2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (290+ words) Jacopo Robusti—better known as Tintoretto—was revered by French painters from Jean-Honoré Fragonard to Paul Cézanne. His facility for narrative drama inspired Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, and provoked Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who was enthralled but troubled by the Venetian…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (422+ words) The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has formed a new institutional partnership with the Ethiopian Heritage Authority (EHA), which will see five objects from a private collection returned to Ethiopia. “It’s left this donut hole where you end up with…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (132+ words) Frida: The Making of an Icon is organised into seven thematic sections, with the first two rooms devoted to Construction/Self-Construction. In what may be the most coherent and persuasive (if expected, conventional) part of the show, there are some…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (563+ words) “Headline auction results are increasingly driven by a tiny number of museum-quality works competing for the attention of an equally small group of ultra-wealthy buyers,” says art market economist Magnus Resch Courtesy of Sotheby’s It is well-documented that the art…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (108+ words) Social aspirations in colonial Africa: Seydou Keïta’s Untitled (1954) © Seydou Keïta/SKPEAC, courtesy of the Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection • Jeremy Harding, Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination, Verso, 224pp, £19 (hb), published March 2026 • Tobias Carroll is the author of Political Sign…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (333+ words) The federal government of Canada still cannot locate 111 Indigenous works missing from its art collection, the Canadian Press recently reported, nearly two years after an internal audit found it could not account for 132 pieces. To date, Métellus says, 17 of the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (579+ words) Comment | I'm trying my hand at art historical fiction—and the challenge is gratifying The Art Newspaper Comment | I'm trying my hand at writing aart historical fiction—and the challenge is gratifying After 20 years of writing non-fiction books, the art…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (244+ words) Artists and cultural workers at the Picha Art Center Courtesy of the Picha Art Center “Creating art [in] countries such as ours can be considered a luxury. But it’s not,” Baloji tells The Art Newspaper, pointing to artists' work on…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (226+ words) Cathy de Monchaux's Defying death I ran away to the fucking circus (1991)© Adagp, Paris, 2026 Cathy de Monchaux’s erotic, intricately wrought sculpture confirmed her as one of the most original and distinctive artists of the 1990s. I remember her show at Chisenhale…...