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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Notable-Museum-Donations.jpg?w=1000″] When it comes to expanding their collections, museums cannot always do it alone—they often need deep-pocketed patrons to step in and help them obtain particularly expensive art. Below is a look at seven collectors who gave notable artworks to museums over the past 12 months. Ronald S. Lauder Image Credit: Courtesy Metropolitan…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HOUGHTON-2.jpeg?w=939″] When Spiritualism began as a movement in the mid-19th century, it attracted a host of believers—particularly women, because it granted them powers they couldn’t obtain elsewhere. “I time traveled to the worlds of remarkable women,” writes Jennifer Higgie in the prologue to her 2024 book about women artists of the past two…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Bowery_10.jpg?w=1024″] “A walk down 14th Street is more amazing than any work of art,” Allan Kaprow wrote in 1959, the same year he staged 18 Happenings in 6 Parts in a loft a block off the Bowery. What might he have said of that mile-long boulevard, “one of the great highways of humanity”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/In-Memoriam.jpg?w=1024″] During the past 12 months, the art world lost some of its most dedicated collectors, who were known for the outsize holdings as well as their patronage of institutions, many of which benefited from their largess. Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobsen were longtime trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2167818481.jpg?w=1024″] Funding trouble has been brewing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since at least 2023, when the museum began negotiating with the Dutch Ministry of Culture over the budget for a much-needed building renovation. In the summer of 2025, two years into the negotiations, museum director Emilie Gordenker told the New…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Auction-Scene-of-The-Foujita-Lexicon_Nu-assoupi-sur-la-table.jpg?w=1024″] The first sales of the fall auction season offered some encouraging signs for an art market that has spent the last few years searching for them. Buyers were willing to spend, sometimes well beyond expectations. But they were picky on which works they spent their money. Across recent sales at Christie’s, Phillips,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/img-guerrilla-girls-2_104150562204.jpg?w=1024″] A new AI tool is aimed at revealing the gender imbalance in gallery rosters. Hall W Rockefeller, who designed the program, is using it advance the mission of her art organization, Less Than Half, which aims to raise the profile of women artists. The AI tool analyzes a gallery’s artist roster to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1079651514.jpg?w=1024″] New York’s iconic Chrysler Building, standing on land owned and leased by the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is transferring ownership to the commercial real-estate company Tishman Speyer and other investors, who are planning an extensive overhaul of the Art Deco landmark after years of neglect. The $235-million…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Tang-Contemporary-Art-Armory-Show-2023.jpg?w=1024″] A Hong Kong branch of the gallery Tang Contemporary Art closed in June amid accusations of overdue payments to its artists as well as its landlords and service providers. Vivian Har, director of the Hong Kong location, confirmed to the Art Newspaper(TAN) that the gallery is facing “major operational challenges across the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/154379480-e1771615400297.jpg?w=1024″] Leon Botstein, the former Bard College president of five decades, who retired this spring amid scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, resigned this week from all of his roles affiliated with the arts school. Botstein announced his retirement in May after a trove of documents collected by the…