
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
Why Seoul’s Young Galleries Are Looking Abroad
Until 2024, no Korean gallery had ever exhibited at Liste. This year, there are seven. Annabel Downes asks why
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
News

Brussels-Based Gallery Dépendance Closes
Dépendance, a Brussels-based gallery known for its adventurous programme of conceptually considered artists, has closed after 23 years of operations

Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, 1941–2026
Semotan was best known for her work with Helmut Lang, who she worked with for over two decades on collections and runway shows

Philippe Vergne Appointed Chief Curator of The Bass in Miami
Vergne has been director of the Museu Serralves in Porto since 2019, and will take up his new position in the US in October

Tone Hansen Appointed Director of Moderna Museet
The appointment marks the end of Hansen’s time as the Director of MUNCH, Norway

Kulapan Yantrasast Appointed as Artistic Director of 2027 Bukhara Biennial
The 2027 Bukhara Biennial will be directed by architect and designer Kulapan Yantrasast, who will take over from the biennial’s previous artistic director, Diana Campbell

Cecilia Alemani to Curate 2027 Edition of the Taipei Art Biennial
Alemani previously curated the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and is currently the director and chief curator of the public arts programme High Line Art

Open Letter Calls for End of Centre Pompidou Hanwha Partnership
The letter, published on 27 May, criticises Hanwha’s involvement ‘in the arms industry linked to the Palestinian genocide’
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37th Bienal de São Paulo Announces Curatorial Team
The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has announced the curatorial team for its 37th edition, opening in September 2027

Julio Le Parc, Op Art and Kinetic Artist, 1928–2026
The artist’s passing occurs just weeks before a major immersive exhibition spanning seven decades of his career is due to open at Tate Modern, London, on 11 June
Market

Why Seoul’s Young Galleries Are Looking Abroad
Until 2024, no Korean gallery had ever exhibited at Liste. This year, there are seven. Annabel Downes asks why

Pace Gallery to Cut 50 Artists and 50 Staff in Major Restructuring
The gallery will reduce its roster by roughly a third as chief executive Marc Glimcher argues that the current mega-gallery model is no longer sustainable

The Reinvention of the Art Fair
As Japan's art market outpaces much of the world, Art Week Tokyo has emerged as a rare and innovative model, one that unites commerce with critical discourse and public engagement

Fake Neizvestny Works at Tretyakov Linked to Russian Naval Officer
Authenticity of Ernst Neizvestny state-exhibited sculptures questioned as naval captain arrested amid forgery claims

Chinamaxxed?
In her column Messy Business, Jeni Fulton profiles a new generation rebuilding Beijing’s art market – on its own terms
Opinion

Georg Baselitz and the Art Market’s Selective Amnesia
Will death mask the misogyny of one of Germany’s most highly valued artists?

Cybernetic Serendipity: The Forgotten Origins of AI Art
A little-seen show at London’s ICA introduced many of the ideas now driving a multibillion-dollar market

Help! I Hate... My Appearance
Charlotte Jansen counsels an artist grappling with artworld pressures around style, body shape and self-image

Rest in Peace, Jerry Gogosian
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein became one of the most influential and divisive voices in the art world, yet her death exposes the pressures and costs of public life online – writes Gabriella Angeleti in her column, Private Views

Help! I Hate… My Friend
Charlotte Jansen advises on a uniquely intense friendship formed in the early stages of a creative career

Help! I Hate... My Artist
Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises an independent gallerist defending a controversial artist in public while harbouring private doubts

Qatar Bought its Way to the Venice Biennale. Does it Matter?
Qatar’s presence in the Giardini reveals how national pavilions increasingly function as tools of global cultural branding – even as the artists they platform position themselves against state power
Features
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
Kazakhstan’s Venice Pavilion: An Archive of Silence
The removal of an artwork at the last minute raises questions of intellectual freedom and returns to Soviet-era censorship
Performance Art: The Last Bastion of an Artworld Beyond the Market?
Timed-based and live art features heavily across this year's Venice Biennale. Can the public appetite for spectacle translate to market success?
Painting at the End of the World: Chornobyl and Artistic Exploitation
In the decades since the explosion of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster has become a cultural touchstone
Places
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
Notes from Kampala’s Fugitive Art Economy
For Uganda’s artists, precarity is generative rather than a condition to overcome
Profiles

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

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, Doyen 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

The Painter: Merike Estna at the Estonia Pavilion
Representing her country at the Venice Biennale, the artist has created a monument to the demands of maintenance, temporality and parenthood




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