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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Contemporary-Evening-Sale-October-2026-photographer-Rayan-Bamhayan-Courtesy-Sothebys.jpg?w=1024″] In a tense saleroom with a lot of silent moments and anxious pauses—at times it felt like a courtroom, with all eyes on auctioneer Tom Eddison—Sotheby’s London conducted a slow but steady £46.1 million ($61.1 million) contemporary art sale on Thursday in a full sale room, with a £9.8 million ($12.9 million)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/National_Museum_of_Korea_Seoul_2_40236586235.jpg?w=1024″] The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled a calligraphic artwork belonging to him from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1227919760.jpg?w=1024″] London’s Natural History Museum has millions of specimens in its collection, and until recently at least one dinosaur nobody knew it had. A fragment of skull that spent roughly a century in the museum’s holdings has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur, according to Discover. Better…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/kindred.png?w=1024″] Frieze Week in London has stopped being just about Frieze London and Frieze Masters as smaller fairs are seizing the opportunity for more intimate fair models. On Tuesday, Minor Attractions hosted its fourth edition—this time with a new location at The Newman, a newly opened hotel in central London. This year’s fair…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/canaletto.jpg?w=1024″] A previously unknown drawing by 18th century Italian painter and printmaker Canaletto is heading to auction in England next week with an estimate of $53,000 to $79,000, after two centuries apparently spent in a single family’s collection. The drawing, a fanciful architectural scene called a capriccio, will be on sale at Mallams…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2294213278.jpg?w=1024″] The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post exposé based on an inspection report obtained by the paper. The report, issued internally on August 6 after having been commissioned by the contractor in charge of repairs, documents far more…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Collectors_Diary_Ver1.jpg?w=1024″] I hadn’t expected a talking frog to remind me of why I fell in love with contemporary art, and I certainly hadn’t expected to lose it before I ever had the chance to buy it. In March, during a stretch of cool weather that reminds me why I still love Hong Kong,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Adrien-Meyer-selling-Francis-Bacons-Figure-in-Movement-1978-for-17185000.jpg?w=1024″] Christie’s London brought in £218.6 million ($289.4 million) across two evening sales Wednesday, more than doubling last year’s total and offering an encouraging sign for the art market ahead of the New York auctions next month. Seven auction records were set, including five during the sale of British businessman Peter Simon’s collection,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1233565055.jpg?w=1024″] George Osborne, chairman of the British Museum, has expressed hope that a deal can be struck to share the Parthenon Marbles between Athens and London, despite the two-centuries-long diplomatic feud. “I’m still optimistic that we can reach an agreement,” Osborne told reporters in Athens on Tuesday. “If everyone enters into it with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/im-10-14-26.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Industry Moves Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad: The New York–based painter and cofounder of Reena Spaulings Fine Art will have a work in the gallery’s booth at…