The Paris-based artist and film-maker Iván Argote’s new mobile sculpture, DIGNIDAD, launches in Chicago on 12 June. The artist is perhaps best known for Dinosaur (2024), an enormous, hyper-realistic pigeon sculpture he created for the High Line in New York. buff.ly/iFO8IHK

From help with websites and video editing to free accommodation and haircuts, artists are trading their work on Instagram and TikTok to escape the traps of capitalism buff.ly/v6gtIKx

Art world tributes have been paid to the Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, who died 14 May, three days before her 86th birthday. Her death was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac, who represents her. Born in 1940, EXPORT developed a radical artistic language that centred the female body. buff.ly/NQRLA7R

“I want to break with the cycles of announcing a year’s programme, working with three-month shows and giving artists a symbolic fee of €10,000 when you know they’re working their asses off practically full-time,” says Krist Gruijthuijsen, director of Espoo Museum of Modern Art. buff.ly/LwxhESu

Lacquer paintings by the Chinese-German artist, whose foundation launches a curatorial residency in Shanghai this year, go on display at a collateral biennale event in a 15th century palazzo buff.ly/EUolbZP

The merger, to be completed in 2028, will bring the Ronald Lauder-founded Neue Galerie’s exceptional holdings of German and Austrian Modern art into the Met’s encyclopaedic collection buff.ly/1Ll14yr

Ben Sutton and Kabir Jhala discuss this year's Frieze New York. Ben Luke speaks to Martin Bailey about a Cranach painting discovered to have once hung in Hitler's home, and hears from Charlotte Keenan of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on a photography series by Ajamu X. buff.ly/JOGRygn

The Art Newspaper is on the ground at Frieze New York, open through 17 May at The Shed. For news and analysis live from the Frieze New York fair, as well as stories from around the city this week, click on the link below. buff.ly/Hnhmdiy

The fair’s dedication to art from the 20th century as much as the 21st sets it apart from its May competitors buff.ly/oKYPhd0

London’s Wellcome Collection is to restitute 2,000 manuscripts that had been acquired in 1919 at “a low price” from a Jain temple in what is now Pakistan. buff.ly/QYZm68G

The Art Newspaper is on the ground at Frieze New York this week. In this clip, listen to Carlie Porterfield, Senior Art Market editor, Americas, introduce this year's fair. For coverage of Frieze and other fairs and events during New York Art Week, tap the link below. buff.ly/Hnhmdiy

Despite mounting costs and political pressures, exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere are bringing their artists’ work to the city—with the fair committed to representing the region buff.ly/dEx8jCx

The French parliamentary commission raises alarms over the “worrying condition” of their collections and proposes 40 recommendations amid rising threats to museums buff.ly/vccP7DK

Iranian museum's director speaks out about new, responsive programming and the team's ongoing struggle to protect its $3bn collection. buff.ly/PSXrdyc

White Cube now represents Cai Guo-Qiang, making the British powerhouse the first gallery to represent the artist. The Chinese-born, New York-based painter is widely recognised for his gunpowder paintings. buff.ly/wwLCJ4K

The 90-year-old artist, who has lived and worked in New York since the 1960s, has been largely overlooked in the US buff.ly/xMuJRt6

As New York’s spring art fairs approached, disruptions tied to the war in Iran continued to strain global logistics, though most galleries showing in the city this month said shipments were arriving on time and their plans remained largely unchanged. buff.ly/7b3QIOi

Construction next door to the Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan could damage its historic secret hiding place. buff.ly/7TzSrOu

The Japanese artist and poet Gozo Yoshimasu, 87, has been awarded the inaugural £200,000 Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize, the largest contemporary art prize in the UK. buff.ly/qvjl6sB

Featuring nearly 400 objects ranging from gowns to ancient Greek armour and vases, “Costume Art” argues the dressed body is the only form of artistic expression that connects each of the museum’s collecting areas buff.ly/XeGw22Q

A blue plaque has been unveiled on the London home of Julia Margaret Cameron, celebrating the pioneering photographer who took up a camera at the age of 48. She went on to create iconic portraits of famous contemporaries including Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin and Thomas Carlyle. buff.ly/xud7eOG

An exhibition of Navajo (Diné) weavings from the collection of Frank Stella opens on 15 May at Peter Pap Rugs at Arader Galleries in New York City, marking the first time the collection has been shown publicly. buff.ly/pX1GV7q

Rivals to the dominant art market hubs of New York, London and Hong Kong are gaining ground. According to the latest Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, the “other” regions outside of the US, UK and China have grown their share from 17% of business in 2015 to 24% in 2025. buff.ly/ywQU0AN

Now owned by London’s National Gallery, “Cupid complaining to Venus” once hung in the Führer’s private living room and was later smuggled to the US by an American journalist—but how exactly it ended up in Munich remains a mystery. buff.ly/7QQnn4d

Staged a year after the death of its curator, Koyo Kouoh, the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition unfolds as a sometimes-cacophonous procession guided by sentinels and hybrid beings in a rich but uneven show. buff.ly/x8abia3

More than 70 artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale say they do not want to be considered for the prestigious Golden Lion awards, which this year will be chosen by public vote. buff.ly/9AwA73i

In a National Capital Planning Commission meeting, one public commenter compared the project to the ending of ‘Death Becomes Her’. buff.ly/GJbH2mP

The South Korean artist, whose work is on show in Venice's Piazza San Marco during the Biennale, describes how his work combines the natural and industrial, and why he taught himself to draw breath—literally. buff.ly/hJqWRuy

The Art Newspaper is on the ground at the Venice Biennale this week. Head to our website for coverage of In Minor Keys across the Giardini and the Arsenale, and much more. buff.ly/n5tdaiG

After the absence of its national pavilion in 2024, New Zealand makes its return to Venice with a major solo presentation by Fiona Pardington, one of the country’s most lauded photographers. buff.ly/55F3FLR

It’s Venice Biennale opening week and so, as ever, this The Week in Art episode is our Venice special. buff.ly/FV0m0ru

Andrew Cranston’s paintings capture the thrillingly diverse effects, modes and moods of the medium—from poetry and longing to absurdity and joy. Check out the latest A brush with… to hear him discuss the pleasure and liberation he finds in painting. buff.ly/G5VC43n

The artist, who was born in Zanzibar, describes Britain as having "all the hallmarks of safety and calm, but has an underlying loathing of the Other" buff.ly/0t691RA

At a conference on 6 May, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said that calls to ban countries from the Biennale would go against its mission to be "the place where the world comes together". www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/07/e...

Lavar Munroe is showing work alongside that of his mentor, the late John Beadle, celebrating the islands' community and carnival traditions buff.ly/Cs8RkoI

The artist’s B-movie inspired project at Ateneo Veneto reimagines the story of Len Karamoy, an overlooked member of the resistance movement Permesta buff.ly/ADNIwxc

From splashing sewage to moments of zen, tap the link below for our selection of the top national presentations in the Giardini, Arsenale and across town buff.ly/WQ7F627

The self-styled “grandmother of performance art” is the first female living artist to exhibit at the Gallerie dell’Accademia—and she wants everyone to join in. buff.ly/SXwCkms

More than 200 people attended a protest outside the Israeli pavilion, while the activists groups Pussy Riot and FEMEN led a demonstration at Russia’s. buff.ly/2QiRu5j

Amy Sherald, Tschabalala Self and Jordan Roth turned heads at the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. buff.ly/6rfgmTA

The Art Newspaper is on the ground at the Venice Biennale this week. For coverage of In Minor Keys across the Giardini and the Arsenale, and much more head to buff.ly/n5tdaiG.

Ei Arakawa-Nash's exhibition explores the nature of caregiving, inspired by becoming a parent to twins. More than 100 baby dolls will populate the pavilion, inviting visitors to adopt and carry them through the space. buff.ly/8SSJ8J5

Derrick Adams’ piece features “beams of gold signifying the brilliance and reach” of the curator’s influence. buff.ly/7HNVe6b

Our guide to the themes and strands of this year's international exhibition, and some of the key artists on display buff.ly/wg65K6w

Legal proceedings—begun by the museum to demand more public funding for a renovation—have now been postponed. buff.ly/rs2L02K

This year’s Austrian pavilion echoes the science-fiction film “Waterworld”, with a side order of body horror. buff.ly/vWSfgj6

This year, an unprecedented number of dealers, auction houses and private foundations are openly pricing and selling works to the crowds of collectors descending on Venice this week, some perhaps spurred on by Italy’s year-old 5% VAT rate on art imports—now Europe’s lowest. buff.ly/G8pNdEj

If you're in Venice next week, head over to the Metropole Hotel for Facing the Future: Reimagining Museums for the 21st Century, a briefing on three museums' plans moderated by Ben Luke, followed by a cocktail reception. May 7 / 5:30 PM / Metropole Hotel Venice RSVP: [email protected]

Ben Luke takes a tour of the Zurbarán survey at the National Gallery in London, speaks to the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art ahead of this year's Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, and learns about a Walter Sickert painting on view at Charleston in Sussex. buff.ly/5Jn3oss

When the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally opens in Los Angeles on 22 September, visitors will be treated to a suite of 18 thematic exhibitions curated by George Lucas, the Star Wars film-maker who founded the museum with his wife Mellody Hobson. buff.ly/cri5Fs9