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  • The US Art Market Is Stabilizing—but It’s a Different Market Now, Per New Bank of America Report

    The US art market showed signs of life in 2025. Auction sales rose 23 percent from the previous year to about $3.17 billion, according toa new reportfrom Bank of America and the analytics firm ArtTactic. But the rebound did not come from a surge in demand. Instead, it was driven largely by major estate consignments, read more

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  • An Animated Look at Noguchi's Experimental Playgrounds That Were Never Built

    “I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational,” Isamu Noguchi said in a pamphlet about his Playscapes. Perhaps best known for his stone sculptures and Akari lamps, the Japanese artist and designer always had an eye on the spaces that define childhood, particularly public playgrounds and read more

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  • Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards

    Is there anything more soothing than a sleeping baby swan—known as a cygnet? Or anything more illustrative of the relationship between nature and urban development in the U.K. than the red fox, which are seen in neighborhoods as often as in the wild? For this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), photographers from around Great read more

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  • $45 M. Basquiat Painting, ‘A Storied Masterpiece,’ Heads to Auction at Sotheby’s

    A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it to become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever to hit the block. The painting, titled Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) and dated to 1983, read more

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  • Alma Allen, Artist Representing US at 2026 Venice Biennale, Joins Perrotin

    Alma Allen, the sculptor chosen to represent the United States at this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale, has joined Galerie Perrotin, a blue-chip French gallery with locations inParis, London, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, and Los Angeles. As ARTnews’s Maximilíano Durón and Sarah Douglas reported upon Allen’s selection in November, sources read more

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  • UK Government Slaps Export Ban on Howard Hodgkin Work After Bonhams Sold It for Record £1.7 M.

    British officials are trying to keep a major painting by the late London-born artist Howard Hodgkin from leaving the UK. Last week, the country’s Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) placed an export ban on Mrs Acton in Delhi (1967–71), giving a British museum or gallery the chance to buy it instead. The move read more

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  • Mary, Queen of Scots’ Final Letter on View, French Artist Adds Armor to Dalida Sculpture: Morning Links for March 10, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD. The final letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots before her execution in 1587 is now on public display in Scotland for the first time in 30 years at Perth Museum, where it will remain on view until April read more

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  • Laura Phipps Named Director of Gochman Family Collection Ahead of New Space’s Opening

    Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s five curatorial consultants. read more

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  • Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes

    News Joumana Asseily said she temporarily closed her gallery in Beirut amid evacuation orders last week Marfa’ Projects’ current exhibition of Lebanese filmmaker Rania Stephan’s work (image courtesy Joumana Asseily) Amid Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, which has already displaced an estimated half a million people in the days since the US-led assault on Iran began, read more

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  • 1,000-Year-Old Tomb in Panama Reveals Riches and Victims of Sacrifice

    A newly exhumed tomb in central Panama has revealed stores of riches as well as signs of human sacrifice. As reported by ZME Science, scientists working at the 1,000-year-old burial chamber known at Tomb 3 in El Caño Archaeological Park found stashes of gold as well as remains of a central buried figure surrounded by read more

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  • Legal Conflict Between Art-Dealing Brothers Escalates Into Competing Assault Accusations

    A legal conflict between two art-dealing New York brothers over the names of their respective businesses has escalated from accusations of breach of contract to allegations of physical assault. An October 21, 2025 complaint filed by Harry Hutchison against Projjal Dutta and Aicon Contemporary says that on April 11, Hutchison was at work on the read more

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  • Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years

    While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who would work on read more

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  • Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls' Detroit Museum

    Olayami Dabls is careful to call attention to the distinction between material culture and fine art. After working as an artist and curator for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in the 1970s, Dabls shifted directions and founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into read more

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    Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls' Detroit Museum

  • 60 Percent of Sudan National Museum’s Holdings Have Been Looted, Officials Say

    In September 2024, officials reported that the National Museum of Sudan in the country’s capital city, Khartoum, had been subjected to looting by members of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Now, museum officials have made public the extent of that looting. “More than 60% of the museum’s holdings were read more

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  • How a Texas Town Became an Art Project

    KINGSBURY, Tex. — I never thought a piece of utopia could be found in the middle of Texas. It feels audacious to entertain such a possibility when, miles north and south, detention centers imprison and sicken children and families. Where, like in much of the nation, the histories and rights of Black, Indigenous, and trans read more

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  • Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures

    Books Newsletter The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today. International Women’s Day may have officially come and gone, but the real fight continues the other 364 days of the year. The book is one front, not least because of the systematic exclusion of women from read more

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  • Iranian Media Reports Damage to Chehel Sotoun, a UNESCO-Listed Palace

    Chehel Sotoun, part of a UNESCO World Heritage landmark in the Iranian city ofIsfahan, was damaged following airstrikes in the area, according to Iranian state media. The report comes one week afterGolestan PalaceinTehransuffered significant damage from aerial bombardment linked to US-Israeli strikes on Iran. A roughly minute-long video posted to X by Iranian state media read more

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    Iranian Media Reports Damage to Chehel Sotoun, a UNESCO-Listed Palace

  • Thaddeus Mosley, Beloved Self-Taught Sculptor, Dies at 99

    Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught artist who became an internationally known sculptor and a beloved Pittsburgh public figure, died on Friday, March 6, at the age of 99. Members of the artist’s family, including Pittsburgh City Councilor Khari Mosley, one of his six children, announced that he had died at his home after spending time in read more

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  • Amoako Boafo Takes His Studio on the Road

    Art Review His new exhibition “I Bring Home With Me” combines portraits with seating areas and a model of his studio, inviting visitors to stay awhile and get comfortable. Installation view of Amoako Boafo: I Bring Home With Me at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; photo Paul Salveson) read more

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  • Ancient Egyptians Used Correction Fluid to Fix Errors on Papyri, Researchers Discover

    The ancient Egyptians used an early version of correction fluid to fix errors on artworks and documents, researchers have found. The news was first reported by the Times of London. While readying a 3,300-year-old papyrus for the exhibition “Made in Ancient Egypt” at the Fitzwilliam Museum in England, museum staff noticed that a painted figure read more

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