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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The BBC has launched “The Big Deal,” a six-part reality-style competition hosted by Steph McGovern in which seven pairs of novice contestants attempt to profit by selling contemporary art, with a...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Qatar Museums announced on 10 September in Berlin that a permanent Gerhard Richter pavilion in Doha will open in November, timed to coincide with the public opening of the Rubaiya Qatar quadrennial...
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Maurizio Cattelan has opened a major exhibition titled “NIGHT” at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, curated by Lisa Botti in collaboration with museum director Klaus Biesenbach and the artist. The show...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Japan Art Association named US conceptual artist Jenny Holzer the 2026 Praemium Imperiale laureate for painting and British land artist Andy Goldsworthy the laureate for sculpture, with each...
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Philippe Parreno’s melting sculpture Iceman in Reality Park (1995–2023) will make its New York debut at Independent 20th Century in the Breuer building, presented by Esther Schipper. The gallery’s...
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Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang premiered “LOVER LOVE,” a four-channel video installation commissioned by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Soho, on view through January 3,...
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ARTnews highlighted renewed attention to Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) following Christie’s promotional short film featuring Nicole Kidman with his bronze-and-gold-leaf...
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Abstract painter Mary Heilmann died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York, due to complications from a fall, according to an Instagram announcement by her studio. Heilmann received her first solo...
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The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP), founded in Berlin in 2016, announced that it has added AI capabilities to its provenance research platform, Legacy Explorer, which launched last...
Artnet News
Artnet News’s “Industry Intel,” published July 25, 2026, reports that the Armory Show will return to New York’s Javits Center on September 24–27 with about 230 exhibitors, including newcomers Alison...
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Canada’s Heritage Minister Marc Miller drew criticism after suggesting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should revise language in its exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and...
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German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne at age 91, according to a report first carried by the German Press Agency. Born in Münster in 1935 and self-taught after training as a...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the 30th anniversary edition of the nomadic European biennial, opened on 21 June and runs through 4 October, focusing on how Germany’s disused churches might be repurposed for...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on 17 June that “everything indicates” the 15 June killing of Russian dissident artist Robert Kuzovkov—who worked under the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky—was a...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Artist Shuang Li, born in 1990 in China and now based in Berlin and Geneva, presents her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe at Kunsthalle Basel. Titled Alliance, the show centers on a new...
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ARTnews’s June 12, 2026 “Industry Moves” roundup reports that conservation scientist Francesca Casadio, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art...
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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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Pace Gallery is downsizing by cutting about 50 artists and estates from its roster of more than 130, and laying off roughly 50 of its 250 staffers, according to a New York Times report published late...
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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...
Hyperallergic
A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty of arranging the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, according to Hyperallergic. Brent Sikkema, 75, was stabbed...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, a pioneering figure in feminist performance and media art, died on 14 May at age 85, three days before her 86th birthday, according to confirmation by her dealer...
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ARTnews reports that collector Julia Stoschek will close her Berlin exhibition venue at the end of October 2026 after 10 years, while continuing operations at her Düsseldorf space, open since 2007....
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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Berlin’s long-planned Berlin Modern museum has been delayed again, with moisture damage in the building shell and microbial contamination pushing the opening to 2030, according to ARTnews. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie has completed digitising a high-resolution archive of glass negatives documenting hundreds of paintings destroyed in May 1945, when two fires swept the Friedrichshain flak...
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Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s with “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau, running through August 23. Co-curated by Agnes Gryczkowska and...
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ARTnews reports that “Said in Stone,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to late 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous artist. The...
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Artnet has laid off dozens of employees after being consolidated under the same leadership as Artsy, with sources saying the cuts heavily affected Artnet News and Artnet’s Berlin operations...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo has put a forged Van Gogh on display—Seascape at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (dated 1925–27)—in an exhibition running until 21 June, alongside a Dutch-language...
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German artist, painter, installation artist, and punk musician Thomas Zipp has died, according to an announcement by Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, which said he “passed away far too soon.” Born in...
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ARTnews.com profiles Berlin-based Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ming Wong (born 1971) and his film Dance of the Sun on the Water | Saltatio Solis in Aqua, made after a residency that granted him...
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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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...
Artnet News
An Artnet News report dated March 28, 2026 states that an exhibition by an Israeli artist in Mexico City closed after antisemitic harassment, including vandalism at the gallery. The article indicates...
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Artnet News reviewed Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminals at Halle am Berghain in Berlin, describing it as a major project within the LAS Art Foundation’s “Sensing Quantum” program that took three...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ukraine announced on 5 February 2026 that artist Zhanna Kadyrova will represent the country at the Venice Biennale with a pavilion titled "Security Guarantees," referencing the 1994 Budapest...
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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...