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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_5508.jpg?w=1024″] By 4 p.m. on Thursday, the aisles of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory should have started thinning out. Instead, dealers were still pinned into conversations, collectors crowded around vitrines, and the low roar that had echoed though the building since the doors opened for its VIP day at 11…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-3.19.40-PM.png?w=1024″] Earlier this week, a 5.5-carat diamond ring sold for over $17 million dollars during Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Zurich. The triangular-cut stone, known as Ocean Dream, thanks to its blue-green color, had an estimate of about $9-12 million. It is set into an 18-karat white gold band and surrounded by pink…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1181357409.jpg?w=1024″] The Catalan government in Spain sent a formal demand to the Aragonese government asking for €791,000 (around $920,000) to recoup costs related to the value and upkeep of artworks from the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena it was ordered to return in 2017, according to a report in El País.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-534269794.jpg?w=1024″] More than 100 Seattle Art Museum employees announced plans this week to unionize, joining the nationwide labor movement that’s swept through art institutions in the last six years.  The union, called the Seattle Art Museum Workers United, will represent workers in over 20 front- and back-end departments. The union told SAM director and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Kalpasutra.jpg?w=1024″] The Wellcome Collection in London announced Friday its plans to return 2,000 manuscripts to the Jain community. In an unusual move, however, they will not be returned to Pakistan, where many of the manuscripts were purchased a century ago, or to India, where the majority of Jains live today. Instead, they will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/luxor_tombs-780×470-1.jpg?w=780″] An Egyptian archeological mission has made several new discoveries this season while excavating at the Abu El-Naga necropolis near Luxor. The announcement was made by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. Among the most important finds of the season was a cache of ten well preserved, painted wooden coffins that had been hidden…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AN_web.jpg?w=1024″] New York art dealer Larry Gagosian is the stuff of legend, a self-made man who rose from selling posters on the streets of LA to hobnobbing with celebrities, bidding on artworks for hundreds of millions of dollars, and occasionally even dating artists decades his junior. Art world insiders devoured Patrick Radden Keefe’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276408970.jpg?w=1024″] A group of Miami residents and a local nonprofit have sued President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Miami Dade College, and members of the Florida Cabinet over plans for Trump’s future presidential library, arguing that the transfer of a prime stretch of downtown waterfront land violates the U.S. Constitution.  According to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP18301480083694.jpg?w=1024″] The years 1981 to 1984 were a brief period of intense artistic output that cemented Jean-Michel Basquiat’s place within the canon of art history. Initially working under the moniker SAMO, Basquiat, a friend of artist Keith Haring and actress Patti Astor, became an integral member of the social circle around the Mudd…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1197489984.jpg?w=1024″] Oscar-Nominated Sentimental Value star Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas will join The Secret Agent lead Wagner Moura on Brazilian film The Outsider, where Ibsdotter Lilleaas will have the central role.   Bringing together stars of the two biggest non-English language movies at this year’s Academy Awards, The Outsider (A Estrangeira) is produced by São Paulo’s Maria Farinha Filmes and written…