Profiles

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

Over six decades, the American artist used found objects to confront racism, memory and cultural identity, influencing generations of contemporary artists

The young collector’s first purchase cost 30 pounds, and now hangs alongside work by the likes of Beryl Cook, Grayson Perry and Robert Longo

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

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

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

The young collector tells The Art Journal how, throughout his twenties, he has built an art collection encompassing work by Dana Schutz, Phyllida Barlow and Louise Bourgeois

Raised in Lower Manhattan and witness to the attacks on the World Trade Center, Avery Singer has spent her career exploring how media reshapes history, collapsing the distinction between conflict, entertainment and spectacle

The self-taught Mexican painter has become an overnight sensation with enigmatic works in which monkeys, mirrors and labyrinths open on to deeper questions of freedom, instinct and human logic

In a new series, The Art Journal speaks to the young collectors becoming an increasingly active force in the artworld 

The Bashkir artist became one of the most visible dissenting voices around the Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion. Weeks later, he was shot dead near his home in Poland

Born in Bradford in 1937, the artist became one of the world's most valuable living painters, producing some of the best-known images of 20th-century art