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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/847866502_1407863071521840_8290123632454859959_n.jpg?w=1024″] On Tuesday, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) returned 22 antiquities to Greece. The cache includes decorated pottery from the 8th through the 4th centuries BCE that had been seized during an illegal antiquities trafficking investigation in and around Tel Aviv in 2020. The ceremony took place at the National Archaeological Museum in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/848788914_1527305196097688_2984047682730300357_n.jpg?w=1024″] Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of two colossal statues believed to depict Ramses II after a local landowner reported finding an inscribed stone block in the village of Behbeit El-Hagar. The discoveries were made by an archaeological mission from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). According to Dr. Hisham El-Leithy,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/White-Cube-Frieze-London-2026.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. It’s fun to celebrity watch the entrance to Frieze London in Regent’s Park before the fair begins. As the floodgates opened for the VIP preview on Wednesday,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Gray-Wielebinski-Production-2026-Urinal-Cakes-Blue.jpg?w=1024″] At Frieze London this week, even the bathroom will be a place to see art. Gray Wielebinski’s new site-specific Production (2026) will transform the fair’s public toilets into an intimate olfactory environment, where scent, bodily function, privacy, desire, and surveillance will converge. Rather than disappearing into the functional infrastructure of the bathroom,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/S94_drawing_DR.jpg?w=1024″] New York–based gallery Salon 94 will expand its footprint to Paris, where it will open a permanent space facing the Jardin du Palais Royal on October 18. Located at 30 Galerie de Montpensier, the 323-square-foot space will be inaugurated by a solo exhibition for Deborah Roberts, running through November 28. “Artists really…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/1_930932.jpg?w=1024″] The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is being considered as a potential new member of the Smithsonian museum network, with members of a new congressional commission sworn in on Tuesday set to study the matter. As reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Philip Darivoff, a former longtime chair…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2298421427.jpg?w=1024″] Christophe Leribault, who recently took the reins at the Louvre in Paris, said that the museum could close altogether if it does not receive renovations that would improve the institution’s security and aging infrastructure. “Whoever forms the next government must keep in mind that if the Louvre is not repaired, updated and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1821402025.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Pakistan’s Karachi Biennale has cancelled its fifth edition due to “war conditions prevailing in the region.” A 300-year-old Jingdezhen porcelain bowl and box mysteriously shattered inside a British Museum display case, sparking a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/260728_NT_DSC09913-Panorama.jpg?w=1024″] To get to France’s newest contemporary art center, the journey is part of the experience. To reach Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris, you must first go to Pont de Sèvres, the final stop of Métro Line 9, and then either take a 15-minute walk or a five-minute…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Portrait-2_Myrlande-Constant_FG-2023.jpg?w=1024″] Dealer Adam Shopkorn of New York–based gallery Fort Gansevoort has always taken an unorthodox route when it comes to the business he cofounded in 2015 with his wife, Carolyn Tate Angel. After participating at Frieze Los Angeles this past February, he will show at the fair’s London edition this week with a…