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The Russian Pavilion in the Giardini during the preview days of the 2026 Venice Biennale. Photograph: Ondine Goat / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

European Commission Seeks €2m Venice Biennale Funding Cut

Brussels has escalated its standoff with the Venice Biennale over Russia's return, recommending the withdrawal of €2 million in EU funding

George Nelson

Art Imitates Crypto

Artists claim victory over conceptual artwork dispute with multi-billion-dollar asset manager

George Nelson

Washington. Stream, from the John Gerrard series Endling, shown at Pace's New York gallery in 2022

Pace Didn't Break the Mega Gallery Model. It Broke Itself

Marc Glimcher says the mega-gallery system is "unfixable". But artist testimony and Pace's own accounts point to a crisis rooted less in the art market than in the gallery leadership's own decisions. For Messy Business, Jeni Fulton reports

Jeni Fulton

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, “Let The Little Children Come Unto Me”

How a Lost Rembrandt Rewrote Art History

Mistakenly sold as the work of an unknown painter, Let the Little Children Come Unto Me has become one of the art world's most extraordinary rediscoveries - revealing new insights into Rembrandt's practice and the risks of modern interpretation

Precious Adesina

The street-level exterior of Tiwani Contemporary at number 25, with large glass frontage revealing colourful artworks inside a bright white gallery space within a dark stone and louvred building facade.

After Tiwani: The New Economics of African Gallery Spaces

What has been lost? What can be learnt? And how are other galleries responding to the same commercial pressures?

Sabo Kpade

An art fair booth combining a large figurative painting of musicians on a teal background with a chaotic suspended sculpture of tangled metallic objects, and two smaller works on the adjacent wall.

Art Basel’s Little Brazil

Does the record turnout for Brazilian galleries at Basel reflect recent optimism about the country’s domestic art market?

Stephanie Brady Cummings

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A Modigliani portrait of a young woman with his characteristic elongated features and flushed cheeks, wearing a dark coat with a fur collar against a muted grey-green background.

Amedeo Modigliani Scholar Disputes AI Art Authentication Firm’s Claim

The Swiss company announced that a painting previously attributed to Modigliani had become the first AI-authenticated artwork to appear in an official catalogue raisonné

George Nelson

Zero 10 Returns to Basel with a Museum, Not a Marketplace

Six months after launching in Miami Beach with OpenSea, Art Basel’s digital section has swapped its commercial partner for a curatorial thesis

Jeni Fulton

Big Sales at Basel, But Smaller Dealers’ Silence Speaks Louder

Headline-making transactions suggest momentum even when the wider dealer ecosystem is moving more cautiously

George Nelson

Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage Faces Damage Beyond Official Estimate

An expert says that attacks on the country’s history and identity significantly exceed the officially predicted cost of $4 billion

George Nelson

Basel Exclusive: Has it Worked?

Art Basel’s first day sales offer some partial answers to the question posed by Basel Exclusive: will collectors buy works they have not already seen?

Tom Seymour

The Best of Zurich Art Weekend

Hauser & Wirth transformed into a casino, Fabergé eggs in fake snow, a billionaire's fantasy of the Alps… Here are six shows that caught the eye of our Swiss correspondent

Jeni Fulton

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