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Everything is elemental: the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition

Everything is elemental: the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition

In the wake of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident of 2011, volunteers gathered in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, to plant sunflowers in rice paddies that were left fallow due to radioactive contamination.


Dealers at Artissima await ‘potentially transformative’ changes to art tax in Italy

Dealers at Artissima await ‘potentially transformative’ changes to art tax in Italy

"We’ve indeed observed a gradual shift among collectors away from the UK, a trend that began with Brexit and has since been accelerated by Italy’s appealing flat tax," says Jose Graci, a director at Mazzoleni gallery, which has locations in London and Turin.


Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2025: the global programme revealed

Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2025: the global programme revealed

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits opens at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (30 March-7 September 2025), an appropriate venue since it owns the finest of the postman paintings, along with one of his wife rocking the cradle of their newly born child.


‘A real leap of faith’: Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

‘A real leap of faith’: Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

Three works from the collection of the late curator Martin Kunz—by Louise Bourgeois, Marianne von Werefkin and Mimmo Paladino—will go under the hammer at Germann auction house in Zürich accompanied by AI authenticity certificates issued by the Swiss company Art Recognition.


Ancient Roman Ruins in Baalbek Survive Israeli Air Strikes

Ancient Roman Ruins in Baalbek Survive Israeli Air Strikes

Earlier this month, images circulated widely on social media of a large plume of smoke rising behind the columns of the Jupiter Temple in Baalbek after an Israeli air strike hit less than a mile away.


Tate Modern Reprises Its Groundbreaking Zanele Muholi Survey

Tate Modern Reprises Its Groundbreaking Zanele Muholi Survey

The series title translates from Zulu to “Hail the Dark Lioness,” an introduction and a command of respect that’s cemented in a gaze; in the Tate exhibition these high-contrast gelatin silver prints on paper accentuate Muholi’s digitally darkened skin and piercing whites of their eyes, which bore into the viewer with intensity.


Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

Charrière explores our rapidly changing relationship with nature by conducting field research in remote locations such as glaciers, volcanoes, and radioactive sites, which informed his interdisciplinary film, photography, and sculpture practice.


David Shrigley unveils giant mantis sculpture at his former school, calling attention to perilous state of UK art education

David Shrigley unveils giant mantis sculpture at his former school, calling attention to perilous state of UK art education

The British artist David Shrigley has returned to his Midlands secondary school almost 40 years after graduating to unveil an animatronic sculpture of a giant praying mantis, in the hope that it will spark a nationwide conversation about the “vital importance” of arts subjects.


Contemporary Istanbul welcomes galleries from Spain and Latin America

Contemporary Istanbul welcomes galleries from Spain and Latin America

As the fair aims to strengthen its footing as an international art market destination, this edition features a special focus on Spanish and Latin American galleries, with several exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil and—primarily—Spain.


Art Toronto offers moments of connection, catharsis and commerce for Canada’s art world

Art Toronto offers moments of connection, catharsis and commerce for Canada’s art world

Visitors are greeted at the top of the escalators by an installation by the Toronto-based Chinese artist Sami Tsang (presented by the local gallery Cooper Cole)—a phantasmagorical piece that resembles a giant monster baby emerging from traditional pottery—and an accompanying large-scale painting depicting the same.


Gen X are the biggest spenders on art as ‘speculative’ millennials drop back, latest UBS/Art Basel survey finds

Gen X are the biggest spenders on art as ‘speculative’ millennials drop back, latest UBS/Art Basel survey finds

She identifies the high end of the market, "which was so pivotal in driving sales out of contraction in 2020", as thinning out considerably, "creating a drag on growth despite more positive performance in some other lower-priced segments."


The Frightening Familiarity of Late-Nineties Office Photos

The Frightening Familiarity of Late-Nineties Office Photos

He began his fine-arts career shooting in black-and-white, in the style of the Swedish master Christer Strömholm, but later switched to color, drawing inspiration from vivid, large-format scenes of everyday life by American photographers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.