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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 Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford has agreed to repatriate 39 pieces of human remains—primarily skulls—to the Indigenous Naga people, with the transfer to Nagaland, India, planned by...
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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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Philippe Parreno’s melting sculpture Iceman in Reality Park (1995–2023) will make its New York debut at Independent 20th Century in the Breuer building, presented by Esther Schipper. The gallery’s...
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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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ARTnews highlighted five notable works at Portland’s Converge 45 triennial, founded in 2016 by dealer Elizabeth Leach to draw attention to art on the 45th parallel. The latest edition, titled “Here,...
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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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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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Beyoncé marked her 45th birthday on 4 September by donating $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem, alongside releasing a deluxe anniversary edition of her 2006 album B’Day. The gift comes just under a...
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Artist Kehinde Wiley responded indirectly to controversy over his 2013 painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, formerly displayed at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, by selling a $120...
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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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The CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Tracey Bates, told the New York Times that staff turnover and layoffs in 2025 did not alter the museum’s direction, saying George Lucas “has always been...
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Chinese artists scheduled to participate in the 16th Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew on the eve of the exhibition’s opening on September 5, following a directive from the Chinese embassy in...
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Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon” examines how Frida Kahlo’s image and mythology were constructed and later reused, rather than presenting a large-scale survey of her paintings....
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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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An open letter with more than 600 signatures criticizes Beeple’s AI-driven artwork “Diffuse Control” (2025), scheduled to appear next month at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin,...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and British fashion designer John Galliano canceled a planned Costume Institute exhibition honoring Galliano after backlash over his past antisemitic...
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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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Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher is among politicians and public figures criticizing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned John Galliano exhibition, according to a New York Times report...
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation refused to license Mapplethorpe’s 1981 portrait Roy Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to...
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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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Turkish media executive Vuslat Doğan Sabancı—known professionally as Vuslat—made art privately for nearly 20 years while serving as chief executive of Hürriyet, Turkey’s largest newspaper, often...
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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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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will present “Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982” from May 2 to August 14, 2027, a thematic exhibition on mid-century African...
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Welsh music photographer Justin Thomas sued artist Elizabeth Peyton, David Zwirner Gallery, and Sotheby’s for copyright infringement in an August 20 filing in the Southern District of New York over...
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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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Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, 70, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Sanhe City People’s Court in Hebei Province on Tuesday, August 25, according to reporting cited from the New York...
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Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong announced that Anne Imhof will present her first solo exhibition in Asia, titled “House of Swans,” opening next month and spanning three floors of the JC...
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The inaugural Medina Triennial in Medina, New York, presented a community-wide exhibition across 10 locations in a rural town bisected by the Erie Canal, bringing together more than 100 artworks by...
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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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American abstract painter Mary Heilmann died on 14 August at age 86 on Long Island, New York, from “complications from a fall,” according to an announcement by her studio director. Born in San...
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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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Abstract painter Mary Heilmann died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York, due to complications from a fall, according to an Instagram announcement by her studio. Heilmann received her first solo...
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Kit Fitzgerald, a pioneering American video artist known for bringing a painterly sensibility to electronic media, died on August 3 at age 73, according to an announcement by her husband and longtime...
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court to recover Pablo Picasso’s Femme dans un fauteuil (Woman in an Armchair) (1918), which was stolen in 1961 while on...
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court seeking the return of Pablo Picasso’s “Femme dans un fauteuil” (1918), which disappeared on February 6, 1961, while...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is expected to abandon plans to demolish Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden in Soho for an affordable-housing project, according to reports by...
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The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) appointed art historian and curator Carlos Quijon Jr. as chief curator of its museum for contemporary art ahead of the institution’s planned reopening...
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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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An activist group called Everyone Hates Elon staged a guerrilla “mock ad” targeting Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses by placing a sandwich board outside Ray-Ban’s flagship store in London. The image shows a...
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Vincent van Gogh’s painting Tarascon Stagecoach (October 1888), made in Arles, will be shown in New York as part of the touring exhibition “Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the...
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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has listed its longtime New York headquarters at 381 Lafayette Street in NoHo for sale, raising the possibility that the building could become “luxury rentals or...
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Hyperallergic links New York City’s Pearl Street to the Lenape shell middens that once marked the original 17th-century East River shoreline, noting that such oyster-shell piles were common...
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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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ARTnews profiled artist Isaiah Davis, whose sculptures use materials such as secondhand leather and repurposed steel to examine masculinity, queerness, and Blackness through themes of transformation...
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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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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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Hyperallergic published a commentary by author Ed Simon criticizing a reported practice by AI company Anthropic of scanning out-of-print books and then shredding them to train large language models,...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will open a solo exhibition by Taryn Simon on September 18, dedicating the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda to a single artist’s entirely new body of work...
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Gagosian has closed its small London space in Burlington Arcade and will soon close its Basel, Switzerland, location at Rheinsprung 1, according to reporting cited by ARTnews. The Burlington Arcade...
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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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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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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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A solo exhibition of Photorealist painter Richard Estes titled Richard Estes: My Camera Is My Sketchbook is on view at Schoelkopf Gallery in New York through August 21, presenting new paintings...
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Simone Forti, a key figure in New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s and an influential contributor to postmodern dance, Minimalism, and Fluxus, died in Los Angeles at age 91, according...
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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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Hyperallergic’s July art-books roundup highlights a comprehensive new volume on photographer Helen Levitt and a new biography of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. The book “Helen...
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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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Italy’s Modena FC corporate collection has acquired 44 works from Archie Rand’s “Letter Paintings” series, Jarvis Art announced this week. Rand made the paintings between 1968 and 1971 as a teenager,...
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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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The United States repatriated a group of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia on July 22 during a meeting in Jakarta between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel,...
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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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Jessica Morgan, director of the New York-based Dia Art Foundation since early 2015, has been appointed the next director of Tate, replacing Maria Balshaw, who stepped down last year. Morgan will...
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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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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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In an Artnet Bulletin roundup, Artnet News reports that five people working at two Hong Kong bookstores were arrested this week on suspicion of violating the city’s 2024 national security law banning...
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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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Steidl Verlag, the German publisher renowned for high-end photobooks, entered preliminary insolvency proceedings in Göttingen after a creditor’s request, according to German media reports. NDR...
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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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New York health officials announced that traces of Legionella bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were detected at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after...
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ARTnews reviews “The New Grotesque,” an exhibition at New York’s Management Gallery curated by director Anton Svyatsky that examines how grotesque imagery is evolving in an era of constant...
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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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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently repatriated a marble Roman portrait bust dated to the 2nd century CE after it was traced to Phoenix Ancient Art, a gallery...
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Dealer Dominique Lévy of the New York gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan said in a Tablet profile that she received death threats and faced vandalism after denouncing an Artforum open letter published October...
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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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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned a Roman marble portrait bust to Turkey in February after questions about its provenance and its purchase from Phoenix Ancient Art,...
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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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The United States returned two 8th-century bronze Buddha sculptures to Indonesia at a ceremony on July 8 at the Indonesian Consulate in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that 59 looted antiquities from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia have been returned to their countries of origin, including 45 objects seized...
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Post-Fair, a curatorially oriented fair associated with Frieze Los Angeles week, will launch its first international edition in Paris from 19 October to 25 October during Art Basel Paris week....
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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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Photographer Barbara Karant has sued artist Mickalene Thomas in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging copyright infringement for using Karant’s photographs without...
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High Line Art is soliciting public feedback on 62 proposals for its Plinth commissions scheduled for 2029 and 2030, with comments open until September 8. The Plinth is located above 30th Street and...
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The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its artistic director since 2014, has been selected as the institution’s next director after months of speculation. Gioni, who joined the...
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The New Museum in New York named Massimiliano Gioni as its next director, with his term beginning August 1, following an international search, according to a statement by board president James-Keith...
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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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A 162-page White House Domestic Policy Council report titled “Saving America’s Story,” published online on July 4, accused the Smithsonian Institution of promoting “anti-white” ideology, focusing...
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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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Artist Chloe Wise’s exhibition “Extrasensory” at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Basel presents an installation styled as a gift shop and botánica, mixing religious items such as crucifixes and...
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Canadian sculptor and photographer Lorna Bauer is presenting “Maison en Bord de Mer” at New York’s Trotter&Sholer gallery, a project that revisits the legacy of E-1027, the modernist villa built on...
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Hyperallergic profiles artist Akira Ikezoe, whose meticulously detailed oil paintings use anthropomorphic animals—frogs, bears, raccoons, and monkeys—to depict industrial workflows and energy...
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In Hyperallergic’s 344th installment of “A View From the Easel,” artist Arghavan Khosravi describes working for almost five years in a small loft studio above her townhouse in Stamford, Connecticut,...
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Hyperallergic senior editor Valentina Di Liscia frames a holiday-weekend editorial around mixed feelings about the United States’ 250th birthday, citing heat waves and political tensions alongside...
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Italy has opened an exhibition at Rome’s National Etruscan Museum featuring 37 4th-century BC fresco panels from the François Tomb (Tomba François), discovered in 1857 at Vulci in present-day Lazio...
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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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“Democracy Matters,” curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, is the inaugural exhibition in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical and is presented in connection with the...
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Artnet News published a feature titled “How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music,” dated 3 July 2026 and posted online on 2 July 2026. The provided excerpt contains navigation and site interface text but does...
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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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At New York’s Swiss Institute, Brooklyn-based artist SoiL Thornton’s exhibition “Metabolizing eviction try, work_mp3 and other games of topping” runs through 5 July and centers on power relations and...
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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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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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Unionized workers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, represented by UAW Local 2110, voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize a strike if contract negotiations with museum...
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A Hauser & Wirth exhibition titled “Life With P. - Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978” examines Philip Guston’s shift from abstraction to a cartoon-like figurative language after moving...
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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 published a Pride Month roundup titled “5 Queer Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network to Celebrate This Pride Month,” highlighting queer artists available through the Artnet Gallery...
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On 23 June, Jamaican-born, New York–based artist Nari Ward unveiled “Until That Day” at the Deste Foundation’s Slaughterhouse project space on Hydra, Greece, during collector Dakis Ioannou’s annual...
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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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MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, is backing a new media-industry event called Jupiter Festival, with the inaugural edition planned for Miami in October at the Miami Beach Convention...
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A first retrospective of Diné weaver Marilou Schultz opens this week at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in upstate New York, curated by Candice Hopkins and featuring about 55 works with...
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An open letter published by the AI Moratorium Coalition and signed by about 500 New York City–based artists and cultural workers urges Mayor Zohran Mamdani to impose a two-year ban on artificial...
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Hyperallergic interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Matthew Campbell about his book The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy, which examines the...
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Historic Works Progress Administration murals at Manhattan’s Bellevue Men’s Shelter may be lost as New York City weighs whether to restore or demolish the long-dilapidated building, which closed...
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The New Museum in New York and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum announced a multi-year partnership under the Hyundai Translocal Series, a Hyundai Motor Company initiative launched in 2025 as a 10-year...
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Pace Gallery’s June 4 announcement that it would cut 50 artists from its roster and lay off 50 employees has drawn criticism from workers and some artists who say the downsizing was rapid and lacked...
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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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Nearly 500 New York City artists, writers, and actors signed a letter published by the AI Moratorium Coalition calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to impose a two-year moratorium on artificial...
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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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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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Artist, activist, author, and philanthropist Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at age 72, his family announced, with no location, date, or cause given, according to reporting cited from the New York...
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Henry, artist Nancy Shaver’s collectibles shop in Hudson, New York, is closing after 30 years, with its final day set for July 15, ARTnews reports. The store functioned as an ongoing art project and...
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In a Hyperallergic roundup edited by Hakim Bishara, New York State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez—an artist and union organizer who moved to New York City in 2015—is profiled as she runs for Congress on...
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A new documentary, “Assembly,” co-directed by artist Rashaad Newsome and Johnny Symons, follows Newsome’s commission for the Wade Thompson Drill Hall at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory and the...
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ARTnews surveys a surge of UFO-themed culture spanning film, galleries, and fashion, arguing the current fascination reflects both belief and projection. It highlights Steven Spielberg’s film...
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Hyperallergic reviews “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light,” a documentary directed by Paul Wagner that frames Georgia O’Keeffe as a lifelong traveler shaped by varied American landscapes. The...
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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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Mexico’s government urged Sotheby’s New York to withdraw two pre-Columbian objects from its Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas sale scheduled for 18 June, saying analyses by the National...
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The Menil Collection in Houston will reopen its Fresco Building in late 2027 and convert it into a venue for “semi-permanent, site-specific commissions,” each installed for about five years. New...
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The Art Newspaper reports that House of Criticism (2026), a documentary by Alison Chernick, premiered last week at the Tribeca Film Festival and profiles influential US art critics Jerry Saltz and...
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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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Sculptor Leonardo Drew has joined Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation, the gallery announced on Monday, and it will debut his new work Number 451 at Art Basel this week. Drew’s first solo...
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An ARTnews.com essay argues that the “tragicomic” has reemerged as a defining aesthetic for the current era, linking today’s political and cultural absurdities to a form with roots in Plautus (2nd...
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ARTnews reports that Almine Rech has become the exclusive partner in France of the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, giving its network of galleries in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York,...
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Photographer Duane Michals died on Wednesday in Manhattan at age 94, according to Artnet News. Born in 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Michals expanded photography’s narrative possibilities through...
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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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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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated two Khmer sandstone sculptures to Cambodia: an Angkor-period guardian deity (rākṣasa) dating to c. 921–945 and a mid-7th-century lintel carved with an...
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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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Hyperallergic profiled Cuban-American writer Carmen Maria Machado as a guest curator for “The Object of Power is Power,” a one-room exhibition of paintings by Cuban artist Rocío García at the...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will livestream select World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright (the museum’s restaurant), with access free to...
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Ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup (11 June–19 July 2026) in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, artists from 10 of the 11 US host cities created downloadable posters opposing the presence of US...
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ARTnews reports that Pace Gallery’s layoffs unfolded abruptly after a New York Times story published just after midnight said the gallery was preparing to lay off roughly 50 employees and cut about...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York announced “Mondrian Boogie Woogie,” the first survey focused on Piet Mondrian’s New York paintings and the influence of boogie-woogie music on his late...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for June 9, 2026 reports that Paris-founded Templon Gallery has closed its 6,500-square-foot Chelsea space, opened in 2022, after its landlord sought a major rent increase...
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In a Hyperallergic interview published as part of its 2026 Pride Month series, artist and educator Nayland Blake discusses their view of identity as unfixed and continually remade. Blake, who is...
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Artist Alma Allen renewed accusations that art publicist David Resnicow discouraged support for Allen’s controversial U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, writing in an Instagram post published...
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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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Artnet News columnist Margaret Carrigan reports on the opening of the sixth edition of London Gallery Weekend, which launched with a panel at Frieze’s No. 9 Cork Street space and includes more than...
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Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima have expanded their collaborative installation into Satellites II, presented in New York at the Hotel Chelsea as...
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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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ARTnews’ Morning Links for June 5, 2026 reports that James Turrell will open his largest Skyspace created for a museum, As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace, at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum on...
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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,”...
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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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Pace Gallery is downsizing by cutting about 50 artists and estates from its roster of more than 130, and laying off roughly 50 of its 250 staffers, according to a New York Times report published late...
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Artist management agencies are re-emerging as the traditional gallery model faces upheaval and artists’ practices become more interdisciplinary, The Art Newspaper reports. Cristopher Canizares...
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A proposed US Department of Education rule published in April under the Trump administration could bar many arts Master’s programs from enrolling students who use federal loans, potentially affecting...
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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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An immersive Black Mirror–inspired experience will make its U.S. debut at New York’s the Shed on June 20, running for a limited engagement through September. Built around an original story from...
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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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The 82nd Whitney Biennial opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York’s Meatpacking District in 2026 and runs until 23 August, arriving a week after the US and Israel began a coordinated...
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ARTnews notes that when Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight retired at the end of 2025, it marked the departure of the last of three highly influential US post-1975 art critics, following...
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Hyperallergic reports on Lebanese-born, Sydney-based artist Khaled Sabsabi and the controversy around his selection to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale, his removal within a week after...
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A report commissioned by the Netherlands’ Foundation for the Royal Private Collections examining about 1,000 objects found that a small number of items in the Dutch royal family’s holdings—such as a...
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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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Hyperallergic highlights Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which details how British dealer Douglas Latchford trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large scale...
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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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Performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger followed her widely discussed Austria Pavilion presentation at the 2026 Venice Biennale with a one-time, nine-hour performance titled...
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SXSW London returns for its second edition on June 1–6, taking over more than 20 venues around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch and expanding its programming beyond technology, business, and music...
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Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art rallied outside the museum’s annual fundraising gala on 19 May in New York as contract negotiations continued with Whitney Union UAW Local 2110....
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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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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”...
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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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The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is presenting “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone,” described as the first major retrospective of sculptor Edmonia Lewis (born 1844 in Greenbush, New York;...
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An exhibition at the New York Historical, on view through October 4, spotlights Betye Saar’s collection of Black dolls and marks her promised gift of more than 100 dolls to the institution as she...
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A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty of arranging the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, according to Hyperallergic. Brent Sikkema, 75, was stabbed...
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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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The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York’s Danziger Gallery for offering an AI-generated image referencing Ansel Adams at the 2026 AIPAD Photography Show, which ran April 22–26....
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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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Daniel Sikkema was convicted Friday in a Manhattan federal court for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkema in Rio de...
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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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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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British actor Tilda Swinton will debut a new live performance work titled “House of Gestures” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on June 5–6 in the museum’s Frank Gehry-designed atrium. The...
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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...
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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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In a Hyperallergic editor’s letter, editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara argues that the Venice Biennale did not “implode” amid boycotts, resignations, and international disputes, but instead felt “more...
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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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A Hyperallergic report characterizes Frieze New York at The Shed in Hudson Yards as a monotonous trade-show experience, likening it to eating an “assembly-line chopped salad,” while noting moments...
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New York’s Neue Galerie, founded by philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder in 2001 and known for Austrian and German Modernism, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028. The Neue Galerie is...
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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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The Frick Collection in New York announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton to sponsor exhibitions, research, and public programming, including free-admission First Fridays. Louis Vuitton...
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Hyperallergic’s “Required Reading” roundup highlights recent arts-and-culture commentary, including Zoé Samudzi’s ArtReview essay on “American Inquisition,” a mid-March exhibition of paintings by...
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British artist Anouska Samms says the Metropolitan Museum of Art wrongly credited New York-based Israeli designer Yoav Hadari as the sole author of Corpus Nervina 0.0 (2023–24), a hair-based dress...
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Performa will stage its first public, single-night Broadway-style fundraiser, the Performa All-Star Variety Show, at New York’s Town Hall on June 10. The 90-minute, 12-act event will be hosted by...
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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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The New Museum unveiled Sarah Lucas’s public-plaza commission “VENUS VICTORIA” (2026) on Tuesday, 12 May, at the intersection of Bowery and Prince Street in New York. The sculpture depicts a...
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White Cube has announced representation of Chinese-born, New York–based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, marking the first gallery to represent him, according to The Art Newspaper. The partnership coincides...
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The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returned to New York’s Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea for its 12th edition with 20 exhibitors from 12 countries, The Art Newspaper reports. A special...
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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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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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Artist Cooper Jacoby is highlighted as a standout of New York’s Whitney Biennial for sculptures examining how AI companies and other corporations convert personal data into financial assets. In a...
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Artist Shirin Neshat presents Do U Dare! at the 16th-century Palazzo Marin in Venice alongside the Biennale, continuing her themes of exile, fractured identity, and power through a...
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Multiple media reports say Belu-Simion Fainaru, Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale, pressured organizers before the Biennale’s five-person jury abruptly resigned last week. Before...
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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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The Art Newspaper profiles “Helter Skelter: Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa,” a two-artist exhibition at the Prada Foundation’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, presented during the Venice Biennale...
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Hyperallergic reviews the 59th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, describing it as reflecting on the exhibition’s 130-year history while commenting on...
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MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first US survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles in fall 2026, Hyperallergic reports, bringing together works made over more than 30 years that address...
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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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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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Artnet News reports that Berry Campbell in New York is presenting “Louisa Chase: The Eighties,” the largest and most comprehensive Louisa Chase (1951–2016) solo show in New York in more than two...
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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...
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Hyperallergic reports that the international jury for the 61st Venice Biennale resigned collectively, without publicly stating a reason, amid controversy over awards eligibility. The resignations...
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Official filings show the London- and New York-based Stephen Friedman gallery owes about $10.6 million to dozens of creditors following its closure and insolvency proceedings. Administrators’...
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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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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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The American Folk Art Museum is presenting Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists, an exhibition examining how “self-taught” artists in the United States have shaped their identities through...
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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 profiled digital-art pioneer Nancy Burson, 78, focusing on her “Quantum Entanglement” paintings—black canvases covered with white dots that appear to jitter and reveal color and depth when...
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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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ARTnews reports that artist and cyclist fields harrington began photographing customized delivery bikes across New York City in 2024 after witnessing a delivery worker crash in Williamsburg,...
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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 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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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...
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Hyperallergic reviews MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York,” a large survey attempting to capture the city’s art scene with more than 150 works by more than 50 artists. The article presents a selective,...
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Barbara Chase-Riboud said she declined an offer to represent the US at the 61st Venice Biennale because, as she told the Financial Times, “as a world citizen, this was not the moment,” according to...
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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...
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West Coast abstract painter James Hayward died on April 16 at age 82, according to an obituary posted by his studio. Born in San Francisco in 1943, Hayward studied at San Diego State University and...
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Artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has prompted scrutiny of the US Pavilion’s selection process after the State Department replaced its...
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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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In Hyperallergic’s “Art Talk With Rama Duwaji,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara recounts visiting Gracie Mansion in Manhattan for an interview with artist Rama Duwaji, described as New York 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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Hyperallergic profiles Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Tania El Khoury, a Bard College professor and founding director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts, who has been named a 2026 Creative...
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MoMA PS1 has opened the sixth edition of Greater New York, its quinquennial survey of artists living and working across New York City’s five boroughs, featuring 53 artists and staged during the...
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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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Time magazine’s 2026 “100 Most Influential” list includes Chinese artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario, as part of a roster spanning politics, technology, fashion, medicine, and the...
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Posters reading “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” have been wheatpasted across New York City ahead of the 2026 Met Gala, targeting lead sponsors and honorary co-chairs Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. The...
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Social Practice City University of New York (SPCUNY), an artist-led network founded in 2021 by Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette, announced on Tuesday, April 14 that it will close in February 2027. The...
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Somalia’s first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion has drawn criticism from Somali art organizations and artists who say the project failed to meaningfully consult or include Somalia-based practitioners...
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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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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at age 46 on Friday, April 10, at her home in Los Angeles, days before a planned solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s West Hollywood gallery; no cause of death was...
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In a Hyperallergic roundup titled “Trump’s Clash of Civilizations,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara frames the issue around recent threats by the US president to annihilate Iran’s “whole civilization,”...
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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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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday at age 46, with Jeffrey Deitch gallery announcing the death on Saturday and not providing a cause, according to ARTnews. Known...
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Artnet News reported on 10 April 2026 that Melissa Chiu, 54, has been appointed the next director of the Guggenheim in New York, following a quiet search led by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and...
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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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Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC since 2014, will leave to become director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her final day at the...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are mounting the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) in 53 years, revisiting the institutions that...
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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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A Hyperallergic roundup titled “Jasper Johns Marks Time” centers on critic John Yau’s essay timed to a Gagosian exhibition focusing on Jasper Johns’s work from the 1970s, including a recollection in...
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Canyon, a new institution devoted to moving-image art alongside sound and performance, is set to open in autumn at 200 Broome Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 40,000 square feet of renovated...
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Shiva Zahed Gallery, a new space dedicated to Iranian contemporary art, opened on 28 February in Istanbul’s Pera district to provide a rare physical platform for artists affected by sanctions,...
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The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York has acquired Wifredo Lam’s Portrait of a Boy (1927), marking the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the institution’s permanent collection....
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A Hyperallergic roundup reports that artist Josh Kline went viral after publishing an essay about the difficulty of making ends meet as an artist in New York City, and critic Aruna D’Souza argued...
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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...
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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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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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Counterpublic announced 47 artists and collectives for the third edition of its triennial in St. Louis, Missouri, running September 12–December 12, under the title “Coyote Time,” named after a...
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The Hole, a New York gallery founded by Kathy Grayson, is being sued by landlords over alleged unpaid rent at its 312 Bowery and 86 Walker Street locations, according to ARTnews citing a report in...
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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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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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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds, on view at the Jewish Museum in New York City (5th Ave at 92nd St) through July 26, 2026, is billed as the first US museum exhibition to focus on Paul Klee’s late...
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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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Artnet News reports that Aicon Art in New York has mounted “Courtly Visions: Indian Miniature Painting,” the gallery’s first exhibition devoted entirely to Indian miniature painting, featuring works...
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ARTnews.com reports that an 11-year restitution dispute over Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) ended with a New York ruling against billionaire dealer David Nahmad and his family....
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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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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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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...
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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...
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Conceptual artist Paul Pfeiffer has been named the inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, as the arena expands its art programming with new commissions and digital-screen...
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Frieze New York’s 2026 edition will run May 13–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors and will include institutional collaborations plus a new acquisition fund. In partnership with the Whitney...
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The Jewish Museum in New York opened "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" on 20 March, but without its intended centerpiece, Paul Klee’s "Angelus Novus" (1920). The work, owned by the Israel Museum...
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The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance reported that more than 200 million visits were made to the world’s 100 most visited art museums in 2025, compared with 230 million in 2019 and...
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Gladstone Gallery announced it now represents the estate of Pope.L, the influential American performance and conceptual artist who died in December 2023, and plans to mount its first solo show for...
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The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced that more than 20 galleries will participate in its New York edition, running May 13–17 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, alongside Frieze...
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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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Hyperallergic reviews “Ese barco en la montaña (That Ship on the Mountain),” a Juan Uslé retrospective at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía featuring around 100 works spanning four decades. Curated by Ángel...
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ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
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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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ARTnews reports that the IFPDA Print Fair will take place at New York’s Park Avenue Armory from April 9–12, bringing together 80 exhibitors from Singapore to Stockholm and presenting roughly 500...
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An Artnet News report dated March 28, 2026 says a hidden Underground Railroad passage was discovered at a New York museum and is now at risk due to a development threat. The article frames the find...
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Pat Steir, the New York-based painter and printmaker known for her “Waterfall” paintings, died at age 87 of natural causes in Manhattan on March 25, 2026, according to her husband Joost Elffers and...
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A marble statue of Christopher Columbus has been installed on the White House grounds near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, facing Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of President Donald Trump’s...
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Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920), once owned by philosopher Walter Benjamin, was unable to travel from Israel to New York due to conditions linked to the Israel–US war in Iran, preventing its planned...
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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...
Hyperallergic
In an opinion essay, an artist-writer argues that socially engaged art is being co-opted by the same institutional, corporate, and political systems it once aimed to challenge, as public space...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based...
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...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is mounting “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” described as the Met’s and America’s first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (1483–1520). The show assembles 237...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” (1920) is missing—temporarily replaced by a reproduction—from the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds” because the...
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Artist and activist Agosto Machado, a figure in Downtown New York’s queer art scene whose shrine-like altar sculptures are currently included in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday after a brief...
Hyperallergic
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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Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism has reportedly moved to bar Syrian multimedia artist and New York City First Lady Rama Duwaji from entering Israel, according to...
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A mural depicting labor leader Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over on Wednesday at the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, following a New York Times...
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Calvin Tomkins, a longtime New Yorker writer known for influential profiles of modern and contemporary artists, died on Friday at age 100, according to New Yorker editor David Remnick. Tomkins joined...
Artnet News
In a first reaction to the New Museum’s opening exhibition, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” Artnet News argues that the project of “contemporary art” may be reaching an endpoint. The show...
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ARTnews critics reported that the New Museum in New York has reopened after nearly two years closed, unveiling an expansion designed by OMA that they say finally makes the institution’s architecture...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published an editors’ roundtable reacting to the New Museum’s reopened and expanded building in New York, designed by OMA (Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas) and adding 60,000 square...
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Hyperallergic’s weekly “In Memoriam” column (published Wednesday afternoons) commemorated multiple recent deaths in the art world, including French experimental composer Éliane Radigue (1932–2026),...
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ARTnews reported that the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York is shutting down its MFA in Curatorial Practice program. The article explains that the decision ends a graduate pathway focused on...
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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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Four people suffered minor injuries in New York after a sculpture by artist Michael Joo was damaged, according to ARTnews. The incident occurred at Space ZeroOne, where the work was on view when it...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 23 February 2026, The New York Historical (NYH) in Manhattan announced it has acquired a gift of 150 works of contemporary Native art from Agnes Hsu-Tang, chair of the museum’s board of trustees,...
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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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Artist Claudia Bitrán spent 12 years creating a DIY, shot-for-shot remake of James Cameron’s film “Titanic.” The project is being presented in New York at Cristin Tierney Gallery. Artnet News framed...
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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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The White House has pressed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to expand its presentation of President Donald Trump by creating a dedicated section with multiple images,...
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Fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, are converting a landmark building in New York’s Chinatown into a new arts venue called Wang Contemporary, aimed at supporting Asian...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reported that a Pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument following a directive attributed to President Donald Trump. The Stonewall site in New York City commemorates...
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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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A New York State report found that the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum has not repaid a $335,000 loan from the museum that was used to purchase a home, according to ARTnews. The report raised...
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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,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art Basel launched its first Qatar edition on 2 February 2026 with an inaugural fair featuring 87 exhibitors and a format designed to feel more like a curated exhibition than a conventional...
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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 reported that some Tribeca art galleries discussed reporting street vendors to authorities, prompting public criticism and debate about the galleries’ relationship to neighborhood...
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Rapper Lexa Gates has been accused online of mimicking a performance by artist Miles Greenberg after she presented a work at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York. The Artnet News report, published 28...