Tag: artnews.com

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/pgc-palazzo.jpg?w=1024″] Chanel is teaming up with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on a new curatorial fellowship that will move between New York and Venice, tying one of the art world’s biggest institutions more closely to one of its busiest international stages—and to a growing network of cultural initiatives backed by the fashion house. The announcement…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/154379480-e1771615400297.jpg?w=1024″] Leon Botstein, who has led Bard College since 1975 and shaped it into one of the art world’s most influential liberal arts institutions, announced Friday that he will retire, after an independent report found he had not been “fully accurate” in his public accounts of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Jean-Michel-Basquiat-Museum-Security-Broadway-Meltdown-2.jpg?w=1024″] MAY MARQUEE MASS. The spring auction season is an upon us, and ARTnews has done some sleuthing into who’s selling what. For one, there’s Jean-Michel Basquiat’s monumental panting Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), from 1983, set for Sotheby’s contemporary art sale on May 14, estimated at $45 million. According to sources, the consignor…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/14.-Trevor-Paglen-Voyager-2026.-Photo-by-Trevor-Paglen-Courtesy-of-Trevor-Paglen.jpg?w=1024″] Every two years, Venice is activated with more art than is possible to see in a week. While much attention this year will be on “In Minor Keys,” the central show curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, as well as a slew of intriguing—and controversial—pavilions in the Arsenale and Giardini, Venice will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Faustin-flying-1.jpg?w=1024″] Last month, Faustin Linyekula stood at the edge of the lagoon beside the Arsenale, looking out over the water. He bent down and ran his hand along the moss that clings to the concrete docks, then began to sing. His voice carried across the basin, past the bell towers and into the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/koyo.jpg?w=1024″] The untimely passing of curator Koyo Kouoh, the artistic director of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has been deeply felt throughout the art world for the past year. Now, artist Derrick Adams will pay tribute to Kouoh via a monumental installation in Venice this week. A banner version of his collage Heavy is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Jean-Michel-Basquiat-Museum-Security-Broadway-Meltdown-2.jpg?w=1024″] It’s springtime in the art world, and that can mean only one thing. Not the Venice Biennale, though that is no doubt where many dealers, collectors, and artists are this week. No, we’re talking about the May marquee sales. This year’s sales arrive, as always, at something of an inflection point for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dominique-Levy-Brett-Gorvy-and-Amalia-Dayan_Courtesy-of-Levy-Gorvy-Dayan-by-Alexei-Hay-.png?w=1024″] Lévy Gorvy Dayan is rolling out a new way to sell high-value art, though gallery cofounder Brett Gorvy is quick to lower the temperature on the idea. The gallery’s new platform, LGD Hammer, isn’t meant to remake the market. “We aren’t inventing a new paradigm, but it is a development,” he said. The platform,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/FairOveview_CONDUCTOR_4.jpg?w=1024″] Conductor, a new art fair hosted by Powerhouse Arts opened in Brooklyn on Wednesday night with a crowd size expected from a biennial preview, rather than a typical fair opening. Within hours, more than 800 people had passed through Powerhouse Arts, drifting between booths that offered the unexpected. There were 28 galleries…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/maravilla.jpg?w=1024″] New York–based artist Guadalupe Maravilla had traveled to Venice last weekend to finalize the installation of his work at the 2026 Venice Biennale, a crowning achievement for any artist. But that situation, which he first posted about on Instagram, soured Thursday evening after he had left the Arsenale, one of the Biennale’s…