This Artist Just Gave a Hermès Store Window a Whimsical Makeover
Every year, Hermès builds on its eight-decade history of artistic window displays by inviting another creative to stage a temporary installation in...
Seminal Lucian Freud Painting Comes to Auction for the First Time
Last month, Sotheby’s said that it would offer the most valuable collection of art ever to come to auction in the United Kingdom this coming June in...
House Democrats Move to Block Trump’s Proposed Arlington ‘Triumphal Arch’
A group of House Democrats will ntroduce legislation aimed at stopping President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National...
The Art Market Post-Pollock
The Pollock sucks up the oxygen. It is the lead story — important, yes, but also misleading. $181.2 million for a great Pollock, wisely held back...
Nicola Florimbi’s Paintings Are Unsettling and Necessary
Nicola Florimbi, "Art Class" (2026), acrylic on canvas (all photos courtesy Corbett vs. Dempsey)CHICAGO — In our media-saturated world, in which...
Patagonia Sues Drag Queen "Pattie Gonia" for Trademark Infringement
Pattie Gonia accused the Patagonia brand of attempting to “erase an activist” by suing her for attempting to trademark her name. (photo Mitchell...
New Brooklyn Subway Mural Adds a Touch of Whimsy to Commuting
News New Brooklyn Subway Mural Adds a Touch of Whimsy to Commuting Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze’s mosaic “May Your Road Be Light and Fun” at Borough Hall...
Roda Medhat Subverts Traditional Kurdish Narratives Into Modern Tactile Experiences
Toronto-based Kurdish artist Roda Medhat pushes the boundaries of fabric into the realm of sculpture, exploring the ways in which traditional West...
Alan Saret, Post-Minimal Sculptor of Spiritual Forms, Dies at 81
Alan Saret, the spiritually ambitious sculptor associated with SoHo’s Post-minimalist art scene, has died at the age of 81. According to New...
Martha Cooper Captures How Urban Youth Made New York
Art Review Martha Cooper Captures How Urban Youth Made New York Her photographs showcase an intensely physical side of the city: breaking down boxes...
Art Critic Anthony Haden-Guest Says Socialite–Collector Libbie Mugrabi Won’t Return His Cartoons
Anthony Haden-Guest says nearly 100 of his cartoons have spent the past 15 years hanging in a Hamptons mansion owned by socialite and collector...
June 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss...
A View From the Easel
Community A View From the Easel “Over the past decades my material has been light.” May 29, 2026 — 2 min read Welcome to the 339th installment of A...
Leonora Carrington Painting Made Inside Spanish Sanatorium Resurfaces After 80 Years
On July 1, London museumgoers will get a first look at a painting by Leonora Carrington not seen in over 80 years. The 1940 painting, titled Villa...
Open Call: The 7th VH AWARD for Media Artists Engaged with the Context of Asia
Announcement Open Call: The 7th VH AWARD for Media Artists Engaged with the Context of Asia Supporting media artists with production grants, global...
Newly Authenticated Whistler Portrait Sheds Light on His Formative Years
New conservation research has verified James McNeill Whistler‘s earliest-known portrait, experts say. The exceptionally rare painting reveals the...
The Rulers of Venice: In Thrilling Book, Biennale Curators Tell All
Being picked to curate the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition is a bit like winning the American presidency. You have to be a generational talent,...
The Long-Sealed Vaults Beneath the Lincoln Memorial Are Finally Opening—and the Tickets Already Sold Out
The iconic aboveground space at the Lincoln Memorial is accompanied by lesser-known environs beneath—in the form of an “undercroft” being...
This ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Miffy Toy Is Officially an Internet Celebrity
You’ve heard of Johannes Vermeer‘s ca. 1665 painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, long housed at the Mauritshuis in the Hague and soon to visit Japan...
British Museum Reschedules Postponed Israel Lecture to June Following Fears of Protests
The British Museum pushed back a planned lecture called “The Ancient History of Israel and Judah,” claiming that a “significant proportion” of the...
A New Group Show Traces the Role of the Horse in Art History
The horse has long stood as a perennial source of inspiration for artists across millennia, in no small part underpinned by the pivotal role the...
This Wood-Fiber Dress Was Made from a 17th-Century Shipwreck
Some of the most exciting designs emerging from the world of sustainable fashion are those utilizing uncommon materials. There are gowns sculpted...
Looted Colonial Artifacts in the Dutch Royal Family Collection, Exit Interview With Lonnie Bunch III, and More: Morning Links for May 29, 2026
Good Morning! An investigation found that the Dutch royal family’s collection contains artifacts that were likely looted during the colonial era....
The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter
Daily Newsletter The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter How Douglas Latchford got away with it; plus, Frank Stella’s Navajo weavings. May 29,...
Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece Expected to Rake in $1.3 Million at Auction
Last November, a smattering of radiant Tiffany lamps from the collection of accomplished literary agent Albert Zuckerman anchored a Christie’s...
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The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
At the center of Matthew Campbell’s The Man Who Stole the Gods (2026)is British dealer Douglas Latchford, accused of trafficking looted Cambodian...
Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe's Richest Art Prize
Community Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe's Richest Art Prize The first public exhibition of Jack White's artwork, Cheryl Finley gets...
What the May Auctions Revealed About Art as an Asset Class
An iconic drip painting by Jackson Pollock from the collection of S.I. Newhouse fetched $181 million at Christie’s last week. The price for Number...
Ken Griffin’s Other Copy of the U.S. Constitution Makes Its Museum Debut
One of only two privately held first printings of the U.S. Constitution is now on display at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan, as...
Required Reading
Community Required Reading This week: a record-breaking World Cup mural in Mexico City, the Gen Z of 19th-century France, van Gogh and AI, and more....
Arthur Jafa’s Radical Theory of Readymade Art
Arthur Jafa is probably the most revered artist of the last decade. Born in 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, he came up through the world of cinema....
After Viral Venice Pavilion, Florentina Holzinger Brings a 9-Hour Body-Art Spectacle to Vienna
At this year’s Venice Biennale, the performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger used the stage of the Austria Pavilion to alert...
Matte Marble Dust Glimmers Across Marin Majic’s Enigmatic Scenes
Layers of colored pencil and marble dust worked into an oil-like substance flood the linen planes on which Marin Majic works. The Brooklyn-based...
David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style
Installation view of David Humphrey, anecdote (photo Adam Reich, courtesy Kate Werble Gallery)A few months ago, in the middle of a studio visit with...
Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92
Jay Milder, founder of City Gallery and painter of bold abstractions that interpreted New York City life, has died at the age of 92. The news of his...
A Look Into Frank Stella's Mesmerizing Collection of Diné Textiles
Post-classic and Eyedazzler textile (c. 1885) (all photos Peter Pap Rugs unless otherwise noted)Assembled over decades, the late abstract artist...
Lavish Gold Hoard Unearthed in Saudi Arabia’s Historic Desert City
Archaeologists digging at Dariyah, in the Saudi Arabian region of Al Qassim, have unearthed a glittering hoard of 1,100-year-old gold jewelry. While...
Alan Saret, ‘Anti-Form’ Artist Known for His Wire Sculptures, Dies at 81
Alan Saret, an unclassifiable artist whose wire sculptures and colored-pencil drawings helped define the “anti-form” tendency of the late 1960s and...
British Painter Behind Proposed $250 Bill Says He Discussed Design With Trump
Iain Alexander, a British painter who has exhibited in Palm Beach, Florida, designed a proposed $250 bill recently sent by the Trump Administration...
Inside Jack White’s Eccentric Show of ‘Hardware Store Art’
He composed one of most recognizable riffs of all time, but Jack White is never more animated than when describing some unlikely detail sneaked into...
Paris Auction Spotlights Centuries of Chinese Craftsmanship
On the horizon in Paris, a singular compilation of art and objects are set to hit the block at Artcurial. The Asian Art Auction features over 350...
The Vaults Under the Lincoln Memorial Are Finally Opening to the Public
A decade on from the National Park Service (NPS) announcing plans to transform the cavernous space beneath the Lincoln Memorial into a museum,...
No-Bid Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Contract Swelled to $13.1 M. With “Inflated” Profit Margin, as Leak Problems Persist
The Trump administration’s overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become even messier, with newly obtained federal documents showing...
Tiwani Contemporary, Beloved Gallery with a Focus on Art of the African Diaspora, Closes After 15 Years
Tiwani Contemporary, one of the few highly visible European galleries with a stated focus on the African diaspora, will close after 15 years,...
French Filmmaker Romain Gavras Is Turning the $102 M. Louvre Heist Into a Movie
It was inevitable: The audacious robbery of the Louvre, in which thieves broke into one of the world’s most well-attended museums in broad daylight...
Christina Mrozik Illustrates an ‘Emotional Ecosystem’ Oracle Deck with Fantastical Forms
Six years in the making, Christina Mrozik’s new project tackles “the feelings of all things.” Fifty cards comprise the richly illustrated oracle...
French Artists Call for Boycott of Pompidou’s Seoul Outpost over Partner Foundation’s Ties to Israel
A range of well-known French artists signed an open letter on Wednesday that sought a boycott of the Centre Pompidou‘s soon-to-be-inaugurated Seoul...
Fracas Over Appointment of Spanish Art Center Director, A Film About the Louvre Heist, and More: Morning Links for May 28, 2026
Good Morning! Controversy has erupted in Spain over the appointment of a high school art teacher as director of the Galician Center for Contemporary...
Tiwani Contemporary, Major African Art Gallery, Is Closing Its Doors
Tiwani Contemporary, a world-leading platform for contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, has permanently closed its London gallery. Its...
A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
“Don’t you think it’s dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?” asks actress Olivia Vinall in her role as the Surrealist...
Art Basel Paris Releases 2026 Exhibitor List: Who’s In? Who’s Out?
Art Basel‘s flagship Swiss fair is just around the corner, but the art calendar is unrelenting, and today the firm released the exhibitor list for...
Art Basel Paris Names 206 Exhibitors for This Year’s Edition, the First Under a New Director
Art Basel Paris will return to the Grand Palais this fall with more than 200 exhibitors from 41 countries and territories, marking the fair’s fifth...
The Experiment: 9 Days Ago vs Today
Just 9 days ago she was a normal volunteer...Today she's a 7'10" hulking amazon goddess.This is a teaser for my new NSFW comic series "The...
“In Minor Keys” Is the Biennale’s Crown Jewel
Daily Newsletter “In Minor Keys” Is the Biennale’s Crown Jewel Also, Aruna d’Souza interviews Australian Pavilion artist Khaled Sabsabi. May 28,...
How We Complied Our List of the 100 Best Artworks About America
The first three words from the preamble of the United States Constitution—“We the People”—are among the most famous in the world. But these days, as...
The 100 Best Artworks About America
What, exactly, defines America? It’s a question that’s been asked for more than two centuries, and it’s one not likely to be conclusively answered...
Lost Leonora Carrington Painting Emerges After More Than 80 Years
At long last, a fabled painting by record-breaking artist Leonora Carrington has turned up in Spain—with the family of the late Surrealist’s former...
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Lalanne’s Playful Frog Fountains Surface at Auction
In 1981, the American designer and collector Alexandra Marshall met Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne while browsing the galleries of Artcurial in...
The Universe According to Sang Huoyao—and His Humanoid Robot
At the opening for his solo show “Brushstrokes of the Universe” at the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP), Shanghai, artist Sang Huoyao, represented by Xi...
Centuries of Endurance Undergird “In Minor Keys”
VENICE — If you’re Eurocentric by disposition, confident that the West is the single source of high art and ideas of progress, then don’t visit Koyo...
Khaled Sabsabi’s Art of Collective Becoming
Khaled Sabsabi at the Australia Pavilion of the 2026 Venice Biennale (photo Andrea Rossetti, courtesy the artist; all other photos Aruna...
Trump Reinstalls Monument to Founding Father, Slave Owner Removed in 2020
Last Friday, the Trump administration erected 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington D.C.—including an equestrian monument dedicated to...
Paula Kamps, Painter of Rare Sensitivity, Dies at 36
In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.Paula Kamps (photo @sanstitre.gallery via...
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Engaging With Art Can Slow Aging, Study Claims
News Engaging With Art Can Slow Aging, Study Claims A group of researchers at University College London identified a relationship between consuming...
Fixing the Potholes in NYC’s Cultural Infrastructure
Fixing the "potholes" in New York’s cultural infrastructure. That’s the premise behind what Mayor Zohran K. Mamdani has rightly called “pothole...
The Louvre Heist Is Coming to a Cinema Near You
News The Louvre Heist Is Coming to a Cinema Near You The brazen theft at the Paris museum is set for a film adaptation amid an ongoing investigation...
Christie’s Names Billionaire François-Henri Pinault Chairman, Signaling End of Tenure for Guillaume Cerutti
Last week, as much of the art world was focused on the marquee sales in New York, Christie’s announced a major change to its leadership in London....
Donald Newhouse, Publishing Heir and Brother of Si Newhouse, Dies at 96
Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher who helped oversee one of America’s most powerful media empires and whose family name remains...
4 Must-See Shows at Gallery Weekend Beijing
Walking through the 798 Art District, the main hub of Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ), this past weekend, I noticed many visitors who were not there...
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Unpublished Beethoven Manuscript Hits the Auction Block
An unpublished overture for Ludwig van Beethoven’s The Consecration of the House (1822) is heading for auction at Sotheby’s this summer where it...
Heir Says Cézanne Watercolor Shown in Basel Was Lost During Nazi Era
A Cézanne watercolor recently shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner as a result of Nazi persecution,...
‘BlowUp Jubilee’ Celebrates Inflatable Public Art in the Center of The Hague
While the Dutch city of The Hague may be best known for the judicial arm of the United Nations, there’s a lot more to it than global peace and...
‘Prediction Markets’ Come to Art Auctions: Now You Can Bet on Basquiat and Monet, Courtesy of Kalshi
So-called prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket—sites for online gambling, though the companies say they are a form of derivatives...
$102 Million Louvre Heist Is Getting the Film Treatment
Reality is, indeed, often stranger than fiction. Take last October’s sensational Louvre heist, for instance—two thieves donned disguises, smashed...
King Arthur Manuscript Hidden in a Private Collection for 700 Years Is Coming to Auction
Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction in July will feature a holy grail, both figuratively and literally in the form of a 13th-century...
Collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz to Sell $20.1 M. in Art at Christie’s
Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, two art collectors who regularly appear on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, are set to sell £15 million ($20.1...
Paula Kamps, Painter of Tender Works About Memory, Dies at 36
Paula Kamps, a painter whose softly hued paintings showing flowers and blurring figures gained her recognition in Europe and the US, died at 36. Her...
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Queer Figures Commune with Nature in J Carino’s Dynamic Paintings
“Color, for me, is a heightened reality,” says J Carino. Through palettes rooted in a dynamic dance between earth and jewel tones, the artist...
A Kind of Paradise: Reclaiming Colonial-Era Photography Through Contemporary Art
Announcement A Kind of Paradise: Reclaiming Colonial-Era Photography Through Contemporary Art At Museum Rietberg, 20 global artists transform...
$50,000 Driskell Prize Goes to Cheryl Finley of Spelman College
Cheryl Finley, the director of visual arts and culture at Spelman College who oversees the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial...
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Jewish Heirs Call for Restitution on Cézanne Watercolor, Kalshi Launches Art Auction Market, and More: Morning Links for May 27, 2026
Good Morning! The family of a Jewish collector claims a Cézanne watercolor on loan for a recent Fondation Beyeler exhibition was lost due to Nazi...
Giant T. Rex Fossil Could Net a Monster Price at Sotheby’s
It’s massive, it’s fearsome, and it’s about to make a dent on the auction block. Come July, a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil is making its way to...
In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species
Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the earth, and yet there is so much we have yet to understand about these vast and biodiverse expanses. Even...
Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian to Launch New Residency Program in Menorca
Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian are launching a new residency program for artists and writers on the island of Menorca. The Residency at...
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Haegue Yang’s Meditations on Exile
Daily Newsletter Haegue Yang’s Meditations on Exile Also, the controversy around an AI-altered version of an Ansel Adams photo. May 27, 2026 — 3 min...
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