Does today’s gallery system work for artists?
Representation by a leading gallery can make an artist’s career. But do commercial galleries hold too much sway over contemporary art and artists?
Representation by a leading gallery can make an artist’s career. But do commercial galleries hold too much sway over contemporary art and artists?
Art News Daily : 23 June
In six years, the fair has shaken off its early reputation for extravagance, but the works on show are as eclectic and enjoyable as ever
Painting isn't dead, but it has been prematurely buried in Tate Modern's Boiler House
The island's Norman rulers encouraged the use of Islamic, Byzantine, and Romanesque elements in art and architecture as a deliberate display of their power
Why artists' estates were the talk of the fair. Plus collector selfies, the cheapest piece at Basel and medieval books in a contemporary world
This year's edition has a notably political edge, while the Art Basel organisation is working on wider cultural partnerships
The gallery's new director on the Switch House extension, promoting women artists, and finally having the final say over the collection
Admiring a drawing is 'like looking over the artist's shoulder', says Stephen Ongpin
Art News Daily : 14 June
The Holburne Museum is a place of serious pleasure, says director Jennifer Scott, and that's how it stays true to its roots
The old cocktail of countesses and Chippendale won't cut it anymore, so the Met and the Yale Center for British Art are rethinking their displays
The most prestigious portrait painter in 18th-century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects
This loose group of European artists lost out to the American Abstract Expressionists in the 1960s. But are we seeing a revival of interest?
There are some great, focused shows open at the moment, from office-block abstraction to a difficult look at the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It's official – graffiti has become institutional.
Doris Salcedo makes monuments to the victims of political violence – out of chairs, sewing needles, and rose petals.
Edward Barber's photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum
Art News Daily : 2 June
The ambitious portraitist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Frick Collection earlier this year