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The Whitney Museum of American Art will open “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” on October 11, 2026, after delaying the exhibition originally planned for 2023 as part of centennial celebrations that...
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On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul held a ceremony returning two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China, following an agreement reached in early January. Attendees included Kansong Art...
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Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner David L. Johnson, 66, of Greenwich pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal money laundering charge tied to an alleged $2.1 million scheme, according to...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic editor’s note by Hakim Bishara highlights recent coverage, including Erin L. Thompson’s investigation into a convicted antiquities dealer whose objects are held by dozens of US...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reports that Italy has returned 27 archaeological objects to Mexico after multiple investigations found they had been illegally imported, unlawfully sold, or held without...
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ARTnews reports that two former managers of Shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd. were sentenced to 14 years and six months and 12 years in prison for orchestrating auction fraud that led a collector to...
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ARTnews reports that on July 14, U.S. Representatives Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced the PRESERVE Act—short for “Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of...
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ARTnews reviews “In the Very Bowels of Change: Surrealism and Antifascism,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw that traces Surrealism’s political engagement and resistance to...
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Two Democratic members of the Congressional Arts Caucus, Dina Titus (Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (Texas), introduced the Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual...
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.’s office announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one that had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum...
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A lawsuit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court alleges that Pierre Soulages’s 1958 painting Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958 was stolen from the Zeckendorf family decades ago and was...
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ARTnews “Morning Links” for July 16, 2026 highlighted a Financial Times profile of Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos, focusing on how New York City’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit has recovered...
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Christie’s and Sotheby’s reported sharply higher global sales in the first half of 2026, driven by high-value art and strong luxury categories. Christie’s posted $4.5bn in H1 revenue, with public...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after the work was linked to Phoenix Ancient...
Hyperallergic
SMAC Gallery in Cape Town faces allegations from South African artist Kate Gottgens that it delayed payments and withheld artworks after she ended a nearly 13-year relationship with the gallery late...
Artnet News
Sotheby’s reported a record $4.4 billion in first-half 2026 sales (January–June), up 58% from the same period in 2025, according to Artnet News on July 14, 2026. Auction sales rose 59% to $3.4...
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A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as “Gus” sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday, becoming the most expensive dinosaur ever auctioned, ARTnews reported. The 67-million-year-old specimen...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
Artnet News
A July 13, 2026 Artnet News “Paint Drippings” roundup reported that New York investigators returned about $600,000 worth of looted art. The item also previewed upcoming fairs including Artissima’s...
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An Artnet News mid-year review published July 11, 2026, compared January–June fine-art auction results at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips using the Artnet Price Database. Phillips reported on...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is exhibiting 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to Colombia between 2022 and 2026 during President Gustavo Petro’s outgoing administration, in a show...
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South African artist Kate Gottgens accused Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to pay her for sold works and of not returning artworks that remained in the gallery’s possession, according to statements...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after it was seized by the Manhattan District...
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The United States returned two 8th-century bronze Buddha sculptures to Indonesia at a ceremony on July 8 at the Indonesian Consulate in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that 59 looted antiquities from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia have been returned to their countries of origin, including 45 objects seized...
Hyperallergic
Chicago photographer Barbara Karant filed a federal lawsuit in Illinois on May 26 accusing artist Mickalene Thomas of copyright infringement, alleging Thomas “appropriated more than a dozen” of her...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ukraine’s military has published a handbook on the “protection of cultural values in the event of armed conflict,” posted on June 23 on the website of the Na Zviazku military organization. Developed...
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Yemen’s General Authority for Antiquities and Museums said it identified 28 allegedly looted Yemeni artifacts in overseas collections, including eight recently offered at London auctions and about 20...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Italy has opened an exhibition at Rome’s National Etruscan Museum featuring 37 4th-century BC fresco panels from the François Tomb (Tomba François), discovered in 1857 at Vulci in present-day Lazio...
Artnet News
London’s Classics Week Old Masters evening sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s totaled £76.7 million ($101.6 million), a 9.4% increase over the same auctions last year, according to Artnet News....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Documents released by the US Department of Justice in January as part of the “Epstein files” indicate that investor Leon Black owned major Vincent van Gogh works, including the painting Quarry near...
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Tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry’s exhibition at the British Museum sold out in just over 24 hours, with the museum calling it the biggest day of ticket sales in its history, according to the...
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Phillips has sold $1.9 million worth of art and other items from disgraced art adviser Lisa Schiff’s holdings, totaling 231 pieces so far, with additional sales planned. Bankruptcy trustees retained...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Christie’s and Sotheby’s held their London summer “part one” Old Master painting auctions on Tuesday and Wednesday, underscoring the market dominance of the two major international houses. Christie’s...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg removed dozens of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total taken from the museum since 2017 to more than...
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In Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, Morrisseau expert John Zemanovich testified on Monday that the children of late Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau were active participants in a forgery...
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Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale in London, a 40-lot auction held Tuesday, totaled £38.9 million ($51.4 million), exceeding its pre-sale high estimate of about £37.5 million (estimates cited as...
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Klaus Kallmann, a 98-year-old heir of German Jewish collector Felix Kallmann (1853–1938), is seeking the return of Vincent van Gogh’s Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889) from the Musée...
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Thomas Doyle pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to one count of wire fraud in a scheme involving Gustave Courbet’s Mother and Child on a Hammock (circa 1848), a painting that ultimately...
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Sotheby’s announced it will auction more than 900 works from an unnamed collector in a series of sales beginning in October, with a total estimate exceeding $60 million. Branded “Magnum Opus,” the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Sotheby’s London auction of works from billionaire financier and former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis’s collection achieved £249.3m (£296.3m with fees), setting a UK record for the most valuable...
Artnet News
On Wednesday evening in London, Sotheby’s sold British billionaire Joe Lewis’s collection for £296.3 million ($392.6 million), setting a new European record for a single-owner sale and nearly...
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Australian artist Jane Allan of Lennox Head has been accused of copying works by Nicholas Harding and Jean-Michel Basquiat in paintings that received recognition in Australia. Brisbane dealer Philip...
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R.M.S. Titanic, the company holding exclusive sales rights to artifacts recovered from the Titanic wreck, is seeking approval to auction 100 objects salvaged in 1987, according to newly unsealed...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that Representative Jerrold (Jerry) Nadler’s impending retirement from Congress could weaken efforts to establish resale royalties for visual artists in the United States....
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During a June 15 police raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb, authorities recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting while also seizing about 40 pounds of cannabis resin, several thousand euros...
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Artnet News’s weekly art-industry roundup, published June 22, 2026, reported that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, with groundbreaking targeted for...
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ARTnews reported that Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month in London, has already sold a record 41,000 advance tickets, surpassing the museum’s previous high of...
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Artnet News reported that French police recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting during a drug-trafficking raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 15. The...
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Artnet News published “What Sold at Art Basel” on 22 June 2026 as part of its Price Database coverage of the fair. The provided excerpt contains navigation and site links but does not include any of...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ten years after the UK voted to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016, The Art Newspaper reports that Brexit’s effects on the British art market have been shaped by additional shocks including the...
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Artnet reports that dealers described Art Basel 2026 as commercially healthy, though with a slower pace and fewer collectors than before the market downturn. Major sales cited include Hauser & Wirth...
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A life-size bronze cast of the classical group “Laocoön and his Sons,” one of only four known full-size period bronzes, is set to be auctioned in London as a prelude to Sotheby’s Old Masters evening...
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Brooklyn-based artist and designer Gavin Snider accused TikTok-famous artist Devon Rodriguez of copying two paintings depicting New York Knicks fans and Madison Square Garden, alleging the...
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Mexico’s government urged Sotheby’s New York to withdraw two pre-Columbian objects from its Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas sale scheduled for 18 June, saying analyses by the National...
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Artnet News reports that Art Basel’s invite-only opening on Tuesday featured cautious, “measured and steady” buying as dealers and collectors looked for signs of market recovery among 290 exhibitors....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Christie’s held its first South Asian art auction in London since 2019 on 11 June, achieving a white-glove, 93-lot single-owner sale totaling £18.9m with fees, far above its £2.9m–£4.3m pre-sale...
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Christie’s first London sale of South Asian modern and contemporary art in seven years totaled £18.9 million ($23.9 million), with all 93 lots from a single private collection selling above presale...
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A painting bought for under $100 at a White Plains thrift store about 60 years ago by Helene Plotkin was identified with help from Google’s Gemini chatbot as a work by Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell...
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A painting later identified as a work by Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell sold for £189,200 ($254,000) at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh after being bought for less than $100 at a White Plains, New...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated two Khmer sandstone sculptures to Cambodia: an Angkor-period guardian deity (rākṣasa) dating to c. 921–945 and a mid-7th-century lintel carved with an...
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An Artnet News report traces how looted Cambodian antiquities from the 10th-century Koh Ker temple complex entered the international art market, arguing that ongoing demand sustains the trade. It...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for June 9, 2026 reports that Paris-founded Templon Gallery has closed its 6,500-square-foot Chelsea space, opened in 2022, after its landlord sought a major rent increase...
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In an Artnet News piece published June 7, 2026, the outlet surveys five dinosaur-themed artworks from the Artnet Gallery Network, linking contemporary art to long-running public fascination with...
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Artnet News columnist Margaret Carrigan reports on the opening of the sixth edition of London Gallery Weekend, which launched with a panel at Frieze’s No. 9 Cork Street space and includes more than...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A fountain by German sculptor Georg Kolbe, the Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (Dancer’s Fountain), sold for a record €4 million (with fees) at Villa Grisebach in Berlin on 4 June, breaking the artist’s previous...
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Patricia J. Leahy, a South Carolina–based claimant to the Lieser family estate, filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court seeking restitution of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Margarethe...
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Sotheby’s attempted a highly secretive private auction on June 2 at its Manhattan Breuer Building for Jackson Pollock’s Number 19, 1951, owned by Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher, with an asking...
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Mexico’s Ministry of Culture called for the suspension of an Artemis Fine Arts auction in Louisville, Colorado, scheduled for today, that includes 80 artifacts of Mexican origin. The items were...
Hyperallergic
Prediction-market platform Kalshi has launched an art-focused category allowing users to wager on auction outcomes, including whether Andy Warhol will break his auction record this year and whether...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
New York’s May marquee auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s signaled renewed strength at the blue-chip end of the art market after a couple of slow years, fueled by major estate consignments and...
Artnet News
Kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc has died at age 97, as part of a wider Artnet News roundup that also highlights major appointments and upcoming fairs. The roundup reports that Art Basel Paris will...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic commentary by gallerist Marc J. Straus argues that record auction headlines—such as Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A selling for $181.2 million and a Brâncuși work selling for $107.6...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic analysis of spring marquee auctions argues that headline results—such as a Jackson Pollock selling for $181.2 million and a Constantin Brancusi for $107.6 million at Christie’s—mask...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic highlights Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which details how British dealer Douglas Latchford trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large scale...
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Tiwani Contemporary, founded in London in 2011 by Maria Varnava, has permanently closed its London gallery and paused operations at its Lagos outpost ahead of a restructuring, citing “financial...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which traces how British dealer Douglas Latchford allegedly trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large...
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French filmmaker Romain Gavras is set to direct a movie based on the $102 million Louvre heist, adapting the book Main Basse sur le Louvre (A Grab at the Louvre), released in France on Wednesday by...
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A Paul Cézanne watercolor, La Montagne Sainte Victoire (ca. 1888), shown in a recent Cézanne exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner due to Nazi-era...
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Kalshi, a “prediction market” platform that frames its offerings as regulated derivatives trading, launched a new category allowing users to bet on art-auction outcomes, including the prices of...
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The Trump administration installed 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., including an equestrian monument to Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Caesar Rodney that had been...
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Collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz will sell £15 million ($20.1 million) worth of art at Christie’s next month through an in-person London auction on 25 June and an online sale, totaling 106...
Hyperallergic
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York gallerist James Danziger for selling AI-colorized editions derived from Ansel Adams’s iconic photograph “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”...
Hyperallergic
A statue of Caesar Rodney—an enslaver who signed the Declaration of Independence and enslaved at least 200 people—was installed at Washington, DC’s Freedom Plaza on Friday, May 22, as part of a group...
Artnet News
Artnet News’s “Art Market Minute,” hosted by Margaret Carrigan with Sonia Manalili, reviews New York’s marquee spring auction week, which totaled about $2.5 billion. The episode reports that major...
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Two long-missing 17th-century oval altarpiece paintings by Baroque artist Lucas Valdés have been recovered and returned to the Hospital of the Venerable Priests church in Seville after being missing...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara reflects on skipping New York art fairs and auctions, including a record-breaking $181 million Jackson Pollock sale at Christie’s, and questions whether...
Artnet News
During New York’s May auction week, the “Big Three” houses sold around $2.1 billion across their evening sales, more than double the just-over $1 billion achieved in the comparable sales last May....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A podcast episode from The Art Newspaper reviews New York’s recent auctions, noting record-setting prices for works by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, and Mark Rothko alongside more mixed...
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Luxury Asset Capital (LAC) has sued Maddox Gallery in a civil complaint filed in August in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the gallery inflated valuations of...
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Christie’s held a 16-lot evening sale in May of works from the collection of media magnate S. I. Newhouse, totaling $630.8 million with fees and pushing cumulative Newhouse sales at Christie’s to...
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Constantin Brâncuși’s Danaïde (1913), a bronze head formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, sold at Christie’s on Monday for a $93 million hammer price, totaling $107.6 million with fees and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Photo London opened in its new venue at Olympia’s Grand Hall in West Kensington for previews on 13 May and ran until 17 May, reporting brisk early sales despite stormy weather. Paris-B Gallery sold...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Sotheby’s New York staged a two-part evening sale led by works from the late dealer and former Wall Street executive Robert Mnuchin (died December 2025, aged 92), totaling $407.5 million ($433.1...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art detective Arthur Brand announced that Toon Kelder’s painting Portrait of a Young Girl has been found hanging in a home near Utrecht in the possession of heirs of Dutch SS commander Hendrik...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s “Required Reading” roundup highlights recent arts-and-culture commentary, including Zoé Samudzi’s ArtReview essay on “American Inquisition,” a mid-March exhibition of paintings by...
Artnet News
A miniature wood-panel portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder depicting Friedrich III (“Frederick the Wise”) has been returned to the State Art Collections of Dresden after disappearing at the end of...
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Artnet News, citing the Artnet Intelligence Report: Year Ahead 2026, reports that collectors in 2025 favored blue-chip artists and trophy lots as speculative ultra-contemporary art continued to cool....
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Artnet News reported on 10 May 2026 that the Aspen Art Fair will return to Hotel Jerome from 29 July to 1 August 2026 for its third edition, featuring more than 35 exhibitors including Albertz Benda,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reported that New York’s May 2026 auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Bonhams are cumulatively estimated at $1.8 billion to $2.6 billion, as the market seeks to build...
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Artnet News reported on 10 May 2026 that Heffel Fine Art Auction House will hold its Heffel Spring Auction in two live sessions on 21 May 2026, staged in Toronto and via Heffel’s Digital Saleroom....
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On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of 657 trafficked antiquities to India, valued at nearly $14 million, following investigations by the D.A.’s...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karolina Bankowska of Lawrence, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on April 28 in federal court in Brooklyn to a five-year scheme that sold more than 200 counterfeit artworks...
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The Art Newspaper says the Venice Biennale’s long-standing but often downplayed role as a sales platform is unusually overt this year, with dealers, auction houses, and private foundations openly...
Artnet News
Lévy Gorvy Dayan is launching LGD Hammer, a live-bidding platform designed to blend private-sale exclusivity with auction-style competition, with its inaugural sale set for May 16, 2026. The first...
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ARTnews previews major May auction sales amid a market that returned to 4 percent growth last year, reaching $59.6 billion, according to the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report. Christie’s will offer...
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ARTnews reports that Lévy Gorvy Dayan has launched LGD Hammer, a sales platform designed to introduce auction-style urgency into a gallery context by offering one high-value work at a set time to a...
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Christie’s New York will auction 16 works from the collection of late publishing magnate S. I. Newhouse (died 2017) on May 18 at Rockefeller Center, with the group expected to total about $450...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Danish classical gems specialist Itaii Gradel died on 28 April aged 61 after playing a central role in exposing thefts from the British Museum. Gradel first warned the museum in 2021 that objects...
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Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karoline Bankowska of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on April 28 to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American-produced goods...
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ARTnews reports that artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale has sparked controversy over the commissioning process, as the pavilion was not organized by a...
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Artnet News reported on April 27, 2026, that Art Basel has introduced a “Basel Exclusive” initiative to curb PDF pre-fair sales by encouraging galleries to hold back works from previews and...
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In an Artnet News “Art Market Minute” item, writers Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan reported that art-world uses of A.I. remain cautious because trust and relationships still drive many...
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An Artnet News article by Jo Lawson-Tancred reports that galleries and auction houses are cautiously experimenting with A.I. after the 2022 NFT bust, with most art-market use cases still limited and...
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Artnet News reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” assembles what experts estimate to be art worth billions of dollars, a feat New York dealer Robert Simon...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper comments on the newly completed merger of Artnet and Artsy under Beowolff Capital, a private equity firm founded by former Goldman Sachs trader Andrew Wolff, with Artsy CEO Jeffrey...
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Two gilt-bronze botanical mirrors by French sculptor Claude Lalanne, commissioned by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent beginning in 1974 for his Paris apartment, sold at Sotheby’s on April 22, 2026...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Kent County Council, run by Reform, removed Antony Gormley’s early public sculpture Two Stones (1979–81) from outside the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone and sold it back to the artist...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles is seeking to restitute an Asante drum and an ivory trumpet looted by British troops in late-19th-century Kumasi, Ghana, but both...
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Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based NFT marketplace launched in February 2021 by Kayvon Tehranian and Matthew Vernon, is shutting down after a planned sale to digital art display company Blackdove...
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Beowolff Capital has combined Artsy and Artnet under the same ownership, consolidating two major online art platforms spanning data, media, auctions, and e-commerce, while keeping them as separate...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” opening in October, will present Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner as a “story of equals,” bringing together...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 13 April, the French parliament adopted a new framework law allowing the deaccession and restitution of cultural items plundered from former colonies, nine years after President Emmanuel Macron...
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Gagosian will open a newly overhauled ground-floor gallery at 980 Madison Avenue in New York on April 25 with an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp readymades, timed to the Museum of Modern Art’s Duchamp...
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Christie’s will sell works from dealer Marian Goodman’s personal collection in its May marquee sales in New York, months after her death in January at age 97, with the group expected to total about...
Hyperallergic
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York has acquired Wifredo Lam’s Portrait of a Boy (1927), marking the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the institution’s permanent collection....
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ARTnews reports that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has mounted a major Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) retrospective, described as the first comprehensive North American survey of the artist in more...
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ARTnews.com reports that an 11-year restitution dispute over Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) ended with a New York ruling against billionaire dealer David Nahmad and his family....
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Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, setting a new auction record for an Indian artist. The sale surpassed the previous...
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” an exhibition of about 10 Jean-Michel Basquiat works owned by collector Kenneth C. Griffin, opening June 25....
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Heirs to the Bic family fortune sued in New York on March 19 for the return of a Fra Angelico painting, Saint Sixtus (ca. 1453–55), alleging it was stolen by the family’s chauffeur and later sold...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Raja Ravi Varma’s oil painting “Yashoda and Krishna” (1890s) set a new auction record for a South Asian painting when it hammered at $15 million ($17.9 million with fees, or 1,672 million Indian...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced it will restitute Lesser Ury’s 1883 painting "Interior with Children (the Siblings)" to the heirs of Curt Goldschmidt, a Jewish banker and art...
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Artnet News reported on 2 April 2026 that two Claude Monet paintings, unseen publicly for around a century, have resurfaced and are headed to auction at Sotheby’s. The story centers on the works’...
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China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration has ordered a nationwide, item-by-item audit of every state-owned museum collection following a scandal at the Nanjing Museum, according to the South...
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The Pinakotheken in Munich announced it will return Lesser Ury’s painting Interior with Children (The Siblings) to the Jewish heirs of its original owner, Berlin banker Curt Goldschmidt, after...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Guillaume Cerutti is leaving all roles across François Pinault’s companies, including the chairmanships of Christie’s and Stade Rennais, after previously being reported to be departing as president...
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Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s generated a combined $164.9 million from their modern and contemporary evening sales in Hong Kong timed to Art Basel Hong Kong week, an 18% increase over...
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Artnet News published a “State of Play” roundup on March 29, 2026, under its Artnet Pro newsletter series “The Asia Pivot,” titled “Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the...
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ARTnews criticizes US cultural politics while reviewing “The Great Camouflage,” a contemporary-art exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai that runs through April 26 (year not specified in...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s roundup “The Biggest Week of the Spring?” surveys a cluster of New York art-world events, including the reopening of the New Museum and the recent Affordable Art Fair and Outsider Art...
Hyperallergic
On December 31, 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used an image of a Hiroshi Nagai painting in an official X post without permission, cropping the work and adding the text “America...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
France’s culture ministry blocked the planned 23 March sale at Drouot Paris of a newly identified drawing by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung Grien, issuing a 21 March decree declaring it a...
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Artnet News’s article “What the Art Market Still Gets Wrong About Next-Gen Collectors” (published March 23, 2026) examines misconceptions in the art trade about younger buyers and how they collect....
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In Artnet News’s “Work of the Week,” published March 22, 2026, a painting by self-taught artist Sam Doyle is presented as a work that could set a new auction price peak for the artist. The piece...
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Artnet News reported that Christie’s is launching its first New York auction devoted to anime and manga, with the story published on 27 February 2026 (site date line: 28 February 2026). The article...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Twenty years after the UK introduced the artist resale right (ARR), The Art Newspaper reports that the scheme—once strongly opposed by auction houses and dealers—has become broadly accepted in the...
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An Artnet News report recounts how a painting that sold for $12.7 million became central to exposing a museum scandal, drawing attention to governance and accountability issues within the institution...
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An Artnet News report says Africa’s art market is evolving as Middle Eastern hubs intensify competition for artists, collectors, and sales. The article describes African dealers and auction houses...
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Artnet News reported on 8 February 2026 that a tranquil painting by Canaletto has become one of the Venetian artist’s most expensive works, reflecting continued demand for top-tier Italian Old...
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U.S. Department of Justice releases of millions of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files in early February 2026 revealed that New York collectors Leon Black and Ronald Lauder sometimes bought major...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s article examines what happens when artists lose control of their archives—materials such as correspondence, sketches, photographs, and administrative records that shape how their work...
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A previously unknown drawing attributed to Michelangelo was submitted to Christie’s via its “Request an Auction Estimate” service and subsequently offered at auction. The work sold for $27 million,...
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Saudi Arabia is spotlighting its Modern art history with museum exhibitions and auctions as international attention shifts toward the Gulf ahead of Art Basel’s inaugural fair in Qatar and Frieze’s...
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A rare 17th-century Rembrandt drawing sold for $18 million at auction, setting a record as the artist’s most valuable work on paper, Artnet News reported. The article characterizes the result as...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
At Sotheby’s “Origins II” auction in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, held on 31 January 2026, Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr set a $2.1 million record when her 1968 work Coffee Shop in Madina Road sold,...
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Jewish heirs filed a lawsuit in a French court challenging the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro, according to ARTnews. The case seeks to contest the work’s...
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ARTnews reported that Sotheby’s second sale in Saudi Arabia totaled $19.6 million, signaling continued growth in the kingdom’s auction market. The sale set a record for a Saudi artist, according to...
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Artnet News reported on January 30, 2026, that the Metropolitan Opera has explored monetizing two monumental Marc Chagall murals—The Sources of Music and The Triumphs of Music—installed at Lincoln...
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Sotheby’s recorded its highest total for a modern and contemporary art sale in Singapore since 2023, according to ARTnews.com. The result was presented as a sign of renewed strength in the city’s...