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[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″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Christie’s blockbuster evening sales on Monday point to a bullish market for historic works. Reina Sofía’s director says Basque leaders never asked the museum for a Guernica loan, and Spanish politicians technically have no authority in the matter. The UK’s culture secretary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1.Orchard-with-Cypresses_Christies-1.jpg?w=996″] In 1990 Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet stunned the art world when it soared to $82.5 million at Christie’s New York, setting a new record for any painting at auction at the time. It was one of several headline-grabbing sales that cemented Van Gogh as one of the market’s most coveted names.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/aia_summer-cover-web-1.jpg?w=1000″] There has been much discussion over the past decade or soabout the role of the artist during our tumultuous political times. Looking at the latest crop of Art in America’s “New Talent” artists, I can’t help but think that one of artists’ primary functions during such times is to remind us that…

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[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″] Most of the headlines from Christie’s blockbuster evening sales of the S.I. Newhouse collection and 20th-century art on Monday will likely focus on the 8- and 9-figure prices: the $181.2 million Pollock, the $107.6 million Brâncuși, and the $98.4 million Rothko. Those are mind-blowing sums, to be sure, but those works were…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Rothko-No.-15-Two-Greens-and-Red-Stripe.jpg?w=1024″] A Mark Rothko painting formerly owned by art patron and longtime Museum of Modern Art president emerita Agnes Gund sold at Christie’s on Monday night for a hammer price of $85 million. With fees, the total came to $98.4 million, handily breaking the Abstract Expressionist’s auction record. The work started with a $60…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/71994153-e1772824846109.jpg?w=1024″] Christie’s kicked off its marquee evening auctions this May, with a 16-lot sale of works from the collection of media magnate S .I. Newhouse. The sale, which featured top works by Constantin Brâncuși, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso, totaled a whopping $630.8 million with fees. It also re-set…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/JACKSON-POLLOCK-Number-7A-1948.jpg?w=1024″] A Jackson Pollock painting formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, once one of the world’s most formidable art collectors, sold at Christie’s on Monday night for a hammer price of $157 million, breaking the Abstract Expressionist artist’s auction record. With fees, the total was brought to $181.2 million. That number…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-11.08.26-AM.png?w=1024″] A Constantin Brâncuși sculpture formerly owned by S. I. Newhouse, a media magnate who was at one time among the world’s top art collectors, sold at Christie’s on Monday night for a hammer price of $93 million, breaking the modernist sculptor’s auction record. With fees, the total came to $107.6 million The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-2062962061.jpg?w=1024″] The French government announced Monday morning the team of architects who have been selected to overhaul the Louvre in Paris, concluding a protracted selection process marked by staff strikes and the lingering investigation into the jewel heist.  The Paris office of STUDIOS Architecture will lead the project, which includes the creation of…