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This Week: Gucci and Shein Face Pricing Dilemmas

Kering reports results as its struggling brands weigh whether to raise prices to compensate for tariffs. Meanwhile, Shein and Temu plan to hike on Friday. [...]

Luxury’s New Pecking Order

This week, Dior tapped Jonathan Anderson to lead men’s fashion, Hermès briefly topped LVMH in terms of market share, and the ultra-wealthy solidified their status as the industry’s most effective [...]

The BoF Podcast | Tory Burch and Pierre-Yves Roussel on Building a Global Brand with Local Relevance

The designer Tory Burch and CEO Pierre-Yves Roussel join BoF founder and CEO Imran Amed at BoF CROSSROADS 2025 to explore how brands can stay authentic while navigating global challenges, [...]

Valentino Sales Slipped by 2% in 2024

Operating profit fell 22 percent as the group invested in overhauling its collections and image under new creative director Alessandro Michele. [...]

Worldview | Panic Grips Asia’s Factories Despite US Tariff Pause

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features the impact of Trump’s tariffs on Middle East manufacturers, Chinese duty-free stocks and Sao Paulo Fashion Week. [...]

David Geffen files countersuit against Justin Sun as collectors' fight over $78m Giacometti escalates

Geffen's countersuit comes two months after Sun, the crypto investor and buyer of Cattelan's Comedian, sued claiming ownership of the sculpture Le Nez [...]

Democratic lawmakers urge J.D. Vance to save the Smithsonian from Trump

Four members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the US Vice-President to articular their "great concern over [the Smithsonian's] future" [...]

Regional strength helps insulate Art Dubai from tariff-related turbulence

Lower price points and Dubai's enduring status as a tax haven buoyed sales [...]

Canadian art museum gets $36m funding boost for expansion from provincial government

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project [...]

Basquiat's family portrait painting could bring $30m at Christie's auction

The painting "Baby Boom" was featured in one of the artist's first solo exhibitions at Fun Gallery [...]

Van Gogh’s love of Hiroshige, the Japanese master of the landscape, will be reflected in a British Museum exhibition

Vincent’s own copy of print which inspired one of his paintings is to be shown in London [...]

New book explores the complex history of Jewish country houses

A large-scale study of the stories behind these buildings, their architecture and collections [...]

An inside track on the Huntington’s rapid social media growth

The California institution is one of the top five museums for social media growth in the world in the past year. We spoke to the museum's director of digital and [...]

Tune in and zone out: new project shares the sounds of Unesco World Heritage Sites

Released to mark World Heritage Day, soundscapes include the “cacophony” of the Sistine Chapel and the “reverberating” Taj Mahal [...]

Holy smoke! London’s National Gallery used to allow visitors to spark up just metres from the art

The museum's former smoking room recently became part of the Roden Centre for Creative Learning [...]

Los Angeles wildfire memorial project seeks to save chimneys from famous architects’ houses

Chimneys from Pacific Palisades homes designed by Richard Neutra, Eric Lloyd Wright and others—in many cases the homes’ only remaining elements—would be turned into a memorial for wildfire victims [...]

teamLab in Abu Dhabi, Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, Vermeer’s final painting?—podcast

The lowdown on the Japanese collective teamLab’s new immersive art space, plus two artists discuss their London show exploring languages and stigma in Deaf and hearing cultures, and a chat [...]

Getty Museum acquires painting by Spanish Renaissance master Luis de Morales following extensive conservation

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo [...]

How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937 [...]

Prestigious prize for women artists celebrates 20 years with Florence show

The nine past winners of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women—Andrea Buttner and Laure Prouvost among them—are all presenting work at the Palazzo Strozzi [...]

Qatari sheikh wins case against Phoenix Ancient Art over allegedly forged antiquity

The New York- and Geneva-based gallery says it will appeal the ruling in the case brought by Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah al-Thani [...]

Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf wins World Press Photo with image of young Gazan amputee

The subject of the photograph taken for “The New York Times” is nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a year ago [...]

SXSW London's exhibitions line-up puts emphasis on art and technology and artists from London’s Caribbean diaspora

Andy Warhol, Alvaro Barrington, Tavares Strachan, Beeple, Alberta Whittle, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst among featured visual artists in June shows in Shoreditch, east London [...]

Monet riverscape could splash down for more than $30m during New York auctions

The painting headed to Christie's, "Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule", was on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for more than 30 years [...]

Faith Ringgold’s estate is now represented by Jack Shainman Gallery

The gallery will stage an exhibition of the late artist’s work in November [...]

‘We’re looking at the climate crisis because it’s here and now and affecting us daily’: inside Art Jameel’s push for sustainability and industry-wide change

The independent organisation is centring climate-conscious decisions across its operations and conducting research to advocate for looser conservation standards [...]

Retail therapy: Louvre takes reproductions to French shopping centres

Shoppers will get the chance to see a version of the Mona Lisa while rifling through the racks [...]

Marharyta Polovinko, 31-year-old Ukrainian artist, killed on frontline

Her battalion described her as "smart, hardworking, motivated" and a "true warrior" [...]

Catholic artists celebrate Antoni Gaudí’s place on the path to sainthood

Known as “God’s architect”, Gaudí was earlier this week declared “venerable” by the Vatican [...]

The Big Review | Paris Noir at the Centre Pompidou ★★★★

This carefully paced show—one of the last before the Centre Pompidou’s five-year closure—marks a turning point in French exhibitions addressing the country’s colonial past [...]

New app for antiques dealers hopes to make streamlining inventory ‘less daunting’

Online software platform Ronati Studio, which is aimed primarily at vendors of antiques and collectable artefacts, manages inventory from acquisition to resale [...]

A brush with… Kent Monkman — podcast

Kent Monkman talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work [...]

Architect Lina Ghotmeh to design Qatar Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Lebanon-born Ghotmeh—whose other projects include a forthcoming redesign of the Western Range galleries at the British Museum—is known for her work addressing themes such as history and nature [...]

Collector’s eye: the art Reem al Roubi has bought and why

The Dubai-based Sudanese patron of major museums explains how she has expanded her collecting horizons from African to Middle Eastern art [...]

What’s on: Our pick of some of the best exhibitions to see during Art Dubai

Contemporary and performance art, plus a sprawling survey of sub-Saharan art are all on offer during the fair [...]

New book tells the story of a century of Middle Eastern art

Arab art expert Saeb Eigner explores the work of more than 250 Modern and contemporary artists spanning diverse art movements across 22 countries in the Middle East [...]

In pictures: Art Dubai’s Bawwaba section

Mirjam Varadinis of the Kunsthaus Zurich, who curated Bawwaba, chooses ten works in the section, from painting to neon sculpture to mosaics [...]

Imran Qureshi’s site-specific work in Dubai reimagines traditional forms from his native Pakistan

The artist, who teaches miniature painting in Lahore, is showing his new work at Concrete gallery during Art Dubai [...]

UAE launches fund to help local artists participate in global art fairs

The new scheme, managed by Art Dubai, will provide up to half the stand costs for galleries to exhibit at major fairs [...]

teamlab’s vast new interactive art museum opens in Abu Dhabi

TeamLab Phenomena is the first of several major museum openings due this year in the UAE capital, including the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi [...]

Art Dubai is cementing its position as the region’s key art market

As the UAE’s art scene continues to grow, Art Dubai is looking to expand too, including expanding its Downtown Design event to Saudi Arabia next month [...]

Comment | A buoyant art scene—and an exciting new generation of artists—mean this could be ‘the African century’

Long overlooked or stereotyped, African contemporary art is finally receiving global attention, writes Wim Pijbes, former director of the Rijksmuseum [...]

Artists including Theaster Gates, Miranda July and Martine Gutierrez receive Guggenheim Fellowships

Around 50 artists working across disciplines including photography, video, sculpture, painting and installation received the coveted fellowships [...]

Podcast | Art Dubai 2025: is the city emerging as a global hub for digital art?

As Art Dubai 2025 kicks off this week, Aimee Dawson speaks with experts in the digital art world to find out if the emirate’s art scene is as futuristic-looking as [...]

‘It’s all about tenderness’: Gazan artist known for her portraits reportedly killed by Israeli airstrike

Dina Khaled Zaurub was beloved for her charcoal and graphite drawings of Palestinians who have died as a result of attacks by the Israel Defense Forces [...]

Banksy treads the boards: new play explores fallout following Port Talbot garage mural

Dealer who bought “Season’s Greetings”, which first appeared in south Wales in December 2018, says local council rejected plans for urban art museum [...]

Alleging pre-emptive censorship, artist ‘hijacks’ website of Norwegian gallery showing his work

The Icelandic artist Odee is embroiled in a legal dispute with a fishing company for drawing attention to a high-profile corruption scandal in his previous work [...]

This art historian is on a quest to ensure the story of Arab art is not lost

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts [...]

Is the art market coming to the end of the age of eternal growth?

Further weak auction results, plus economic turmoil, raise fears the trade may have passed its peak [...]

Miami dealer charged for hawking fake Warhols

Leslie Roberts, whose Miami Fine Art Gallery was recently raided by the FBI, faces up to 30 years in prison for wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering [...]

How AI models are helping to reveal South America's archaeological sites

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in refining the outcomes [...]

Dealer Daniella Luxembourg to sell $30m of art from personal collection at auction

The sale at Sotheby's New York next month includes works by Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg [...]

Lismore Castle’s art gallery celebrates 20th anniversary with an exhibition dedicated to the kunstkammer

Artists draw inspiration from elements of the castle including its cultivated gardens, among the oldest in Ireland [...]

British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer [...]

Howay man, that was one hell of a night! Antony Gormley's Angel of the North celebrates Newcastle United's victory

The Gateshead sculpture was dressed up in a Newcastle United football shirt for the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, drawing fans to the site when the team won 2-1 against [...]

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