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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/N12116_DCXTR_C_T1_59_path.jpg?w=1024″] A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby’s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist’s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction block.   Collectively titled Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1240438760.jpg?w=1024″] Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war—including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio—will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. The museum’s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two fires around the end of World…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/small-260421-BrianGonella-BF-7.jpg?w=1024″] The three-day NFL draft, hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, kicks off in the Steel City on Thursday. The main events will take place downtown: at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore and Point State Park, where Pittsburgh’s famous three rivers meet. The city is expecting hundreds of thousands of visitors—by some estimates,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ncfom.jpg?w=1024″] San Francisco–based Fraenkel Gallery has partnered with Metrograph to have six of the artists it represents select one film each that will screen at the theater from May 8–17, with select encore screenings to follow. The collaboration will open with Weems’s selection, No Country for Old Men (2007). In addition to choosing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1240129621.jpg?w=1024″] The Venice Biennale always brings with it a flurry of controversies, many of them centered on the national pavilions. For that reason, most observers and attendees expect there to be some degree of scandal built into each each edition of the world’s greatest art festival. But this year’s Biennale, opening in May,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/headshot.jpg?w=1024″] It was the dismissal heard around the performing arts world when Timothée Chalamet said, in a February conversation with fellow-actor Matthew McConaughey, “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though, like, no one cares about this anymore.’” Even…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Russia-Venice-Pavilion.jpg?w=1024″] In its most forceful condemnation yet of the world’s greatest art exhibition, the European Union said it planned to cut funding to the Venice Biennale, which will host this year host Russia’s first pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The pavilion has faced a bitter, negative response from European…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Sacha-Stone-Calder-and-the-Cirque-Calder-1926-1931-1929-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Few artists have altered the course of modern sculpture as profoundly as Alexander Calder (1898–1976). From the late 1920s onward, he worked both in the United States and France, creating a new sculptural language grounded in movement and chance. It was in Paris that he introduced his first “mobiles,” setting in motion…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/37.-Acropolis-Hill_Natalia-Tsoukala_IMG_7343.jpg?w=1024″] NEON, the Athens-based initiative founded by leading collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude its activities later this year, “after 14 years of activity, having fulfilled its cultural and social mission,” according to a release. NEON’s final project began last year when the first of three exhibitions by Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz opened at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/37.-Acropolis-Hill_Natalia-Tsoukala_IMG_7343.jpg?w=1024″] NEON, the Athens-based initiative founded by leading collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude its activities later this year, “after 14 years of activity, having fulfilled its cultural and social mission,” according to a release. NEON’s final project began last year when the first of three exhibitions by Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz opened at…