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The National Mall institution has acquired 1,261 photographs from the ageing photographer's home, becoming the principal institutional archive for one of postwar America’s defining photographers

Concerns surrounding the institution’s state of affairs reveal a wider issue in publicly funded cultural institutions

Against a backdrop of insane auction results in New York, the city’s mayor Zohran Mamdami has been meeting with top financial executives this week as he tries to contain the backlash over his “happy tax day” proposals

New York Art Week delivered its strongest spring auction numbers in years. But for gallerists selling work at the $10,000 mark, the mood was rather more complicated
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The show, titled Close Encounters, will promote the Arts Council Collection’s mission to be seen widely throughout the UK and deepen institutional partnerships
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Recognition for disabled artists in the public sector has increased in recent years, but access barriers remain in the commercial gallery world
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From Old Delhi street markets to cramped apartments in downtown New York, the strongest presentations at this year’s Photo London focus on unheralded photographers who documented the routines, interiors and social realities of everyday life

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

In her first dispatch for ‘Messy Business’, a regular investigation into the art market, Jeni Fulton explores the market logic of post-internet era art at the Venice Biennale