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[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…

[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…