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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/highline-and-chanel.png?w=1024″] The High Line and the Chanel Culture Fund have commissioned artist Alison Nguyen to create a new film examining the overlooked history of one of New York’s best-known cultural landmarks. Prior Occupants, as Nguyen’s work is titled, is the fifth installment in the High Line Originals series and the second produced in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-1492221203.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. If you’ve been following ARTnews‘ reporting on the luxury market over the last year, you’ll know that luxury sales at the major auction houses are booming. At Christie’s, such sales jumped 30 percent year…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2280370421-e1786637984186.jpg?w=1024″] Did you know that multiplatinum and Grammy award-winning R&B superstar Usher is a devoted art collector? Now you do. For Architectural Digest, the singer opened the doors to his Atlanta home to show off his surprisingly deep collection of contemporary art. Among the works hanging on the walls or installed on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2217311616-e1786467976604.jpg?w=1024″] Tristram Hunt, director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), is on the receiving end of criticism from the two unions, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Prospect, which have issued a joint statement calling him to the bargaining table. The union is striking over pay, working conditions, and “dignity at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Jewelry.jpeg?w=1000″] The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for a new line of jewelry inspired by the institution’s vast collection. Sabyasachi, which was founded by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, will unveil the jewelry line on September 15 as part of New York Fashion Week, WWD reports.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ruth-Patir-Intake-2024-video-still-courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Braverman-Gallery-Tel-Aviv.jpg?w=1024″] A video installation at the center of high-profile controversy at the 2024 Venice Biennale will go on view this winter in New York, marking its US premiere. New York–born, Tel Aviv–based artist Ruth Patir’s video installation (M)otherland was purchased by the Jewish Museum just months after the artist closed the Israeli Pavilion…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/portrait_1200px.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. Happy Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Atlanta Art Fair Returns to Pullman Yards: The annual fair, running October 1–4, 2026, will feature nearly 70…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2245940271-v2.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Mamdani administration is expected to abandon city plans to replace Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden with housing.  NYC Culture Club has moved into New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal. The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music in New Jersey is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2231277683.jpg?w=1024″] The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums released a statement Tuesday pledging its “unwavering support” for the Smithsonian Institution, as it faces repeated assaults on its integrity and independence by the Trump administration. In the statement, ICOM-US said that it was speaking out in response to the recent…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner_M.jpg?w=1000″] Mitchell Charbonneau’s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. Upon entering, I moved to place my coat on a worn, half-open folding chair. Looking more closely, I reconsidered, recognizing it as a…