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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-809010.jpg?w=1024″] Christie’s and Bonhams have both quietly raised the fees they charge buyers. The charges, which auction houses like to call “buyer’s premiums,” are added on top of a lot’s hammer price and are a key source of revenue for the houses.    At Christie’s, effective September 1, the house is charging 28% of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287542996.jpg?w=1024″] In its latest attempt to bring the Smithsonian Institution to heel, the Trump administration is threatening to cut off discretionary grants and is accusing the organization of violating federal antidiscrimination law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, wrote a letter to the Smithsonian’s board…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-1441792199.jpg?w=1024″] Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist who furthered the modern women’s movement, died at 92 years old, as confirmed in an Instagram post. “She spent her recent years doing the two things she loved most: being in community with others and writing. She has welcomed hundreds of guests into her living room for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1.-Lucas-Museum-Courtesy-the-Lucas-Museum-LMNA-Press-Kit_Architecture_Rain-Fountain-2.jpg?w=1024″] With Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally open to the press, the institution’s chief executive has responded to layoffs and high-profile departures that took place last year in the run-up to the inauguration. In a New York Times profile of the Lucas Museum, a private museum opened at a cost…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Vikingesoelvskat-Rebild-2026-5-2048×1365-1.jpg?w=1024″] A trove of 700 Viking Age silver objects and fragments has been discovered in a man’s garden in Rebild, North Jutland Museums announced, marking the largest-ever find of its kind in Denmark. The anonymous homeowner was planning to build a new terrace in his garden when he found the treasure. “It should…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-1180717492.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem has died at 92.  Chinese participants threaten to withdraw from Gwangju Biennale unless the Taiwan Pavilion is renamed.  A new Trump administration letter has threatened to cut federal agency support for the Smithsonian Institution.  The Headlines…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2292671868.jpg?w=1024″] Billionaires, royalty, and presidents all want a closer look at the Bayeux Tapestry. On Wednesday evening, King Charles, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had a private look at the nearly 70-meter-long embroidered cloth at the British Museum in London. The highly anticipated exhibition opens September 10 and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Acne-Studios_FW26-Campaign_8.jpg?w=1024″] Acclaimed photographer and activist Nan Goldin shot an ad campaign for Acne Studios to mark the Swedish fashion brand’s 30th anniversary.  For the campaign, Goldin photographed “the people in [Acne’s] creative family,” according to the brand. The people in her pictures were “chosen to capture Acne Studios’ founding spirit: one of free…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2018_24_16_v2_FINAL_o2.jpg?w=1024″] “Just because an artist is not thinking directly about politics while making a work does not mean they are outside the political context,” said Xuxa Rodríguez, curator of “Turn the Volume Up!,” the newest exhibition at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art. The timely—or timeless—exhibition surveys art’s place in both the great…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/datebook_web_banner-1.jpg?w=1024″] As surveyed in the latest issue of Art in America, see a highly discerning list of things to experience in the art world in the coming months. Maurizio Cattelan at Neue Nationalgalerie Image Credit: Photo Chesnot via Getty After duct-taping a banana to a wall, gifting Guggenheim-goers a golden toilet, and sculpting a…