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  • Lindsay Jarvis, Max Werner Form Partnership: Industry Moves for August 26, 2026

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/jarvis-werner.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Industry Moves Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership: The new Jarvis & Werner will open on September 2 with a solo exhibition for Martina Cox at 96 Bowery in New…

  • What Happens to Seoul’s Art Market After the Hype?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Frieze_Seoul_2025.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. The hype surrounding Seoul’s boom years is over. As Frieze Seoul returns for its fifth edition and KIAF marks its 25th anniversary this September, the city’s art market is entering a new…

  • Samia Halaby Remembers Sliman Mansour: ‘A Giant in the History of Art’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/sliman-mansour.jpeg?w=1024″] Sliman Mansour, an artist and educator who helped create the visual language of Palestinian perseverance, died on Monday in Jerusalem at 79. An outpouring of gratitude and grief has followed in the wake of his death from artists and arts professionals within the Arab art community, and beyond, many of whom counted…

  • Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center Results in Falling Finances

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2292011242.jpg?w=1024″] At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ticket sales are dwindling with speed. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that in the 10 months following President Donald Trump’s takeover of the center, ticket sales and donations have tumbled. The performing arts venue is reportedly on track to fall nearly…

  • Historic Sulfur Emissions Damage Murujuga Rock Art

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/murujuga-national-park-fuzz-digital2.jpg?w=1024″] Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions. About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world’s most significant and dense collections of ancient petroglyphs, dating back about 50,000…

  • GoFundMe Campaign Launched to Preserve Marijke De Roover’s Work

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MR-2022-do-you-believe-in-life-after-love-HR-35.jpg?w=1024″] The Belgian artist Marijke De Roover, who turned memes into art and never shied away from topics of feminism, sex and gender, died on July 25, at 36 years old. A crowdfunding campaign has since been launched by her community to preserve her work, Ocula reported on Tuesday. So far, 48 donations…

  • A U.S. Federal Judge Rules Against Sale of Titanic Artifacts

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-948031856.jpg?w=1024″] A ‘wrecked’ sale? An Atlanta-based company that salvaged 100 artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck decades ago has been banned from auctioning them, a federal judge ruled Monday, according to The New York Times. Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, upheld a 2011 ban on the sale…

  • Gwangju Biennale Restores ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Amid Censorship Claims

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1232052823.jpg?w=939″] Ten days into a deepening diplomacy dispute between Taiwan and South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale over allegations of censorship, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (GBF) has agreed that a satellite exhibition at its September edition can open as the “Taiwan Pavilion.” The decision follows a series of conflicting accounts between the two parties over…

  • Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence and More Art News

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Art-Museum-01.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! An employee from Ireland’s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.  Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for “slandering China’s heroes.” The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of…

  • £20 M. Mondrian Painting Will Auction at Christie’s During Frieze Week

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Piet-Mondrians-Composition-III-1920-Christies.png?w=1024″] The star of Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 during Frieze Week is Piet Mondrian’s Composition III (1920). The work is coming to auction for the first time and is estimated to fetch between £20 million to £30 million ($27 million to $41 million). Composition III (1920) arrives…