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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/TIFFANY-STUDIOS-The-Boyd-Family-Memorial-Window-The-Falls.png?w=1024″] A late 19th-century stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios, which hung in a Connecticut church for more than a century, is headed to auction this June and expected to bring in up to $2 million. The Boyd Family Memorial Window (The Falls), from 1898, will headline a design sale at Christie’s New York,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2269788829.jpg?w=1024″] By the end of last year, 2026 seemed poised to be the year of the Gulf for the art market. In December 2025, Sotheby’s held the first edition of Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, netting $133 million in the process. This past February, Art Basel held the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG6.jpg?w=960″] Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum’s holdings and renews attention on the artist’s original vision for the site. As first reported by The Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Diane-Keaton-photo-by-Ruven-Afanador-courtesy-of-Bonhams_2.jpg?w=1024″] The personal treasures of Diane Keaton, the commanding actress who established a significant sartorial presence and wore hats as well as a milliner could ever dream, are the subject of an in-person auction in New York and three online sales courtesy of Bonhams. Exhibitions of the lots on offer will be mounted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2271773482.jpg?w=1024″] A man standing atop one of the ancient pyramids at Teotihuacán in Mexico opened fire on tourists Monday, killing a Canadian woman and injuring at least 13 others, according to Mexican authorities. The shooter was identified by the Associated Press as 27-year-old Mexican national Julio César Jasso Ramírez. Authorities said he later…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Alberto-Giacometti-La-Clairiere-Composition-avec-neuf-figures-Conceived-in-1950-and-cast-in-1960_view-2.jpg?w=1024″] The collection of modern and contemporary art built over some seven decades by David and Shoshanna Wingate will come to auction at Sotheby’s New York and London over evening and day sales on May 19 and 20. The group of over 50 works, including canonical artists like Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Roy…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Lynda-Roscoe-Hartigan_Courtesy-PEM-Photo-by-Alex-Paul.jpg?w=1024″] The Smithsonian on Tuesday named Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, currently the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as the next Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She begins September 8. Hartigan succeeds Jane Carpenter-Rock, who has led SAAM on an interim…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2721807.jpg?w=1024″] As questions continue to swirl around Alma Allen‘s US Pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud revealed that she was also offered the opportunity to represent the country—and that she had declined it. News of Chase-Riboud’s decision to say no was first reported by the New York Times yesterday, in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2271736939.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A Canadian tourist was killed, and others injured in a shooting atop Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon. The grandson of Diego Rivera, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, has gifted over 150,000 items to Mexico’s Museo Anahuacalli.  A papyrus fragment…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AR9479079-copy_WEB-1.jpg?w=1024″] For as long as people have made art, they have depicted something they know intimately: the nude human form. One of the oldest surviving works of art—the Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, which dates to between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C.—is a limestone figurine of a voluptuous nude woman. In the subsequent millennia, the…