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Wolfram Weimer, Germany's federal culture minister, has threatened to reconsider federal funding for Berlin should the Left Party enter the city's government. Once again, arts funding has become a bargaining chip. A commentary

Graz’s Steirischer Herbst festival wants art that dares to take risks. At the opening, artistic director Ekaterina Degot shows what that might look like, presenting works that gleefully blow categories apart

The Fondation Beyeler outside Basel is growing into a full museum complex: Peter Zumthor has created a new building in Jura limestone, a gatehouse, and a glass pavilion—binding art, architecture, and landscape tightly together

In Los Angeles, director George Lucas has opened his museum of illustration and narrative art. The real event, though, is the two-volume catalogue, which conjures entire new worlds

Tate Modern in London is attempting to reposition the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta. But its spiritual, nature-bound reading of her work snags in too many places

The cancellation of disgraced designer John Galliano’s New York exhibition exposes surprising differences between the fashion and art worlds. The two systems just don’t mesh as neatly as some would like

Former chancellor Angela Merkel comes to the opening of an art exhibition at the Bundestag. She talks about her own still-fresh portrait, a painting that matters especially to her—and about democracy

A man in armor, two gentlemen, and a lady: These are the subjects two men are said to have hung on a wall in the Louvre in Paris. The museum responds quickly, calling in the police.

Emanuel Layr is dissolving his Vienna gallery in its current form. Fewer fairs, fewer exhibitions, more time for artists and projects: he talks to Monopol about how he envisions the future of art dealing.

In a blue blazer, she meets your gaze: former chancellor Angela Merkel’s portrait will now stay on view in Berlin through January 2027, thanks to overwhelming demand. Soon, she’ll be signing postcards, too