The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper
Type	Monthly newspaper
Owner(s)	Umberto Allemandi (1990–2014); Inna Bazhenova (2014–2023); AMTD Idea (2023–present);
Founder(s)	Umberto Allemandi; Anna Somers Cocks;
Editor	Alison Cole (2018-2023)
Founded	1990; 34 years ago
Headquarters	London and New York City
ISSN	0960-6556
OCLC number	301312316
Website	theartnewspaper.com

The Art Newspaper is a monthly print publication, with daily updates online, founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City. 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. Currently, the magazine is without editorial leadership.

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, Il Giornale dell'Arte [it], 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 Russia edition and in Spring 2012 The Art Newspaper Russia was launched.^[1]^[2] In 2014 Bazhenova purchased The Art Newspaper for an undisclosed sum.^[3] With the purchase she became the owner of the International edition, Chinese, Greek and French editions alongside the Russian edition which she already owned.^[4]

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.^[5] In August, Olga Yarutina became publisher of the Russian edition.^[6] This was followed by the launch of The Art Newspaper Türkiye in September 2023.

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^[7] and artist Grayson Perry. The publication won the National Art Collections Fund prize in 1992.

Network

(in chronological order of year of establishment)

Il Giornale dell'Arte [it] (Turin, Italy, founded in 1983)^[6]
The Art Newspaper (London, founded in 1990, based in London and New York City)^[8]
The Art Newspaper Greece (Athens, founded in 1992, formerly called Ta Nea tis Technis 1992–2021)^[9]^[10]
The Art Newspaper France (Paris, founded in 1994, formerly called Le Journal des Arts 1994–2018)^[11]
El Periodico del Arte (Madrid, from 1997 to 2002)
The Art Newspaper Russia (Moscow, founded in 2012)^[12]^[13]
The Art Newspaper China (Shanghai, founded in 2013)^[14]^[15]
The Art Newspaper Israel (Tel Aviv, founded in 2018, first published in 2019)^[16]
The Art Newspaper Türkiye (Istanbul, founded in 2023)^[1]

Editors


Country/Area	Circulation dates	Editor	Start year	End year	Ref.
Italy (Il Giornale dell'Arte [it])	1983–now	Umberto Allemandi	1983	present
International (The Art Newspaper)	1990–now	Anna Somers Cocks	1990	1994	^[17]^[18]^[19]
		Laura Suffield	1994	1996
		Anna Somers Cocks	1996	2004
		Cristina Ruiz	2004	2008
		Jane Morris	2008	2016
		Javier Pes	2016	2017
		Alison Cole	2017	2023
Greece (The Art Newspaper Greece)	1992–now	Alexandra F. Koroxenidis	2021	present
France (The Art Newspaper Edition Française)	1994–2018	Emmanuel Fessy	1994	2001	^[20]^[21]
		Philippe Régnier	2001	2011
		Jean-Christophe Castelain	2011	2018
	2018-now	Alexandre Crochet	2018	present
	2018-now	Stéphane Renault	2018	present
Russia (The Art Newspaper Russia)	2012–now	Milena Orlova (Милена Орлова)	2012	present	^[22]
China (The Art Newspaper 艺术新闻)	2013–now	Ye Ying	2013	present	^[23]