Art
Art and politics collide as protests reframe the Venice Biennale
From Pussy Riot’s chants to Latvia’s “Death in Venice” campaign, art has taken a backseat at this year’s vernissage as protesters flooded The Floating City to object to the Russian and Israeli pavilions.
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How African art is taking over the Venice Biennale – and the world
For decades, African art occupied the international margins. But several fairs and exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, are bringing the continent’s creative heritage to the centre.
London’s new V&A East Museum remixes the museum format
With a collection organised thematically, the museum presents issues of identity, wellbeing, social justice and environmental action through the lens of art.
Five exhibitions to see in Hong Kong during Art Basel 2026
Seen all there is to see at Art Basel Hong Kong? Then flag down a red taxi and head to these five art shows that are not to miss on your visit.
Is ‘Jeremy’s Bathhouse’ the strangest exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong?
During the city’s biggest art week, artist Chan Wai Lap unveils a surreal bathhouse inspired by a lonely snail – inviting visitors to soak, connect and rethink intimacy in a very unexpected installation.
Collecting history: Ancient antiquities dealer Galerie Chenel offers the world’s oldest collectables
From first-century artefacts to ancient Egyptian sculpture, the Paris gallery deals in some of the world’s rarest and most exquisite objects. But what truly sets them apart is their curatorial eye.
The London art director collecting Earth’s rarest sculptures: Meteorites
Jethro Sverdloff, co-director of London’s Art Ancient, believes cosmic material is the next frontier in the art collectors’ market.
Hong Kong’s ‘boothless’ Pavilion art fair invites visitors to contemplate and connect
The collaborative Asian art fair will feature 25 galleries from around the world, including New York’s 47 Canal, London’s Norito and Seoul’s S Angheeut.
‘People don’t expect it’: Art Basel Hong Kong director lauds the fair’s public programme
We sit down with the director of Art Basel Hong Kong, Angelle Siyang-Le, to discuss the city’s cultural coming of age, new features of the fair and the best places for dim sum.
What the Art Basel and UBS market report tells us about the state of the art world
After standing on the scales, feeling the chilly steel of the stethoscope on its chest and going, “Ahhhhh,” the global art market’s annual health check is complete. It arrives in the form of the…
Frieze LA’s Christine Messineo is looking at the bigger picture
Frieze LA’s director discusses the resurgent US art market and an essential guide to the fair’s must-see booths.
