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Koyo Kouoh, pan-African curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA, 1967-2025

Tate Britain is forcing gallery visitors to confront history and social issues. Could it be turning people off?

Marlene Dumas painting set to break auction record for a work by a living woman

Black Artists in Postwar Paris Get a Blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou

Brewing selfie coffee is the latest trend in SA’s booming coffee art scene

Napoleon’s Fancy 19th-Century Sword Could Sell for More Than $1 Million

In the Shadow of the Gallery: Art, power and the fight for Johannesburg’s soul

How Much Art Sold Online in 2024? Online-only sales continue to rise even as prices fall.

Artsy Survey Shows Art Market in Transition, With Dealers Unsure How to Meet New Collector Needs

Sistine Chapel to close for conclave preparations

Trump’s Garden of American Heroes seeks artists for its 250 statues

Matisse’s Great-Grandson Is Bringing the Artist’s Famed Works to the Dinner Table

Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art

Kentridge — An artist’s evocation of meaninglessness

‘Is there a place for the poor?’ Artists and activists try to revive Johannesburg, crumbling City of Gold

Big Galleries Take Big Sales Hit

The Tragic Life of Egon Schiele’s Secret Niece Revealed

How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler

Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards – in pictures

Still a Force at 87, David Hockney Steals the Spotlight in Paris

Churchill portrait valued at £800,000 on display

Repaired Paddington statue unveiled

What’s Holding Women Back in the Arts—And How Can We Fix It?

505 Years After His Death, Raphael Still Stuns the Art World

How Art Dealers Can Navigate Trump’s Tariffs

Basquiat to Delaney: inside the exhibition honouring 50 years of art in Black Paris

Waking up with a Banksy on your wall: The differing fortunes of two homeowners

What the dismantling of USAID means for world heritage

Life-Sized Bronze Statue of Johnny Clegg Joins Long March to Freedom Heroes

Art can help remind US and Europe of special relationship

How a Young Woman Built Her Dream Art School Into an $1.86 Billion Empire

How Gothic Art From the Middle Ages Inspired Modern Artists

Can A.I. Reconstruct the Lost Murals of Delacroix?

Paintings safe from soup as Just Stop Oil ‘hangs up the high viz’

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Trump aims to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian with new executive order

A Rediscovered Gustav Klimt Portrait of an African Prince

How Fairs Court New Collectors

How Do We Break Barriers for Women and Working-Class Creatives in the Art World?

Who Was Goya’s Beloved Duchess—His Muse or Lover?

Disgraced Art Advisor Lisa Schiff Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison for Fraud

Art historian solves riddle behind theft of famous portrait

Dealers are facing the tricky challenge of balancing artist and collector priorities

A South African artist hopes vibrant sculptures make parks more welcoming in a city known for danger

Singing Butler painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73

Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92

Michelangelo’s Tomb Gets a Facelift For His 550th Birthday

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South African contemporary art is attracting international buyers

Art Fund Bets on Women and Marginalized Artists for Big Returns

Are Art Investment Funds Evolving?

D.C. Museum Scraps Exhibitions of Black and LGBTQ Artists Amid Funding Cuts

New Footage Captures the Audacious Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet

Nick Cave: My manager was like, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ I’m like, ‘I’m going into the ceramics business’

Artists can copyright works made using AI as an ‘assistive tool’, US Copyright Office concludes

Art world looks to Bluesky as Meta and X shift right

DAILY ART Louvre to Open New Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian Art Department in 2027

CBS Gallery owner Larry Gagosian on the art world’s “blood sport”

ARTNET Artnet CEO Jacob Pabst’s Bold Blueprint for the Future of Art Journalism

ARTNET New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Frescoes Depicting a Mysterious Ritual

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ArtNewspaper: As the wealthiest lurch to the right, will the commercial art world follow?

ArtNet: Temperature Check: Is Africa’s Art Market Cooling?
Auction sales of work by artists from the continent fell 36 percent between 2023 and 2024.

ArrtNet: Lost Camille Claudel Masterpiece Sells for $3.8 Million at Auction

ArtNewspaper: Technology reveals ancient text inside burnt Herculaneum scroll

ArtNewspaper: Comment | Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’

ArtNet: The Smithsonian Shutters Its Diversity Office Following Trump Executive Order

The Mona Lisa Will Get Her Own Room at the Louvre

Joburg Art Gallery renovation drama paints a murky picture

ArtNet: The Louvre Exhibition ‘Figure of the Fool’

BBC: JMW Turner celebrated with year-long festival

Cape Town & Marrakech Art Ecosystems launch

What exactly is the Stellenbosch Triennale?

Goodman: William Kentridge elected to join Académie des Beaux-Arts

2025 Heat Festival edition will take place August 6-16

The ArtNewspaper:Buyers can name their price at gallery that challenged artists to create hard-to-sell works

ArtDaily: NYC exhibition premieres a full-scale recreation of Anne Frank’s Annex for the first time

ArtNet: Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Women-Led Society in Europe

Daily Maverick: After the Bell: Should we just sell the art in the Johannesburg Art Gallery?

17/12/24 STRAUSSART  REVIEW 2024 | Statement by Frank Kilbourn, Chairperson, Strauss & Co

21/01 ARTNEWSPAPER: Framing Van Gogh: why the artist preferred not to surround his works with gold