The Art Newspaper

The sun is shining in Beverly Hills and Hirst’s spots look great in the last Gagosian branch on my tour. I took a 7am flight from New York to get here and to keep costs low I’m heading straight back to the airport to catch a flight back to New York...

Conceived in honour of the late former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a heart-shaped memorial made from candle wax was installed at a square next to the National Theatre in Prague on Friday. Made from wax recycled from the thousands of candles that...

Already under attack from the European Commission for its policies on banking, the law and the media, Hungary’s national conservative government is now facing a tide of protest from the arts community. The government, led by Viktor Orban, stands...

The former antiquities dealer, Robert Hecht, whose trial in Italy ended in December without a verdict, died today in his home in Paris, aged 92. Hecht was accused of conspiring to receive antiquities illegally excavated and exported from Italy,...

Japester David Shrigley has always focused on the more mundane, comforting aspects of life in his art. Nothing lifts the spirits like a good brew which is why his Very Large Cup of Tea (2012) sculpture, on show in "David Shrigley: Brain Activity" at...

English history prefers evolution to dramatic revolution, and Queen Elizabeth II has shown, during her 60-year reign, that she understands this process of “everything must change for everything to remain the same”, as the prince says in the Sicilian...

This month is the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. We kick off the celebrations with the story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the...

Following in the footsteps of contemporary artists including Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, John Baldessari and Michael Landy, the German artist Thomas Demand is creating a John Kaldor public art project, due to open in Sydney on 23 March (until 22...

Following in the footsteps of contemporary artists including Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, John Baldessari and Michael Landy, the German artist Thomas Demand is creating a John Kaldor public art project, due to open in Sydney on 23 March (until 22...

The apparently unresolvable conflict described in a recent Art Newspaper article, “This mural should be a living work: Campaign grows to repaint the last large-scale Keith Haring in Australia”, has inspired me to contribute a few words from a...

It’s a good thing I didn’t start the spot tour in New York because, if I had, I probably would have given up after the first gallery. Why is it that Gagosian staff here, in what must surely be the three most commercially successful galleries in the...

The most striking thing about the art market—especially as it has grown from the small, passionate community of the early 1990s to a $50bn industry today—is that it largely functions along self-regulating lines. Prices, authenticity, standards and...

The second edition of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s Future Generation Art Prize, worth $100,000, was launched this week with a press conference streamed live on The Art Newspaper’s website and moderated by our founding editor Anna Somers Cocks....

Antoni Tàpies, the Spanish abstract painter, died on Monday in Barcelona, aged 88, after a long illness. Tàpies started painting as a teenager, when he was recovering from tuberculosis. While studying for a law degree, to please his father, the...

Australians make bad art thieves, if an advertising stunt by The Art Series Hotels in Melbourne is any guide. As reported by In the Frame last month, the boutique hotel chain encouraged visitors to steal a work by Banksy from its walls. If anyone...

Last week, the Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based installation artist and musician, Mike Kelley, was found dead in his home in California, aged 57. According to police reports, his death on Wednesday 1 February appeared to be a suicide and an autopsy...

The following interview was published in our March 2004 print edition, in connection with an exhibition organised by Mike Kelley at Tate Liverpool. Right from his early 1970s performances which used an abundance of assembled props...

Whoever said money can’t buy you happiness has not travelled from London to Hong Kong and back again in economy class in two days. The flights were long, the children were loud and the movies were stupid—but this trip marks the final, most gruelling...

The debut edition of the Biennale de Montevideo—Uruguay’s first such event and titled “Big Sur”—is due to open on 15 October, right in the middle of the São Paulo Biennial, which is set to take place between 8 September and 9 December. The...

The ambitious installations of the Los Angeles-born, New York-based artist Sanford Biggers, whose two recent exhibitions in New York City incorporated sculpture, video, photography, music and photographs, have reached an unprecedented height at the...