Category: art
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Iconic Baseball Painting by Norman Rockwell Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago
On Tuesday, the Art Institute of Chicago announced its acquisition of a study for The Dugout (1948) by Norman Rockwell. Donated by former governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner and Diana Rauner, it will be the first work by that artist in the museum’s collection. A popular painter of American everyday life, Rockwell (1894–1978) is most read more
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‘Old Masters Are Back!’ New York Sales Set Records for Gentileschi, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. As an Old Masters auction started up in a packed room at Sotheby’s new Madison Avenue headquarters on Thursday morning, the auctioneer, David Pollack, made an unusual announcement. By far the top-priced work in the read more
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Naoto Nakagawa 2026 Is on View at KAPOW
Announcement The Lower East Side gallery presents new works by an artist who has shown in major US museums since the 1960s. The exhibition is open through February 22. KAPOW February 11, 2026 — 1 min read Naoto Nakagawa, “Still Life With Wine Opener, Lemon, and Pomegranate” (2025), acrylic on linen canvas with gold spray, read more
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Louis Fratino, Ascendant Painter of Queer Intimacy, Joins David Zwirner
With his fame fast rising, painter Louis Fratino has joined David Zwirner, one of the world’s biggest galleries. Rather than cutting ties with his past galleries, as many artists do when they join a mega-gallery like Zwirner, Fratino will still be represented by Berlin’s Galerie Neu and New York’s Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, which helped make read more
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Acquavella Plans 50-Work Matisse Exhibition This Spring
This spring, Acquavella Galleries will stage one of the most ambitious gallery exhibitions of Henri Matisse in recent memory.“Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony,” on view from April 9 through May 22, will bring together 50 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that span roughly half a century of the artist’s career. For the gallery, the read more
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Waiting for Spring in the Bay Area
Daily Newsletter MoMA PS1 announces the artists for its Greater New York exhibition, Pride flag removed from Stonewall National Monument, Jennifer Sammet interviews Mary Lovelace O’Nealon for Beer With a Painter, and don’t give up on the Bay Area’s art scene. Times are hard, but don’t believe the rumors about the death of the Bay read more
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Painted by Hand, a Stop-Motion Film Eulogizes a Lost Childhood Home
Jason Mitcham’s childhood home in Greensboro, North Carolina, is no longer standing. In 2011, the local government seized the house and the land he grew up on via eminent domain to widen what was then High Point Road into what’s now Gate City Boulevard. Mitcham last saw the site in 2023, when a paved highway read more
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10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Spring
The San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing something of a cultural crisis. For those of us who have lived here long enough, it’s a comparable collapse to what the community experienced during the first dot-com boom. Galleries and arts nonprofits are closing in handfuls. Museum programming appears to be pandering to the tech bros. Rent read more
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Pride Flag Removed From Stonewall Monument at Trump’s Directive
News The move comes a year after the National Park Service scrubbed mentions of queer and trans people from its website, prompting protests at the NYC landmark. A view of Christopher Park in Manhattan showing a flagpole stripped of its large rainbow flag on February 10, 2026 (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic unless noted) A large read more
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TEFAF New York Names 88 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition at Park Avenue Armory
TEFAF New York will return to the Park Avenue Armory from May 15 to 19, 2026, with 88 exhibitors presenting modern and contemporary art, design, jewelry, and antiquities. An invitation-only preview will take place on May 14. The 2026 edition will bring together dealers from 14 countries across four continents. The roster includes nine new read more
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Amanda Ross-Ho Finds Herself in Her Parents' Art
Art Review The artist’s current show is a moving reflection on the ways our identities are inexorably entangled with our relationships and surroundings. Ruyell Ho, selected flood damaged 8x 10 color transparencies from Communigrafix Photographic Studios, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1982, acrylic, Port-a-Trace lightboxes in Amanda Ross-Ho’s Untitled Damages (ROOM DIVIDER) at Leroy’s, Los Angeles (all read more
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Art and Power Collide in New York City
New York Newsletter The Epstein files rip through the art world’s elite, yet hope emerges in the work of Goya, Amazonian artists, and three millennia of storytellers. Call it conceited, call it tunnel vision, call it East Coast elitism or editorial hyperbole, but sometimes it really does feel like everything in the world runs through read more
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With New Bill, Israel Moves to Expand Control Over Ancient West Bank Sites
Israel has unveiled a bill to oversee West Bank antiquities, drawing condemnation as a violation of international law and a further escalation of its annexation of Palestinian territory. The bill was approved for a first reading by the Israeli Knesset’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation on February 8. It would give Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu “sweeping read more
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Beer With a Painter: Mary Lovelace O'Neal
Mary Lovelace O’Neal in her studio in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico (photo by Karen Jenkins-Johnson, all images courtesy Jenkins Johnson Gallery New York and San Francisco) “I can mark” is a phrase Mary Lovelace O’Neal uses often. Rightly so: She has been leaving her mark since the late 1960s, both on painting and on the Civil read more
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Amoako Boafo Weaves His Portraiture into an Architectural Replica of His Accra Studio
The expression “wherever you go, there you are” is often wielded to describe futile attempts to escape hangups, anxieties, and a variety of unwanted emotions. Although this truism is typically offered as a negative, it can also be read as a positive that provides comfort and stability amid new environments. In I Bring Home with read more
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Lauren Haynes Appointed Executive Director of Atlanta Contemporary
Atlanta Contemporary has named Lauren Haynes’s as its new executive director, effective March 16. She replaces interim ED Everett Long, who had been in the position since last summer. Haynes brings a wealth of curatorial experience to her new role, from institutions throughout the United States. She was most recently vice president of arts & read more
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These Are the Artists in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York Show
MoMA PS1 has announced the artist lineup for the sixth edition of its Greater New York exhibition, which highlights emerging and mid-career contemporary artists every five years. Taking over the museum’s transformed school building starting April 16, the cross-borough survey will celebrate MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary with a bevy of site-specific installations, new commissions, and read more
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In 'Altai,' Photographer Claire Thomas Chronicles a Time-Honored Way of Life in Mongolia
In the Bayan-Ölgii province of western Mongolia, Kazakh Mongolians are the largest ethnic group. The sparsely populated nation abuts the Altai Mountains, some of which belong to Russia and China and across which sits Kazakhstan. Over the past several decades, migration between Kazakhstan and Mongolia has increased due to changing political climates, trade, and tourism. read more
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Investigators Find Decades-Long Mismanagement, Corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum
An investigation into the Nanjing Museum, one of China’s premier state-run cultural institutions, found that decades of systemic mismanagement and corruption enabled the secret sale of national treasures into the private art market. According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal erupted last September after the museum was accused of selling donated paintings, prompting read more
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Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane
John Phelan, a prominent art collector and the current Secretary of the Navy, is revealed to have flown on the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to a report by CNN. Flight logs note that he flew from London to New York on March 3 of that year. The flight read more
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