The Art Newspaper

History

The Art Newspaper is published by The Art Newspaper SA and is based on an original concept by the Turin publisher, Umberto Allemandi, who founded the first monthly newspaper, **, in 1983. It covers news of the visual arts as they are affected by international politics and economics, developments in law, tax, the art market, the environment, and official cultural policy. The publication is fed by a network of sister editions, with around fifty correspondents in over thirty countries.

The Art Newspaper produces daily papers during the major art fairs, such as Art Basel and Frieze, and weekly podcasts on topical subjects. It is a campaigning newspaper, which has reported regularly on the trade in illicitly excavated antiquities, on damage to the heritage in warfare, and the maladministration and corruption that prevents Venice being protected from sea level rise, excessive tourism, and the cruise ships.

Inna Bazhenova was granted the publishing license to the newspaper in the Russia edition and in Spring 2012 The Art Newspaper Russia was launched. In 2014 Bazhenova purchased The Art Newspaper for an undisclosed sum. With the purchase she became the owner of the International edition, Chinese, Greek, and French editions alongside the Russian edition which she already owned.

In 2018 the company broke relations with Le Journal des Arts and launched The Art Newspaper France. In November of the same year, The Art Newspaper Israel was founded by M.T. Abraham Group.

The Art Newspaper was bought by the AMTD Group in June 2023 and with this they announced that they planned to move the headquarters to Paris. In August, Olga Yarutina became publisher of the Russian edition. This was followed by the launch of The Art Newspaper Türkiye in September 2023.

Julia Michalska was appointed as global-editor-in-chief in 2025. Benjamin Sutton was appointed editor-in-chief (Americas), Michalska will lead the global editorial team focussing on Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East; whilst Sutton will lead North and South American editorial coverage. Intentions to open offices in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Los Angeles, Miami and Mexico City were also announced. Currently offices operate in London and New York City.

In April 2025 a special edition of the newspaper for Singapore was released in collaboration with Cartier.

Reviewers and commentators for the paper include: former Tate director Nicholas Serota, Performa founder-director Roselee Goldberg; former Pompidou Centre director Jean-Hubert Martin; archaeologist Colin Renfrew; Venice Biennale curator Robert Storr, writer Anthony Haden-Guest, and artist Grayson Perry. The publication won the National Art Collections Fund prize in 1992.

Network

(in chronological order of year of establishment)

• ** (Turin, Italy, founded in 1983)
• The Art Newspaper (London and New York City, founded in 1990, from 2025 as UK edition or US edition)
• The Art Newspaper Greece (Athens, from 1992 to 2022, formerly called Ta Nea tis Technis 1992–2021)
• The Art Newspaper France (Paris, founded in 1994, formerly called Le Journal des Arts 1994–2018)
• El Periodico del Arte (Madrid, from 1997 to 2002)
• The Art Newspaper Russia (Moscow, founded in 2012; since 2023 the Russian edition is not affiliated with The Art Newspaper; however, remains in publication)
• The Art Newspaper China (Shanghai, founded in 2013 - ?).
  • The Art Newspaper's parent company, The Generation Essentials, intends to open offices in China, Hong Kong, and other locations as part of a global editorial expansion strategy announced in 2025.
• The Art Newspaper Israel (Tel Aviv, from 2018 to 2023, first published in 2019)
• The Art Newspaper Türkiye (Istanbul, founded in 2023)

Editors

References

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