Department

Spotlight

News, analysis, and artist features through the maker’s eye. When something happens in the world, Spotlight finds the artist who carries it and tells it through them.

Latest

• The World Own history now: a continent telling its own story At one fair in Johannesburg, fifteen African countries made the same argument: the record of a place belongs to the people who live it.
• Art + Finance Five prizes at Cape Town, and two new ones show where the money is moving New prize categories are capital placing a bet before the market does. Two appeared at ICTAF 2026.
• Art + Finance The auction room is no longer discovering prices In 2016, guarantees backed 36% of New York’s Evening Sales. By 2025, it was 78%.
• Money Stories She was planting trees while the world called her dangerous Before the Nobel Prize, there was a woman planting trees alone. Money Stories begins with Wangari Maathai, and the long years before the world caught up.

The series

• Responsive The World column World news told through an art lens. The flagship. It runs when a world event has a specific, strong art lens.
• Monday Global Art Spotlight The Monday anchor. The week through a maker’s eye.
• Tuesday Art + Finance The art market’s economics, carried by an artist who lives it. Home of the paid intelligence tier.
• Wednesday Money Stories Money through the lens of art, portrait-led, with Kathleen Mureithi. An Artist Edition feeds exhibitions.
• Thursday Artist Spotlight Profile an artist. The artist is the subject.
• Saturday Art of Mind The contemplative register, grounded in real artists’ work.
• Sunday Ink Where skin meets story. The body as archive, the mark as testimony, worldwide.
• Series Intersections An artist at the seam of two domains, like art and music.
• Series Nude Fine-art figurative, global not Western. The body as a form of art across world traditions. Attributed works, adults only.

The week

The slots run regardless of the monthly theme. The theme is the connective tissue between them.