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ARTnews.com
Christie’s will hold its first fine art auction in Abu Dhabi on November 1, marking 20 years since it staged what it calls the first international auction-house sale in the United Arab Emirates in...
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ARTnews reports that dealer James Cope is expanding his invite-only Dallas Invitational to the UK with a London Invitational timed to open during Frieze Week next month. Cope launched the Dallas...
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ARTnews highlighted five notable works at Portland’s Converge 45 triennial, founded in 2016 by dealer Elizabeth Leach to draw attention to art on the 45th parallel. The latest edition, titled “Here,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Frieze Seoul (running until 5 September) and the Korea International Art Fair, Kiaf (until 6 September), opened their fifth year amid South Korean stock-market volatility, currency fluctuations, and...
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Frieze Seoul opened its fifth edition at COEX in Gangnam in partnership with Kiaf Seoul, drawing heavy VIP attendance alongside biennial openings in Gwangju and Busan, though first-day sales were...
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Christie’s London will auction Wassily Kandinsky’s “Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life)” (1907) on 14 October during Frieze week, with an estimate in excess of $30 million. The painting was...
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Frieze Abu Dhabi announced 84 exhibitors for its inaugural fair, running November 19–22 at Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District. The lineup spans galleries from 63 cities in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Frieze Seoul announced it will move to Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), the Zaha Hadid–designed cultural center that opened in 2014, starting with the fair’s 2027 edition because its current venue,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published a never-before-released interview in which scholar and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson speaks with performance artist Simone Forti (born 1935 in Italy), who died in Los Angeles in...
Artnet News
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a Frank Gehry–designed museum whose contract reportedly grew to $1 billion, has set its opening for December 11, keeping it on track for a 2026 debut after being announced...
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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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Post-Fair, a curatorially oriented fair associated with Frieze Los Angeles week, will launch its first international edition in Paris from 19 October to 25 October during Art Basel Paris week....
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Greek new media artist Theo Triantafyllidis (born 1988 in Athens) will present a monumental, climbable spider installation at Frieze London as the 2026 Frieze Artist Award winner. Titled “Feral...
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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...
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ARTnews notes that when Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight retired at the end of 2025, it marked the departure of the last of three highly influential US post-1975 art critics, following...
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...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic report characterizes Frieze New York at The Shed in Hudson Yards as a monotonous trade-show experience, likening it to eating an “assembly-line chopped salad,” while noting moments...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic surveyed 13 New York art fairs about booth pricing as the spring fair season—anchored by Frieze New York at The Shed—opened for VIPs on May 13. Frieze reported main-section booth fees...
Artnet News
An Artnet News market column argues that the Venice Biennale’s claim to be “above the market” is increasingly strained as galleries more often finance artists’ costly biennial projects in hopes of...
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Official filings show the London- and New York-based Stephen Friedman gallery owes about $10.6 million to dozens of creditors following its closure and insolvency proceedings. Administrators’...
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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Counterpublic announced 47 artists and collectives for the third edition of its triennial in St. Louis, Missouri, running September 12–December 12, under the title “Coyote Time,” named after a...
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Frieze New York’s 2026 edition will run May 13–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors and will include institutional collaborations plus a new acquisition fund. In partnership with the Whitney...
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The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced that more than 20 galleries will participate in its New York edition, running May 13–17 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, alongside Frieze...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Artist David Hockney will create a large-scale window installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th anniversary celebrations. The work, measuring roughly seven by...
Artnet News
The University of North Texas’s College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries in Denton canceled a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez after installation was completed,...
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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Pakistani artist Rashid Rana will present Black Square (2025) at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar (5–7 February 2026; preview days 3–4 February), a wall-based photomontage grid made from hundreds of...