Opinion

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 champagne-soaked fundraiser.

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

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