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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/centre-pompidou_parana_maquette.jpg?w=1000″] A Brazilian outpost of Paris’s hallowed Centre Pompidou initially planned to open next year has been pushed back 2029, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. Construction on Centre Pompidou Paraná, in the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, has not begun, and a planned call for bids has reportedly…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-481385367.jpg?w=1024″] A Miami art dealer received a 46-month federal prison sentence on Thursday in a long-running case centered around his efforts to sell fake Andy Warhol works. Leslie Roberts is now facing his second prison sentence since he opened his Miami Fine Art Gallery in 1997. In 2015, he received a 22-month sentence…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Tom-House-Jamison-Rockmore.jpg?w=1024″] It has been a long road to recognition for the artist known as Tom of Finland, who started out in the queer erotica underground, submitting his drawings of gay men with eye-popping physiques, often dressed in leather fetish gear and engaged in equally eye-popping sex acts, to magazines like Physique Pictorial in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-526176882.jpg?w=1024″] Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody, though investigators are still looking for a fourth missing sculpture. The recovered objects include a Baroque wooden angel from the Church…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/A2026-7.jpg?w=1024″] Los Angeles–area cultural institution the Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced this year’s gifts to its art collection from the Huntington’s Art Collectors’ Council. Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators. The five 2026 Art Collectors’ Council acquisitions…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Bianca-Jagger-Frieze-London-2026.jpg?w=1024″] Frieze Week has become a pilgrimage site for fashion folk. Since 2022, the fashion population has been aggressively migrating to the art fair; that same year McQueen and Roksanda staged their runway shows to coincide with Frieze London and Frieze Masters. In the lead-up to Frieze Week, there has been some chatter…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-948287516.jpg?w=1024″] Francesco Bonami, a widely regarded curator whose achievements include curating the 2003 edition of the Venice Biennale, has been named artistic director of the GES-2 House of Culture, the Moscow art space sited across a river from the Kremlin. Opened in 2021, not long before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the 440,000-square-foot GES-2…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ART-WEEK-PRESS-RELEASE-HEADER-NOVEMBER-11-14-2026-1.png?w=1000″] On Friday, Art Week NYC, a four-day event taking place throughout the city from November 11 through 14, announced a list of 32 participating institutions. They include museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum; nonprofits like ArtTable, the Madison Square Park Conservancy,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/acb-Gallery-Frieze-London-2026.jpg?w=1024″] Across the more than 170 exhibitors, the 2026 edition of Frieze London features a diverse array of works from mixed-media installations to textiles drawing on Indigenous weaving traditions to found objects to interactive digital works to works on paper. Throughout the aisles, visitors will find work by artists engaging a range of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ARTNEWS-SIZING-2.png?w=1024″] When Sotheby’s reported first-half consolidated sales of $4.4 billion in July, some suggested that the business was now stretching beyond the auction room and into hospitality and real estate. If this Frieze Week is anything to go by, it seems smaller art fairs like Minor Attractions and London Invitational (an extension of…