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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...
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Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra began a new durational performance in London on 22 September at 6pm UK time, consisting of a continuous reading of the names of Palestinians killed since the...
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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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Museums across North America are reconsidering long-standing climate-control standards that typically require tight ranges of ±2°C and ±5% relative humidity, guidelines rooted in 1970s research for...
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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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The UK government has placed an export bar on a rare Renaissance bronze by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), valued at £4.6m, giving UK institutions time to try to acquire it. The 20cm-high...
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Turner Prize-winning artist and investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan will lead “Repercussions,” described as the Barbican Centre’s first cross-arts takeover spanning visual art, film, music, and...
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Pro-Palestine group Energy Embargo for Palestine protested in the British Museum’s Great Hall on September 10 during the opening weekend of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The action followed...
Hyperallergic
A major James McNeill Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain in London argues that the artist’s brushwork, limited palettes, and compositional restraint were aimed at achieving visual harmony rather...
Hyperallergic
In Hyperallergic, artist and Columbia University professor Naeem Mohaiemen reflects on the post-9/11 period through the lens of Mahmood Mamdani’s 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, describing South...
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New York–based artist Tschabalala Self has installed a bronze sculpture titled Lady in Blue on London’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, making it the 16th artwork to appear there since the program...
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The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt will return to Scotland for a full exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway beginning Saturday, September 12, running through October 4, marking the first time it will be shown in...
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On 10 September, New York-based artist Tschabalala Self unveiled “Lady in Blue,” the 16th Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square, a bronze sculpture of a Black woman walking. London...
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Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels is scheduled to open on November 28 after a decade of delays and renovations costing more than €250 million ($290 million). Housed in a 430,000-square-foot former...
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Unionized staff at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum held a planned two-day strike, prompting the V&A to close three sites on Friday, September 4, through Saturday, September 5. About 700...
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The National Portrait Gallery in London has launched a new contemporary initiative, Artist Focus, with three free-admission exhibitions annually in the Weston Wing. The inaugural Artist Focus...
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St Paul’s Cathedral in London has faced criticism after announcing a four-year partnership with Fabric, a well-known London nightclub, to present events intended to attract new audiences. Members of...
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Paris prosecutors have asked that Giuliano Ruffini be sent to trial on charges of commercial deception and money laundering in connection with an alleged Old Master forgery network, and they also...
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Serpentine Gallery in London has launched the Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship, a six-month research program on how advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping cultural production,...
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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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London’s Science Museum Group (SMG) confirmed on Friday, 28 August, that its sponsorship partnership with BP will end on 31 August at the conclusion of its agreed term, closing a relationship that...
Hyperallergic
The British Museum hosted Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel for a VIP viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry on August 18, prompting concerns among staff, according to a Guardian report cited by Hyperallergic....
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The Art Newspaper’s Mary Richards, publisher at London’s Hayward Gallery, recommends five books as an expert guide to understanding Anish Kapoor’s five-decade career, timed to a major Hayward...
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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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The documentary Amelia Toledo: Lembrar de Não Esquecer (Don’t Forget to Remember) surveys the five-decade career of Brazilian artist Amélia Toledo (born 1926 in São Paulo; died 2017 in Cotia),...
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After Indigenous artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung was stripped of Taiwan’s National Award for Arts following his sexual-assault conviction in April, curators and artists have pointed to a generational...
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Photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit last week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby’s, and David...
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A major survey of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, titled “Studio Wounds and Battles: Desire is the Reiteration of Hope,” opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, marking her first significant...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for August 18, 2026 reports that Joshua Reynolds’s eight-foot 18th-century portrait of Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with Captain Cook in 1774, will make its...
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Two Swedish-American buyers, Yoed and Natasha Anise, filed suit against London’s Alison Jacques gallery alleging breach of contract after the sale of three 1990s paintings by Swedish-born artist...
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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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Yoed and Natasha Anise are suing London’s Alison Jacques gallery for breach of contract after the gallery cancelled the sale of three Monica Sjöö (1938–2005) paintings following objections from the...
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Kit Fitzgerald, a pioneering American video artist known for bringing a painterly sensibility to electronic media, died on August 3 at age 73, according to an announcement by her husband and longtime...
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court to recover Pablo Picasso’s Femme dans un fauteuil (Woman in an Armchair) (1918), which was stolen in 1961 while on...
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Elvira Dyangani Ose, formerly director of Barcelona’s Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), has been appointed artistic director of Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz...
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Two unions, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Prospect, criticized Victoria & Albert Museum director Tristram Hunt for not attending contract negotiations amid strike action over...
Hyperallergic
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court seeking the return of Pablo Picasso’s “Femme dans un fauteuil” (1918), which disappeared on February 6, 1961, while...
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The High Line and the Chanel Culture Fund have commissioned artist Alison Nguyen to make a new film, “Prior Occupants,” examining the overlooked history of Westbeth Artist Housing near the High Line...
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A British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils gathered by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore on England’s UNESCO-listed Jurassic Coast has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, prompting...
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Sid Motion Gallery, a South London commercial gallery founded by Sid Motion in 2016, will close in autumn after a decade of operating, with Motion saying she chose to end the business while its...
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London dealer Sid Motion will close Sid Motion gallery in South Bermondsey when its fall exhibition ends, citing economic pressures and a desire not to compromise support for her artists. The...
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The UK Ministry of Justice spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural from London’s Grade II-listed Royal Courts of Justice after it appeared in September and was verified by the artist on Instagram. The...
Hyperallergic
An activist group called Everyone Hates Elon staged a guerrilla “mock ad” targeting Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses by placing a sandwich board outside Ray-Ban’s flagship store in London. The image shows a...
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Public authorities in London have spent nearly $203,000 since 2024 removing, protecting, and managing three Banksy works, according to BBC figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests,...
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London’s National Gallery has faced criticism for NG Citizens, a £250,000 citizens’ assembly made up of randomly selected, demographically representative UK residents convened to advise on the...
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...
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Elizabeth Mulholland, a longtime director and partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is joining David Zwirner as a senior director at the gallery’s Los Angeles outpost. Zwirner expanded to Los...
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London mayor Sadiq Khan argued in an op-ed for LBC that national museums and galleries in London should remain free to enter, calling free admission a fundamental part of city life. He noted that...
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In 2021, British artist Sacha Jafri sold his 17,000-square-foot painting The Journey of Humanity in Dubai for £45 million (about $62 million at the time), with proceeds intended for UNICEF, UNESCO,...
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Gagosian has closed its small London space in Burlington Arcade and will soon close its Basel, Switzerland, location at Rheinsprung 1, according to reporting cited by ARTnews. The Burlington Arcade...
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Gagosian has exited 28–29 Burlington Arcade in central London, a two-storey space it began programming in October 2023, and plans to leave its Basel gallery at Rheinsprung 1 in the coming months,...
Artnet News
Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s V&A East Storehouse in London voted unanimously to authorize strike action in a dispute over working conditions, according to the union Prospect. Prospect...
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Banco Santander Foundation will open Faro Santander, a new art museum and cultural hub on Spain’s northern coast, on September 8 in the bank’s former headquarters, the 231-year-old Pereda Building on...
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More than 300 workers at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over pay and working conditions, with unions citing unsafe policies during heatwaves. The Public and...
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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...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic roundup reports that Cuban dissident performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was released after five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana and exiled to Miami,...
Hyperallergic
A letter from Yuko Kikuchi, who resigned in January as head of academic programs at London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, alleges “racist” and “culturally insensitive” behavior and calls on the...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic review critiques David Hockney’s large-scale iPad work A Year in Normandie (2020–21), a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite of more than 100 printed iPad paintings shown at Serpentine...
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Yuko Kikuchi, former head of academic programmes at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, resigned at the end of January after alleging “racist” and “culturally insensitive” behavior by...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that actor Zendaya drew criticism for wearing earrings made from two 3,000-year-old Iranian gold discs at a London photocall earlier this month for Christopher Nolan’s...
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The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum network announced its 2027 exhibition programme across three sites in London and Dundee. At the new V&A East Museum in Stratford (opened April 2026), “South Asia...
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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...
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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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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg to the Artist Rooms collection jointly shared by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, The Art Newspaper...
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Tate Modern is preparing a major survey titled “Ana Mendieta” that will present about 150 works and be the UK’s first major Mendieta exhibition in over a decade. The show will frame the Cuban...
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The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived at the British Museum in London, marking its first return to England since it was made in the 1070s, ahead of an autumn display. British Museum director Nicholas...
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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...
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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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More than 40 artists are challenging the closure of the London branch of the New York–founded Artist Pension Trust (APT), alleging it has likely operated as an unregulated investment scheme and...
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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...
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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....
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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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The British Museum is marking the United States’ 250th anniversary with a small exhibition, “Declaring independence: USA 250,” that foregrounds Indigenous perspectives on the American Revolution and...
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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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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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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...
Hyperallergic
Photographer and activist Misan Harriman will step down as chair of London’s Southbank Centre this autumn, ending a tenure that began in 2021, according to a spokesperson who said succession planning...
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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...
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Photographer and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Misan Harriman said he will step down as chair of London’s Southbank Centre after serving two terms, with the organization stating he will leave in autumn...
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British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray—known for hard-edge abstract paintings and public art projects—died on May 24 at age 88, with the news first reported by the Guardian. Born in...
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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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Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn her 40-minute film Persistence from London’s National Portrait Gallery after complaints about its criticism of Winston Churchill. The work, on...
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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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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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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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Helen Cammock’s 40-minute video Persistence (2025), shown at London’s National Portrait Gallery for nine months, has drawn criticism for a line comparing Oliver Cromwell’s actions in Ireland to the...
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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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Anish Kapoor discussed his decades-long sculptural practice in connection with a Hayward Gallery retrospective in London, reflecting on how his work challenges conventional ideas of the object and...
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In an Artnet News report, Andrew Russeth describes the latest edition of Basel Social Club, a free, late-night art-world event staged in a former UBS office building near Basel SBB station designed...
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ARTnews reports that Almine Rech has become the exclusive partner in France of the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, giving its network of galleries in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York,...
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In a Hyperallergic editor’s letter and opinion excerpt, the publication criticizes the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for placing Savneet Talwar, director of its graduate art therapy...
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British artist David Hockney died at home on Thursday aged 88, having become one of the world’s most famous artists through a wide-ranging practice that drew on sources from 15th-century Delft optics...
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Goodman Gallery, founded in Johannesburg in 1966 by Linda Givon and now led by owner Liza Essers (since 2008), has restructured amid a prolonged art-market downturn after costs began rising faster...
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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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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 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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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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Pace Gallery has listed its 8,600-square-foot London space in Hanover Square for rent and plans to move to a smaller, “less corporate” location, CEO Marc Glimcher told the Financial Times. The London...
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Valentine Willie, a Malaysia-based curator and gallerist who championed contemporary Southeast Asian art, died in Kuala Lumpur on June 9 at age 71, according to The Star. Born in Sabah in 1954, he...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Dataland, billed as “the world’s first museum of AI Arts,” co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç and opening to the public in Los Angeles on June 20. Located...
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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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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed the 2025 film Moss & Freud, directed by James Lucas, portraying a friendship between supermodel Kate Moss and painter Lucian Freud, and argued that the movie romanticizes an...
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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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Artist management agencies are re-emerging as the traditional gallery model faces upheaval and artists’ practices become more interdisciplinary, The Art Newspaper reports. Cristopher Canizares...
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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 painting Lucian Freud long denied making, Man in a Black Scarf, will go on public view for the first time in the exhibition “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s Garden Museum....
Hyperallergic
Franco-Argentine kinetic and Op art pioneer Julio Le Parc died in Paris on May 30 at age 97, days before a major Tate Modern retrospective in London scheduled to open June 11. Born in 1928 in...
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...
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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art known for participatory installations using light, mirrors, movement, and optical effects, died in Paris on May 30 at age 97. His son, Yamil...
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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...
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SXSW London returns for its second edition on June 1–6, taking over more than 20 venues around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch and expanding its programming beyond technology, business, and music...
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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 Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is presenting “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone,” described as the first major retrospective of sculptor Edmonia Lewis (born 1844 in Greenbush, New York;...
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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The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi will stage a month-long, free, non-selling exhibition at Christie’s London headquarters in St James’s titled “The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the...
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British actor Tilda Swinton will debut a new live performance work titled “House of Gestures” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on June 5–6 in the museum’s Frank Gehry-designed atrium. The...
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A new James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) exhibition at Tate Britain in London, curated by Carol Jacobi, argues that the artist’s legacy has been overly defined by his 1877 libel suit against critic...
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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...
Hyperallergic
More than 97,000 complaints were filed with the UK’s Independent Press Standards Organisation after right-wing outlets published articles alleging that British-Nigerian photographer and arts trustee...
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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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British artist and set designer Es Devlin has launched “A National Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery,” a participatory artwork at London’s National Portrait Gallery running through October...
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London’s Wellcome Collection announced plans to transfer 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community, with the materials moving to the University of Birmingham’s Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
London’s Wellcome Collection will restitute 2,000 Jain manuscripts acquired in 1919 from a Jain temple in what is now Pakistan, in what it describes as the largest group of Jain manuscripts outside...
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White Cube has announced representation of Chinese-born, New York–based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, marking the first gallery to represent him, according to The Art Newspaper. The partnership coincides...
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Japanese artist and poet Gozo Yoshimasu, 87, has won the inaugural £200,000 Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize, described as the largest contemporary art prize in the UK, according to The Art...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed a major Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition at London’s National Gallery, described as the institution’s first large-scale presentation of the 17th-century Spanish painter. The...
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Gagosian in London will realize an artwork conceived in 1968 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude but never previously executed, ARTnews reports. The exhibition, titled “Christo: Air,” runs from May 21 to...
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Chanel and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation are launching a transatlantic curatorial fellowship linking New York and Venice, with an announcement timed to the start of the Venice Biennale,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the international jury for the 61st Venice Biennale resigned collectively, without publicly stating a reason, amid controversy over awards eligibility. The resignations...
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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’...
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A new statue bearing Banksy’s signature appeared on Waterloo Place in central London, with sightings first reported on 29 April. Banksy confirmed authorship on Instagram on 30 April to his 13.8...
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Administrators’ filings revealed that the bankrupt Stephen Friedman Gallery owes £7.8 million to creditors, with artists Alexandre Diop (£341,905), Deborah Roberts (£289,232), and Kehinde Wiley...
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London’s Whitechapel Gallery appointed economist Mariana Mazzucato as its first economist-in-residence for a three-year term, amid widening financial pressures on museums. Director Gilane Tawadros...
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Artist Michael Armitage is the subject of a major monographic exhibition, The Promise of Change, opening at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi with 46 large paintings and nearly 100 sketches surveying the past...
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ARTnews reported that a London exhibition at Delta House Gallery was canceled after UK Lawyers for Israel objected to drawings by artist Matthew Collings that the Telegraph described as “dripping...
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The Art Newspaper reports that Earshot, a non-profit founded by Jordan-born artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, has received a three-year studio bursary at London’s Gasworks to support its sound-based...
Hyperallergic
The Victoria and Albert Museum has opened its long-planned East London outpost, V&A East, alongside the V&A East Storehouse, as part of a broader expansion that has included V&A Dundee (2018) and the...
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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...
Artnet News
The Victoria & Albert Museum has opened V&A East in east London, a new $180 million outpost intended to connect the V&A’s 2.8 million-object collection to contemporary issues and younger local...
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Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk is scheduled to co-headline an “immersive experience” titled “WAREHOUSE ARTEFACTS” at Art Basel in Hall 1.1 South at Messe Basel on Saturday, June 20. Presented by...
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The Art Newspaper’s 300th podcast episode in 2024 spotlights two major museum openings: V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford tours...
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A report cited by the Guardian says London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) removed content from exhibition catalogues at the request of Chinese censors, raising concerns about foreign influence on...
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Somalia’s first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion has drawn criticism from Somali art organizations and artists who say the project failed to meaningfully consult or include Somalia-based practitioners...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Ai Weiwei’s book On Censorship (2026), which reflects on censorship and self-censorship through the dissident Chinese artist’s experiences of state persecution. The article...
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ARTnews reports that the 13th edition of Expo Chicago is underway at Navy Pier with a smaller-than-usual roster of 130 exhibitors from cities including New York, Tokyo, London, Buenos Aires, and...
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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) launched a new webpage on 8 April (International Provenance Research Day) titled “How have objects come to be in the V&A?” to highlight provenance research...
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London’s National Gallery selected Kengo Kuma and Associates to design a major new extension estimated to cost £350 million, with an opening planned for the early 2030s. Kuma’s proposal was chosen...
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Italian Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto launched Three Mirrors, a global digital-billboard project organized by the UK-based platform Circa, centered on his concept of “preventive peace.”...
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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 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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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...
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German sculptor and illustrator Jacques Tilly, 62, was sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court to 8.5 years in prison on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military and...
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British painter Cecily Brown is having her London museum debut with the exhibition “Cecily Brown: Picture Making” at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. The show brings together new works...
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The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance reported that more than 200 million visits were made to the world’s 100 most visited art museums in 2025, compared with 230 million in 2019 and...
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Gladstone Gallery announced it now represents the estate of Pope.L, the influential American performance and conceptual artist who died in December 2023, and plans to mount its first solo show for...
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A Guardian investigation summarized by Hyperallergic reports that UK museums and institutions hold more than 263,000 items of human remains across 241 museums, including 28,914 items confirmed to...
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A Hyperallergic review of Tracey Emin’s retrospective “A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London argues that Emin’s work centers on extreme self-introspection and relies heavily on text—titles and...
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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama said he is considering legal action after alleging he was assaulted by police during a traffic dispute in Tamale in Ghana’s Northern Region over the weekend of 21–22...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is mounting “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” described as the Met’s and America’s first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (1483–1520). The show assembles 237...
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Artist and activist Agosto Machado, a figure in Downtown New York’s queer art scene whose shrine-like altar sculptures are currently included in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday after a brief...
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ARTnews reports that artist Qualeasha Wood accused an emerging performer using the alias Aphex Redditor of copying Wood’s earlier “bed rotting”–themed work after Aphex Redditor’s 24-hour Instagram...
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Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in June, overseeing exhibitions, the collection, and...
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British artist Tracey Emin spoke out against what she called “jingoistic, racist, bigoted behaviour” as her major exhibition “Second Life” opened at Tate Modern in London, following a press preview...
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More than 200 arts professionals, including artists John Akomfrah, Jasleen Kaur, Isaac Julien, and former Barbican artistic director Graham Sheffield, signed an open letter criticizing the Barbican...
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ARTnews reported that London’s Victoria & Albert Museum acquired the first YouTube video ever, marking an expansion of the museum’s collection into early internet culture and digital media history....
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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has acquired “Me at the zoo” (2005), the first video ever uploaded to YouTube. The 19-second clip was posted on April 23, 2005, by YouTube co-founder Jawed...
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Devyani Saltzman is leaving her role as director of arts and participation at London’s Barbican after 18 months, according to reporting cited by The Art Newspaper. The Stage reported that Saltzman...
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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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London’s National Gallery has announced a “strategic reset” after reporting a $11.2 million deficit, prompting plans to reduce staffing and adjust programming. The museum has launched a voluntary...
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London’s National Gallery is preparing staff reductions and program cuts after projecting an £8.2 million deficit for 2026–27, The Art Newspaper reported on 13 February 2026. The museum is offering a...
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London’s Southbank Centre has been granted Grade II listed status by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, giving statutory protection to key parts of the Brutalist arts complex, The Art...
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On 10 February 2026, The Art Newspaper reported that Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei faced a vote at London’s Royal Academy of Arts over whether to revoke his status as an international Royal...
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On 9 February 2026, Indigenous Brazilian leader Ninawa Huni Kui, of the Huni Kui (Kaxinawá) people from Acre, condemned London’s Science Museum for accepting sponsorship from BP ahead of its...
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Stephen Friedman Gallery began an administration process on 2 February 2026, effectively liquidating the business after around 30 years, and both its London and New York spaces are now shut,...
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Art Basel launched its first Qatar edition on 2 February 2026 with an inaugural fair featuring 87 exhibitors and a format designed to feel more like a curated exhibition than a conventional...
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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...
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Artnet News reports that London’s Bernard Jacobson Gallery is highlighting a 1976 multi-artist portfolio of prints made in tribute to British painter John Constable. The portfolio includes works by...