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As riots scar Paris’s luxury storefronts, Maison Guerlain opens art exhibition on Champs Elysées
On Tuesday 20 October in Paris, among all the luxury boutiques on the avenue Champs-Elysées bearing the scars and graffiti sprayed on shopfronts by rioters just days before, Maison Guerlain opened L’Heure des Possibles, an exhibition of works by 33 artists. The pieces, four of which were specially commissioned and the rest loaned, were sourced in response to one of Guerlain’s signature perfumes, L’Heure Bleue, and the period of twilight the fragrance takes its name from.
Art Basel Paris dispatch: what to see beyond the fair this week
The twelfth edition of Paris Internationale, which champions emerging galleries, opened earlier this week in the Canal Saint-Martin district, a distance from the city centre. The popular fair, held in a different venue annually, is located on Quai de Valmy, hosting 56 galleries and five non-profit spaces until 24 October. The fair, say the organisers, has a “human scale format that encourages direct encounters between artists, galleries and audiences”.
Art Basel Paris dispatch: what to see beyond the fair this week
The twelfth edition of Paris Internationale, which champions emerging galleries, opened earlier this week in the Canal Saint-Martin district, a distance from the city centre. The popular fair, held in a different venue annually, is located on Quai de Valmy, hosting 56 galleries and five non-profit spaces until 24 October. The fair, say the organisers, has a “human scale format that encourages direct encounters between artists, galleries and audiences”.
Henry Chalfant’s legendary archive of New York graffiti goes on show for first time in Northern Europe
When Henry Chalfant began photographing New York’s subway graffiti in the early 1970s, he wasn’t thinking about art history. He was more fascinated by the act of catching something that had a habit of disappearing. “Part of the excitement of the graffiti scene was that nobody else was really documenting it,” he says. Photographing trains felt like “big game hunting”, trying to catch a rare trophy before it disappeared from view down the track or was buffed by the transport authority.
$450m Impressionist collection—including a potentially record-breaking Van Gogh painting—to be sold at Sotheby's New York
For decades, the Blaquier-Arrieta collection was reportedly kept “under lock and key” at the family estate outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, five of its paintings are being unveiled at Sotheby’s in London, as the auction house begins an international tour of Impressionist and Modern masterpieces assembled by the Argentine sugar industry heiress Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and her husband, Carlos Pedro Blaquier.
Monet’s ‘Iris’ could break record for most expensive painting ever sold at auction in France
The sale of one of Claude Monet’s monumental Iris paintings at Sotheby’s in Paris next month could mark a watershed moment for the French auction market. The canvas, executed in 1924-25 during the final years of the artist’s life, is the largest from his celebrated Iris series ever to come to market, measuring an unusual 160cm by 180cm. With an estimate of €22m to €30m, it is expected to set a record for the highest price paid for a painting at auction in France.
Emma Reyes at White Cube Mason’s Yard: A glimpse of this extraordinary artist isn’t enough
Few in Britain are likely to know the name Emma Reyes. In her native Colombia, however, she is celebrated as much for an extraordinary life — dramatised in a 15-part television series — as for her paintings and storytelling, which earned her the name “mama grande” among Latin American artists and writers living in France, where she settled during the early 1960s. Her first solo UK exhibition, at White Cube Mason’s Yard, offers a belated introduction.
The art world's billionaire problem is getting worse
It is well-documented that the art market is top-heavy. But, over the past few years, its centre of gravity has become even more concentrated, with an increasingly small number of trophy works accounting for a growing share of sales, pursued by an ever-shallower pool of ultra-wealthy collectors. The figures illustrate the scale of that concentration, particularly at auction.
Artist-led space in the Democratic Republic of the Congo launches ‘urgent call’ for funding
Amid rising operating expenses and dwindling international financial support, the artist-led Picha Art and Research Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched an “urgent” crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe. It has received support from a number of leading artists and cultural figures including Elvira Dyangani Ose, who was recently announced as the new artistic director for the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town; the Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist...
A guide to artist agents and consultancies
As artists’ careers become increasingly multifaceted so too do the businesses that support them. Once the preserve of actors, rock stars and other celebrities, career management, business consultancy and strategic advisory services are becoming more commonplace across the contemporary art world. And, with it, a growing ecosystem is emerging—one of agencies offering artists help with everything from contract negotiation and fundraising to public relations, studio management and legacy planning.
Must-see London art exhibition closing in August 2026
August is when the art world’s movers and shakers decamp to yachts and the Balearics, leaving London’s museums and galleries in a summer lull. The big autumn openings are still a few weeks away, but before everyone swaps the Med for Frieze week there are plenty of reasons to stay in town. Several of the year’s hottest exhibitions are entering their final days, from blockbuster surveys to quieter discoveries. Here are the ones worth catching before they vanish.
'Stopping while ahead': London gallery Sid Motion to shut after a decade
Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership that has spent the past decade building a programme supporting emerging and mid-career artists, is to close this autumn, with its founder saying she has chosen to wind up the business while the programme and finances are still intact. “My heart is full when I think of the conversations and connections that the gallery has facilitated over the years,” says Sid Motion, who founded the business in 2016.
Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern: A triumphant tribute to a neglected visionary
The Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta was 36 when she died on September 8, 1985. She had, in the words of her husband, the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, “somehow gone out the window” of their 34th-floor Manhattan apartment. Andre was charged with her murder but later acquitted due to insufficient evidence to prove he had pushed her during a drunken row.
La galerie Hauser & Wirth mise hors de cause dans une affaire de sanctions visant la Russie
La méga-galerie Hauser & Wirth, qui dispose d’espaces à Londres et dans le Somerset, mais aussi à Zurich, Los Angeles, Paris et Hong Kong, a été mise hors de cause dans une affaire de violation présumée des sanctions visant la Russie, liée à la vente d’une œuvre de George Condo.
Hauser & Wirth cleared of Russian sanction charges
The Swiss mega gallery Hauser & Wirth, which has spaces in London and Somerset as well as Los Angeles, Paris and Hong Kong, has been cleared of breaching Russian sanctions in connection with the sale of a work of art by George Condo. The gallery was first charged in November 2025, alongside the shipping company Artay Rauchwerger Solomons, after selling Condo’s work on paper, Escape from Humanity (2021), to a collector named Alexander Popov.
Frida: The Making of an Icon review: Where is Kahlo among all this Fridamania?
Firda Kahlo: The Making of an Icon Tate Modern This show examines how Frida Kahlo evolved from a celebrated Mexican painter into one of the most recognisable cultural figures of modern times. Rather than functioning as a conventional retrospective, the exhibition explores the creation of Kahlo's public image, her artistic legacy and the diverse communities that have embraced her as a symbol of resilience, identity, feminism, disability advocacy and cultural pride.
La collection de Joe Lewis bat des records à Londres
Londres a passé une grande partie de l’année dernière à voir New York dominer le marché des ventes aux enchères grâce à une succession de collections exceptionnelles. Mercredi soir, 24 juin, cependant, la capitale britannique a rappelé à tous son pouvoir d’attraction.
Frida: The Making of an Icon review: Where is Kahlo among all this Fridamania?
"Iconic", I have been told by countless editors, is a word that should never be used to describe an artist, but Frida Kahlo is a rightly venerated exception to that rule. This is a woman who, out of a challenging life story, constructed an eccentric persona and unmistakable look, eliciting a devoted response from generations of followers who have made thousands of images in her likeness.
Sotheby's auction of Joe Lewis collection breaks record for most expensive sold in UK
London has spent much of the past year watching New York dominate the auction market with a succession of blockbuster single-owner collections. On Wednesday evening, however, the British capital staged a reminder of its own pulling power.
Training scheme for budding curators from lower socio-economic backgrounds receives £3m donation
A new generation of curators from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds is set to benefit from a £3m grant from the Russian-born billionaire philanthropists Anastasia and Igor Bukhman. The couple, who left Russia in 2014 and are now based in London, have pledged the grant to the New Curators training programme, ensuring the education of more than 30 aspiring curators from around the world over the next three years.
Come together: how London galleries are making it work in the capital
London’s gallery sector is in the middle of a reset. A slower market, rising operating costs and changing patterns in collecting behaviour have created challenges for dealers of all sizes, while a handful of high-profile closures have underscored the pressures facing the trade. Yet, as London Gallery Weekend (LGW) returns this month (5–7 June), a different picture is emerging.
The many, multicoloured stripes of Jack White
Jack White greets the camera with a mixture of suspicion and amusement. By the time we meet for our photo shoot, on the hottest day in May on record, the musician famous for being the frontman of era-defining rock band The White Stripes has spent the best part of a week installing his first ever art exhibition, at Newport Street Gallery in south London. Dressed in his signature black, make-up-free and a little self-conscious, White apologises immediately.
Call my agent: why artist management companies are making a comeback
Before art dealers, there were artist agents—diplomats, secretaries and merchants who worked in Renaissance Europe to source and value works of art on behalf of buyers. Dealers emerged later, in the late 16th century in Antwerp and then in Amsterdam, and eventually superseded agents. Today, as the traditional gallery model grapples with major upheavals and artists increasingly take a more interdisciplinary approach, artist agents are making a comeback.
London exhibition explores untold history of how homelessness was criminalised
The origins of homelessness in the UK and how it has come to be criminalised are explored in a new exhibition opening at the Museum of Homelessness in London this week. Typically, the 19th-century Vagrancy Act, which criminalised rough sleeping in England and Wales and is currently being repealed , is seen as a turning point in history when unhoused people began to be penalised for their circumstances.
British artist says the Met ‘should take responsibility’ for dress copyright dispute
The British artist Anouska Samms has hit back at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after it said a copyright dispute over a dress on show in its Met Gala opening exhibition should be resolved between her and her one-time fashion collaborator, Yoav Hadari. Samms says she and Hadari, who is based in New York, collaborated on a garment titled Hair Dress when they were both residents at the Sarabande Foundation in London, set up by the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
S&M-inspired Greek Pavilion in Venice confronts its fascist chains
Stepping inside the Greek pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale feels like entering an S&M club. Behind a distressed black curtain, soft objects resemblant of beanbags are dotted across a red neon lit floor, which seems to extend to infinity beneath one's feet. Images of chains wrap around sculptures, themselves fragments of marble columns which have been dismantled and softened after millennia of holding up Greek temples.
Venice exhibition of site-specific films aims to capture the hyper stimulating times we are living in
It could be said that we are living during the “dog days”—an era of excess, of things being “too much”. We turn on our electronic devices and are flooded with images and information, much of it distorted and much of it concerning abuses of power. Oppressive temperatures, both literal and metaphoric, are pushing societies to the brink of collapse.
La Biennale de Venise est de plus en plus ouvertement une plateforme commerciale
La Biennale de Venise est depuis longtemps un lieu où l’art se vend, même si cette dimension commerciale est le plus souvent passée sous silence. Officiellement, la Biennale est une institution non commerciale subventionnée par l’État ; évoquer des ventes – a fortiori en conclure sur place – y est donc généralement mal vu.
The Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise
The Venice Biennale has long been a place where art is sold, though its commercial capacity is usually downplayed. As the Biennale is officially a government-subsidised, non-commercial institution, talking about sales—let alone actually doing them on site—is largely frowned upon.
Nancy Holt’s Land Art lands in the UK
Land Art of 1960s and 1970s America was chiefly the preserve of men intervening in the landscape in often bombastic ways: blowing up parts of the Nevada desert with dynamite (Michael Heizer) or planting hundreds of stainless-steel poles at high altitude in New Mexico in a bid to conduct lightning flashes (Walter De Maria).
Full extent of Stephen Friedman Gallery's £7.8m debt revealed in filings
Three prominent Black artists—Alexandre Diop, Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley—are among those worst hit by the bankruptcy of Stephen Friedman Gallery, according to formal documents recently filed by administrators on Companies House. Diop is owed £341,905, Roberts £289,232 and Wiley £163,849. As unsecured creditors, they are expected to receive eight to nine pence for every pound owed.
Blockchain
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Blockchain [1] The Art Newspaper Localización: Apollo: The international magazine of arts, ISSN 0003-6536, Vol. 188, Nº. 667, 2018, págs. 104-105 Idioma: inglés Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...) Resumen A growing number of art market start-ups, from digital registries to art investment businesses, have begun offering services that use blockchain technology.
Milan’s contemporary art credentials further bolstered by arrival of Paris Internationale
The international art trade has been eyeing up Milan and the surrounding region for some years, and now Paris Internationale arrives in the Italian business capital later this month. The ultra-trendy non-profit art fair has announced the 34-strong gallery line up of its inaugural Milan show, which includes newcomers Jocelyn Wolff from Paris; kaufmann repetto from Milan and New York; the Milanese dealer Luisa Delle Piane; and Sylvia Kouvali, who has spaces in London and Piraeus.
À la Tefaf, l’art comme facteur de bien-être
La valeur marchande de l’art est plébiscitée depuis des centaines, voire des milliers d’années, mais ses effets bénéfiques sur la santé et le bien-être n’ont jamais été documentés avec une telle rigueur scientifique qu’aujourd’hui. Dans son nouveau livre, Art Cure : The Science of How the Arts Transform our Health, la professeure de psychobiologie Daisy Fancourt, plusieurs fois primée, montre comment l’art peut avoir un effet tangible et mesurable sur notre santé.
The commercial value of art has been extolled for hundreds, if not thousands, of years—but its benefits to our health and wellbeing have not been so scrupulously and scientifically documented, until now.
New rules on importing cultural artefacts create headaches at Tefaf Maastricht
Tefaf Maastricht is the first major European fair to take place since new EU regulations on documentation required to import cultural goods over 250 years old came into full force last June—and early signs suggest the new rules are causing a variety of problems for dealers, customs officials, shippers and would-be collectors.
Show me the money: gallery and auctioneer accounts reveal reality of a tough market
The closure of Stephen Friedman gallery last month underscores that for many in the art trade, staying in business can turn on a pin. Such realities are gleaned from the latest filings of the UK branches of galleries and auction houses on Companies House, the government agency that registers all UK companies.
Tracey Emin: 'Racist behaviour is dividing our country'
Living British artists are typically shown at Tate Britain, rather than Tate Modern. But Tracey Emin is not like most British artists. Speaking yesterday (25 February) at the press preview of her major exhibition Second Life, which opens this week, the artist says she turned down the venue of Tate Britain as it wasn’t enough of a “challenge”, having shown there several times already, including at the 1999 Turner Prize.
UK artist resale right at 20: how successful has the pioneering scheme been?
Twenty years ago this month, the artist resale right (ARR) was introduced in the UK, entitling artists to royalties from the secondary market sales of their work. The legislation was initially met with hostility within the art trade. Major auction houses and dealers lobbied against it, fearing that high-value sales would move offshore as a result, particularly to the US and Hong Kong, where no such levies exist, and claimed that the additional bureaucracy and costs would outweigh any benefits.
Sotheby’s to sell around £2m of art to support the Royal Academy in London
Auction houses have provided commercial sponsorship for museum shows for many years now, but Sotheby’s is ramping up its support for the Royal Academy of Art with the auction of ten works expected to raise up to £2.6m for the London institution, which has faced serious financial challenges since the pandemic.
La Stephen Friedman Gallery placée sous administration judiciaire après trente ans d’activité
Le marchand canadien installé à Londres Stephen Friedman met un terme à l’activité de sa galerie après trente ans d’existence. Il avait fermé son espace new-yorkais à la fin de l’an dernier, évoquant alors une volonté de « consolider ses opérations à Londres », où plusieurs nouveaux directeurs venaient d’être recrutés. L’espace londonien a depuis également fermé.
Saudi Arabia looks to its Modern art history as the art world eyes up the Gulf
As the art world eyes up its future in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is looking to its past with several exhibitions and sales that focus on the Kingdom’s Modern art history and its pioneering artists. At the National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, Beginnings of Saudi Art Movement (until 11 April) surveys a key moment in the sovereign state’s history, from the 1960s to the 1980s—a period of rapid societal transformation and relative liberation.
Stephen Friedman Gallery goes into administration after 30 years
The Canadian-born, London-based dealer Stephen Friedman is liquidating his gallery business after three decades. He closed his New York space at the end of last year, at the time citing plans to “consolidate its operations in London”, where several new directors had recently been hired. The London space has now also been closed.
Anish Kapoor to show some of his most ambitious projects-realised or not-in Venice
Anish Kapoor is, as he emphasises, “very much an artist”, but his next exhibition in Venice will focus on his architectural projects—or, perhaps more accurately, his sculptural projects that have verged on the architectural in terms of scale. The earliest work dates back more than 40 years. Some of them, such as Cloud Gate (2006) in Chicago and the recently opened Monte Sant’Angelo Metro Station in Naples have been realised; others have not.
London show of Lee Miller photographs is fundraising to save thousands of her negatives
The Lee Miller Archives, which were established after the American photographer’s vast collection of photographs and writings were discovered in the attic of her Sussex home following her death in 1977, is raising money to provide urgent conservation of thousands of her negatives, some of which are nearly 100 years old.
Bing Crosby’s collection brings a white-glove Christmas to Sotheby’s
It was a white-glove Christmas auction of singer and actor Bing Crosby’s personal collection, which made a 100% sell-through rate and $6.7m at Sotheby’s in New York last night against an estimate of $3.9m to $6.3m (totals include buyer’s premium; estimates do not). Among the most festive lots were the musical arrangements for Crosby’s 1954 hit musical film, White Christmas, which flew six times over the low estimate to fetch $19,050.
Banksy’s Bethlehem hotel, closed following 7 October attacks, reopens as ‘cultural platform that carries the narrative of Palestine’
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, which closed following the Hamas terrorist attacks on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war, has reopened its doors. The hotel first launched in 2017, directly opposite the West Bank barrier, so all rooms look out onto slabs of concrete topped with barbed wire—“the worst view of any hotel in the world”, Banksy said at the time of its opening.
Cracked it: rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg sells for record £22.9m in London
A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg considered the “Mona Lisa of the decorative arts” smashed records last night, selling for £22.9m at Christie’s in London to become the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction. Known as the Winter Egg for its delicate frost and snowflake designs, the ovoid was among around 50 commissioned by Russia’s imperial family between 1885 and the eve of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Barely worth its weight in gold: can art still be considered an asset class? Original
A week ago, at Sotheby’s in New York, Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet hammered for $10m, a smidge over its gold spot price of $9.8m. A case, then, of an artwork literally being worth its weight in gold. Or thereabouts. It is probably one of the only examples of pricing in the history of the art market that makes quantifiable sense. Usually, art valuation is a far more nebulous concept. Take David Shrigley’s piles of old rope, which are currently on sale at Stephen Friedman Gallery for £1m.
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