The Art Market Post-Pollock
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...
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The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter
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, Major African Art Gallery, Is Closing Its Doors
Artnet News
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...
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The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
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 Turning the $102 M. Louvre Heist Into a Movie
ARTnews.com
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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Heir Says Cézanne Watercolor Shown in Basel Was Lost During Nazi Era
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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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‘Prediction Markets’ Come to Art Auctions: Now You Can Bet on Basquiat and Monet, Courtesy of Kalshi
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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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Trump Reinstalls Monument to Founding Father, Slave Owner Removed in 2020
ARTnews.com
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 to Sell $20.1 M. in Art at Christie’s
ARTnews.com
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...
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Ansel Adams Trust Decries Dealer's Sale of Photo Colorized Using AI
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”...
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Trump Re-Erects Monument of Enslaver Removed in 2020
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...
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What New York’s $2.5 Billion Auction Week Means for the Market
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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Long-Lost 17th-Century Altarpiece Paintings Recovered After Nearly 100 Years
Artnet News
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...
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Gabrielle Goliath, Richard Avedon, “Chicken Linda”
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...
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Who Won New York’s $2.1 Billion Auction Week?
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....
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New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch—podcast
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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Art Lender Accuses Maddox Gallery of Inflating Value of Art Used as Collateral—’Bizarre and Irrational’ Claim, Says Gallery
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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 S. I. Newhouse Sale Totals $630.8 M., Bringing Cumulative Total to $1 B.
ARTnews.com
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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S.I. Newhouse’s Brâncuși Sells at Christie’s for Record-Breaking $107.6 M.
ARTnews.com
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...
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In a new home, Photo London gets down to business
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...
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Robert Mnuchin's $85.7m Rothko leads Sotheby's $407.5m auction in New York
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...
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Nazi-looted painting discovered in home of Dutch SS commander's heirs
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...
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Required Reading
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...
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Tiny Cranach Painting That Vanished During WWII Returns to Dresden
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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Art Collectors Bet on Known Quantities Amid Market Reset
Artnet News
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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France Passes Landmark Restitution Law for Looted Art
Artnet News
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,...
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This month’s blockbuster auctions in New York could bring upwards of $2.5bn
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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Canadian Masterworks Lead Heffel’s Spring Sales
Artnet News
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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Manhattan D.A.’s Office Returns More Than 650 Looted Artifacts to India
ARTnews.com
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...
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Father and daughter plead guilty in $2m counterfeit art scheme
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 Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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...
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A $15M De Kooning Leads Lévy Gorvy Dayan’s New Auction-Style Sales Experiment
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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A $35 M. Warhol, a $45 M. Basquiat, and More: Who’s Selling The Top Works in the May Sales?
ARTnews.com
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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Lévy Gorvy Dayan Bets on Urgency With New LGD Hammer Sales Platform
ARTnews.com
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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Picasso Painting That Cost S. I. Newhouse a MoMA Board Position Heads to Christie’s for $55 M.
ARTnews.com
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...
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Ittai Gradel, gems expert who uncovered British Museum thefts, dies aged 61
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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Duo Who Sold Fake Warhol, Banksy Plead Guilty in $2M Fraud
Artnet News
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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How Will the Venice Biennale Impact Alma Allen’s Market?
ARTnews.com
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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Art Basel Curbs Pre-Fair Sales—and More Art Industry News
Artnet News
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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The Art Trade Is Taking Calculated Risks With A.I.
Artnet News
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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How Art Firms Are—or Should Be—Using A.I. Right Now
Artnet News
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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The Multibillion-Dollar Maneuvers Behind the Met’s Raphael Show
Artnet News
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...
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Comment | Artnet-Artsy merger: 'a Bloomberg for art?'
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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Yves Saint Laurent’s Lalanne Mirrors Sell for Record-Shattering $33.5 Million
Artnet News
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...
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Antony Gormley sculpture quietly removed and sold off by UK council
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...
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Drum and trumpet with human skulls attached complicate plan for restitution from Los Angeles to Ghana
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 Prominent NFT Platform of the 2021 Boom, Shuts Down After Failed Sale
ARTnews.com
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 Combines Artsy and Artnet in Digital Art Market Push
ARTnews.com
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 Met is Finally Treating Lee Krasner as Pollock’s Equal—Will the Market Follow?
ARTnews.com
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...
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France’s new restitution law passes final vote
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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Go Time! Gagosian Christens New Madison Avenue Space With Duchamp Readymades
Artnet News
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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Works from Marian Goodman’s Collection to Anchor Christie’s May Sales
ARTnews.com
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...
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Rare Wifredo Lam Portrait Lands in New York
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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A Duchamp Retrospective at MoMA Presents an Artist Who Challenged the Very Definition of Art
ARTnews.com
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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11-Year Restitution Dispute Over Prized Modigliani Ends With Loss for Nahmad Family
ARTnews.com
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 Painting Sells for $17.9 M., New Auction Record for Indian Art
ARTnews.com
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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Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting, Now Owned by Ken Griffin, to Go on View in Miami This Summer
ARTnews.com
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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Bic Family Heirs File Lawsuit for Return of Fra Angelico Painting ‘Stolen’ by Chauffeur
ARTnews.com
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...
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Vaccine billionaire buys $17.9m Raja Ravi Varma, setting new record for Indian painting at auction
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...
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Bavaria restitutes Lesser Ury painting to the heirs of a Jewish banker
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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Two Monet Paintings, Unseen for a Century, Resurface at Auction
Artnet News
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 Orders Nationwide Museum Audit After Missing Masterpieces Scandal
ARTnews.com
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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Pinakothek in Munich Returns Nazi-Looted Painting by Lesser Ury to Jewish Heirs
ARTnews.com
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...
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Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie's and other positions in Pinault’s companies
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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Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total $164.9 M., Up 18 Percent From Equivalent 2025 Auctions
ARTnews.com
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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Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World
Artnet News
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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I Saw a Great Show in China That Would Be Censored in the United States
ARTnews.com
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...
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The Biggest Week of the Spring?
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...
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DHS Appropriates Japanese Artist’s Work in Racist X Post
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...
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French government blocks sale of newly discovered drawing by German Renaissance master Hans Baldung
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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What the Art Market Still Gets Wrong About Next-Gen Collectors
Artnet News
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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This Sam Doyle Painting May Mark a New Price Peak for the Self-Taught Artist
Artnet News
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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Christie’s Launches First New York Auction Devoted to Anime and Manga
Artnet News
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...
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UK artist resale right at 20: how successful has the pioneering scheme been?
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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The $12.7 Million Painting That Exposed a Museum Scandal
Artnet News
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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Africa’s Art Market Is Shifting as Competition in the Middle East Heats Up
Artnet News
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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This Serene Canaletto Is Now One of the Italian Masters Most Expensive Works
Artnet News
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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Leon Black and Ronald Lauder Joined Forces to Buy Masterpieces, Epstein Files Show
Artnet News
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...
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When Artists Lose Their Archives
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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Lost Michelangelo Draws $27 Million, Trouncing Estimate and Smashing Record
Artnet News
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 looks to its Modern art history as the art world eyes up the Gulf
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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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Rare Rembrandt Drawing Nets Record-Smashing $18 Million at Auction
Artnet News
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...
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Saudi woman painter outshines Picasso at Sotheby’s second sale in Diriyah
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 File Suit in French Court Regarding Met’s Ownership of Pissarro Painting
ARTnews.com
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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Sotheby’s Second Sale in Saudi Arabia Tops $19.6 M., Sets Record for Saudi Artist
ARTnews.com
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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How the Met Opera Turned Beloved Murals Into Financial Tools
Artnet News
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 Achieves Highest Sale Total for Modern and Contemporary Art in Singapore Since 2023
ARTnews.com
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...