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  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Safet Zec at Venice Biennale — humanity at its most fragile and battered

    Eighty-year-old Bosnian painter is the star of the pavilion’s multinational show ‘Home Sextant’

    A painting in muted colours shows a barefoot man in ragged clothes walking and cradling an unconscious child; the man has an anguished expression
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Business school
    Art meets commerce at business school

    Institutions are building collections of work by esteemed artists — but can they be integrated into education?

    An abstract mobile sculpture featuring red metal shapes dangles from the ceiling of an architectural space with a concrete texture and large skylight
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Rogues and Scholars — big money, shady deals in London’s postwar art market

    Former Sotheby’s chair James Stourton shares an insider’s glimpse into the murkier corners of a ‘gentlemanly’ world

    A black and white photograph of a grand auction room with an auctioneer in black bow tie and tuxedo standing in front of a large tapestry and a painting on a easel
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024

    As Art Basel Paris takes up residence at the Grand Palais, the FT invites you to discover the best of the fair, featuring key artists, collectors and gallerists

    Bold, cartoon-ish painting of a red haired woman wearing an eye-mask, dancing in a red dress. The dress and her hair appear to be in motion around her to the point that they resemble flames
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    FAB Paris: ‘The beginning of the rebirth’

    Can the revamped grande dame of antiques fairs inspire a new generation of collectors?

    Photograph taken inside a spectacular Italianate villa that is filled with antique furniture and sculptures, with the Mediterranean visible in the background through the floor-to-ceiling windows
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Artists Elmgreen & Dragset: ‘We dress up the white cube in drag’

    On the eve of a major Paris show, the duo talk queerness, minimalism, the uncanny and being featured on ‘The Simpsons’

    To men in an artists studio, one in a blue denim shirt,  seated cross-legged on the floor, one in a pink hoodie, standing up
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Art Basel Paris heads to the Grand Palais

    France’s biggest art fair’s debut in its auspicious new venue dovetails with heavyweight museum shows

    Abstract painting using several blocks of bright, contrasting colours, arranged in wiggly lines
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Collectors Jean-Philippe and Françoise Billarant have maxed out on Minimalism

    Their collection, housed in a private museum north-west of Paris, features work by Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin

    An older couple, one male, one female, both with white hair, sitting on a black leather and chrome  modernist sofa
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Parisian galleries group together in the 8th arrondissement

    L’Association Matignon Saint-Honoré unites mega galleries and Old Masters dealers in a collective soirée

    Facade of a 19th century apartment block in central Paris
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Nil Yalter: ‘They said my work wasn’t art, it was politics. Now everyone appreciates it’

    Born in Cairo, raised in Istanbul and based in Paris for nearly 60 years, Yalter explores notions of exile, displacement and feminism

    An older woman with grey, scraped-back hair sits in a chair in front of a desk and computer screen, examining a golden trophy of a winged lion which she holds up in front of her
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Giant rhubarb tables and Virgil Abloh thrones at Design Miami Paris

    The fair returns to the 18th-century Hôtel de Maisons with a vibrant melting pot of classic and contemporary creations

    Three angular, modernistic sculptures, made in white concrete that looks like marble, against a frieze of huge, black, wall-mounted tiles
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Frieze London ‘more buoyant than expected’ in risk-averse climate

    Eric Clapton’s de Kooning sells for £3.5mn at Christie’s; Hockney fetches £13.2mn at Sotheby’s

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Paul Anthony Smith on finding photos and piercing paintings

    The Jamaican-born artist uses a technique called picotage to makes his work shimmer

    A man standing in front of a large painting of wildflowers, plants and long grass
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Office life
    What is the point of corporate art collections?

    Works exhibited by companies can deepen client relationships and tempt staff to the office

    Britta Farber of Deutsche Bank, in front of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Turning the World Upside Down III’, 1996
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Artist Lawrence Lek is using AI to explore whether robots can suffer

    The winner of the Frieze Artist award 2024 has created a ‘carebot’ with emotional problems

    Man sits on a rug in an unfurnished room, with cardboard boxes and a computer screen on the floor behind him
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Restrictive EU law could benefit London’s Asian art scene

    Art from ancient to new is being sold in galleries, auction houses and Frieze Masters this autumn

    Stylised Japanese painting  of a green, grassy mountain, topped with dark blue forest, with white clouds over the top
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Collector Kiran Nadar on Indian art and building museums

    Her 15,000 artworks range from the Bombay Progressives to Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor

    Smiling lady in a colourful, striped dress in front of art hanging on the wall
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: ‘We felt that anything we saw in art history, we could also do’

    The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station

    Two women in an art studio embrace, both seated behind a partially made wooden frame for a canvas painting
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world’

    His new section at Frieze London brings together Indigenous and diaspora artists, with a focus on clay

    A man seated, wearing tinted glasses, a black polo-neck sweater and a dark navy blue suit
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Frieze Focus places emerging artists centre stage

    The section features helium-propelled penguins and alabaster creatures

    Dozens of small, cartoonish, inflatable penguins are dotted around the floor of an art gallery, all facing in different directions
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Economic and political challenges threaten London’s art market

    The Frieze art fairs return as global sales fall and costs rise, but organisers have plans to increase attractiveness

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Gallerist Maureen Paley: ‘I want to keep things to a more intimate scale’

    The New Yorker has witnessed London’s art market grow from quiet origins into a high-octane scene over the past 40 years

    A woman with dark hair, in sunglasses, leaning against a mantel shelf, wearing a long black frock coat, black trousers, a white top and a red scarf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    My Favourite Pieces: watch dealer Andy Tolley’s flights of fancy

    The Australian has a fascination for pilot watches and what they signify as pieces of history

    An old man wearing a cotton shirt in his home, arms crossed
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    Fresh spaces add cachet for Hong Kong’s auction scene

    Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams are following Phillips into swisher sites, with architect-designed buildings that allow for different sales formats

    Ballet dancers dressed in red tutus perform on a modern stage during an event at Christie’s, with an audience seated in front and photographers capturing the performance
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    Travelling watch forum props up key collector markets

    The Dubai Watch Week Horology Forum’s focus on the art of watchmaking, rather than sales, attracts a wide range of enthusiasts

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