The country’s artists enter this year’s Biennale with unprecedented global attention, even as war continues to reshape artistic production, identity and survival

The presence of war-mongering nations, protests, jury resignations and a right-wing boss accused of aiding Russia’s participation suggest it might be hard to see the art through the politics next week

An open letter criticises Stanley’s in Brussels and Drouot in Paris for selling heavily disputed works attributed to Russian and Ukrainian modernists

A sweeping restructure and significant cuts to Artnet's editorial team have sent shockwaves through the art world

Dealers at TEFAF 2026 report increasing constraints on the antiquities trade following the recent implementation of EU cultural heritage regulations

More than 50 artists in the main exhibition and participants from national pavilions have declined consideration for this year’s ‘Visitor Lion’ prizes amid widening disputes over the inclusion of Israel and Russia

A federal report finds widespread deferred maintenance across the US museum sector, with institutions citing rising repair costs, accessibility barriers and limited public funding for infrastructure.

Kader Attia will curate the seventh edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which will open in December 2027

The painter, sculptor and printmaker Georg Baselitz has died, aged 88

In June, the British billionaire Joe Lewis will sell a collection encompassing works by the likes of Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse and Lucian Freud

The international jury for the 61st Venice Biennale has resigned ahead of the exhibition’s opening on 9 May

Newly filed documents reveal further details about the finances of the gallery, which closed in February

Hedwig Fijen, founding director of Manifesta, will step down on 5 October, the nomadic biennial has announced

The Portland-based triennial Converge 45 has announced its list of participating artists for the 2026 edition, scheduled to run from 27 – 30 August

The 61st edition of the biennale reflects the terminal insularity of the contemporary art world

The 2026 shortlist is notably light on market power, signalling an art prize that no longer converts reputation into instant value. Is this welcome? 

A century after the 1926 United Kingdom general strike, threats by artists to withdraw their labour have produced mixed results

In her second dispatch, Gabriella Angeleti asks whether curatorial spectacle has been replaced by hollow, grandiose language

In the first dispatch from a new column on the New York art scene, the politics of socialism, Gaza and art-world patronage collide on the dancefloor at the Whitney’s booze-soaked fundraiser

Fifty years after the dictator’s death, Spain’s artists and museums are confronting a legacy that refuses to stay in the past

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?

Representing her country at the Venice Biennale, the artist has created a monument to the demands of maintenance, temporality and parenthood

Following the cancellation of the artist’s South Africa Pavilion, her installation’s forthcoming presentation at Venice’s Chiesa di Sant’Antonin challenges a culture of censorship

The architect and patron has grown a personal collection into an arts foundation that extends her global outlook to the Milanese cultural scene

The Croatian art collector on acquiring art as an intellectual exercise, his most controversial work and why 'neutral' collections cannot exist

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