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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Mauritshuis in The Hague will return Jan van Goyen’s 1651 oil-on-paper painting “Fishermen by the Lakeshore” to the heirs of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after provenance research linked...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that Naomi Beckwith, artistic director of Documenta 16 in Kassel, said she is “not afraid” of potential pro-Palestine protest at the exhibition and affirmed that “people have a...
ARTnews.com
Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim Museum’s deputy director and chief curator, said in an interview with Die Zeit that “a few” artists have declined invitations to participate in Documenta 16 because of...
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Sotheby’s will sell about 50 works from Seattle real estate developer Richard “Dick” Hedreen’s collection in fall and winter sales expected to total at least $90 million, ahead of a major gift to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Germany’s Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, a municipally funded contemporary art museum in an 11th-century building, faces uncertainty over regional arts funding as Saxony-Anhalt holds a pivotal state election...
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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A Hamburg criminal court convicted two children of German dealer Serop Simonian—alleged to have led a trafficking ring specializing in Egyptian antiquities—of money laundering on 24 August, ordering...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Veteran bookseller and publisher Rudi Thoemmes has launched a new photobook imprint, Foxed Editions, with Björn Andersson and Jessa Fairbrother, expanding on his earlier work with Thoemmes Press and...
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Merz Academy, a 100-year-old art and design university in Stuttgart, Germany, has filed for insolvency, the school announced on Wednesday, though classes are expected to continue. Monopol reported...
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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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Steidl Verlag, the German publisher renowned for high-end photobooks, entered preliminary insolvency proceedings in Göttingen after a creditor’s request, according to German media reports. NDR...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic profiled artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in San Luis Obispo, California, where they presented a sneak preview of their new film Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual...
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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Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts taken from Ghana during the colonial era, an announcement made at the “Next Steps” conference in Accra....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ai Weiwei opened a large-scale exhibition titled Button Up! at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester on 3 July, presenting more than two decades of work alongside new commissions, many...
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
Ghana’s foreign affairs minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, announced that the Netherlands and Germany intend to return more than 2,000 cultural objects taken unlawfully during colonial conquests. At...
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ARTnews reported that Germany and the Netherlands agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts to Ghana that were taken during the colonial era, with the announcement made at the Next...
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ARTnews profiled Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (born 1881 in London to Dutch parents), a painter and image-collector who collaborated with Carl Jung and founded the Eranos Foundation in 1933. After moving to...
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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A provenance researcher working for the heir of Jewish businessman Gustav Schweitzer says a Paul Cezanne watercolour shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost due to Nazi...
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ARTnews’s summer preview lists 46 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, identifying spectacle as a major seasonal theme. It highlights projects including Laure Prouvost’s show about quantum...
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...
Hyperallergic
In Venice’s Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, South African artist Gabrielle Goliath is presenting Elegy as South Africa’s unofficial pavilion for the 61st Biennale Arte, after Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie...
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Jurors for Germany’s Kunstfonds Foundation, which funds contemporary art projects, accused Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer of “attempted intimidation” after he requested the names of the...
Artnet News
An Artnet News analysis published April 11, 2026, examines how German galleries’ push toward “localism” is colliding with structural weaknesses in the country’s art market. Art Cologne revived a...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, has been accused by two former employees, speaking anonymously to Politico’s Irie Sentner, of altering language and programming...
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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...
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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 30 March, the German federal government and the country’s 16 states agreed to create a new body to oversee restitution of cultural property and human remains held in public collections that were...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art historian Gary Schwartz argues that a painting long labeled a workshop copy of Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Old Man with a Gold Chain” (1631) was actually painted by Rembrandt himself as an “autograph...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews two feature documentaries about artificial intelligence that screened amid AI-focused programming at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, described as the festival’s last year in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is presenting its first major US exhibition of time-based media at the Variety Arts Theater, a 1924 Italianate venue in downtown Los Angeles, according to a 25 February...
Artnet News
German artist Henrike Naumann, who had been set to represent Germany at the Venice Biennale, has died at age 41, Artnet News reported on 17 February 2026. The article identifies her as the artist...
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Christie’s will headline its London 20/21 Spring Evening Sale with a Wassily Kandinsky painting estimated at $21.3 million, according to ARTnews. The same sale will also feature a work by British...
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ARTnews reports that German sculptor Henrike Naumann, known for work examining East Germany’s troubled postwar legacy, died at age 41. Naumann was recognized for installations that used domestic...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will return around 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria within months, The Art Newspaper reported on 9 February 2026, following a 2022 claim by...