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Review: On Censorship by Ai Weiwei On Censorship is both a bitter – if, at only 88 pages, far too sketchy – critique of the role of censorship in an authoritarian state

Ai Weiwei’s new book, ‘On Censorship’, is both a bitter – if, at only 88 pages, far too sketchy – critique of the role of censorship in an authoritarian state artreview.com/review-on-ce...

How New Technologies Are Contesting the Museum Model Let’s not see that as a threat, but as an opportunity for new thinking

‘I have always been an advocate for politically active forms of art, but I am no longer sure these oppositional arguments can hold in the emerging era. We need a new view, and new tactics’ artreview.com/how-new-tech...

Winners of 2026 Prix Meret Oppenheim announced Fabrice Gygi, Hilar Stadler and Tilla Theus will each receive CHF 40,000

Artist Fabrice Gygi, curator Hilar Stadler and architect Tilla Theus have been awarded the 2026 Prix Meret Oppenheim artreview.com/winners-of-2...

2026 Venice Biennale pavilions: your go-to list [Updated] Uzbekistan will present a group show titled ‘The Aural Sea’

As nations continue to announce which artists will represent their national pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale, ArtReview is keeping a running tally artreview.com/2026-venice-...

Constructing Paula Fichtl A new exhibition at the Freud Museum in London questions the family’s multiple pasts and the act of paying tribute

A new exhibition at the Freud Museum in London goes in search of Sigmund Freud’s maid artreview.com/who-was-sigm...

‘A Philosophy of Shame’: What’s Wrong With Everyone? We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness

In politics, in displays of wealth, in an encroachment on the rights of women and transpeople, in attitudes towards migrants, we seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness artreview.com/a-philosophy...

‘Mismanagement and corruption’ alleged at Nanjing Museum The report comes after works donated to the institution in eastern Jiangsu province in the 1950s began to appear at auction last year

A government investigation over several months into China’s state-run Nanjing Museum claims systemic mismanagement and alleged corruption artreview.com/mismanagemen...

Review: Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s fourth novel tests the limits of queer joy against unvarnished realism

A lovely review of TERRY DACTYL in @artreview.bsky.social🌺"This is a book about community and intimacy, the importance of both for survival, the avoidable injustices that recur throughout history and the necessity of remaining hopeful, even as the weight of the world pushes down on your shoulders"🌺

Inside Édouard Glissant’s Art Collection While his writings have become ubiquitous in contemporary art theorising, Glissant’s actual involvement with the artworld remains understudied

While Édouard Glissant’s writings have become ubiquitous in contemporary art theorising, his actual involvement with the artworld remains understudied artreview.com/inside-edoua...

Review: Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s fourth novel tests the limits of queer joy against unvarnished realism

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s fourth novel tests the limits of queer joy against unvarnished realism artreview.com/terry-dactyl...

Hepworth Wakefield announces new directors Olivia Colling and Laura Smith have been appointed co-directors

Hepworth Wakefield announces new directors: artreview.com/hepworth-wak...

Notes from New York: Writing into Oblivion What can an American history of leftist zine distribution teach us in the era of ICE, MAGA and AI memes?

What can an American history of leftist zine distribution teach us in the era of ICE, MAGA and AI memes? artreview.com/notes-from-n...

Nav Haq to helm fourth Lahore Biennale The Lahore Biennial has faced its share of tribulations in its short span

Nav Haq will curate the fourth Lahore Biennale. Haq is a curator and writer based in Antwerp. He currently serves as the Associate Director at the embattled M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp artreview.com/nav-haq-to-h...

The Prosthetic and the Posthuman Why the prosthesis is at the centre of explorations around body, technology and identity

Why the prosthesis is at the centre of explorations around body, technology and identity artreview.com/the-prosthet...

2025 Calder Prize winner announced Yuko Mohri will receive $50,000 and one of her signature works will be placed in a public collection

Yuko Mohri has been awarded the 2025 Calder Prize artreview.com/yuko-mohri-w...

New York School of Visual Arts chair resigns due to Epstein ties David Ross has resigned as chair of the SVA's MFA Art Practice program after it was revealed that he featured in the Epstein files

Writer and curator David Ross has resigned from his role as chair of the MFA Art Practice program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) after it was revealed that he featured several times in the latest release of the Epstein files artreview.com/new-york-sch...

Ekow Eshun to curate 13th SITE Santa Fe International The 13th edition is scheduled to open in summer 2027

SITE Santa Fe has tapped the British curator Ekow Eshun to organise the 13th edition of SITE Santa Fe International artreview.com/ekow-eshun-t...

Kontempo appoints artistic director Reuben Keehan has been named artistic director of Kontempo, a forthcoming contemporary art centre in Manila

Reuben Keehan has been named artistic director of Kontempo, a forthcoming contemporary art centre in Manila artreview.com/kontempo-app...

2026 Venice Biennale pavilions: your go-to list [Updated] Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala), Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif and Skarma Sonam Tashi will represent India

The latest announcement: Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala), Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif and Skarma Sonam Tashi will represent India artreview.com/2026-venice-...

[Updated] Artists and museum professionals protest plans to asset-strip Antwerp’s M HKA After protests from museum staff and artists against the prior decision, the government has announced that M HKA will retain its status as a museum

The government of the Flanders region has revoked the plans to close down M HKA in Antwerp and relocate its collection to SMAK in Ghent artreview.com/museum-profe...

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The 2026 ArtReview Future Greats list is out now. This year’s edition of the annual feature meets a moment when artists are working more laterally – more infrastructurally, socially and across media and disciplines.

Explore the list: artreview.com/category/fut...

Nederlands Fotomuseum appoints new director Zippora Elders Tahalele has been appointed general and artistic director of Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam

Zippora Elders Tahalele has been appointed general and artistic director of Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam. The museum’s previous director, Birgit Donker, was fired last July following an investigation over claims of creating a ‘toxic workplace’ artreview.com/nederlands-f...

The Interview: Aidan Zamiri ‘‘The people who intellectualise pop culture, ten years after it was made, often feel like they’re the ones ascribing its meaning’’

Aidan Zamiri: ‘‘The people who intellectualise pop culture, ten years after it was made, often feel like they’re the ones ascribing its meaning’’ artreview.com/the-intervie...

Kennedy Center to shut for two-year renovation, Trump announces A post on Truth Social says the Center will close on 4 July for approximately two years

Kennedy Center to shut for two-year renovation, Trump announces artreview.com/kennedy-cent...

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts to permanently close A statement claims that staff were informed they were no longer employed via an online call this morning

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) is closing permanently due to financial difficulties, Creative Scotland has confirmed artreview.com/glasgow-cent...

Marking the HIV-AIDS Crisis in Italy Vivono (‘they live’) is an at once lyrical and luminous engagement with a history of pain

Vivono (‘they live’) is an at once lyrical and luminous engagement with a history of pain artreview.com/vivono-art-a...

How Do You Visualise The Supernatural? An exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel frames the ghost as a ‘call to attention’ that interrupts temporal continuity

‘What do ghosts have to say to us?’ It’s a simple premise but it risks collapsing a history of spectres, psychological disturbance and cultural superstition into a generalised metaphor for human projection artreview.com/ghosts-visua...

The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2026 Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from London to Delhi artreview.com/the-10-exhib...

US art institutions join national strike and close in protest of ICE The strike follows the death of at least 8 people in ICE custody or killed by federal agents since the start of the year

Many museums and galleries across the United States will be closed today, 30 January, in support of the ‘National Shutdown’, a nationwide strike calling for ‘No work. No School. No Shopping. Stop funding ICE’ artreview.com/us-art-insti...