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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garden-Court-The-Frick-Collection.jpg?w=1024″] The Frick Collection in New York has announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton that will see the fashion house sponsor a number of initiatives at the museum. Louis Vuitton will be the lead sponsor of three of the Frick’s upcoming exhibitions: “Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500,” which will look at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/small-DIG_E_2026_Iris_Van_Herpen_Sculpting_the_Senses_On_White_Wall_009.jpg?w=1024″] In 2010, Iris van Herpen, only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her “Crystallization” collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its ivory-colored coils of 3D-printed polyamide, the piece was a collaboration with British architect Daniel…

[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″] Five days before a trove of 16 masterpieces from the late media magnate S.I. Newhouse is set to hit the block as part of Christie’s New York evening sales, the auction house has released a two-minute video promoting one particular sculpture in the sale. The short film, as Christie’s refers to it,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2242183067.jpg?w=1024″] A Louvre employee was indicted and detained on Wednesday on charges including organized gang fraud as part of an investigation into a scheme to defraud the Paris museum of ticket fees for thousands of visitors. Six others had been placed in custody “because of the communications they may have had with the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jmwturner.jpg?w=1024″] One of J.M.W. Turner’s most self-portraits, which appears on the £20 note, may not be by the artist at all. Art historian James Hamilton, who has written widely on Turner, curated exhibitions on the artist, and authored the 1997 biography Turner—A Life, told the Guardian this week that he believes the painting…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/download.jpg?w=746″] In the run-up to the British Museum’s historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open “Tapestry of Trees,” an outdoor installation by garden designer Andy Sturgeon. Meant to evoke a medieval woodland, the installation will be composed of plants and trees typically found in East Sussex, where the Battle of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/On-The-Couch_2026_JM_001155.jpg?w=1024″] At a coffee shop in Little Italy late last month, Joel Mesler leaned back in his chair and started explaining how he used to sell art in New York. Back when he was running galleries in the Lower East Side in the late 2000s and early 2010s, he said, deals often came…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-609565684.jpg?w=1024″] Opening statements and witness testimony were heard in a Manhattan court on Tuesday in the murder-for-hire trial following the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkeman. Sikkema was found brutally murdered in January 2024 in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-71424202.jpg?w=1024″] The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution’s modern art offerings. The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BAND-AID-Brand-x-The-Met_Monet_Redon_Van-Gogh-Tin-and-Bandages-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Following the success of their 2025 collaboration, BAND-AID® Brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have reunited to produce a new lineup of art-themed adhesive bandages. This year, the band-aids feature details from three flower paintings in the Met’s collection: Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (1919), Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh’s Irises…