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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Roy-Lichtenstein-Two-Paintings-Sleeping-Muse-Study-Sothebys.jpg?w=1024″] Sotheby’s will offer the collection of cable television magnate Ted Baum and his wife, interior designer Ruth Baum, with the whole estimated to total in excess of $100 million. The collection includes works by leading American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, and Tom Wesselmann, and major…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/28thJune2024.TangContemp-73-1.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting revealed several unexpected findings. Several artists are accusing Tang Contemporary gallery of not paying them and withholding artworks, joining…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Eric-Esrailian.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Industry Moves Hammer Museum Board Elects New Leadership: The trustees of the Los Angeles museum have selected Eric Esrailian to be chair and Karen Hillenburg vice chair.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/10.-Juergen-Teller-Young-Pink-Kate-London-1998-c-Juergen-Teller-All-Rights-Reserved-2-1.jpg?w=1024″] Louis Vuitton had barely closed out Paris fashion week when the fashion world had one of the biggest nights of the year—in London. Donatella Versace, Givenchy’s Sarah Burton, Burberry’s Daniel Lee, and photographer Ellen von Unwerth were among the glittering crowd that turned out at Tate Britain for the opening of “The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABB26__Unlimited__Public_Interactions__Ya_HiRes.jpg?w=1024″] The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting, authored by arts economist Clare McAndrew and out today, delved into some new areas. For the first time this year, the author asked high-net-worth collectors how they got started on the road to collecting and how they think…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/WMAA189543_BFA_56237_8244166.jpg?w=1024″] If you, like me, cannot resist hate-reading a horribly misguided takedown of a great artist, check out the September 1963 issue of Artforum, which featured one of two screeds against Roy Lichtenstein by artist Erle Loran published that very month. (The other appeared in this magazine.) Loran was ticked off by Lichtenstein’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-144091136-1.jpg?w=1024″] Updated October 7, 2026 Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), one of the foremost Pop artists, rarely found himself without admirers. Andy Warhol, another leading figure of the movement, was so impressed by his work that he abandoned his own experiments with images of superheroes taken from comic books. As Warhol told curator Henry Geldzahler,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2268142528.jpg?w=1024″] After a summer of back and forth with its staff over strikes, pay and working conditions, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching a voluntary exit scheme as part of its strategy for 2026 through 2030. A spokesperson for the museum told ARTnews that “Like many organizations, the V&A is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ArmaniSiegelfig5_d578b6.jpeg?w=1024″] America was an empty mall. Americawas shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. What Was America?:Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era is a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/23033_FRANK_STELLA_283_A.jpg?w=1024″] Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers will each stage an exhibition of the work of Frank Stella next spring in New York. Additionally, they will each feature a work by the late artist in their booths at Art Basel Paris later this month. The duo of exhibitions, which are being organized with…