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Basel's new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art

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Africa Basel was founded by the artist Benjamin Füglister and the founding director of Photo Basel, Sven Eisenhut-Hug. Odile Tevie is the director of Nubuke Foundation, a Ghanaian non-profit with a mission to support artists and preserve the nation’s contemporary culture. So we’re hoping we can do some sales and recoup that.”

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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

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Art Gallery of Ontario acquires more than 200 Peter Hujar photographs

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© 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Hujar, who is best known for his black-and-white portraits, spent the bulk of his life in New York City and captured, among others, many of the figures in its thriving artistic scene from the 1960s to the 80s. Gelatin silver print, Overall: 50.8 × 40.6

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Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

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Eagle-eyed arty fashionistas spotted two delectable paintings by the underrated 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin hanging alongside the catwalk. LVMH also owns Dior. The Art Newspaper

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With the help of conservators, one of Van Gogh’s finest Arles landscapes will be heading to Japan

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Published on Fridays, stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist, to scholarly pieces based on meticulous investigations and discoveries. It was spotted by one of readers, Yuri Pikul, a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv. The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh has been reissued (Batsford 2021, UK and US ).

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How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

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Once a Silicon Valley software engineer and now an artist with a focus on the digital, Gretchen Andrew creates works that make the invisible impacts of technology visible. The artist is not only criticising contemporary beauty standards, but also AI at large. “AI We’re often told to be different—by society, family or even algorithms.

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Saudi Arabia helps cultural businesses reach global audiences

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Founded in 2021, the Cultural Development Fund seeks to “enrich Saudi Arabia’s cultural landscape”. Saudi Arabia Arts and Crafts Art Business Share Subscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox.

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