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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PORTRA_1.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. Hope you are enjoying the New York sales this week. Here’s a round-up of the art trade’s comings and goings: Tina Kim Gallery to Represent Estate of Kim Lim: The gallery will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-2251749083.jpg?w=1024″] A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be replaced by government-commissioned contemporary works, dealing a blow to the preservationist campaign opposing the project. According to the Paris Administrative Court, the administrative judge reasoned that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/metzkes.jpg?w=1024″] Harald Metzkes, the so-called “Cézannist of Prenzlauer Berg” who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany’s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the German Press Agency by his son, the sculptor Robert Metzkes. “Metzkes became particularly…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BFA_54428_7944892.jpg?w=1024″] Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu—who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free—alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and former Whitney Museum director Adam D. Weinberg.…