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Mary Deleary Named Director of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts leads the week, with Survey Finds Gen Z Collectors To Be the Art World’s Biggest Spenders and A New AI Tool Wants to Fix the Gender Imbalance of Gallery Rosters…
Virginia Anderson Named Senior Curator of American Art At The National Gallery Of Art leads the week, with A Rare Vision of Venice: Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco Debuts at auction at Christie's Thinking Italian Sale and…
The Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares Collection achieves nearly €40 Million across 59 lots in a landmark sale leads the week, with Christie's Hong Kong Chinese Paintings Auctions Feature Exceptional Works from Distinguished Private Collections and Buoyed…
Read full issue →Johnny Marr's Globally Anticipated Auction at Christie's Welcomed Registrants from 34 Countries leads the week, with Islamic Arts Biennale Announces Curatorial Team for 2027 and Renoir Show Breaks Box-Office Record at London’s National Gallery…
National Gallery’s Robert Stein Named Executive Director of Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth leads the week, with Lunch With Adam: David Salle on Museum Malpractice, Art World Politics, and Painting Today and Freelands Foundation Announces £100,000…
Mildred Howard Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation Award leads the week, with Atlanta’s High Museum of Art Will Celebrate Centennial With Over 200 New Acquisitions and Longtime Director Stephan Jost to Depart Art Gallery of Ontario…
Christie's and Sotheby's unveil autumn sale highlights as the London and New York market season approaches. Plus: Gwangju Biennale controversy, a Rembrandt export bar, and curatorial appointments across the US.
South Asian art forgeries test the market's authentication infrastructure. The National Gallery adds 24 artists; Speed Art Museum repatriates artifacts. Plus: Christie's porcelain milestone and a Turkish media star enters the biennial circuit.
Sotheby's and Christie's summer sales close with mixed results: strong performance in blue-chip Impressionist work contrasts with a softening mid-market. Plus: museum leadership changes, a Frieze Cities announcement, and e-flux on the politics of the international biennial.
Sotheby's previews its autumn lineup with a significant Basquiat. Artnet surveys the secondary market for Latin American modernism. Plus: deaccessioning debates at regional museums, e-flux on institutional critique's institutional turn, and the fall fair calendar takes shape.
The first half of 2026 closes with major auction houses reporting mixed results: Impressionist strength, Contemporary softness, and a growing premium on provenance. Plus: Sotheby's Artists Among Us, a major e-flux theory essay, and summer institutional programming.
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