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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC06505-1The-2025-Armory-Show-Photo-Christopher-Garcia-Valle.jpg?w=1024″] When the Armory Show, one of New York’s top fairs, relocated to the Javits Center in 2021, it also changed its date, moving from spring to the first week after Labor Day, which the fair touted at the time as a way to ring in the new season. Now, for its 2026…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2266697830.jpg?w=1024″] Flash flooding in New York City this weekend has presented a new test for the New Museum, which experienced a significant water leak on Saturday in a gallery housing work by WangShui. Video footage shared with ARTnews and confirmed by the museum as accurate shows water pooling on the gallery floor as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-593346620.jpg?w=1024″] On July 14, two Congressional representatives—Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) proposed a bill that would protect public artworks commissioned by the U.S. government. The PRESERVE Act (“Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual Expression Act”) would require the General Services Administration, which manages federal agencies, to identify…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1280px-Bayeux_Tapestry_32-33_comet_Halley_Harold.jpg?w=1024″] Cueing a collective sigh of relief on both sides of the English Channel, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry was not damaged during its contested voyage from France to London’s British Museum, according to French culture ministry officials, speaking to AFP on Thursday.   “I am able to confirm that there was no visible…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2278673401.jpg?w=1024″] Two former managers of a prominent Shanghai auction house have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for orchestrating an extensive fraud scheme that led one collector to spend about RMB 500 million ($74 million) on counterfeit or grossly overpriced artifacts. Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the collector, from Shandong province,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-809010.jpg?w=1024″] The most revealing thing about this year’s first-half auction reports wasn’t how much money Christie’s or Sotheby’s made. It was how they made it. Just a few years ago, these reports would have revolved around blue-chip artists and auction records. This year, the houses devoted nearly as much space to private sales,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/pyotrpavlensky.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to protect federal artworks, including New Deal-era masterpieces, from possible sale or destruction. France considers withdrawing Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky’s refugee status. Think you need a degree in art history to appreciate a masterpiece? Think again The Headlines PRESERVE, PROTECT, PROSPER. Two…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IA1.webp?w=1024″] Researchers have identified what they believe is one of the oldest known representations of the mythical Maya hero Juun Ajaw at the ancient city of Calakmul in Mexico. Their findings, which were based on three years of research and analysis, were published in IdeAs, the online journal of the Institute of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/bowels.jpg?w=1024″] While living on the English island of Jersey in the 1940s, a young queer French couple—Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore—performed a sly psyop on the Gestapo. They wrote notes taunting them to defect or commit sabotage and offering contagious complaints: I don’t want to spend my whole life in a uniform, signed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/31221_Lifestyle_Envr_05.jpg?w=1024″] The LEGO Group has announced a partnership with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna to release a 4,000-piece Lego set of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1907–08). The set, the largest painting-inspired one that the company has ever produced, will be available for purchase beginning August 1. It has a retail price of $299.99.…