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As $18.3 trillion prepares to pass between generations, two New York art fairs suggest the inheritance at stake is one of taste as much as capital, with younger collectors steering demand towards forgotten artists and lower price points.

Once upon a time on Manhattan’s far West Side: Aimee Walleston visits the Armory Show, where the art has to compete with the sheer misery of the Javits Center.

For a few dollars more, collectors at Independent 20th Century’s new home at the Breuer can take home art with plenty of life left in it – while younger artists might pick up a few lessons for free

As the Turner Prize opens in Middlesbrough, we look at what its four shortlisted artists are asking viewers to see – and set the early odds on who might take home the £25,000 prize

The Long Read: Around 200 London artists handed their work to a scheme that offered financial support later in life. Twenty years on, the trust has paid out nothing. Nearly 50 affected artists – including a Turner Prize winner and eight nominees – are fighting to recover their work

After winning 43.8% of the vote, the far-right party wants public funding to promote German identity. Cultural institutions warn its plans could subordinate artistic freedom to political ideology

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

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

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

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?

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

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