
The Killing of Robert Kuzovkov
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
Yogyakarta’s ARTJOG, the Art Fair Without Galleries
The Indonesian fair has spent two decades quietly forging an alternative model – foregoing gallery invitations in favour of direct access
Brexit and the British Artworld: The Balance Sheet
Five ways Brexit hurt the cultural sector - and five ways it helped
News

Helen Cammock Withdraws Work from National Portrait Gallery, London
The piece’s withdrawal follows controversy surrounding its statement that Winston Churchill had intentionally starved the Indian population during the 1943 Bengal famine
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Misan Harriman Steps Down as Southbank Centre Chair
Hariman’s decision follows a period of scrutiny and criticism over his social media activity

Cooper Gallery Dundee Threatened by University Cost Cutting
The gallery was opened in 1953 and has hosted various exhibitions, including those of numerous Turner Prize nominees

Steirischer Herbst 2026 Theme is ‘Red Flags’
The annual Austrian arts festival will take place in Graz and Styria, Austria from 24 September to 18 October

New London Museum Details Revealed
The museum will move to its new home in Smithfield Market, Farringdon on 28 November, eleven years after announcing its relocation

Wulf Herzogenrath, Curator, 1944–2026
The curator championed video and new media art, as well as acting as the director of Kunsthalle Bremen for seventeen years

Staff of Umoja Art Gallery Denied Visas Before Africa Basel
The event occurred a week before the opening of the Africa Basel art fair on June 17
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New Curators Secures £3 Million Funding from the Bukhman Foundation
The organisation runs a free and paid year-long training programme for aspiring curators from structurally disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds

José Roca to Curate 37th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts
Roca previously worked as the curatorial advisor of the inaugural Bogotá International Biennial of Art and the City

Soyoung Yoon to Direct The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program
Yoon’s appointment to ISP occurs a year after its suspension following the dismissal of associate director Sara Nadal-Melsió
Market

After Tiwani: The New Economics of African Gallery Spaces
What has been lost? What can be learnt? And how are other galleries responding to the same commercial pressures?

Art Basel’s Little Brazil
Does the record turnout for Brazilian galleries at Basel reflect recent optimism about the country’s domestic art market?

Amedeo Modigliani Scholar Disputes AI Art Authentication Firm’s Claim
The Swiss company announced that a painting previously attributed to Modigliani had become the first AI-authenticated artwork to appear in an official catalogue raisonné

Zero 10 Returns to Basel with a Museum, Not a Marketplace
Six months after launching in Miami Beach with OpenSea, Art Basel’s digital section has swapped its commercial partner for a curatorial thesis

Big Sales at Basel, But Smaller Dealers’ Silence Speaks Louder
Headline-making transactions suggest momentum even when the wider dealer ecosystem is moving more cautiously

Basel Exclusive: Has it Worked?
Art Basel’s first day sales offer some partial answers to the question posed by Basel Exclusive: will collectors buy works they have not already seen?
Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage Faces Damage Beyond Official Estimate
An expert says that attacks on the country’s history and identity significantly exceed the officially predicted cost of $4 billion

The Best of Zurich Art Weekend
Hauser & Wirth transformed into a casino, Fabergé eggs in fake snow, a billionaire's fantasy of the Alps… Here are six shows that caught the eye of our Swiss correspondent
Opinion

Brexit and the British Artworld: The Balance Sheet
Five ways Brexit hurt the cultural sector - and five ways it helped

Keir Starmer’s Cultural Legacy: The Verdict
After election in 2024, Labour placed culture at the centre of economic policy while dramatically expanding state oversight of cultural life online

The Best of VOLTA Art Fair in Basel
Ella Lewis-Williams reports on the works to look out for at Basel’s accessible art fair

Help! I Hate... My Publicist
Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises on a publicist struggling to balance professionalism and partying

Seven Exhibitions to See in July, From Our Editors
A selection of shows to catch before the artworld winds down for summer, picked by The Art Journal’s editors and contributors

The Third Space Versus the Feed
In her column Private Views, Gabriella Angeleti reports on AI, Ansel Adams, Trevor Paglen and a new photography centre as images increasingly leave the real world

Art Basel’s Fight Against Pre-Fair Sales
Basel Exclusive aims to restore surprise to the art fair model – but can a return to anticipation reverse years of pre-selling and private dealing?

Help! I Hate... My Return to Work
The Art Journal’s resident artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a new mother struggling to balance work and childcare
Features
Wall-to-Wall: Galerina, London
In the first of a column on micro-galleries and odd-spaces, Ella Slater talks to Galerina, whose London space counters the white cube with ostensibly taboo gallery design features
Yogyakarta’s ARTJOG, the Art Fair Without Galleries
The Indonesian fair has spent two decades quietly forging an alternative model – foregoing gallery invitations in favour of direct access
Art Basel Unlimited: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The vast showcase returns with spectacle, sincerity and unease, as Ruba Katrib’s debut selection tests whether monumental scale can still carry real critical weight.
The Art of Getting a Creative Graduate Job
The Milburn Report recently revealed that over a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training. For those leaving art school, it’s a familiar tale
Are Women in the Arts Facing a Career Exit Crisis?
A new report reveals a talent pipeline and professional development crisis for women working in the arts
Is London Gallery Weekend Still Working?
Emerging galleries have been integral to London Gallery Weekend since its inception five years ago, but their existence is getting more precarious each year
A Historic Crossroads for Uzbekistan’s Art Scene
At the Venice Biennale, a solo exhibition by artist Vyacheslav Akhunov draws Uzbekistan’s inherited legacy of architectural symbolism into relief
The £91.2m Question: What the Sainsbury Centre Gift Reveals About British Museums
A huge donation will future-proof the centre’s Norman Foster-designed building, but also highlights the growing importance of mega donors within Britain’s cultural sector
Places
Manila Beyond Institutional Capital
In Manila, the Philippines, the market ecology will simply collapse without the private sector due to a lack of sustainable public institution support
Is There Such Thing as a Chilean Art Market?
Santiago’s artworld operates despite a dearth of local collectors, instead relying on international visibility
The Promised Land of Lisbon’s Artworld, a Decade On
Ten years after the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) and ARCOlisboa reenergised Lisbon’s artworld, has the city’s hype sustained its momentum?
Sweating the Future at Riga Art Week
From underfloor heating to private patronage, Riga Art Week revealed an art scene wrestling with the comforts and contradictions of post-Soviet capitalism
Sofia: The Art Market that Defies All the Rules
Sofia’s art scene has emerged largely independent, if not in opposition to, international standards. The city is slowly becoming a hub for cultural and economic retention
Art Warsaw 2026: Poland’s Parallel Art Market
Art Warsaw captures the city as it tries to establish a more visible role within the Central and Eastern European artistic and cultural field
New Delhi’s Art Market: A Turn, or Return, to Opulence?
The city's real-estate boom is fuelling an influx of new exhibition spaces and mega-museums, but also reflects an awkward dance between the government, corporates and the arts in the capital
A Turning Point for Reykjavík’s Art Scene
The city's art market reveals a misalignment between the perceived and actual value of artistic labour in Iceland
Profiles

The Killing of Robert Kuzovkov
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

David Hockney, Defining Postwar British Artist, Dies Aged 88
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

How Julio Le Parc Built a Market for Kinetic Art
Supported by the Paris dealer Denise René, the late Argentine-born artist helped turn optical and kinetic art into an international phenomenon

How London Is Gray Wielebinski?
It's London Gallery Weekend, so we put the city’s artist to the test

The Collector: Hortensia Herrero and Valencia’s Art Renaissance
The billionaire Mercadona heiress has quietly assembled one of Spain's most significant contemporary art collections.

The Collector: José Teixeira, Portugal’s ‘Ugly Duckling’
Having filled his company’s headquarters with contemporary art, the DST chairman is now bringing it to the wider public with the opening of Braga’s new €40 million MUZEU

Half a Century of Sarah Moon, Doyenne of Fashion Photography
As taste, markets and fashions have shifted around her, Sarah Moon has remained committed to a singular aesthetic over a fifty year career

VALIE EXPORT, Austrian Performance Artist Who Reframed the Politics of the Female Body, Dies Aged 85
The radical Viennese artist became one of postwar Europe’s most influential feminist practitioners through photography, performances and films that confronted spectatorship, sexuality and power






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