And what is the same statistic for cultural venues? I suspect its very similar.

2/2 ....A decade of expansion - more fairs, more artists, more global wealth - and no real growth. At the same time, the number of buyers is falling. For smaller galleries, it dropped by as much as 40% last year.

From Magnus Resch's art market newsletter:

"The art market is up 4% this year. That’s the headline. But zoom out, and nothing has changed. The market is still roughly where it was ten years ago.... 1/2

Un verre du vin rouge, svp.

#manet
#ai

Pinturicchio, Annunciation, 1501, Santa Maria Maggiore, Spello.

My first attempt at AI-ing art history #AIart️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ #italy #renaissance

Pinturicchio, Annunciation, 1501, Santa Maria Maggiore, Spello.

My first attempt at AI-ing art history #AIart️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ #italy #renaissance

It's a lonely job, but someone's gotta do it.

"Lost friendships, professional exile, and a wall of institutional silence: deep inside the lonely battle fought by those who dare to stand up to the art world."

plastermagazine.com/features/rub...

Britons don’t deserve to get into museums for free One of the last taboos of the British Museum establishment has been broken. Earlier this week, Culture Minister Lisa Nandy proposed that the Government would “explore” the recommendations of a report…

Britain's great museums simply cannot afford to continue offering free entry to everyone. Let's put the on a sound financial footing, so they don't lurch from one crisis to another. My latest for @unherd

unherd.com/newsroom/bri...

#Artquiz 9. Name the contemporary painters of these two (details of) paintings.

Do you think they are by any chance related?

Happy Easter!

Marcel Broodthaers, Leather Bag with Eggs, 1968

#easter #eastereggs #marcelbroodthaers #conceptualart

Ancient Artifacts Stolen in Dutch Museum Heist Are Recovered

“To get the objects back, prosecutors made an agreement with the people accused of stealing them. The specifics of the agreement were unclear.”

ie they paid a ransom or secured a shorter prison sentence for one of their mates.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

How exactly?

Happy Easter from Belgian ironic-conceptualist artist-poet Marcel Broodthaers.

He knew you couldn’t disrupt the art market and discourses of contemporary art without breaking few eggs

‘Oval of Eggs, 1965 #easter #art #broodthaers

True. The only sensible and inevitable solution is to charge everyone to enter our major museums like every other country in the world does

Writing on the wall: Art UK digitises thousands of murals as street artworks go mainstream From medieval church wall paintings to Liam Gallagher’s viral X post, charity has catalogued more than 6,600 pieces

'The murals are among more than 6,600 that have been identified, photographed and digitised in an ambitious project which launched in January 2024, the charity Art UK said.' 1/2

Britons don’t deserve to get into museums for free One of the last taboos of the British Museum establishment has been broken. Earlier this week, Culture Minister Lisa Nandy proposed that the Government would “explore” the recommendations of a report ...

It’s high time UK museums charged visitors an entry fee just like other museums around the world.

unherd.com/newsroom/bri...

David Davis says Cheshire police made ‘egregious’ failures in Lucy Letby investigation Conservative former cabinet minister says nurse convicted of murdering seven babies has suffered a miscarriage of justice

Free Lucy Letby

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

man in a crate hanging from a crane hook, high above the city, he has a camera to his eye

'R J Salmon dangles in a crate suspended from a crane to take an aerial shot of Fleet Street, London. 1929'

Matisse, 1941-1954 review – hit after glorious hit in a show of life-enhancing genius An epic collection of the artist’s final 13 years of work explodes with the stunning colours and spiky cutouts that redefined art

Terrific review here. The closest we get to Matisse in Brit art history is Hockney

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Also it’s not s community, it’s a branch of govt. Is Congress ‘the political communit’ ffs?

Yes I have been trying to point out to people here in the UK similarities between Letby’s case and yours. It’s awful

A distinguished copy of 'Salvator Mundi' is now on offer — could it also be the truest to Leonardo da Vinci's vision? One of the roughly 20 known versions of 'Salvator Mundi', executed by da Vinci's workshop, is being unveiled at TEFAF Maastricht, on the stand of British dealer Agnews Gallery.

Looks like Mr Safra wishes to sell his version of the #salvatormundi – known as the Ganay. Good luck with that.

RIP Jürgen Habermas, whom I quoted on a poster for a performance art event and happening I organised at university in 1986.

"Those who proclaim the end of art... are impelled by the experience of resignation."

#habermas #frankfurtschool

Can this be a solution?

Have they got him - errr - over a barrel?

Oh don’t crow

Expert witness in Lucy Letby trial did not reveal hospital investigation into his medical work Cheshire police and CPS say they were not told about inquiry into Prof Peter Hindmarsh before he gave evidence at nurse’s trial

Free Lucy Letby

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is not going to please the IP dept at Lego

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)