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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/botticelli.jpeg?w=1024″] A Botticelli painting placed under an export ban in an effort to keep it in the UK was acquired by the Klesch Collection and will stay in England by way of a three-year loan to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. As reported by The Art Newspaper, the work—titled The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-87743579.jpg?w=1024″] Since the 1990s, a small network of artist-endowed foundations has expanded dramatically, now controlling roughly $9 billion in assets, according to new research collected by the Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundation Initiative (AEFI), a center that studies philanthropy in the U.S. The researchers tracked how, as the country’s economy has grown, a few…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/4-ROB-at-SFG-2019-Gallery-2_4.jpg?w=1000″] London-based gallery Stephen Friedman is in debt to the tune of some $10.6 million, according to official documents. Its creditors include a real estate owner, a bank, and an art logistics company as well as several well-known artists. The debts are indicated in an official filing by its administrators on Companies House,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/rubio.jpg?w=1023″] Just two months after becoming a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jennifer Rubio, along with her husband, Stewart Butterfield, have pledged $23 million to the New York museum. Rubio is an entrepreneur who founded the ubiquitous travel brand Away, and Butterfield, who is on the boards of the Whitney Museum…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2149110659.jpg?w=1024″] The central attraction at the Venice Biennale is its main exhibition, a curated show meant to pinpoint a dominant theme in art as it stands right now. But all around it are pavilions staged by countries, with each nation selecting one or more artists to mount their own show or installation. These…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AN_Web_Graphic_.jpg?w=1024″] April showers may bring May flowers, but in the art world, the early signs of spring also mean that the auction houses are gearing up for the first of their marquee New York sales. Typically, these auctions, from Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips, occur over the course of a week, but 2026’s calendar…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Domenico-Gnoli-Due-Dormienti-1966.-Private-Collection-courtesy-of-Levy-Gorvy-Dayan-New-York-2026-Artists-Rights-Society-ARS-New-York_SIAE-Rome.jpg?w=1024″] New York galleries hold their big spring shows in May, when savvy curators and deep-pocketed collectors both roll into town for the season’s fairs and auctions. That makes the period beforehand an equally exciting one: galleries can experiment, often by staging shows by artists who are less prominent but of great promise.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-961439424.jpg?w=1024″] Zoe Leonard, a celebrated artist whose work is headed to the Venice Biennale next week, has departed one of the world’s biggest art galleries and joined the roster of a much smaller one based only in New York. Until earlier this year, Leonard was represented by Hauser & Wirth, a gallery with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Game-Boy-Tetris_Courtesy-Estate-of-Rutherford-Chang.png?w=618″] Art history has been punctuated by debates over what a square can mean or do. For Kazimir Malevich, the black square was, in a sense, painting’s building block—a way to strip art down to its most fundamental form. For Ad Reinhardt, it marked an endpoint: He described his black canvases as the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WEB-PAGLEN_inst_2023_05_10_V14.jpg?w=1024″] There’s no shortage of speculation about what generative AI portends for culture: Visions range from a “dead internet,” in which bots produce the majority of online content, to utopic redistribution scenarios, in which universal basic income grants humans unprecedented creative leisure. But for more than a decade—before many people had ever heard…