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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-680808104.jpg?w=1024″] Siri Aurdal, a Norwegian sculptor and painter who elevated industrial materials into sleek expressions of art’s social imperative, died on March 31. She was 88. Galleri Riis, her representative, announced her death on social media, writing that she died in Oslo surrounded by friends and family. Though born in 1937 to two…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/eb4c27f2-098b-4770-b417-877ecca6477d.jpeg?w=800″] During China’s Bronze Age (c. 2070 – 771 B.C.), the durable alloy was an indispensable resource, central to the development of early Chinese civilization. Under the Zia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, China developed advanced metallurgy techniques and, along with them, systems for managing them at scale. The Bronze age in China was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Lead.jpeg?w=1024″] Pete Davidson, the lovable lunk who made his name on Saturday Night Live and went on to star on the silver screen (as well as in the annals of dubious boat-ownership), put his house in suburban Westchester, New York, on the market—while revealing a considerable art collection assembled over the years. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MCA_Madeleine-Grynsztejn-seated.jpg?w=1024″] At year’s end, Madeleine Grynsztejn will leave her post after 18 years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which bills itself as one of the world’s largest museums devoted to the art of today. The museum, which launched in 1967 with a Fluxus happening by John Cage, Dick Higgins,…