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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_3578.jpg?w=1024″] Making art in a new medium can pose a challenge for any artist, especially one as technically complex as neon. Now a new residency aims to alleviate those growing pains. The Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit focused on supporting Indigenous artists, has launched a new residency program in collaboration with Lite…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9495-2.png?w=1024″] Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s recurring survey of artists based in the city, has managed to lure one of New York’s most high-profile sensations: Mayor Zohran Mamdani. On her Instagram, PS1 director Connie Butler posted news that Mamdani had personally visited Greater New York alongside Claire Valdez, a New York State Representative…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/la-loge.jpg?w=1024″] The French painter Eva Gonzalès, much like her mentor, Édouard Manet, did not personally identify as an Impressionist, nor did she participate in the group’s exhibitions.  Her velvety brushstrokes were faithful to the human form, indulged no illusion of perspective, and stated a belief that the female mind was a landscape in its own right—wild, deep, and worthy of veneration. In her 1874 A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens, an operagoer,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/datebook_web_banner_f22fa4.jpg?w=1024″] As surveyed in the latest issue of Art in America, see a highly discerning list of things to experience in the art world in the coming months. El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at the Metropolitan Opera  Image Credit: Photo Zenith Richards/Courtesy Metropolitan Opera, New York The stormy, steamy relationship between…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2248583750.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Christie’s sold $162.7 million in postwar and contemporary art across three auctions yesterday, barely meeting expectations. Spain’s parliament has threatened to fire the director of the Reina Sofia museum if the institution doesn’t straighten out its fragmented inventory and the question of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/InstallationView_Emma_Safir_Uyt_Den_Gheest_2025_NewYork_JennyGorman_Courtesy_HESSEFLATOW6_9cd485.jpg?w=1000″] What might it take to tackle theen-slick-ification of the art object? Emma Safir’s answer to this question arises from her embrace of the sensory capacities inherent in textiles and an eagerness to place oppositional strategies and gestures into new formations and dependencies. The results are works of great mystery and manipulation, each…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Auctioneer-Yu-Ge-Wang-sells-Gerhard-Richters-Kerze-Candle-for-35135000.jpg?w=1024″] Led by a $35.1 million Gerhard Richter canvas, Christie’s New York notched a $162.7 million across a trio of evening sales of postwar and contemporary art that just barely meet expectations at its crowded Rockefeller Center salesroom on Wednesday night. The auction was expected to bring in between $129 million and $191…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GERHARD-RICHTER-Kerze-Candle.jpg?w=1024″] A Gerhard Richter painting from the estate of the late dealer Marian Goodman sold at Christie’s Wednesday evening for $35.1 million (with fees). The sale fell well below Richter’s record of $46.3 million, which was set over a decade ago. The lot, Kerze (Candle), from 1982, came to auction with an estimate…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026_357_v1_TD_202604_ccc1b1.jpg?w=1024″] The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic arts. The gift comprises works spanning the 19th century and the present day by more than 450 artists. The photographs come from the holdings of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Auctioneer-Adrien-Meyer-sells-Jackson-Pollocks-Number-7A-1948-the-top-lot-of-Masterpieces-The-Private-Collection-of-S.I.-Newhouse-for-181.2-million-2.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Before this week, the last time more than $1 billion worth of art ripped through an auction house in one night was back in 2022, when Christie’s New York unloaded the Paul…