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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Anne-Imhof-1.jpg?w=1024″] Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong announced today that Anne Imhof will debut a suite of new works as part of her solo exhibition opening at the former prison turned art space next month. Titled “House of Swans,” the exhibition, which marks the artist’s first solo in Asia, will feature “a major commission…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/fayum.jpg?w=1024″] Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday of money laundering in a case whose details closely match those of the two children of Serop Simonian, the German art dealer and alleged leader of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring that sold items to museums including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/peyton-lawsuit.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, rock music photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the American painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby’s, and David Zwirner Gallery, as first reported by Copyright Lately. In the suit, Thomas accuses Peyton of willfully copying a photograph he took at an after-party…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289824681.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration is threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it does not get its wish to close it for two years in order to renovate it. In a Monday court filing, the administration describes the building as “dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit” and argues that, absent…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sothebys-Masterpieces-from-the-Lewis-Collection-and-Contemporary-and-Modern-Art-Evening-Auction-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan-courtesy-Sothebys-3.jpg?w=1024″] During a talk at the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons last week, mega-dealer Larry Gagosian was asked for his predictions on whether an enormous amount of art could hit the market in the coming years as aging boomers die and their collections pass to their heirs. Bloomberg recently put the potential haul at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2160632134.jpg?w=1024″] A former member of the protest-art collective Pussy Riot says she was recruited by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to help spy on the Kremlin’s critics. Rita Flores, whose real name is Margarita Konovalova, sat down in an interview with her lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov posted on the YouTube channel of Port Media,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/sliman-.jpg?w=1024″] Sliman Mansour, a pivotal figure in contemporary Arab art history, with an oeuvre synonymous with the struggle for Palestinian statehood, has died at 79. The news was announced yesterday by Mansour’s family, who had previously shared that he was in critical condition.  “The final chapter has been written,” the Mansour family said…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2247956291.jpg?w=1024″] Fabrizio Plessi, a pioneer of video art, died on August 23 in Venice at 86. His death was reported by La Repubblica. Plessi was best known for engaging history and tradition with the digital, creating installations that took on an architecture of their own. A true experimenter, he also had a flair…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2160632201.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Financial Times has argued that billionaire wealth, not artistic value, is driving modern art’s astronomical prices. Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores said Russia’s FSB tried to recruit her as an informant in 2023. A Kehinde Wiley painting has been removed from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-917389214.jpg?w=1024″] The US Embassy in the Dominican Republic is changing its artwork to reflect “American patriotism and the beauty of our great country,” US ambassador Leah Campos wrote in an Instagram post on August 11, that showed Kehinde Wiley’s Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) being swapped for an image of the American…