As the fair marks 200 years of photography, its programme spans historical work, environmental concerns and AI-generated images

The recently departed head of the UK Space Agency has been announced as the British Library’s new chief executive, as the institution emerges from a turbulent period and announces a new partnership with Netflix

 Far more than a home for Star Wars, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s new Los Angeles museum brings fine art, comics, illustration, photography and cinema together under the banner of ‘narrative art’

The $915 million museum will open in November with a major festival and five inaugural exhibitions, as investigations into governance and procurement continue

Following a tight election, Sweden’s opposition bloc has secured a narrow victory over the outgoing right-wing bloc. What could it mean for the cultural sector?

Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post warn that the Kennedy Center faces “fiscal collapse” within weeks, after ticket sales and fundraising plunged amid upheaval following Donald Trump’s takeover

The Hungarian government's decision to cancel construction of the New National Gallery has ended a major European cultural initiative, raising questions over its future

Qatar Museums will begin the creation of the Doha Pavilion, a new permanent structure to display the works of German artist Gerhard Richter

American artist Lucien Smith, who rose rapidly to prominence in the 2010s and became a fixture of New York’s downtown art scene, has died aged 37

Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are two of the five recipients of the 2026 Praemium Imperiale, the Japan Art Association’s prestigious international arts award.

Led by rarely seen works by Van Gogh and Cézanne, the November sale is being touted as a coup for Sotheby’s – and offers another test of how far exceptional collections can propel the auction market’s recovery

Admired by fellow artists but little known to wider audiences, Martha Diamond made New York’s skyline her own. Her first European solo exhibition, at Finland's Sara Hildén Art Museum, asks us to look beyond the cityscape

As this year’s Turner Prize arrives at Middlesbrough's MIMA, two of its four shortlisted artists are also on view at Thaddaeus Ropac in London. Their simultaneous exposure offers a test of what a nomination now does for an artist’s career and market

As Madrid’s contemporary art fair ESTAMPA opens tomorrow, Spanish galleries say they are being left at a growing competitive disadvantage. After strikes, protests and years of lobbying, frustration is growing

As private sales take a growing share of the art market, Sotheby’s is making them more visible, more theatrical and more closely tied to the luxury experience economy

Big-money buyers may be back at auction, but the houses still need exceptional material to bring them to the room - as Roy Lichtenstein and Count Duerckheim demonstrate

Ronnie Walker spent 20 years investigating art theft and fraud. Now he wants artists to maintain the paper trail investigators often find missing

The rush into Seoul is over. As the market cools, the question is whether the Western art world ever really understood what it was buying into

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises a panicked gallery assistant through the crucial steps of damage control after an artwork mishap

At Turkey’s annual art fair, talk of political uncertainty competes with lavish hospitality. Over a week of art and dinners, the politics of who is funding the fair is more conspicuous than anything in the booths. For Private Views, Gabriella Angeleti reports

Art world Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises a gallery artist liaison struggling to balance her professional relationship and personal feelings for an artist she works with

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen advises an industry regular on disarming an omnipresent rival through flawless civility

Once dismissed as scandalous and disreputable at home, Yayoi Kusama returned to Japan an international star. Her transformation into a national icon reflects the power of foreign recognition, as well as Japan’s enduring conflicts with mental illness, sexuality and female autonomy

Art world Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen offers solace to an art worker who fears she has lost the love for everything that surrounds art – and maybe the work itself

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a gallery employee whose boss is getting a little too comfortable in the office

Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a staffer whose gallery has been busy with some dodgy deals

Ahead of two group shows in and around Paris, the dissident French-Iranian artist Pooya Abbasian talks about his association with invasive plants, the deceptive truth of documentary and the visit to France that became fifteen years of exile

At her first solo museum exhibition in Leeds, Sundaram discusses the physical demands of her felt sculptures, the politics of cloth and why collaboration should not diminish her authorship

The Tunisian-born, Dubai-based collector Selim Bouafsoun talks access, patronage and the dangers of runaway prices – and explains why supporting artists means investing in the ecosystem around them

Ten years after opening in a former Berlin bunker, the private collection is expanding into a multidisciplinary “house” in partnership with Sara Puig. Désiré Feuerle explains what comes next

In his 38-years working for the Smithsonian museums, departing Secretary Lonnie Bunch, has led the Smithsonian through expansions and turbulent times, standing firm in the telling of America’s history

For his first UK solo exhibition since 2015, the Kashmir-born painter draws on childhood memories, Kashmiriyat philosophy, Shakespeare and a world in turmoil to consider what the darkness can reveal

In a restored medieval church in Arles, the French artist has created a foundation to house his work, archive and artistic relationships – and to shape what survives him

Following the lives of two cousins growing up in the Argentine countryside, first through photography and now with a prize-winning feature film, Alessandra Sanguinetti captures childhood between documentary and fairytale