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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2223457820.jpg?w=1024″] In what was described as “a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,” on Wednesday the French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee in January, setting up a plenary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260331_10-00-35_R5_42515-Edit.jpg?w=1024″] Just months after her death in January at 97, Marian Goodman is returning to the market—this time as a consignor. Christie’s will offer works from the dealer’s personal collection during its May marquee sales in New York, led by a group of paintings by Gerhard Richter, with one carrying an estimate as high…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1398396995.jpg?w=1024″] Melissa Chiu will depart her post as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York, making her the latest person to depart a Smithsonian-run museum as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. She will report to Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation director…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/small-The-Album-white-BG1728.jpg?w=1024″] An annotated photographic scrapbook—often called a “daybook”—featuring newspaper clippings and hundreds of photos by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has been acquired by the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The album was compiled by British Vogue darkroom assistant Roland Haupt between 1943 and ’49; Haupt developed film by both Miller…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BEARO0005.jpg?w=1024″] While New York’s top auction houses prepare to sell multimillion-dollar consignments from private patrons this May, one of the city’s mega-galleries is getting ready to exhibit a collection that has gone largely unseen—until now. On May 7, at one of its Chelsea galleries, David Zwirner will open a show of works from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/N.Green_Oluremi.Onabanjo_N1A8114.jpg?w=1024″] The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has hired Oluremi C. Onabanjo as its new curator in the Department of Photographs. She will begin at the museum this summer. At the Met, Onabanjo will be focused on managing the Walther Collection, a 2025 gift of more than 6,500 historical and contemporary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-52734094.jpg?w=1024″] All eyes will be on the Windy City this month as more than 130 galleries convene for the 15th edition of Expo Chicago at Navy Pier (April 9–12), its third outing as part of the international Frieze brand, which purchased the fair (along with New York’s Armory Show) in 2023. More than 35,000…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/TA3.webp?w=1024″] A long-lost Estonian Iron-Age fortification has been found, according to Arkeonews. While 19th-century written accounts and oral traditions had long hinted at its existence, the 2000-year-old hillfort was identified this month by archaeologists at the University of Tartu using high-resolution terrain mapping tools. The find, located at Köstrimägi in Tartu County, provides…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/28_410_000.jpg?w=1024″] Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, is currently hosting an online auction of various fashion, homewares, and other props from And Just Like That…, the recently ended sequel to HBO’s famed Sex and the City series. The sale closes on April 30. The auction includes more than 500 items related to both…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/5-Way-Portrait-of-Marcel-Duchamp_2000px.jpg?w=1024″] Artists are often secretive creatures, hesitant to disclose too much, and none more so than Marcel Duchamp, who spun slipperiness into an art form. But I think Duchamp may have given the game away when he made Genre Allegory (1943), one of the more than 300 works included in his Museum of…