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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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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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Bonhams, working with collectors and musicians Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean and Alicia Keys, launched an initiative ahead of its November New York sales to encourage contributions toward an artist...
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson and built at a reported cost of $1 billion, is facing a lawsuit questioning whether it should be treated...
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The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums in Greece and Scotland, with most works going to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, MOMUS (the Metropolitan...
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Two Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings—reported as Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune femme au puits (1886)—were stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer near Nice, with the mayor’s office...
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Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein has purchased Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot-tall sculpture Blue (2019) for a reported $2 million after the National Park Service removed it from the John F....
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Artist Lucien Smith, who rose quickly to prominence in the early 2010s and later focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at age 37, according to confirmation given to ARTnews by dealer Bill...
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Eight paintings from the collection of record producer Clive Davis, who died this past June, will be sold at Christie’s during the November marquee sales in New York, with a combined value stated as...
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Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos is donating 51 contemporary artworks—mostly by Greek artists—to four museums in Greece and Scotland as part of an ongoing philanthropic campaign. The National...
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Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japan’s 37th Praemium Imperiale, a major international lifetime-achievement prize, and will each receive 15 million yen (about...
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts reported that a section of its Grand Foyer ceiling collapsed after storms, posting images of fallen debris on social media on Friday and saying no...
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Hyperallergic reports that Abstract Mag, an art-focused social media platform with more than 1 million followers, invited artists to what it described as an all-expenses-paid, two-week residency in...
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The $1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park on 22 September, eight years after its 2018 groundbreaking and after delays from an original 2021 target....
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Beyoncé Knowles marked her 45th birthday on September 4 by donating $2 million to the Studio Museum in Harlem, according to ARTnews. Museum director and chief curator Thelma Golden said the gift will...
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Hyperallergic reports that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, will open later in September in Exposition Park in South Los Angeles after nearly two decades...
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Dealer Adam Lindemann is being sued by the Nature Conservancy in a case filed on August 20 in the US District Court for New York’s Eastern District, alleging he installed Julian Schnabel’s...
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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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ARTnews reports that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, a private institution costing more than $1 billion and developed over nearly two decades, is set to open to the public on...
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Christie’s and Bonhams have raised buyer’s premiums, the fees paid on top of hammer prices, according to ARTnews. Christie’s changes take effect September 1, setting premiums at 28% up to and...
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The Trump administration warned the Smithsonian Institution on August 28 that it could lose discretionary support from executive agencies, accusing it of potential violations of federal...
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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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Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda has won the ninth Nam June Paik Prize, a biannual award that includes a ₩50 million (about $36,807) purse and a solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik...
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Venice Biennale Foundation President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco defended the decision to include Russia in the 61st Venice Biennale in an interview with Corriere della Sera, saying he would do...
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New research by arts and finance professor Rachel Pownall argues that rising wealth and income inequality is actively driving increased concentration at the top of the art market, making the cultural...
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Stephan Jost will step down as director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) at the end of the year, the Toronto museum announced on Tuesday. During his tenure, the AGO expanded its modern and...
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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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South Korea’s Art Promotion Act, the country’s first law governing the art market, began implementing its first phase on 26 July, but galleries, auction houses, and dealers report confusion due to...
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The Vienna Actionism Museum (WAM), which opened in March 2024, is facing renewed controversy ahead of its Otto Muehl retrospective, “Otto Muehl: Art on the Precipice,” opening September 10 and...
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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...
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A Connecticut court case over a Keith Haring drawing ended with the selling gallery prevailing after two major auction houses declined to handle the work due to insufficient provenance documentation....
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The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge on Thursday it will pause efforts to add President Donald Trump’s name to the building until at least October 8, delaying the plan by one month amid...
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The UK government has placed an export bar on Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), valued at £71m, calling it the most expensive object ever to receive national-treasure status under the...
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Lisa Havilah has stepped down as chief executive of Sydney’s forthcoming Powerhouse Parramatta, 10 weeks before its scheduled opening on November 7, amid ongoing “investigations into governance and...
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A platinum Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace valued at $4.3 million was stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday after two men entered as ordinary visitors, smashed a display...
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known worldwide for her polka dots, pumpkins, and immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, died aged 97 on 14 August in a Tokyo hospital from multiple organ failure, the Yayoi...
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Lisa Havilah has stepped aside as chief executive officer of Sydney’s A$915m Powerhouse Parramatta museum project, New South Wales arts minister John Graham announced on 27 August, pending...
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Thieves stole much of Spain’s Treasure of Villena from the Villena Museum in a four-minute robbery on Thursday morning, with the alarm sounding around 5:20 a.m. and the perpetrators gone by 5:24...
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Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday for money laundering in a case that ARTnews said closely matches the investigation into German dealer Serop Simonian’s alleged Egyptian...
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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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Rita Flores, the former Pussy Riot member whose real name is Margarita Konovalova, said in an interview posted on the Port Media YouTube channel that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) recruited...
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Hyperallergic reported from the 104th Santa Fe Indian Market, hosted by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) on August 15–16, which featured more than 1,000 Native artists from over...
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The documentary Barbara Forever (2026), directed by Brydie O’Connor, portrays feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer largely through Hammer’s own archival recordings and materials rather than conventional...
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Italian authorities said the August 15 theft of four Antonello da Messina paintings from the Regional Museum of Messina in Sicily raised fears of mafia involvement because the burglars bypassed...
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Faculty at New York City’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) said they were “blindsided” by course and program cancellations as the institution seeks to cut costs amid a $22 million structural deficit,...
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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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Four works by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina were stolen from the Museo Regionale di Messina in Sicily on 15 August during Assumption Day (Ferragosto) celebrations, Messina’s mayor Federico...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) named Brett Littman as its next director and chief executive, with a start date in October. Littman, selected after a six-month national search, will...
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Brazil’s São Paulo state civil police recovered eight works by Henri Matisse stolen in an armed robbery at the Mário de Andrade Library on 7 December 2025, returning them to the library, though five...
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Thieves broke into the Regional Museum of Messina (MuMem) in Sicily during Ferragosto celebrations on a Saturday evening and stole three surviving panels from Antonello da Messina’s altarpiece...
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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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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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China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration has ordered public museums nationwide to strengthen emergency management protocols after summer holiday power outages and overcrowding incidents. On...
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Italian police have recovered three paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, and Henri Matisse stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma in March, with the Carabinieri previously...
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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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Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) launched a digital memorial and oral-history project called “The Living Record” on August 12 to honor Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October...
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Digital artist Lily Belmira has released a free video game that lets users virtually visit Michael Heizer’s land artwork “City” in the Nevada desert, which is otherwise tightly controlled and...
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The BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9 with a lineup of 91 films centered on its theme of “a cinema for liberation.” Among highlighted works were...
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On 5 August, the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) laid off 11 employees, including at least one guard, two registrars, two preparators, an exhibition manager, a development director, and a membership...
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Sotheby’s has secured the collection of late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier (died 2020) and Carlos Pedro Blaquier (died 2023), a group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works...
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An anonymous online search engine called The Last Museum has launched with a database of about 6.3 million artwork images from museum collections worldwide, searchable by descriptive prompts such as...
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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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Steven Nelson, a former senior executive at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., accused the museum of “soft censorship” after it relocated a symposium connected to an exhibition on race...
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A review of the Hammer Museum exhibition Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials describes the show as immersive in moments but ultimately overly cautious. The critic...
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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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Archaeologists working near Machu Picchu identified more than 1.5 miles of pre-Hispanic roads and possible agricultural terraces and platforms using LiDAR, Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced on...
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New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) reported that enrollment has fallen about 34% since 2019 and that it faces a $22 million structural budget deficit, described as the largest in its nearly...
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A commentary in The Art Newspaper questions why Star Wars creator and billionaire collector George Lucas is soliciting public donations and charging admission for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in...
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Mining magnate and Inhotim founder Bernardo Paz announced plans for the Museu Bernardo Paz, a new 311-acre museum complex in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region near Brumadinho, with a first phase scheduled...
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Florence’s Gallerie degli Uffizi announced an “unprecedented” €50 million revamp spanning the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, and the 11-acre Boboli Gardens, with completion expected within two years....
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ARTnews reports that Irish museum workers face precarious employment, low pay, and toxic workplace cultures, according to Dr. Emma McAlister in a blog post for the International Council of Museums...
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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...
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On July 28, a group of about 10 people carried out an overnight theft at the headquarters of Italian fuel distributor Lilli Petroli in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, spending up to eight hours inside and...
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The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft in Sussex, which announced a temporary public closure in January after its final group exhibition “It Takes a Village,” extended that closure in April, released...
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The Uffizi Galleries in Florence announced a €50 million ($57.6 million) renovation program spanning the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, with work staged so...
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Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition “Democracy Matters,” which opened June...
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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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Valerie Hillings, director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) since 2018, has been appointed the inaugural director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi ahead of its opening later this year. The museum,...
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An ARTnews “Morning Links” roundup dated August 5, 2026 reported that museums are increasingly collaborating to purchase high-priced artworks they cannot afford individually, citing an Artnet News...
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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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A House subcommittee appropriations bill approved in June outlines the Trump administration’s preliminary Fiscal Year 2027 budget request for the Smithsonian Institution at $961.3 million, about 11%...
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Campaigners and cultural figures are urging the Scottish government to intervene to prevent the possible sale of the archive of Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), which was listed among...
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Spanish National Police and Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra announced on Tuesday that they recovered a 16th-century gilded and polychromed carved wooden relief stolen in 2010 from the Monastery of...
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On 30 July, Israeli forces detonated 700 tonnes of explosives near Beaufort Castle (Qalaat Al Shaqif) in southern Lebanon, prompting Icomos Lebanon to urge Unesco to investigate. Lebanon’s National...
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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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The Trump administration proposed a fiscal year 2027 federal budget of $961.3 million for the Smithsonian Institution, an approximately 11% cut from the $1.08 billion Congress provided for fiscal...
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Billionaire art collectors Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, the New York Post reported on Friday, and a representative said the split is mutual and...
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Researchers at Santa Clara University—management professor Michael Santoro and analytics professors Haibing Lu and Michele Samorani—launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research to help...
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A US Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General investigation found the New York State Museum (NYSM) in Albany improperly drew down $597,624 in US Geological Survey grant funds between...
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Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier filed a request in US federal court in the Southern District of New York seeking an order compelling Sotheby’s to produce records tied to the private sale of Pablo...
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Performance artist and choreographer Simone Forti died on Wednesday at age 91, prompting renewed attention to her influence on postmodern dance and interdisciplinary art. Hyperallergic notes that...
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Brazilian collector and former mining magnate Bernardo Paz is developing a new museum and botanical garden on a 311-acre site next to Inhotim in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, with the first pavilions...
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A New York judge has ruled that billionaire art dealer David Nahmad may owe millions in prejudgment interest to the heirs of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner in a Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani case...
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Gail Asper, whose father Izzy Asper helped conceive and finance the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, said her family will stop funding the museum over concerns about the...
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Hundreds of archaeological sites in Texas’s Big Bend region, including 6,000-year-old cave paintings, could be threatened by a Trump administration plan to expand the US–Mexico border barrier,...
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The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested a generative-AI marketing concept that animated François Boucher’s 1750 portrait Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour and...
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A New York City Department of Finance database released on 24 July, covering roughly 960,000 properties, drew attention to prominent art-world figures potentially subject to a new pied-à-terre tax on...
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On July 24, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the National Park Service (NPS) director, and the president’s domestic policy aide to install...
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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...
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France’s culture minister Catherine Pégard announced a “national security plan” on July 27 after a series of violent thefts from museums and churches, including the theft of French crown jewels from...
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art recorded a $10 million deficit for fiscal year 2025–2026, which ended June 30, on a $76.5 million budget, according to preliminary documents reviewed by the...
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Japan’s Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto Prefecture on the southwest island of Kyushu was damaged by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on July 28. Video posted to X showed part of the castle’s moat wall...
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American artist Betye Saar died peacefully in her sleep at age 99, four days before her 100th birthday, according to a statement from her gallery Roberts Projects. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar...
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President Donald Trump ordered the Department of the Interior on Friday, July 24, to install content-warning signage outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History along National Park...
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French investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with the July 24 theft of a 2,500-year-old, 24-karat gold Celtic torque from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais—Trésor de Vix in...
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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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Artist Joyce Kozloff publicly identified herself as a founding member of the feminist collective Guerrilla Girls, ending 41 years of anonymity, in an interview with Art Journal Open. Kozloff said her...
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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...
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A 2,500-year-old Celtic gold torque from the Vix Treasure was stolen in broad daylight on July 24 from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, according to...
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The Whitney Museum of American Art will open “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” on October 11, 2026, after delaying the exhibition originally planned for 2023 as part of centennial celebrations that...
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Vanderbilt University announced that Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen (Jen-Hsun) Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, donated $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art,...
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Venice Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco criticized the European Union’s decision to suspend a €2 million ($2.3 million) grant after Russia participated in the Biennale for the first time...
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A team led by Japanese architecture firm Sanaa has been selected to design a new $100m home for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador (Muna) in Quito, after the government annulled the results of an earlier...
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The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) says restoring its fire-destroyed Mackintosh Building will cost around £265m, a sum the school’s board of governors calls “unaffordable,” according to a new Business...
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Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner David L. Johnson, 66, of Greenwich pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal money laundering charge tied to an alleged $2.1 million scheme, according to...
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans in France has launched a “Wanted” poster campaign to help locate 424 artworks missing from its collection, many looted during World War II. Among the most prominent...
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ARTnews reports that some museum curators increasingly express interest in acquiring artworks but ask dealers to find collectors to fund the purchase, effectively shifting fundraising onto galleries....
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Vanderbilt University announced that the San Francisco campus it is acquiring from the California College of the Arts (CCA) will open as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and...
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Artist Refik Anadol presented Smithsonian Dreams, an immersive AI-driven light and sound projection mapped onto the façade of the Smithsonian’s red sandstone Castle during a pause in a renovation...
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The European Union withdrew about €2 million (around $2.3 million) in Venice Biennale funding after Russia resumed participation, saying public money should support cultural events that uphold...
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At the 2026 Christie’s Art + Tech Summit, speakers including CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank, Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan, and ICONIQ Capital founder Michael Anders discussed whether wealth from...
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New York’s New Museum temporarily closed for a weekend after a “significant” leak occurred during flash floods on July 18, with staff using buckets to catch water entering a gallery. The museum said...
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Artists Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi sued the Manhattan gallery The Hole in Manhattan Supreme Court on July 16, alleging nearly $50,000 in unpaid proceeds from consigned artwork sales. The...
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During flash flooding in New York City, the New Museum experienced a significant water leak on Saturday in a gallery showing work by WangShui, with video showing water pooling on the floor and staff...
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Artnet News reports that the Rijksmuseum will mount a major Willem de Kooning survey in Amsterdam in October, featuring more than 120 works and billed as the largest European exhibition of his art in...
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The Art Newspaper reports that Italy has returned 27 archaeological objects to Mexico after multiple investigations found they had been illegally imported, unlawfully sold, or held without...
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ARTnews reports that two former managers of Shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd. were sentenced to 14 years and six months and 12 years in prison for orchestrating auction fraud that led a collector to...
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ARTnews reports that on July 14, U.S. Representatives Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced the PRESERVE Act—short for “Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of...
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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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Two Democratic members of the Congressional Arts Caucus, Dina Titus (Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (Texas), introduced the Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual...
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.’s office announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one that had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum...
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A lawsuit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court alleges that Pierre Soulages’s 1958 painting Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958 was stolen from the Zeckendorf family decades ago and was...
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The Trump administration issued executive proclamations under the Antiquities Act reducing Utah’s Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments by about 90% each, prompting criticism...
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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...
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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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Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after the work was linked to Phoenix Ancient...
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Jacolby Satterwhite was named the inaugural recipient of the Artists Living With Cancer Grant, a new $25,000 award co-presented by the Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg...
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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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A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as “Gus” sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday, becoming the most expensive dinosaur ever auctioned, ARTnews reported. The 67-million-year-old specimen...
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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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A July 13, 2026 Artnet News “Paint Drippings” roundup reported that New York investigators returned about $600,000 worth of looted art. The item also previewed upcoming fairs including Artissima’s...
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Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) announced plans for “MONA Bangkok,” a new branch in Thailand developed with Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC) and led by DarkLab under MONA...
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Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal theft charge for embezzling more than $600,000, according to the US Justice...
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Two suspects in the October 19, 2025 Louvre jewel heist told Paris investigating judges that a “mysterious sponsor” recruited them two or three days before the robbery, according to statements...
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The European Commission recommended canceling a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia’s participation in the event, according to an ARTnews report updated on July 13, 2026. Russia...
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An Artnet News mid-year review published July 11, 2026, compared January–June fine-art auction results at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips using the Artnet Price Database. Phillips reported on...
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In a Hyperallergic weekly roundup, senior editor Valentina Di Liscia highlighted recent coverage ranging from Michael Glover’s review of an Elizabeth I exhibition to Rhea Nayyar’s piece on Surrealist...
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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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South African artist Kate Gottgens accused Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to pay her for sold works and of not returning artworks that remained in the gallery’s possession, according to statements...
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Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after it was seized by the Manhattan District...
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Albanian Prime Minister and artist Edi Rama defended plans for Kanye West to perform on Saturday at a newly built stadium outside Tirana that cost millions of euros, despite continued criticism from...
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Cultural workers with the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) plan to protest in Venice on Friday, July 17, during a scheduled visit by US Ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta. ANGA said Fertitta,...
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The New Museum in New York has promoted Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, to director of the institution. Gioni, who joined the museum in 2006 as a curator and later became...
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Portuguese conceptual artist Luísa Cunha, known for minimalist “sound sculptures” built from whispered recordings and language-based installations, died of cancer at Lisbon’s Hospital de São José on...
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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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The White House published a 162-page report on July 4 titled “Saving America’s Story” accusing the Smithsonian Institution of “extreme political activism” and “anti-White activism,” escalating...
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New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the Met set to fully take over in 2028 and rename the institution the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie. The Neue Galerie,...
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British businessman Jonathan Hornby, 54, was fined £28,000 ($37,400) after pleading guilty on July 1 at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to breaching U.K. sanctions by attempting to ship four artworks,...
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Thieves stole 27 pieces of fine jewelry worth about €4 million (approximately $4.5 million) during an early-morning raid on Sunday, July 5, at the Musée Lalique in Wingen-sur-Moder in France’s...
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Midjourney asked a federal U.S. court to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose details of their artificial-intelligence use, including business plans, training datasets, model...
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An ARTnews.com essay examines the enduring popularity of art-heist stories in contemporary culture, blending personal reflection with references to recent and ongoing cases and entertainment trends....
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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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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...
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Documents released by the US Department of Justice in January as part of the “Epstein files” indicate that investor Leon Black owned major Vincent van Gogh works, including the painting Quarry near...
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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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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council speaker announced a $125.8 billion budget that includes a record $323.8 million appropriation for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in...
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Phillips has sold $1.9 million worth of art and other items from disgraced art adviser Lisa Schiff’s holdings, totaling 231 pieces so far, with additional sales planned. Bankruptcy trustees retained...
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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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After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council approved a record $323.8 million appropriation for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget, a nearly 7%...
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Getty Images and Shutterstock terminated their proposed $3.7 billion merger after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority required the sale of Shutterstock’s editorial business as a condition,...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg removed dozens of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total taken from the museum since 2017 to more than...
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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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A cross-party UK parliamentary report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticizes the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) for an “almost hands-off approach” that leaves England’s 15...
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Media artist Refik Anadol will present “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale A.I.-driven projection on the facade of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m. The...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic essay examines how contemporary artists use “countermapping” to challenge the apparent objectivity of cartography, highlighting recent New York exhibitions of the late Venezuelan...
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Artnet News reports that the Raphael Loggia—an ornate 213-foot-long corridor in Vatican City’s Apostolic Palace decorated with frescoes designed by Raphael—is undergoing its first major restoration...
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The Vatican Museums launched a five-year restoration of Raphael’s Loggias fresco cycle this week, deploying more than 20 experts to conserve the 65-meter (nearly 215-foot) corridor in the Apostolic...
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Sotheby’s announced it will auction more than 900 works from an unnamed collector in a series of sales beginning in October, with a total estimate exceeding $60 million. Branded “Magnum Opus,” the...
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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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Construction has resumed on Bogotá’s Museo de Memoria de Colombia after a three-year pause, but the project’s future has been thrown into uncertainty following the narrow election victory of...
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Paris museums and major tourist sites reduced hours or temporarily closed in late June amid a record-breaking European heatwave, after France recorded its highest average temperature ever at about...
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U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the Trump administration to explain by July 31 why a tarp and scaffolding still cover the Kennedy Center’s facade, obscuring the building’s full name,...
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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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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas—fresh off inaugurating a 114,000-square-foot campus expansion earlier this month—has hired Courtenay Finn as its next chief curator....
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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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French police recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter during a drug raid on 15 June in Champigny-sur-Marne near Paris, according to Le Parisien. The Brigade des Stupéfiants...
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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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Hyperallergic reports that Representative Jerrold (Jerry) Nadler’s impending retirement from Congress could weaken efforts to establish resale royalties for visual artists in the United States....
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During a June 15 police raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb, authorities recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting while also seizing about 40 pounds of cannabis resin, several thousand euros...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published an opinion piece criticizing former Art Basel global director Marc Spiegler’s New York Times guest essay, “Art Galleries Are Not Okay,” arguing that it frames the gallery...
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Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania is opening a major new wing, Phrontisterion, described as the largest construction project in the museum’s 15-year history and backed by founder...
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Artnet News published “What Sold at Art Basel” on 22 June 2026 as part of its Price Database coverage of the fair. The provided excerpt contains navigation and site links but does not include any of...
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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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Artnet reports that dealers described Art Basel 2026 as commercially healthy, though with a slower pace and fewer collectors than before the market downturn. Major sales cited include Hauser & Wirth...
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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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The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opened to the public on Juneteenth (19 June) in Chicago’s Hyde Park, with its centerpiece a towering granite-clad museum designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien...
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Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos (MUT) opened earlier this month near the Templo Mayor archaeological site, celebrating Indigenous and Afro-Mexican textile...
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Refik Anadol has opened Dataland in Downtown Los Angeles, described as the world’s first AI art museum, occupying 25,000 square feet in Frank Gehry’s Grand LA development across from Walt Disney...
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A New York Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday, June 16, that billionaire dealer David Nahmad has 30 days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), valued at more than $25...
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Brooklyn-based artist and designer Gavin Snider accused TikTok-famous artist Devon Rodriguez of copying two paintings depicting New York Knicks fans and Madison Square Garden, alleging the...
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On 16 June, the New York Supreme Court ruled that dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) within 30 days to Philippe Maestracci, grandson of Jewish dealer...
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Louvre president-director Christophe Leribault, in office since February, told the French Senate’s Committee on Culture on Wednesday that the museum is “at the end of its rope,” citing aging...
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The US House Appropriations Committee, chaired by Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma, advanced a budget proposal that could eliminate funding for the Department of Education’s Assistance for Arts...
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Artnet News reports that Art Basel’s invite-only opening on Tuesday featured cautious, “measured and steady” buying as dealers and collectors looked for signs of market recovery among 290 exhibitors....
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A coalition of preservation and cultural groups has sued in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to halt President Donald Trump’s proposed “National Garden of American Heroes,” a statuary...
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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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British artist David Hockney died at home on 11 June aged 88, prompting tributes from artists, curators, and museum leaders highlighting his influence across media. Tracey Emin called him a “great...
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The Obama Foundation unveiled the first official dual portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama on Monday, June 15, commissioning Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. The...
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Artnet News’s “The Art Trade’s Talent Problem,” published on June 15, 2026, examines hiring and retention challenges in the art market. The piece focuses on how the industry’s working conditions and...
Hyperallergic
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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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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The Cleveland Museum of Art announced a $600 million fundraising campaign titled “For the Benefit of All the People,” aimed at supporting the museum’s long-term financial health and sustaining...
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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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German painter Georg Baselitz died a week before the opening of his Venice exhibition “Eroi d’Oro (Golden Heroes)” on San Giorgio Maggiore, on view until 27 September. The show features monumental...
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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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Charleston’s International African American Museum (IAAM) announced it will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, in a 20-day program beginning July 1 and running into December in...
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ARTnews highlighted “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” a monographic exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago featuring over 100 works by New York artist Martin Wong, including 11 never-before-exhibited...
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Photographer Duane Michals died at age 94 on Tuesday, June 9, in a Manhattan hospital, according to confirmation from DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013. Michals was known for...
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A Rio de Janeiro justice court ordered Fábio Szwarcwald, former director of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Mam Rio), to pay a 100,000 reais (about $20,000) fine for breach of contract....
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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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Three men were sentenced to 47 months in prison each for stealing Iron Age Romanian gold from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, during a pre-dawn heist on January 25, 2025. Thieves blasted...
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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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has opened a major expansion just 15 years after its 2011 debut, adding about 114,000 square feet to its original 200,000-square-foot...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park is set to open to the public later in June, following five years of construction and landscape reshaping. The $850...
Hyperallergic
Official renderings released on June 8 show that the winning redesign for New York City’s Penn Station will include President Donald Trump’s name carved into a wall near a presidential seal. The...
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ARTnews profiles VJayBombs, a Los Angeles guerrilla projection collective whose anti-Trump street-art interventions have gained a large online following, including nearly 300,000 followers across...
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Artnet News’s “Art Market Minute” column dated June 8, 2026 asks whether the “mega-gallery” business model is faltering, framing the question around recent pressures in the high-end gallery sector....
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In an Artnet News piece published June 7, 2026, the outlet surveys five dinosaur-themed artworks from the Artnet Gallery Network, linking contemporary art to long-running public fascination with...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara highlights major industry and cultural stories, led by Pace Gallery cutting one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff, including removing 50...
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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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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
Pace Gallery has laid off 50 workers and cut 50 artists from its roster, according to Hyperallergic, amounting to about one-fifth of its staff and roughly one-third of its artists. CEO Marc Glimcher...
Hyperallergic
Prediction-market platform Kalshi has launched an art-focused category allowing users to wager on auction outcomes, including whether Andy Warhol will break his auction record this year and whether...
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Pace Gallery, which operates seven locations worldwide, is cutting about 50 artists from its roster and laying off roughly 50 staff as part of what CEO Marc Glimcher called a “model correction,”...
Hyperallergic
Pace Gallery has laid off 50 employees and dropped 50 artists, reducing its roster by about 30% and its staff by about 20% to around 200 from roughly 250, according to reporting confirmed by...
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Architect Kulapat Yantrasast, founder and creative director of WHY Architecture and a designer of major museum projects including work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been...
Hyperallergic
Makeda Best will join New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as chief curator of Photography starting in September, according to Hyperallergic’s 2026 roundup column “Art Movements.” Best is currently...
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French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist, and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for co-writing and co-directing the animated film Persepolis, has died at age 56, ARTnews reported. Her family...
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A French Culture Ministry report presented on Wednesday said it is safe to transport the 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry to the UK for a British Museum exhibition opening in July, according to ARTnews...
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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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French investigators have reportedly expanded their probe into the theft of eight French crown jewels from the Louvre—valued at €88 million ($102 million)—to Belgium, nearly eight months after the...
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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 controversy at The Photography Show (Aipad) in April centered on gallerist James Danziger selling AI-generated “colourised” editions of Ansel Adams’s black-and-white photograph Moonrise, Hernandez,...
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A French judge has ruled that a judicial court in Rouen, Normandy, can proceed with a lawsuit brought by heirs of Claude Monet against Wildenstein & Co. The complaint concerns a 2004 exchange in...
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Muralist and conservationist artist Robert Wyland has filed a $25 million federal lawsuit after his Dallas mural Ocean Life (1999) was painted over in May ahead of World Cup-related activity. The...
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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....
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New York’s May marquee auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s signaled renewed strength at the blue-chip end of the art market after a couple of slow years, fueled by major estate consignments and...
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The estate of Piet Mondrian has partnered with web3 entertainment company Doodles to release a set of on-chain digital collectibles (NFTs) that remix five Mondrian works in Doodles’ pastel palette....
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas will open a major expansion on 6 June, adding 114,000 square feet to its 134-acre campus and increasing overall space by about 50%....
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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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Mexico’s Chichén Itzá reopened on 1 June after an unprecedented 13-day closure triggered by community opposition to relocating long-standing vendors into a new tourist complex. The dispute involves...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic commentary by gallerist Marc J. Straus argues that record auction headlines—such as Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A selling for $181.2 million and a Brâncuși work selling for $107.6...
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Chinese archaeologist Liu Bin, known for his work at the Liangzhu ancient city site in Zhejiang, pleaded guilty on May 20 to bribery and embezzlement charges, according to Caixin Global. Prosecutors...
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The British Museum in Bloomsbury was briefly evacuated on Saturday after staff found a “suspicious device” in a restroom, prompting a Metropolitan Police response around 2:50 p.m. local time. Police...
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Arts Council England (ACE) has replaced its 2020–2030 flagship strategy Let’s Create with an interim Strategic Framework after a government-commissioned review led by Labour peer Margaret Hodge,...
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...
Hyperallergic
Outdoor apparel company Patagonia has sued drag queen and environmental activist Pattie Gonia— the persona of Oregon-based Wyn Wiley—for trademark infringement, prompting backlash from activists and...
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Art writer and cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest, 89, has sued socialite and collector Libbie Mugrabi in New York State Supreme Court, alleging she has refused to return 97 original cartoons that have...
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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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On Wednesday ahead of the June 4 opening of the Centre Pompidou’s Seoul satellite museum, a group of prominent French artists published an open letter calling for a boycott of the new outpost,...
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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Federal documents obtained by the New York Times show that a no-bid contract to overhaul the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool expanded to about $13.1 million, far above President Donald Trump’s...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for May 28, 2026 reports a backlash in Spain after the Galician regional government appointed Eva López Tarrío, a high school art teacher and civil servant with a PhD in Fine...
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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
An AI-generated “colourised” version of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) shown by New York gallery Danziger at the Aipad Photography Show in April sparked backlash among...
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Christie’s appointed François-Henri Pinault as board chairman and non-executive director, a move that signals the end of Guillaume Cerutti’s tenure as chairman. François-Henri Pinault, president of...
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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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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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A Russian strike on Kyiv caused “serious damage” to the National Art Museum of Ukraine when a blast wave hit the building, though the collection and staff were not harmed. Reform.news reported that...
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”...
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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In the early hours of Sunday, May 24, Russia launched a major strike on Kyiv and its surrounding region, killing four people and injuring about 100, according to the BBC. The Ukrainian air force...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Spanish galleon San José, carrying gold, silver, and emeralds, sank off Colombia in 1708 after being destroyed by the British during the War of the Spanish Succession, killing nearly 600 people...
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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Artnet News reports that Studio 54 Fine Art, founded in Milan in 2016 by director Gary Williamson, is pursuing a flexible gallery model without a permanent brick-and-mortar space. The gallery stages...
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The British Museum announced that tickets for its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition—running September 10 through July 11, 2027—will cost up to £33 (about $45) for peak times, with off-peak adult tickets...
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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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Museums across England have largely opposed a UK government proposal to explore charging admission for overseas visitors at national museums, warning it could harm the country’s reputation and...
Hyperallergic
Unionized staff at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts have called for renaming the institution and other campus facilities named after billionaire benefactor Les Wexner, citing his...
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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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Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a renewed five-year partnership with Chanel as the museum prepares for a long closure through 2030 during a renovation estimated at over $500 million. Chanel and the...
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Spanish lawmakers have demanded that the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía complete a full, updated inventory of its collection by December 31, 2026, and warned that failure should lead the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg announced that it returned 657 looted antiquities valued at nearly $14 million to India at a ceremony at India’s consulate in New York City....
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The Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia has received a £91.2 million donation from British politician and businessman David Sainsbury via his Gatsby charitable foundation, described as...
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Rome’s Galleria Borghese is facing controversy after news emerged of a privately funded feasibility study, sponsored by engineering firm Proger, to explore adding exhibition and visitor space on the...
Hyperallergic
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will screen Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s 2006 film “Zidane, a 21st century portrait” from June 11 to July 19. The two-channel work follows French soccer...
Hyperallergic
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) President Ravi S. Rajan was loudly booed by students during the school’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, as protesters held signs reading “Hold the...
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Dubai has announced plans for a new Museum of Digital Art (MODA), a major institution dedicated to tech-driven art forms such as immersive and interactive experiences. MODA is part of Dubai’s $27...
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Hong Kong’s M+ and the Centre Pompidou in Paris have signed a multi-year partnership agreement, formalising collaboration on joint curatorial research, exhibition development and sharing,...
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The Palm Springs Art Museum issued a three-page statement saying a six-month investigation prompted by a whistleblower complaint found allegations of fraud and theft were “not substantiated,” while...
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A three-day performance program titled “Exert: The Physics of Metaphysics” took place in early May at Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS), a venue in what was once William S. Burroughs’s Bowery loft in New...
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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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The Louvre in Paris announced that Selldorf Architects (New York), led by Annabelle Selldorf, will partner with Studios Architecture Paris to design its “Nouvelle Renaissance” expansion, a project...
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Guatemala’s cultural ministry has formally requested the repatriation from Mexico of a Maya limestone lintel that Mexico officially repatriated on 16 April after an unnamed US businessman brought it...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York’s Neue Galerie will merge in 2028, with the Met taking ownership of the Neue Galerie’s Beaux-Arts mansion and renaming it the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue...
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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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The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit founded in 1998, filed a lawsuit on April 12 in the U.S. District Court in Washington against the U.S. Department of the...
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The Getty Foundation awarded an additional $1.8 million to its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, which supports processing, digitizing, preserving, and activating archival collections related to...
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A French parliamentary commission led by MPs Alexis Corbière and Alexandre Portier accused the Louvre of prioritizing “prestige and influence” over security ahead of the October 19, 2025 jewel heist...
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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...
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Artnet News reports that the Brooklyn Museum is presenting “Sculpting the Senses,” a retrospective of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen spanning roughly two decades and featuring more than 140...
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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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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...
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation has sued the Trump administration over alterations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, seeking to halt the project via a temporary restraining order or...
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ARTnews reports that the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale sparked controversy after posting on Instagram that Pussy Riot had requested removal of footage featuring the collective from a...
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Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, known for championing artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, died at age 86, Artnet News reported on May 12, 2026. The article describes him as...
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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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Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli told Corriere della Sera in an interview published May 7 that “Putin won at the Biennale,” criticizing Russia’s controversial return to the Venice Biennale...
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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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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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Artnet News reported on 11 May 2026 that a previously unknown copy of "Cædmon’s Hymn," widely regarded as the earliest-known English poem, was discovered in a library in Rome. The find adds a new...
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Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, founder of the Zurich-based Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (established 1963), has died at age 86, the gallery announced on Saturday. Bischofberger helped introduce...
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Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Image and Sound (MIS-RJ) opens to the public on 8 May after more than 16 years in development. The 10,000-sq.-m, eight-floor waterfront building on Avenida Atlântica was...
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Radiohead is presenting Motion Picture House KID A MNESIA, a multimedia installation and screening experience at the Brooklyn Navy Yard running through June 28, with multiple timed showings per day...
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Christophe Leribault, the Louvre’s new director and former president of the Palace of Versailles until February, outlined a post-heist vision for the museum in a May 5 interview with Le Monde. The...
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The Art Newspaper reviews international efforts to curb the wartime looting and illicit trade of movable cultural property, focusing on legal tools and their limits. It highlights the 1954 Hague...
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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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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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Pussy Riot staged a protest at the Russia Pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini at 11 a.m., using pink smoke, Ukrainian flags, and chants including “Disobey!” and “Blood is Russia’s art!” to...
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ARTnews reports that US border wall construction in Arizona damaged a 200-foot-long fish-shaped land etching (an intaglio) believed to be about 1,000 years old, with a 60-to-70-foot section...
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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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ARTnews criticizes “Costume Art,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring Costume Institute exhibition, for what it calls weak art-historical comparisons between fashion and artworks displayed side...
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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,...
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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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American sculptor Mel Kendrick’s exhibition “Mel Kendrick: Tilt,” his ninth solo show with David Nolan Gallery in New York, presents new and recent works alongside older pieces, tracing a fresh phase...
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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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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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The US Supreme Court ruled on 20 February that President Donald Trump’s earlier unilateral “reciprocal” tariffs—imposed under an emergency powers law—were unconstitutional, with six justices finding...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, received a $116 million gift from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation to endow its Across the Nation lending program permanently, the largest...
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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’...
Hyperallergic
Construction crews working on President Donald Trump’s border wall damaged part of the Las Playas Intaglio, an archaeological ground etching in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge...
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Robert Dunlap, 55, a Houston man, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that claimed to be backed by masterpieces by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Vincent van...
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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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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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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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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Artnet outlines major controversies surrounding the Venice Biennale’s next cycle, focusing on Russia’s planned return in 2026 and the resulting political backlash. Italian culture minister Alessandro...
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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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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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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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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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ARTnews reported that Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the Venice Biennale preview or opening ceremony on May 9 in protest of Russia’s return via its national pavilion, which...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic opinion essay titled “The Death of the Art School,” a faculty member at Purchase College (State University of New York) argues that corporatization has reframed students as...
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At a press conference for the 42nd edition of Art Brussels (April 23–26), fair director Nele Verhaeren said the event is smaller this year, with 138 participating galleries—26 fewer than last year, a...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara previews the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, describing it as likely to be a politically charged edition and noting uncertainty about whether protests will...
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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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The Venice Biennale jury announced on Thursday that Israel and Russia will be ineligible for the Biennale’s top awards (the Golden and Silver Lions) under a new rule barring prizes for countries...
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ARTnews reports that DATALAND, a museum dedicated to AI art co-founded by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, will open in Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry....
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the 2026 AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory brought 82 exhibitors together and ran through Sunday, April 26, with a notable emphasis on Latin American and...
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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....
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that artist Xandra Ibarra performed “Nude Laughing” (2014–) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Thursday, April 16, as part of the museum’s ongoing exhibition “Subvert,...
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Artnet News reports that Gagosian is opening a new 2,275-square-foot, street-level gallery at 980 Madison Avenue, a building that originally opened in 1949 as the home of Parke-Bernet Galleries. The...
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The Art Newspaper reviews Peter Zumthor’s new Los Angeles County Museum of Art building, now called the David Geffen Galleries, awarding it a four-star rating and noting its $724 million cost. The...
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Sculptor Alma Allen discussed the backlash to his selection to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in an interview on the podcast “Time Sensitive,” recorded at his home in Mexico City...
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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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Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation has revoked the National Award for Arts it gave to artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung in 2018 and ordered him to return the NTD 1 million (about $32,000) prize...
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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...
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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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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (Aipad) opened the 45th edition of The Photography Show on April 22, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The fair includes about 65...
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Billionaire collector and National Gallery of Art trustee Mitchell Rales donated an additional $116 million to endow the NGA’s Across the Nation lending initiative in perpetuity, expanding a program...
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A Dutch government-appointed Committee on Heirless Jewish Looted Art recommended transferring guardianship of “orphaned” Nazi-looted objects in the Netherlands Art Property Collection (the NK...
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 Louvre Museum’s architectural competition for its “New Renaissance” renovation is expected to restart in mid-May, with the jury reportedly scheduled to meet on May 13 to review five shortlisted...
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Documents released to the Washington Post after a court order show that the fundraising contract for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom permits anonymous donations and lacks...
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A mass shooting at Mexico’s Teotihuacan archaeological site on Monday, April 20, left one Canadian woman dead and 13 people injured after a gunman opened fire shortly after 11:30am from atop the...
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NEON, the Athens-based contemporary art initiative founded by collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude later this year after 14 years, saying it has fulfilled its cultural and social mission....
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ARTnews reports that escalating conflict involving US and Israeli strikes on Iran, followed by Iranian attacks on the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, is undermining the Gulf’s image as a...
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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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The US-Israel war on Iran has disrupted art shipping routes and driven up transport costs, particularly affecting Asia-based supply chains, according to art logistics professionals. Brent Crude...
Hyperallergic
A focused exhibition of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s mail art submissions to the Canadian collective General Idea is on view at Art Metropole in Toronto through May 31. Drawn from the National Gallery...
Hyperallergic
Mexico will reroute a planned $8 billion high-speed passenger train from Mexico City to Querétaro after archaeologists documented 16 pre-Hispanic artworks—paintings and petroglyphs—along the proposed...
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Artnet News reports that the San Francisco Art Fair (SFAF), presented by Art Market Production (AMP), opened this week with 88 local, national, and international exhibitors and 46 regional cultural...
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In an Artnet News “Back Room” recap published April 18, 2026, Sotheby’s faces scrutiny over liquidity amid multiple developments, including a lawsuit by a New York real estate broker seeking a $10.2...
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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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The Denver Art Museum has returned to Turkey a marble head of a bearded man that was stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna (present-day Izmir), an object Turkey says was unearthed in the city’s...
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A five-star review in The Art Newspaper praises “Rothko in Florence,” a major exhibition examining how Florence influenced American painter Mark Rothko (1903–70), who visited the city three times in...
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Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture said Finland’s political leadership will not attend the Venice Biennale this year if the Russian Pavilion returns as planned, citing Russia’s ongoing war...
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ARTnews reviews the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which open to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4, as an attempt to present a non-linear,...
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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...
Hyperallergic
MoMA PS1’s sixth Greater New York quinquennial opened on April 16 during the museum’s 50th anniversary year, presenting work by more than 50 New York City–based artists described as being in 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 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is preparing to reopen its permanent collection after seven years with the new Peter Zumthor–designed David Geffen Galleries, a major component of a...
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Artnet News reports that Art Dubai has sharply reduced its scale and revised its format as war disrupts planning for the fair. The article, published April 15, 2026, describes the downsizing as a...
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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 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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Brady Lum, 59, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in federal court to a theft charge tied to allegations he misappropriated museum...
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Hampshire College, a liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after 51 years and is set to shutter following the fall 2026 semester, according to ARTnews. The college has been...
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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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A settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and plaintiffs the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has preserved...
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The European Commission has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to address allegations that including a Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition violates EU sanctions, warning it could suspend or terminate...
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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...
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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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The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close for one year starting 15 March 2027 for its most significant upgrades since it opened in 1997, after welcoming 1.3 million visitors last year. The...
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ARTnews reported that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will continue operating after the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and...
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ARTnews reported that Yuga Labs and artist Ryder Ripps, along with Ripps’s business partner Jeremy Cahen, reached a confidential settlement on Tuesday ending their legal dispute over the Bored Ape...
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ARTnews reported that the Trump administration has submitted a design to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts for a proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch intended to face the Lincoln Memorial and rise at...
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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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Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan will open a new exhibition, A New Integrity, on 11 April at Pavilion 13 in Kyiv, addressing wartime limb loss as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fifth year. The...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic profiles New York-based archivist Saad Khan and his project Khajistan, a digital and physical archive and independent press devoted to censored, banned, and overlooked mass media from...
Artnet News
A New York Supreme Court judge, Joel M. Cohen, ruled in early April 2026 that the estate of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner is the rightful owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man...
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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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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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Centre Pompidou Hanwha is set to open in Seoul on June 4, following three years of planning, with the date marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The outpost...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The New York Supreme Court ruled that Lebanese billionaire art dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), a painting estimated to be worth up to $30 million,...
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DePaul University announced on 26 February that it will close the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in Lincoln Park, with the museum set to shut on 30 June, prompting an open letter from students and faculty...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Hole, a gallery founded in 2010 by Kathy Grayson, has permanently closed its West Hollywood space after a period of late payments to artists and workers, unpaid rent, and broader financial strain...
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Artist Josh Kline’s essay “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art,” published by October and made available online for free, has become a widely discussed critique of New York’s art...
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Canadian cultural tourism to the United States has fallen sharply amid strained relations during President Donald Trump’s administration, including his calls to annex Canada as the 51st state and...
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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....
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s roundup, introduced by senior editor Valentina Di Liscia, spotlights Ed Simon’s essay on Salvador Dalí’s religious paintings and his “nuclear mysticism,” which fused quantum physics...
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The Musée du Louvre appointed art historian Christophe Leribault, 62, as director on 25 February, tasking him—according to French President Emmanuel Macron—with “appeasement” after a crown jewels...
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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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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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Artnet News reported that artist David Nott’s textured abstract works are being presented digitally through LG Gallery+, expanding access to his practice via a screen-based platform. The article...
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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...
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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Unesco granted “enhanced protection” to 39 cultural sites in Lebanon on 1 April during an extraordinary session of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed...
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Donald Trump’s plan for a $400 million White House ballroom has been halted after a federal judge ordered construction to stop unless Congress authorizes the project. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon...
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Artnet News reported on 2 April 2026 that experts are raising alarms after a brazen heist at Italy’s Magnani-Rocca Foundation. The article frames the theft as a serious security breach at a museum...
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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’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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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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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Thieves stole three works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne from the Magnani Rocca Foundation’s villa museum near Parma, Italy, on the night of March 22, 2026, according to...
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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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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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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At least 34 members of the European Parliament (with Politico reporting 37 signatories) have urged the EU to suspend all funding to the Venice Biennale Foundation if Russia participates, The Art...
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...
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ARTnews reports that 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter urging the European Union to stop all funding to the Venice Biennale amid controversy over Russia’s planned pavilion, its...
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San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has put its Daniel Libeskind-designed downtown building up for sale after closing in December 2024 and laying off 80% of its staff due to low...
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Tad Smith, former Sotheby’s CEO and current chairman of Doodles, has agreed to buy most assets of the digital collectibles platform Candy Digital and said on X that he will become CEO when the...
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OpenAI announced it will shut down its standalone Sora AI video app just months after launching it last fall, saying it will share timelines for the app and API and details on preserving users’ work....
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The Brooklyn Museum announced a $13 million renovation to create a dedicated 6,400-square-foot home for its African art collection, with an opening planned for fall 2027 and an inaugural display of...
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The Brooklyn Museum is planning a $13 million renovation to create new African art galleries, according to Artnet News. The project is intended to overhaul and re-present the museum’s African art...
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...
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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The Louvre announced a four-year restoration of Peter Paul Rubens’s Marie de’ Medici cycle, calling it the “most ambitious restoration in the history of the Department of Paintings.” The 24 canvases,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that online commenters reacted intensely to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly acquired “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist” (1512–13), recently identified as...
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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Artnet News reports that Art Basel’s parent company, MCH Group, is backing a new initiative called the Futurific Institute, planned to launch in Basel in 2028 as a large-scale “global ideas festival”...
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ARTnews reports that the Venice Biennale’s Central Pavilion in the Giardini has been fully renovated ahead of the Biennale’s May 2026 opening, with a total budget of €31 million (about $36 million)....
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ARTnews reports that Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro warned Russia that its pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale will be closed if it engages in propaganda. Brugnaro made the remarks at the opening...
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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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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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Hyperallergic’s weekend roundup “Iranian Artist Speaks Her Heart,” introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, centers on a text by Iranian artist Leila Seyedzadeh, who lives in New York and writes...
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The New Museum in New York will reopen to the public on March 21 after a two-year closure for an $82 million expansion designed by OMA, debuting this week to mixed reactions. The reopening includes...
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Artnet News reported on 19 March 2026 that Art Dubai postponed its 20th edition as the war involving Iran continued. The decision was presented as a response to the ongoing regional conflict and its...
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San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) said it plans to sell its Daniel Libeskind–designed building in Yerba Buena Gardens as part of a strategy to stabilize finances and avoid draining its...
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Fort Lauderdale’s legal challenge to Florida’s crackdown on painted street artworks—many of them Pride-themed—may reach a one-day final hearing in May, according to ARTnews. The crackdown began in...
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Hyperallergic’s weekly “Art Movements” roundup reported that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth with a one-time set of four $100,000...
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New York’s New Museum will unveil an $82 million expansion on 21 March after four years of construction, adding a new 60,000-square-foot building that doubles the museum’s footprint to 120,000 square...
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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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On 26 February 2026, the Vancouver Art Gallery announced a gift of more than 800 photographs by Stephen Shore from the Chan family, largely from Shore’s landmark “Uncommon Places” series (1973–81)....
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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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Hyperallergic reported that Los Angeles artist Judy Baca denied allegations that she misused a $5 million grant connected to an iconic LA mural project. The article focuses on Baca’s response to...
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The provided excerpt for ARTnews’s article “Ukraine Adopts New Resolution on Evacuating Museum Objects From Conflict Zones” does not include the article’s readable body text, so key factual details...
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Laurence des Cars has resigned as director of the Louvre amid a series of crises at the museum. Artnet News reports her departure follows a $102 million jewel heist, a ticket fraud scheme, multiple...
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Ukraine has adopted a government resolution intended to simplify the evacuation of more than three million pieces of cultural property from frontline areas as the war with Russia enters its fifth...
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The Art Newspaper reported on 23 February 2026 that Ukrainian-born jewellery artist Aleksandr Dotsenko died of a heart attack on 19 February while serving a prison sentence in Russia. Dotsenko, 65,...
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On 23 February 2026, The Art Newspaper detailed the development of a new Ukraine Cultural Heritage Fund as Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches its fifth year. Announced at the fourth Ukraine...
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An Artnet News profile published on February 22, 2026, examines sculptor James Doran-Webb’s process for making animal figures from driftwood. The article describes how he assembles found wood into...
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In an Artnet News article titled “Can Performance Art Win Over a New Generation of Collectors?”, the publication reports that performance art has been commercially sellable for decades but is being...
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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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Former owners of The Art Newspaper and L’Officiel have alleged that AMTD still owes them buyout payments, even as AMTD-linked entities pursue or complete IPO listings, according to ARTnews. The...
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The US Supreme Court has struck down tariffs imposed under former president Donald Trump that had created volatility for the art market, ARTnews reported. The decision affects duties that influenced...
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On 19 February 2026, Artnet News reported that the U.S. Department of Justice released roughly 3 million additional files related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...
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ARTnews reported that a Louvre official said fraud was “statistically inevitable” after the museum revealed a counterfeit ticket scheme. The article describes the incident as involving fake Louvre...
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ARTnews reported that billionaire collector Les Wexner said in a U.S. Congress deposition that he was “conned” by Jeffrey Epstein. The article centers on Wexner’s account of his relationship with...
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ARTnews published a Q&A with Paul Slocum, an early advocate for digital art, about efforts to build a sustainable ecosystem for digital work. Slocum discusses how artists, collectors, and...
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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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Ireland announced a permanent “Basic Income for the Arts” (BIA) scheme on 10 February 2026, committing around €18 million, following a pilot that ran from 2022 to 2025. The pilot provided 2,000...
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Paris’s Arab World Institute (Institut du monde arabe, IMA) appointed French diplomat Anne-Claire Legendre, 46, to replace Jack Lang as chair, making her the first woman to lead the institution since...
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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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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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French authorities have made arrests in connection with an alleged decade-long ticket fraud scheme at the Musée du Louvre that prosecutors estimate cost the museum €10 million. According to Paris...
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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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An Artnet News roundup reports that a major new contemporary art center is being planned in Manila, alongside updates from across Asia’s art scene. The article also surveys recent art fairs in Qatar,...
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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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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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French authorities arrested individuals connected to an alleged $11.8 million ticket-fraud scheme involving the Louvre, according to an Artnet News report. The investigation has added to the Paris...
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Artnet News reported that a hidden camera was discovered in a restroom at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, prompting an investigation and raising concerns about visitor privacy. The article, published on 12...
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On 12 February 2026, Jersey City mayor James Solomon said plans for a Centre Pompidou outpost in Jersey City, New Jersey, are “dead,” citing the city’s reported $255 million deficit. The most recent...
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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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Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art announced that the 59th Carnegie International will feature 61 artists and collectives and run from 2 May 2026 to 3 January 2027. Reported by The Art Newspaper on...
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Artnet News reported that Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger has joined the roster of the international gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. The article characterizes Holzinger as...
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ARTnews reported that a Belgian museum holding colonial-era records related to the Congo is facing a request for access from a minerals company seeking historical documentation. The article centers...
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A solo exhibition by painter Amy Sherald set a new visitor record at the Baltimore Museum of Art, according to Hyperallergic. The article reports that attendance for Sherald’s show surpassed previous...
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UK cultural organisations focused on prisons criticised government contractor Serco for removing artworks from court custody suites across England and Wales, according to a report discussed by The...
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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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ARTnews reports that a viral video falsely claimed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s stolen Rembrandt is referenced in the so-called “Epstein files.” The article states there is no evidence that...
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David A. Ross resigned as chair of the Master of Fine Arts in art practice department at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA), effective 3 February, after newly released “Epstein Files” documents...
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ARTnews reported that investigators found decades-long mismanagement and corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum. The investigation described systemic governance and financial problems spanning many...
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During Mexico City Art Week, the satellite fairs Feria Material and Salón Acme drew record crowds at VIP previews on 5 February 2026, with Material reporting its biggest opening-day attendance ever...
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Galería Tianguis Neza, a pop-up gallery operating every Sunday inside Mexico City’s La Lagunilla street market, sells artworks directly from artists at “precios de tianguis” (street-market prices) to...
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Mexico City is planning a large cultural programme to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in June at the recently renovated Estadio Azteca—its third World Cup opening match after...
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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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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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Art Basel Qatar’s early sales were characterized by high-stakes, private negotiations involving VIP collectors, including members of Gulf royal families, according to Artnet’s market reporting dated...
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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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The Louvre has indefinitely postponed announcing the winning architect for its planned $776 million expansion, according to ARTnews. The delay leaves the project’s next steps uncertain and pauses a...
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Hyperallergic’s article considers how the art world has responded in the years following Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, focusing on reputational fallout and the scrutiny of elite networks that...
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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 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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In a column published by Artnet News on 5 February 2026, collector and gallerist Adam Lindemann argues that the art world is facing an oversupply problem similar to the wine industry’s glut, with too...
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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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Newly released US Department of Justice documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, made public on 30 January 2026, name several prominent art-world figures, including former French culture minister Jack...
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Hyperallergic reported that newly released Epstein-related files include detailed allegations involving financier and art patron Leon Black. The excerpt provided does not include the publication date...
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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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Newly surfaced “Epstein Files” documents described by Artnet News outline how convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein helped structure opaque art-world transactions involving billionaire Leon Black’s art...
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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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Art Basel Qatar opened its first edition in Doha on 3 February 2026 with strong VIP interest but limited first-day sales, according to Artnet News. The fair features 87 exhibitors in a booth-less...
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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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On 2 February 2026, The Art Newspaper detailed President Donald Trump’s recent interventions in Washington, DC architecture, including demolishing the White House’s historic East Wing in October to...
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Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) announced it is closing permanently and entering liquidation, with all programmes cancelled and 39 staff made redundant; the closure took effect on 30...
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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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ARTnews reported that newly surfaced files indicate Jeffrey Epstein advised financier Leon Black on the purchase of a Pablo Picasso painting priced at $115 million from the Gagosian gallery. The...
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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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Hyperallergic reports that another NFT platform is shutting down, reflecting continued contraction in the market for non-fungible tokens. The article frames the closure as part of a broader pattern...
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Hyperallergic argues that policies associated with President Donald Trump are creating new risks for the US art market, including uncertainty for galleries, collectors, and cultural institutions. The...
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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...