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Photo: Sun Namgoong. Courtesy Park Seo-Bo Museum, Seoul

Park Seo-Bo Museum Opens in Seoul

The museum of Dansaekhwa master Park Seo-bo (1931–2023) is set to open to the public on 21 August, the artist's foundation has announced

The Art Journal

Market

john gerrard, World Flag #30 (Venezuela), 2023. Courtesy Fellowship

Messy Business: Enter the Broker

Lost artworks, forgotten wallets and rising prices: as digital artists’ careers ramp up, new ways of buying art emerge

Jeni Fulton
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Installation shot from The Darling of Reflection, a group exhibition including William Cobbing, Emerson Pullman, Liorah Tchiprout, at Sid Motion Gallery in Bermondsey, South London. Courtesy Sid Motion Gallery.

If Sid Motion Couldn’t Make It Work, Which Galleries Can?

Sid Motion appeared to do everything right. Yet it joins a growing number of highly regarded galleries closing or contracting. If the sector’s success stories can’t make the economics work, what does that mean for everyone else?

Tom Seymour
Art handlers load framed works into a museum-grade transport crate. While artworks themselves are exempt from most new US tariffs, the packing, shipping and specialist logistics that move them remain vulnerable to rising costs.

Trump’s Tariffs: Art Is Exempt, Artists Are Definitely Not

The Trump administration has largely spared artworks and antiques from its latest tariff regime. Yet artists, galleries and museums will still feel the effects. Here's six ways the new trade policy will reconfigure the artworld as a whole

Tom Seymour
Portrait Gerhard Steidl © 2024 Werner Bartsch, courtesy Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie

Can Steidl, the Master Art-Book Printer, Survive?

When news broke that Steidl Verlag had entered insolvency proceedings, many assumed the world's most celebrated art-book publisher was collapsing. The reality is more complex: revealing a business struggling with liquidity, succession and the preservation of its unique printing assets


Simon Bainbridge
Nona Faustine. They Tagged The Land With Trophies and Institutions From Their Rapes and Conquests, Tweed Courthouse, NYC. 2013

Inside the Networks Driving the Artworld’s Gender Gap

A major new study suggests the barriers facing women artists are embedded in the museums, galleries and institutional relationships that shape artistic careers, arguing that access to influential networks remains a key driver of long-term market success

George Nelson

Opinion

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
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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
A panel discussion in a gallery space with three speakers seated before a grid of black-and-white architectural photographs, addressing a seated crowd during a Tate Late event.

The Growing Power of Museum Patrons

Public funding remains essential, but Britain’s leading museums are becoming increasingly reliant on patron schemes and private philanthropy to sustain exhibitions, collections and public access

Maya Stoilova
A bare timber stud wall frames a view into a cluttered back-of-house space containing a desk, office chair, stored artworks, and bubble-wrapped packages, blurring the boundary between gallery and storage.

The Artworld Runs on Burnout. Can It Change?

Passion has long sustained the arts. But as low pay, precarious work and constant visibility collide, many art workers are asking whether the industry is built to exhaust the people who keep it running

Harriet Lloyd-Smith
View across the River Thames toward the Tate Modern, with a boat on the water, the Millennium Bridge entering from the left, and a tall streetlamp framing the right side against a clear blue sky.

Seven Big Issues Awaiting Jessica Morgan at Tate

Jessica Morgan arrives at Tate with an enviable reputation but an overflowing in-tray. From rebuilding public confidence to sharpening the museum's identity, these are the seven issues that could determine the success of her leadership

George Nelson
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Features

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

Can Andy Burnham Secure the Return of the Parthenon Marbles?

For the first time, a British prime minister has publicly backed returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. But Andy Burnham’s historic break with political orthodoxy may prove easier to declare than deliver. Can he break the deadlock?

Joe Ware
A darkened vaulted gallery space with beanbag seating faces a large projected triptych screen showing satellite imagery and field footage from a Forensic Architecture investigation titled "Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza."

Should Museums Have a Duty of Candour?

As Andy Burnham pledges to implement the long-awaited Hillsborough Law, Joe Ware asks: what could a legal responsibility to tell the truth mean for arts institutions?

Joe Ware
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Places

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

Manila Beyond Institutional Capital

In Manila, the Philippines, the market ecology will simply collapse without the private sector due to a lack of sustainable public institution support

Alain Zedrick Camiling

Profiles

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
Jessica Morgan. Photo by Gabriela Herman, courtesy Tate

The Director: Jessica Morgan Takes on Tate Turnaround

Jessica Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as Tate director in January 2027, returning from New York’s Dia Art Foundation to lead Britain’s largest museum network through a period of financial constraint and changing visitor habits

Tom Seymour

The Artist: Lap-See Lam’s Shadow Worlds

Drawing on the story of her family’s Chinese restaurant in Stockholm, Lap-See Lam’s ghostly installations reflect on how rising anti-immigration sentiment is reshaping contemporary Sweden

Sofia Hallström

In Conversation: Park Chan-wook

The Long Read: As his photography makes its European debut in Arles, Park Chan-wook reflects on the childhood lessons and defining moments that shaped one of contemporary cinema's most singular visual languages

Tom Seymour