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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Steffani-Jemison-REVELATiON-2017_1.jpg?w=1024″] In the sprawling, splashy “New Humans” exhibition inaugurating New York’s newly expanded New Museum (sound new enough for you?), a mechanical apparatus quietly whirrs. This tumbler, by the artist Steffani Jemison, is slowly but surely agitating and refining dredged debris: glass, coins, stone. Having studied comparative literature as an undergraduate, Jemison often…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-01-at-1.53.53 PM.png?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Makeda Best Named Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA: The curator comes from the Oakland Museum…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/NC_Biennale_26_Ph_Lorenzo_Palmieri_HIGH_026.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Every young artist wants gallery representation. The details vary. Maybe it’s Gagosian. Maybe it’s Hauser & Wirth. Maybe it’s a scrappy gallery on Henry Street with a leaky roof and an owner…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/5934dc54-3f78-4b32-906b-d7d703c0101e_3024x4032.jpg?w=1024″] On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. The new business structure is designed to help artists in the state—defined in the bill…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Follower-of-Hieronymus-Bosch-first-half-of-the-16th-century-Hell.jpg?w=1024″] A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week’s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby’s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. (All prices include buyer’s premium unless otherwise noted.) The result came as Christie’s Old…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/0082_260526_Gedi-Sibony-Greene-Naftali-Photo-Christopher-Garcia-Valle.jpg?w=1024″] The latest show by Gedi Sibony continues the artist’s practice of making enchanting assemblage sculptures out of the most minimal means, and of making paintings that rely on such restrained gestures that they’re barely there. The press release for “The Invisible Point,” his eighth show at New York’s Greene Naftali since 2008,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Image-2360.jpg?w=1024″] The opening of a public artwork by French artist JR inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1985 intervention The Pont Neuf Wrapped has reportedly been delayed after a storm damaged the installation overtop the River Seine in Paris. As reported by Euronews, the opening planned for this weekend has been postponed to an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/venice-bienanle-26_1.jpg?w=1024″] More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the “Visitors’ Lion” awards at the current edition over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The threat is included in a new announcement…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/makeda.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines BRINGING OUT THE BEST. The Museum of Modern Art in New York finally has a new chief curator of photography: Makeda Best, who has served as deputy director at the Oakland Museum of California since 2023, reports the New York Times. The plum position “has influenced, implicitly or explicitly, so much of how we understand the medium,” said…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/WEB-Olga.jpg?w=1024″] “The deepest things in human life … can only be expressed inimages,” wrote Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. And yet, though obsessed with images, she never called herself an “artist,” even as she painted and drew. Fundamentally, she was a collector: of people, of images, of ideas, always animated by her interest in symbols and…