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[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.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Image-Courtesy-of-Art-Basel_015.jpg?w=1024″] Art Basel has named Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi artistic director of the 2027 edition of Art Basel Qatar, the second chapter in what is quickly becoming one of the art market’s most closely-watched experiments. The appointment comes after the fair’s debut earlier this year in Doha, where Art Basel tried something noticeably different…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/powerhouse-.jpg?w=1024″] When Powerhouse Parramatta, the enormous new cultural center opening in the city of Parramatta west of Sydney, Australia, opens later this year, a new commission by the British-Indian sculptor Bharti Kher will welcome visitors as the entrance. Art Asia Pacific reported the news. The sculpture, titled Tree of Life, will be monumental…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Tilda-Swinton-portrait-1_BTS_16x9.jpg?w=1024″] Actress and sometime performance artist Tilda Swinton will stage a performance at the Guggenheim Bilbao next month. Titled House of Gestures, the work is a collaboration between Swinton and fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard. Commissioned by Dom Pérignon this year, the piece is being billed as “an original work conceived around…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/11Most2026_Stonewall_20190620_224100957_iOS_crTimothyLeonard-NationalParksConservationAssociation.jpg?w=1024″] The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., has released its annual list of “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places,” which includes sites that have been targeted by the second Trump administration. Published each year since 1988, this year’s list was framed around the 250th anniversary of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ABQ26__MC__PR__Ambiance_Photography__008_Large_HiRes.jpeg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines AUCTION ACTION. Sotheby’s in New York sold $303.9 million-worth of modern art yesterday evening, while Phillips netted $115.2 million from their modern and contemporary sale held just beforehand. But as ARTnews’ Daniel Cassady reports, there is still a sense of caution from buyers who are showing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/WEB_chapuy_portrait-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Malo Chapuy, whose Virgin with Codex (2025) appears on the cover of this issue of Art in America, finds the lexicon of medieval painting well suited for our times of apocalyptic anxieties as we face ecological collapse and rehash the Crusades. From his studio in Paris, he told us about the painting.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sothebys-Helena-Newman-auctioneering-the-Modern-Evening-Auction_2.jpg?w=1024″] A few minutes into Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction on Tuesday night, the pauses between bids began telling their own story. Collectors still showed up for the museum-quality material, particularly blue-chip works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Vincent van Gogh, but the atmosphere inside the Breuer building often felt cautious…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-2026-Saleroom.jpg?w=1024″] The Phillips team appeared joyous with the results of its modern and contemporary art evening sale, which got underway at the respectable time of 5pm on Tuesday. The auction house achieved $115.2 million against an estimate of $84.2 million—its highest presale estimate since the frothy days of 2022. All 40 lots found…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_0559.jpg?w=1024″] The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. The object was initially brought to the Mexican consulate in New York by an unidentified American businessman, who…