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Winners (and some losers) in the museum business

1 April 2026

Something over 204 million visitors were recorded by the world’s top 100 museums in 2025, according to the latest attendance rankings collated by The Art Newspaper. There are many caveats in this league table – for instance, “museums that did not [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.24 / 26 Mar 2026

26 March 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that and just play | Charlie Parker … Update Four weeks into the war, and now comes the rain and the promise [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.23 / 19 Mar 2026

19 March 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: “In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing / About the dark times” | Bertolt Brecht, Motto … Art sells We have had a happy couple [ … ]

The art market inches back to growth

16 March 2026

In 2025, global art sales hit $59.6 billion – and that’s up by 4 percent year-on-year. The modest increase follows two successive years of decline, though the 2025 total is still well short of the post-Covid 2022 peak of $70.4 billion. So says the tenth annual Art Basel [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.22 / 12 Mar 2026

12 March 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: The good man wins a victory and then stops; he will not go on to acts of violence. Winning, he boasteth not; he will not triumph; he shows no arrogance. He [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.21 / 5 Mar 2026

5 March 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you | Pericles … What’s going on We’re only five days into a war [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.20 / 26 Feb 2026

26 February 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result Brian Eno … Public art direction The appointment of Elvira Dyangani Ose as director of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial looked an [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.19 / 19 Feb 2026

19 February 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Think without words Gwen John … RAK job op The National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah is looking for a Senior Museum Curator – needs a Master’s Degree, understanding of the collection [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.18 / 12 Feb 2026

12 February 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: From such crooked timber as humankind is made of nothing entirely straight can be made Immanuel Kant … No worries Not in the Gulf, anyway. That’s according to a Gallup survey which asked people in [ … ]

A people’s opera

10 February 2026

The UAE may be something of a laboratory for change, a still-young country building nationhood and reputation at speed with all the resources it can deploy without the baggage of a complicated past and a complex set of competing ideologies [ … ]