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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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A Hyperallergic roundup reports that Cuban dissident performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was released after five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana and exiled to Miami,...
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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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Artist Joyce Kozloff disclosed that she was a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, revealing her alias as Lydia (Liubov) Popova in an interview published July 22, 2026, in Art Journal Open. The...
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“Clockwork,” Sable Elyse Smith’s exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, presents a sustained critique of the US prison-industrial complex and is described as the culmination of her winning the 2026...
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A survey titled “Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime” at San Francisco’s African American Art and Culture Complex traces the career of Emory Douglas, the former Black Panther Party minister of culture,...
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Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk, who turns 95 on 1 August, discussed his life and work with The Art Newspaper earlier this year while his art was shown at the Dom Master Klass Cultural Centre in...
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Hyperallergic highlighted debate around David Hockney’s late digital works, focusing on a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite iPad “painting,” “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), shown at Serpentine...
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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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Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have donated more than 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the museum announced on Wednesday,...
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A Hyperallergic review critiques David Hockney’s large-scale iPad work A Year in Normandie (2020–21), a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite of more than 100 printed iPad paintings shown at Serpentine...
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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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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 archaeologists Daniel Salazar Lama, Ana García Barrios, and Benjamin Esqueda Lazo De La Vega argue a mural at the ancient Maya city of Calakmul depicts the mythical hero Juun...
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Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and a Velázquez scholar, reported in ARS Magazine that he has identified a previously overlooked Diego Velázquez portrait from 1626 in...
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Bavaria announced new procedures for evaluating restitution claims involving Nazi-looted art, including the creation of a Center for Provenance Research and Restitution Issues of Nazi-Looted Art at...
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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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Bavaria approved reforms to how it handles Nazi-looted art claims, including moving provenance research out of museums into a separate, independent entity and creating a new panel to evaluate claims....
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SMAC Gallery in Cape Town faces allegations from South African artist Kate Gottgens that it delayed payments and withheld artworks after she ended a nearly 13-year relationship with the gallery late...
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In an Artnet News opinion column, Kenny Schachter discusses Alison Chernick’s documentary House of Criticism, which focuses on art critics Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz. Schachter writes that he has...
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Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
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Tate Modern is preparing a major survey titled “Ana Mendieta” that will present about 150 works and be the UK’s first major Mendieta exhibition in over a decade. The show will frame the Cuban...
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A painting depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk and likely by Dutch Golden Age artist Hendrick van der Burgh has been identified as Nazi-looted property from the collection of Dutch...
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An Artnet News article from the Artnet Gallery Network spotlights five Midwestern-connected artists—Ellen Lanyon, McArthur Binion, Beverly Fishman, Anthony Mitri, and Kay Rosen—arguing that the...
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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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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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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced “Painting Magic,” an exhibition of about 70 works by Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo, running from September 18, 2026, to January 10, 2027, before...
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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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Charles Seliger, who had his first solo show at age 19 at Peggy Guggenheim’s The Art of This Century in 1945, is revisited as an early Abstract Expressionist who pursued an independent,...
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The Newark Museum of Art will mount “Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art,” a group exhibition examining the 35-year history of Aljira, the Newark artist-led...
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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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Paris gallery Helene Bailly Marcilhac is presenting a summer group exhibition titled “The Seventies,” surveying how artists in the 1970s expanded painting and other media through experimentation and...
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A Hyperallergic Fourth of July weekend roundup highlights critic Aruna D’Souza’s essay on the Statue of Liberty as a recurring tool for political expression in art, citing artists including Faith...
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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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The Belvedere in Vienna is presenting a major survey of Polish artist Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) titled “On the Other Side of Silence,” examining her painting, poetry, and assemblage work shaped by...
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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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In Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, Morrisseau expert John Zemanovich testified on Monday that the children of late Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau were active participants in a forgery...
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President Donald J. Trump posted an image on Truth Social at 8:23 p.m. on Monday, June 29, depicting a giant golden bald eagle installed on the White House’s Truman Balcony, calling it “A Golden Gift...
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German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne at age 91, according to a report first carried by the German Press Agency. Born in Münster in 1935 and self-taught after training as a...
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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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Klaus Kallmann, a 98-year-old heir of German Jewish collector Felix Kallmann (1853–1938), is seeking the return of Vincent van Gogh’s Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889) from the Musée...
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Thomas Doyle pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to one count of wire fraud in a scheme involving Gustave Courbet’s Mother and Child on a Hammock (circa 1848), a painting that ultimately...
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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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Hyperallergic highlighted a new book drawn from South African artist William Kentridge’s 2024 Oxford lecture, in which he describes his studio as a “safe space for stupidity” and discusses creativity...
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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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British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray—known for hard-edge abstract paintings and public art projects—died on May 24 at age 88, with the news first reported by the Guardian. Born in...
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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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Australian artist Jane Allan of Lennox Head has been accused of copying works by Nicholas Harding and Jean-Michel Basquiat in paintings that received recognition in Australia. Brisbane dealer Philip...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” offering strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to...
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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 reported that French police recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting during a drug-trafficking raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 15. The...
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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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The Art Newspaper revealed a previously unknown “Gachet Archive” containing extensive material from Dr. Paul Gachet (1828–1909)—Vincent van Gogh’s physician in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890—and Gachet’s...
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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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Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, north of Doha, with a target groundbreaking date...
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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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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 court has ruled that the Mauritshuis in The Hague can keep a bequest of 25 paintings, including five Rembrandts, after a dispute over the wording of a 1944 will written in Monaco by former museum...
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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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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama won the inaugural Art Basel Gold Awards in the established artists category and this week unveiled a new public commission on Münsterplatz titled The God of Small...
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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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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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ARTnews reported that British artist David Hockney died peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, aged 88, one month before his 89th birthday, according to publicist Erica Bolton. The piece also covers a...
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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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A painting bought for under $100 at a White Plains thrift store about 60 years ago by Helene Plotkin was identified with help from Google’s Gemini chatbot as a work by Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell...
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In a Hyperallergic opinion package titled “The War Against Imagination,” editor-at-large Hrag Vartanian criticizes the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for placing Savneet Talwar,...
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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 Ukrainian drone strike reportedly damaged a 19th-century museum in Sevastopol, Crimea, a territory occupied by Russia since 2014, according to Sevastopol’s Russian-appointed governor Mikhail...
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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 Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) said Clarence Heyward’s self-portrait “Man in the Garden” (2025) was intentionally defaced by visitors, with Houston police investigating a May...
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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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A Hyperallergic roundup centers on a critical visit by Matt Stromberg to Dataland, an AI-focused art venue in Los Angeles founded by artist Refik Anadol, which he compares to Disneyland and describes...
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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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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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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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Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at age 97, having lived there since the late 1950s. Tate Modern will open a major survey, Light. Colour. Action (11...
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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...
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Hyperallergic reviewed the 2025 film Moss & Freud, directed by James Lucas, portraying a friendship between supermodel Kate Moss and painter Lucian Freud, and argued that the movie romanticizes an...
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French artist JR’s temporary inflatable installation wrapping Paris’s Pont Neuf, titled La Caverne du Pont Neuf, was damaged in a storm and its opening has been postponed, according to a project...
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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 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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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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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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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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At the opening of his solo exhibition “Brushstrokes of the Universe” at the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai, artist Sang Huoyao performed a walk-through with a humanoid robot made by Unitree...
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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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British painter Tess Jaray, known for understated abstract paintings featuring grids, cubes, and zigzags on pale grounds, died on Sunday at age 88, according to an obituary posted on her official...
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Two long-missing 17th-century oval altarpiece paintings by Baroque artist Lucas Valdés have been recovered and returned to the Hospital of the Venerable Priests church in Seville after being missing...
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A rediscovered double-sided sheet from Peter Paul Rubens’s Roman notebook, dated September 1607, has gone on public view for the first time in Antwerp. Acquired at TEFAF Maastricht by the King...
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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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The Drawing Center exhibition “Ceija Stojka: Making Visible” presents over 50 paintings and drawings by Austrian Romani artist and Holocaust survivor Ceija Stojka (1933–2013), emphasizing memory as...
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Argentina’s government removed Helmut Ditsch’s monumental photorealist painting The Triumph of Nature (2006), depicting the Perito Moreno Glacier, from the Casa Rosada presidential palace shortly...
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Spain’s 2022 law has begun enabling restitutions of art seized during the Spanish Civil War, decades after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 and nearly 90 years after the 1936 conflict began....
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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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“Paris in Black: Internationalism and the Black Renaissance,” an exhibition at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, surveys Black American painters, writers, musicians,...
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A new James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) exhibition at Tate Britain in London, curated by Carol Jacobi, argues that the artist’s legacy has been overly defined by his 1877 libel suit against critic...
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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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Art detective Arthur Brand announced that Toon Kelder’s painting Portrait of a Young Girl has been found hanging in a home near Utrecht in the possession of heirs of Dutch SS commander Hendrik...
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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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A miniature wood-panel portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder depicting Friedrich III (“Frederick the Wise”) has been returned to the State Art Collections of Dresden after disappearing at the end of...
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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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ARTnews reports that the 2026 Venice Biennale’s main exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” foregrounds mourning and the war in Gaza, beginning with a poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer—“If...
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A coalition of Somalia-based cultural organizations criticized Somalia’s first-ever national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, saying local artists and groups were not “meaningfully consulted” or...
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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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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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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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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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Artnet’s critic reports mixed first impressions of “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, which opens to the public on Saturday and was completed by five collaborators...
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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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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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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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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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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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German painter Georg Baselitz died on 30 April at age 88, with his death announced by his longtime gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which did not specify a cause. Born Hans-Georg Kern on 23 January 1938 in...
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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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Artist Michael Armitage is the subject of a major monographic exhibition, The Promise of Change, opening at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi with 46 large paintings and nearly 100 sketches surveying the past...
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ARTnews 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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ARTnews profiles Dear Monica Lewinsky, a new novel by art historian Julia Langbein, published this month by Doubleday, that blends the Monica Lewinsky scandal with medieval art and hagiography. The...
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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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Harmony Korine’s first U.S. retrospective, “Perfect Nonsense,” has opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, bringing together more than 50 works spanning his adolescent writings, 1990s...
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Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie has completed digitising a high-resolution archive of glass negatives documenting hundreds of paintings destroyed in May 1945, when two fires swept the Friedrichshain flak...
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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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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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A new artificial-intelligence analysis suggests El Greco, not primarily his son Jorge Manuel, painted most of The Baptism of Christ, installed as an altarpiece at Hospital Tavera in Toledo in 1624, a...
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, is donating more than 150,000 objects to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the museum’s holdings and refocusing...
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, Diego Rivera’s grandson, has donated 157,300 objects from his private collection to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the institution Rivera...
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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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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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The Emil Bührle Collection has been completely rehung at the Kunsthaus Zurich, where it has been on long-term loan since 2021, with 205 works on view in a display opening this week. The rehang...
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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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Spain’s National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) has not yet complied with a May 2025 Supreme Court ruling ordering it to return the contested 13th-century Sijena Monastery murals to the Royal...
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Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is refusing to immediately return the 12th-century Romanesque Sijena murals to the Royal Monastery of Sijena despite a May Supreme Court order...
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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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The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has launched a free online digital catalogue raisonné, Access O’Keeffe, allowing the public to browse more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe,...
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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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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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Hyperallergic highlighted Ai Weiwei’s new book On Censorship in an editor’s roundup that also referenced commentary on a Trump meme and an obituary for artist-activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, who died...
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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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Chicana painter Criselda Vasquez said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained her father, who served as a muse for her work, in an Instagram post dated April 3. In an April 13 email,...
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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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Spain’s culture ministry has denied a request from the Basque government to loan Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) from Madrid’s Reina Sofía to Guggenheim Bilbao for a proposed exhibition running 1...
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The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo has put a forged Van Gogh on display—Seascape at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (dated 1925–27)—in an exhibition running until 21 June, alongside a Dutch-language...
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Greece introduced a new law aimed specifically at art forgery—bill No. 5271/2026, introduced in January—shifting from reliance on general anti-forgery statutes to measures targeting the “manufacture...
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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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An Artnet review (published April 8, 2026) assesses the Museum of Modern Art’s major Marcel Duchamp exhibition and questions whether the presentation is overly reverential. The show is organized by...
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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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An Artnet News report (April 9, 2026) describes a dispute among Spanish authorities after a proposal to loan Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica prompted public and political backlash. The...
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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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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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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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German artist, painter, installation artist, and punk musician Thomas Zipp has died, according to an announcement by Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, which said he “passed away far too soon.” Born in...
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After two years of conservation, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, has put a 37-foot-long early 19th-century Indian work known as the “Lucknow scroll” on public view for the...
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An Artnet News op-ed (published 5 April 2026) argues that as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, iconic founding-era artworks should be reinterpreted in light of current debates over...
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An ARTnews article recounts how, during the New Deal era from 1933 to 1943, the US government treated art as a public resource and employed artists as part of broader economic relief during the Great...
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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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ARTnews.com profiles Berlin-based Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ming Wong (born 1971) and his film Dance of the Sun on the Water | Saltatio Solis in Aqua, made after a residency that granted him...
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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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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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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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Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen” has returned to public view at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands after undergoing a major restoration following its theft. Artnet News...
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British painter Cecily Brown is having her London museum debut with the exhibition “Cecily Brown: Picture Making” at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. The show brings together new works...
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The Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is launching “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a multi-year program expanding public art at the arena and introducing an artist-in-residence initiative led first by...
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The Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced it will restitute Lesser Ury’s 1883 painting "Interior with Children (the Siblings)" to the heirs of Curt Goldschmidt, a Jewish banker and art...
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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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Brazilian artist Teresinha Soares, known for erotic-inflected paintings, assemblages, and participatory installations that challenged gender norms in the 1960s and ’70s, died on March 31 in Belo...
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Hyperallergic profiled Iranian-born, Columbia MFA–trained artist Kamrooz Aram, noting his prominent early-2026 visibility through shows at Nature Morte in Mumbai during Mumbai Art Week, Alexander...
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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...
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Plans to extend the Mexico–US border wall through Val Verde County, Texas, have prompted warnings from archaeologists and local landowners that construction could damage prehistoric rock art in the...
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More than 350 cultural professionals in Mexico signed an open letter calling for greater transparency and compliance with heritage laws in the management of the Gelman Collection, a major trove of...
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Art historian Gary Schwartz argues that a painting long labeled a workshop copy of Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Old Man with a Gold Chain” (1631) was actually painted by Rembrandt himself as an “autograph...
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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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The Basque regional government has asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to approve a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which would be the painting’s first...
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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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Jean-Marc Bottazzi, a Japanese bond trader based in Hong Kong, says his approach to collecting is about sustained support rather than “ticking boxes,” a philosophy shaped in part by his relationship...
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Hyperallergic frames its coverage around art and activism, including Steven Weinberg’s comic offering tips for making protest signs for the “No Kings” marches and a discussion of how socially engaged...
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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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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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Artist Pat Steir, known for large-scale abstract “Waterfall” paintings made by pouring paint down upright canvases from a ladder or cherry picker, died in Manhattan of natural causes at age 87. Her...
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A Hyperallergic review of Tracey Emin’s retrospective “A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London argues that Emin’s work centers on extreme self-introspection and relies heavily on text—titles and...
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To mark its 50th anniversary, Museum Ludwig in Cologne has mounted a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition featuring more than 300 works spanning sculptures, paintings, and immersive installations. The...
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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,...
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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...
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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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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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An ARTnews review of Miljohn Ruperto’s exhibition at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center highlights new works that use AI and digital tools to critique extraction, colonialism, and the...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Thursday that it has acquired a rediscovered Renaissance painting now identified as Rosso Fiorentino’s “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist”...
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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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The Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti announced it will open the Giacometti Museum and School in Paris’s 7th arrondissement in 2028, described as the first museum dedicated to Alberto...
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ARTnews.com reports that artist Jasmine Little, known for lush still-life paintings and sculptural ceramics with etched surfaces, has died at age 41. The article summarizes her multidisciplinary...
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A collection of 666 works by 135 Afro-Brazilian artists was voluntarily repatriated from a private collection in Detroit to Brazil’s National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Muncab) in Salvador,...
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Hungarian painter, printmaker, and filmmaker Dóra Maurer has died aged 88, according to the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where she served as president from 2017. Born in Budapest on 11...
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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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Artist David Hockney will create a large-scale window installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th anniversary celebrations. The work, measuring roughly seven by...
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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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Tate Modern is staging Tracey Emin’s largest retrospective to date, titled “A Second Life,” spanning work from her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1993 through her most recent paintings. Emin,...
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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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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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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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The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired an iconic baseball-themed painting by Norman Rockwell, ARTnews reports. The article describes the work as a major addition to the museum’s American art...
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An Artnet News article dated 9 February 2026 describes a dispute over the attribution of a work associated with Jan van Eyck, pitting art historians against an A.I. firm making authenticity claims....
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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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Conservators at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam found that Vincent van Gogh’s Poplars near Nuenen is effectively a ‘triple painting,’ with two earlier compositions beneath the visible...
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The inaugural Art Basel Qatar opened to VIPs on 3 February 2026 in Doha, with Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz emphasizing its commercial purpose despite an institutional, biennial-like presentation, The...
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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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Guatemala’s Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua was shut down after authorities from the Public Ministry arrived on 29 December to enforce a court-ordered relocation of 287 artworks, ending the...
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Jewish heirs filed a lawsuit in a French court challenging the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro, according to ARTnews. The case seeks to contest the work’s...
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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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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 reports that London’s Bernard Jacobson Gallery is highlighting a 1976 multi-artist portfolio of prints made in tribute to British painter John Constable. The portfolio includes works by...
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ARTnews reported the death of Chung Sang-hwa, a Korean painter associated with the Dansaekhwa movement, at age 93. The article notes his prominence within the monochrome painting tendency that gained...