history has often treated tenderness and pleasure as trivial. A new Louvre-Lens exhibition argues that cuteness deserves closer attention, not least for the possessiveness and power it can conceal

Simon Bainbridge
Arts Council England offices in Manchester

Should Britain have an OBR for culture?

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) scrutinises the UK’s public finances independently. Should culture and the creative industries have something similar – an OBR capable of looking beyond the immediate political horizon?

Joe Ware

The Risks of Exhibiting Anti-War Art at the Venice Biennale

A pavilion bringing together Russian and Ukrainian artists opposing war and repression opened in Venice under police protection. An anonymous incident inside the exhibition showed why concerns over security were difficult to ignore

George Nelson
A painting of a Mediterranean coastal town with a minaret and hillside fortress framed theatrically by red curtains, under a dusky pink sky with a full moon.

Hannah Barry Gallery: From Peckham to Patmos

The London gallery will stage the late Norman Hyams’ first international exhibition on the Greek island that inspired his final paintings, marking the start of a new site-responsive programme beyond the UK

George Nelson
A spacious, multi-level museum storage hall with open walkways and glass railings, where hundreds of artworks, furniture pieces, architectural fragments and objects are displayed on shelving around a central atrium as a few visitors explore the space.

The Hidden Crisis Inside Britain’s Museums

A major new report argues that shrinking budgets and commercial pressures have left museum storage at breaking point, threatening the long-term care of Britain’s collections

Tom Seymour
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Places

Image courtesy Berlin Art Week. Photo: Joe Clark

Berlin Is Learning to Live With the Cuts

Berlin Art Week finds a city remaking its cultural economy, as institutions seek private money, galleries test new models and artists are squeezed out. For Messy Business, Jeni Fulton reports on the ground

Jeni Fulton
A panoramic view of sandstone buildings climbing a hillside beneath a rocky citadel topped with a large flag under a clear blue sky.

On an Ancient Hilltop, a Biennial Takes Root

Set among monasteries, archaeological sites and former prisons in Turkey’s southeastern borderlands, the Mardin Biennial is testing whether contemporary art can leave a legacy beyond an exhibition

Zara Khan
Joshua Oheneba-Takyi, Ghana

How Ghana’s Artists Built Their Own Ecosystem

From studios and galleries to residencies, artists have built the infrastructure sustaining Ghana’s flourishing contemporary art scene, stepping in where public support has failed

Gameli Hamelo
Lisette May Monroe, Neighbours, Collage, (2022)

What Happened to the Glasgow Art Market?

Glasgow has built an international reputation without relying on collectors or commercial galleries. As artists face rising rents and dwindling public support, that enviable model is coming under serious strain

Shalmali Shetty

Profiles

Lonnie G. Bunch III at the Civil Rights Summit, April 9, 2014. Photo: Lauren Gerson / LBJ Presidential Library. CC BY 2.0.

What Will Lonnie Bunch’s Legacy Be?

In his 38-years working for the Smithsonian museums, departing Secretary Lonnie Bunch, has led the Smithsonian through expansions and turbulent times, standing firm in the telling of America’s history


Lucrezia Motta
Raqib Shaw. Photo: Joseph Sinclair, courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Seoul.

The Painter: Raqib Shaw Embraces the Night

For his first UK solo exhibition since 2015, the Kashmir-born painter draws on childhood memories, Kashmiriyat philosophy, Shakespeare and a world in turmoil to consider what the darkness can reveal

Lucrezia Motta
A woman sits at a white Tulip table in a minimal apartment dining area, with a gallery wall of colourful artworks, an Arne Jacobsen clock, and Saarinen chairs around her.

The Next-Gen Collectors: Linda Du

The collector, entrepreneur and investor tells The Art Journal why joy-led acquisitions can be just as valuable as those motivated by monetary returns

Ella Slater
An ornate historic hall with frescoed ceilings, red velvet drapes, and a central video installation displaying two figures bathed in red and blue light, reflected on the polished floor.

The Artist: Shirin Neshat Has No Time for Certainty

As her adopted country wages war against the nation of her birth, Shirin Neshat argues that art should complicate political narratives rather than reinforce them. She reflects on exile, identity, war and the enduring value of ambiguity

Simon Bainbridge