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Sharjah Architecture Triennial: dates and first participants for 2023

9 May 2023

Dates and an initial slate of participants have been announced for the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT); it will run from 11 November to 10 March 2024. Curator Tosin Oshinowo has previously unveiled its title and theme – The Beauty [… more]

Louvre Abu Dhabi: advance notices

9 May 2023

Louvre Abu Dhabi will be opening five new exhibitions for its upcoming 2023-2024 cultural season, starting this summer with an edutainment for kids about space in art. That’s followed by an interesting-looking exploration of the Holy Books of the three [… more]

Artsy on art galleries: five trends

3 May 2023

The annual Art Industry Trends Report from Artsy covers key issues for commercial art galleries today. For the recently published 2023 report Artsy ran an online survey that garnered responses from 886 gallery professionals and dealers in 85 countries (though [… more]

Where to make a living in the art business

2 May 2023

How much are jobs in the art business worth? Sophie MacPerson Ltd should be able to tell us. As a top name among specialist recruiters in the international art business – offices in London, New York and Los Angeles, 20 [… more]

Why poetry matters

26 April 2023

What would be your reaction if a friend invited you to attend a poetry show for the first time? My first poetry open mic experience came as a second-year university student, an extremely impressionable period in my life. I was [… more]

Fiq! – a high energy floor-filler

19 April 2023

Circus has come a long way from the days of lion tamers, big tops and clowns with scary faces and big shoes. There’s no less entertainment today in ‘circus’ acts, but it tends to come either from embracing the extraordinary [… more]

Are the ultra-contemporaries are taking over?

18 April 2023

Every autumn, Artprice publishes a report on the global Contemporary Art market – specifically, auction sales for artists born after 1945. This year it has a narrowed focus, on what it calls ‘ultra-contemporary’ artists, defined as those under 40. This [… more]

Visitor numbers at the top museums: better, but recovery is a way off

17 April 2023

So how are the world’s top museums doing in the aftermath of Covid and the ongoing pressures of economic slowdowns, rising inflation and wars around the world? The Art Newspaper runs an annual survey of visitor numbers, and the bottom [… more]

Art sales in 2023: continued growth, but a mixed picture overall

12 April 2023

The seventh edition of The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report has just arrived, still credited to Clare McAndrew, doyen of arts market economists, and still providing the most comprehensive macroeconomic analysis of the state of the global [… more]

From Andalusia with love

30 March 2023

Faraj Abyad is an interesting performer. He’s a Syrian-American composer, singer and a multi-instrumentalist, brought up in the States and living in New York City. He specialises in writing and performing music in a distinctive Arabic tradition – albeit one [… more]