As Europe Enters Art Fair Season, London is Looking Fresh and Paris Continues...
Three years ago, dealer Thaddaeus Ropac started to question the health of the art market in London. The mixed auction results of 2022 and 2023 reflected what he saw as a stagnant period. And Paris,...
View ArticleGreek Prime Minister to “Ramp Up” Efforts Related to Parthenon Marbles Return
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has continued to speak out regarding the Parthenon Marbles, vowing to “ramp up” his country’s efforts to retrieve the marble sculptures from the British...
View ArticleRoy Lichtenstein Saw Our Pictures-Obsessed Moment Coming—and Deliberately Fed...
If you, like me, cannot resist hate-reading a horribly misguided takedown of a great artist, check out the September 1963 issue of Artforum, which featured one of two screeds against Roy Lichtenstein...
View ArticleGertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M....
Plucked from an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $30, Gertrude Abercombie’s Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951) sold for $1.35 million at Freeman’s auction house on October 1. The final bid far...
View ArticleRep. Jamie Raskin Wants the Smithsonian to Collect and Display Trump’s...
Democratic Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, a dogged antagonist to President Donald Trump who attempted to have him removed from office, has introduced legislation directing the Smithsonian...
View ArticleWhitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Roy Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration
If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the...
View ArticleThe Most Expensive Works by Roy Lichtenstein to Sell at Auction
Updated October 7, 2026 Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), one of the foremost Pop artists, rarely found himself without admirers. Andy Warhol, another leading figure of the movement, was so impressed by...
View ArticleVictoria & Albert Museum Reveals Strategy After Launching Voluntary Exit Scheme
After a summer of back and forth with its staff over strikes, pay and working conditions, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching a voluntary exit scheme as part of its strategy for 2026...
View ArticlePaula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers to Stage Two-Venue Frank Stella...
Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers will each stage an exhibition of the work of Frank Stella next spring in New York. Additionally, they will each feature a work by the late artist in their booths...
View ArticleGreek PM to “Ramp Up” Efforts for Parthenon Marbles Return, Quiet Listing of...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised to “ramp up” efforts to get the...
View ArticleThe Zaha Hadid Foundation Is Reopening the Late Architect’s Former HQ as a...
To mark the 10-year anniversary of Zaha Hadid’s death, the Zaha Hadid Foundation is reopening the architect’s former headquarters on October 29. The former Victorian schoolhouse, located at 10 Bowling...
View ArticleZurich-Based Dealer Eva Presenhuber to Close ‘Sentimental’ Vienna Gallery Space
Dealer Eva Presenhuber told ARTnews she is closing her space in Vienna in early December, in a decision that the influential gallerist said had more to do with local conditions in Vienna than the...
View Article‘Jodi,’ Sotheby’s Newly-Minted Nanotyrannus, Hits the Auction Block With $9...
Sotheby’s may have been hoping that the dinosaur skeleton known as “Jodi” was, in fact, a youthful T. rex, given the name recognition and resulting price tags that have accompanied this species of...
View ArticleMartha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection
“Painting, for me, is about tension,” Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A “sensual” material, she said, “smooth or rough, its tactile quality...
View ArticlePhoenix Art Museum Receives $5 M. Donation to Expand Sri Lankan and South...
Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution’s Asian art...
View ArticleThe State Russian Museum Has Restored Ivan Aivazovsky Seascape Painting Ahead...
The State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg has restored Ivan Aivazovsky’s The Ninth Wave (1850) ahead of a retrospective on the Russian artist opening on October 16, according to Russian state media...
View ArticleNew Museum Announces 36 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Triennial,...
The New Museum in New York has announced the 36 artists and collectives that will participate in the 2027 New Museum Triennial, running February 4–May 16, 2027. Under the title “The Outside Expands,”...
View ArticleArt Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Lists Upper East Side Co-Op for $12 M.
Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020. At 5,000-square-feet,...
View ArticleDalí-Designed Bronze ‘Livre de l’Apocalypse’ Book Cover Stolen from French...
Yet another French museum has fallen victim to a brazen theft. A colossal, 330-pound book cover designed by Salvador Dalí, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells and—this being...
View ArticleDali-Designed Bronze Book of Revelations Cover Stolen from French Museum,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A 330 pound book cover designed by Salvador Dali, made of bronze and encrusted...
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