Art World ‘Building a Fair Is Like Building a City’: The Man Who Designs TEFAF on the Challenging Future of Art Fairs The Dutch designer and architect also behind the designs of Art Basel in Hong Kong and Miami, says luring collectors to the far corners of a fair is crucial to success. He reveals how to do it. By Kate Brown, Mar 8, 2018
Exhibitions Ai Weiwei Will Make the Refugee Crisis Personal in His Upcoming Qatar Show The Chinese artist's latest installation features hundreds of shoes and clothes abandoned by people fleeing war and persecution. By Kate Brown, Mar 6, 2018
Art World Italy’s Elections Oust Pro-EU Italian Culture Minister and Usher in a Wave of Right-Wing Populism The pro-European culture minister has had his seat nabbed by a member of one of Italy's anti-establishment parties. By Kate Brown, Mar 5, 2018
On View Some of Modigliani’s Most Seductive Portraits Were Once Censored by Police—See Them Here Tate Modern has assembled the largest group of Modigliani nudes ever united in the UK. By Kate Brown, Mar 5, 2018
Art World Istanbul Modern Closes Ahead of Renzo Piano’s Multimillion-Dollar Revamp Turkey's leading contemporary art museum is getting a new home on the city's historic waterfront. By Kate Brown, Mar 1, 2018
Art World Fondazione Prada’s Unfinished Tower Is (Finally) Completed—Get a First Look Here The nine-story tower designed by Rem Koolhaas adds a dizzying variety of exhibition spaces and panoramic views of post-industrial Milan. By Kate Brown, Mar 1, 2018
Art World Did Modigliani Paint Over His Ex-Lover? A Newly Discovered Underpainting Suggests He Might Have X-ray technology has revealed another portrait hidden underneath the Italian artist's famous painting "Portrait of a Girl." By Kate Brown, Feb 28, 2018
Art World Young Painters Are Trying to Kill Me, Says the German Artist Albert Oehlen—But He’s Cool With It As his new paintings and drawings go on view in Los Angeles and Berlin, the artist reflects on his experience as a young artist in Berlin in the '70s. By Kate Brown, Feb 26, 2018
Art World A Long-Hidden Mural by the Pop Art Pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi Is Uncovered in Berlin The demolition of a bank next door reveals the long-hidden work in former West Berlin but will it remain on view? By Kate Brown, Feb 23, 2018
On View Boom! Discover How the Young Jean-Michel Basquiat Used His Art to Explode Onto the ’80s New York Scene Show of the Day: "Basquiat. Boom For Real" on view at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. By Kate Brown, Feb 21, 2018
People ‘Black People Figured Out How to Make Culture in Freefall’: Arthur Jafa on the Creative Power of Melancholy The American artist talks Basquiat, Kanye, Oprah, and the Dana Schutz controversy. By Kate Brown, Feb 21, 2018
Art and Law Investigation of documenta 14’s Shaky Finances Widens to Include Possible Embezzlement of Public Funds Germany's Attorney General confirms that an expanded criminal investigation has begun into the $6 million deficit created by the Kassel and Athens exhibition. By Kate Brown, Feb 15, 2018
Art Fairs Collectors, Re-mark Your Calendars: Independent Brussels Is Moving to the Fall With an unexpected date change, the fair is moving into a different season, with a program seeking break from tradition and become a "festival of engagement." By Kate Brown, Feb 12, 2018
Exhibitions Leonardo da Vinci Hid Invisible Drawings in His Sketches. Now High-Tech Scanners Have Brought Them to Light "Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing," which will appear across the UK in 2019, has some surprises. By Kate Brown, Feb 8, 2018
On View See the Work of 15 Refugee Artists in Paris, Thanks to the New Nonprofit Agency for Artists in Exile The French Culture Minister hosted the opening. By Kate Brown, Feb 8, 2018
