Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - London’s V22 art collective is due to commence building a huge temporary neighbourhood containing affordable artists’ studios and exhibition space on the banks of the Thames in Silvertown, i...

The Art Newspaper - Five hundred Polish and foreign academics have signed an open letter criticising the administration of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland and describing the changes being m...

The Art Newspaper - The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unveiled plans for a new opera house and cultural complex on Taksim Square in central Istanbul in November, which will entirely replace the Atatu...

The Art Newspaper  -  On 22 December, US President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a Republican victory that drew criticism from many for favouring corporations and wealthy individuals a...

Artsy - “Sit as little as possible.” The advice, offered by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche over a century ago, sounds like it could have been cribbed from the Health section of the New York Times. He conti...

The Art Newspaper -  A bronze Fernando Botero sculpture, estimated to be worth €425,000, was stolen from Galerie Bartoux in an upmarket district of Paris earlier this month in broad daylight. Gallery staff beca...

The Art Newspaper -  An acrimonious rift over Australia’s participation in the Venice Biennale in 2019 has split the upper echelons of the art world in the country, with wealthy and influential patrons pulling ...