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David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America’s dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 16, 2025

Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades

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Russian artist imprisoned for three and a half years over alleged anti-war supermarket protest

The Art Newspaper

JULY 22, 2024

Anastasia Dyudyaeva is the second artist in less than a year to be jailed for allegedly disseminating anti-government messages in such a setting

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Berry Campbell gallery’s gamble on forgotten post-war artists is paying off

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Works by the gallery’s artists that once sold for a thousand dollars can now fetch over a million

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Vancouver’s floating artist residency finds safe harbour in new location

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, based in the refurbished former home and studio of Carole Itter and Al Neil, is now moored near Vancouver’s Maritime Museum

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‘Groundbreaking’ UK exhibition spotlights work of disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists

The Art Newspaper

JULY 19, 2024

Towards New Worlds brings together the 'critically robust' work of 15 creatives, in an attempt to dispel the pejorative perceptions associated with work by disabled artists

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Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 4, 2025

Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology. Recent exhibitions of artificial intelligence art and a sale at Christie's New York highlight new approaches to collective ownership and governance that are applicable to the wider community

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Often overlooked: The Barbican presents 100 artistic responses to India's turbulent times

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Work by more than 30 Indian artists, made between 1975 and 1998, explores a period of social and economic upheaval

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US National Register of Historic Places adds first home-studio of an African American woman artist

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 16, 2024

The late artist L.V. Hull’s house will be part of the first visual arts centre in the town of Kosciusko, Mississippi

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A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire” is showing at the New York Film Festival

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How Bangladeshi artists played a role in their country’s ‘monsoon revolution’

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 8, 2025

Artists who had long suffered threats and censorship contributed to, and then celebrated, the downfall last year of the countrys repressive regime

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The art world’s AI dilemma: how can artists and museums thrive when big tech controls the monetising of artificial intelligence?

The Art Newspaper

MAY 30, 2024

For artists, how to thrive where sources of production are being monetised in Silicon Valley With the publication of the Stanford AI Index, two areas have come into focus. For museums, how to work with industry giants, without having their offering "distanced" by the summarising power of AI.

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US National Register of Historic Places adds first art environment of an African American artist

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 16, 2024

The late artist L.V. Hull’s house will be part of the first visual arts centre in the town of Kosciusko, Mississippi

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Framing Van Gogh: why the artist preferred not to surround his works with gold

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 17, 2025

The National Gallerys blockbuster exhibition, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, provides an unusual opportunity to see how the artists works have been framed by their owners

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In pictures: giving overlooked artists their due at Art Basel Miami Beach

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Curator Amy Smith-Stewart of Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum chooses standout works by emerging and lesser-known artists

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Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore wins the Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The annual prize, which honours an artist based in British Columbia, comes with C$100,000 cash

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British Museum still taking money from tobacco firm

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut

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Artists Amoako Boafo, Hans Haacke and Deborah Butterfield among thousands to sign statement against AI content scraping

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Artists and organisations across the creative industries have come out in opposition to the practice of AI firms training their technology with copyrighted, unlicensed material

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Three years on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s artists and museums are keeping up the fight for their country’s culture

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

From an artists handbook addressing life under occupation to exhibitions combatting colonial narratives, the examples of resistance are variousdespite growing pressure caused by US funding cuts

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Artists Kim Schoen and Kim Schoenstadt make light of mistaken identities in collaborative show

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This Venn diagram of a gallery exhibition leans into the ongoing confusion of the Los Angeles artists

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Dealers are facing the tricky challenge of balancing artist and collector priorities

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 14, 2025

Gallerists vary in how they navigate between building relationships with the artists they represent and the collectors who are their clientsbut there may be an overarching advantage to the struggle

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‘Maybe Damien peaked’: Tracey Emin shares her thoughts on male artists in their 40s

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, the UK artist discusses Hirst, royal visits and sacking off slim shady

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On the record: UK artist Peter Doig to mix music and art in new London show

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From October 2025, Serpentine Galleries will host "House of Music" a multi-sensory environment pairing the artist's paintings with music and film

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Jack Vettriano, immensely popular artist whose market success reflected 'an appetite for the glamorous', has died, aged 73

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 3, 2025

The sale of The Singing Butler at Sothebys in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect

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KAWS: the former graffiti artist turned global pop art star shows off his collector’s eye

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 6, 2024

KAWS, the pseudonym of the American artist Brian Donnelly, is best known for his distorted cartoon characters and embracing of popular culture, even being compared to Andy Warhol. Now, a lesser-known side is revealed as works from his vast art collection go on show in New York

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 28, 2025

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life

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An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 23, 2024

The artistic director of Serpentine, recalls 35 years of friendship and collaboration with the cultural impresario who was one of the most important curators of the second half of the 20th century

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'An inspiration to all of our artists from Africa': Esther Mahlangu enjoys double exposure at 1-54 and Serpentine

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The 88-year-old South African artist is the subject of a solo stand with The Melrose Gallery at the Somerset House fair, while a site-specific mural goes on show outside the Serpentine North

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Remembering the pioneering Australian Indigenous artist whose meticulous bark paintings captured a hidden power

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The painter, referred to as Balang Nakurulk (Mr Mawurndjul) AM until his family give permission for him to be identified otherwise, was also a keen supporter of women artists

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Henri Matisse’s daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 28, 2025

In the year that copyright on the French artists work expires, an exhibition at the Muse dArt Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career

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'We want to lift those who take the risk for us all': Rosana Paulino receives new Munch prize celebrating artistic freedom

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The inaugural award, established by the Munch Museum in Oslo, commends the artist for works exploring the history of racial violence in Brazil

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Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 17, 2025

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change

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The artist dealers call on to get works to and from Miami

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Liz Nielsen, who showed a piece of her own at the Untitled Art fair, drove from New York to Miami and back with a van full of other artists work

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Remembering Jean-Claude Saintilus, Haitian artist and member of the Atis Rezistans collective, who has died, aged 64

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 7, 2025

Artist of memorials to family memory and sprits exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, Documenta Fifteen (2022) and the Ghetto Biennale, in Port au Prince

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Judge rules against artist in case of satiric website critiquing Icelandic company’s alleged role in Fishrot scandal

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A judge in London ruled in favour of the seafood multinational Samerji, finding that the artist Odee Fridriksson’s satiric project “crossed the line”

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American Artist builds on author Octavia Butler’s prescient, dystopian vision

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 30, 2025

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butlers most famous series of novels and her archives

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The self-styled ‘first English abstract artist’ Paule Vézelay gets an overdue exhibition

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 10, 2025

The show at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol will explore the little-known artists remarkable life and career

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Marina Abramović in her element: performance artist announces new NFT drop designed to create a ‘bridge’ to young generation

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 18, 2025

The artists first NFT collection since 2022 is inspired by different aspects of her life and work

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Who wore it best? A century of artists’ style

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The fashion writer Derek Guy—perhaps best known for his pithy menswear observations and advice, dolled out via X—talks us through his sartorial favourites, from David Hockney to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

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Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today

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US artists score victory in landmark AI copyright case

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 14, 2024

A federal judge in California has blocked an attempt by several AI companies to have portions of a copyright case dismissed

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Medardo Rosso, an often overlooked artist who ‘revolutionised’ sculpture, gets his dues at Kunstmuseum Basel

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture offers a comprehensive survey of an artist whose influence is matched only by his remarkably persistent anonymity

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US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city

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The Constable trail: National Gallery to focus on the social, political and artistic context of the artist's 'The Hay Wain'

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 2, 2024

Visitors on foot to Dedham Vale, in Suffolk, can view the remarkably well preserved locations of John Constable's paintings of the countryside in which he was nurtured

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ICA Boston launches $100,000 award for women artists, with Sarah Sze winning inaugural edition

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 20, 2025

The new Meraki Artist Prize is funded by Fotene Demoulas, whose family owns the Market Basket supermarket chain

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David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America’s dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78

Russian artist imprisoned for three and a half years over alleged anti-war supermarket protest

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Berry Campbell gallery’s gamble on forgotten post-war artists is paying off

Vancouver’s floating artist residency finds safe harbour in new location

‘Groundbreaking’ UK exhibition spotlights work of disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists

Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

Often overlooked: The Barbican presents 100 artistic responses to India's turbulent times

US National Register of Historic Places adds first home-studio of an African American woman artist

A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude

How Bangladeshi artists played a role in their country’s ‘monsoon revolution’

The art world’s AI dilemma: how can artists and museums thrive when big tech controls the monetising of artificial intelligence?

US National Register of Historic Places adds first art environment of an African American artist

Framing Van Gogh: why the artist preferred not to surround his works with gold

In pictures: giving overlooked artists their due at Art Basel Miami Beach

Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore wins the Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards

British Museum still taking money from tobacco firm

Artists Amoako Boafo, Hans Haacke and Deborah Butterfield among thousands to sign statement against AI content scraping

Three years on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s artists and museums are keeping up the fight for their country’s culture

Artists Kim Schoen and Kim Schoenstadt make light of mistaken identities in collaborative show

Dealers are facing the tricky challenge of balancing artist and collector priorities

‘Maybe Damien peaked’: Tracey Emin shares her thoughts on male artists in their 40s

On the record: UK artist Peter Doig to mix music and art in new London show

Jack Vettriano, immensely popular artist whose market success reflected 'an appetite for the glamorous', has died, aged 73

KAWS: the former graffiti artist turned global pop art star shows off his collector’s eye

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85

An infinite conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist's personal memoir of Kasper König, curator, publisher, teacher, museum director, and friend to artists

'An inspiration to all of our artists from Africa': Esther Mahlangu enjoys double exposure at 1-54 and Serpentine

Remembering the pioneering Australian Indigenous artist whose meticulous bark paintings captured a hidden power

Henri Matisse’s daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist

'We want to lift those who take the risk for us all': Rosana Paulino receives new Munch prize celebrating artistic freedom

Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

The artist dealers call on to get works to and from Miami

Remembering Jean-Claude Saintilus, Haitian artist and member of the Atis Rezistans collective, who has died, aged 64

Judge rules against artist in case of satiric website critiquing Icelandic company’s alleged role in Fishrot scandal

American Artist builds on author Octavia Butler’s prescient, dystopian vision

The self-styled ‘first English abstract artist’ Paule Vézelay gets an overdue exhibition

Marina Abramović in her element: performance artist announces new NFT drop designed to create a ‘bridge’ to young generation

Who wore it best? A century of artists’ style

Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists

US artists score victory in landmark AI copyright case

Medardo Rosso, an often overlooked artist who ‘revolutionised’ sculpture, gets his dues at Kunstmuseum Basel

US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol

The Constable trail: National Gallery to focus on the social, political and artistic context of the artist's 'The Hay Wain'

ICA Boston launches $100,000 award for women artists, with Sarah Sze winning inaugural edition

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