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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SOTHEBYS2025_1118_065348-6367_ALIVE.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. Paul Allen, S.I. Newhouse, Robert Mnuchin, Marian Goodman, Leonard Lauder, Barbara Gladstone: the list of collectors whose art has arrived at auction over the past two years reads like the society pages…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2226857752.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 Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Sotheby’s Taps Christie’s Veteran as Communications Chief: Natasha Le Bel, formerly global head of communications at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1266461085.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! As budgets tighten, museums are joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford on their own. A UK tech firm is using AI and knowledge graphs to strengthen art authentication.  Collectors are increasingly using freeports to defer taxes,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-4.29.44-PM.png?w=1024″] On Tuesday, Spanish National Police and Mossos d’Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia, announced that they had recovered a 16th century carved wooden relief that had been stolen from the Monastery of Santa Clara de Fitero in nearby Navarre 16 years prior. Per a post by the National Police on social media,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-540152281.jpg?w=1024″] The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi took another significant step toward its December 11 opening, naming Valerie Hillings as the institution’s inaugural director. In choosing Hillings, the Guggenheim tapped a trusted name for the high-profile appointment. She spent five years on the Guggenheim’s staff in New York before joining the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/marble-statue-sardis-turkey.jpg.jpeg?w=1024″] A seven-foot-tall marble statue from the 5th century BCE has emerged from under what used to be a Roman roadway in the ancient city of Sardis, in western Turkey, reports Heritage Daily. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Salihli district of Manisa Province, the city served at the time as the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/44b562dddd6746f8c20ad8e4637f3e3bd6cf2d3f-1280×947-1.jpg?w=1024″] Campaigners, politicians, and arts figures are calling on the Scottish government to intervene over the possible sale of the archive of Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, according to The Art Newspaper. The collection was listed among the assets of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), which was recently deemed insolvent. The collapse came despite…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner_T3.jpg?w=1000″] Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, myfirst border crossing on foot was from the US into Canada. I remember getting the jitters as I offered up my passport—and then it was over in the flick of a turnstile. Terran Last Gun (Piikani) grew up on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, less than an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/art-week-graphcs-1.png?w=1024″] On Tuesday, Art Week NYC, the soon-to-launch annual citywide celebration of contemporary art presented by ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum, announced the galleries participating in its gallery program. Seventy-six galleries are set to participate in the inaugural edition of the event, set to take place November 11–14. Among those participating are…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2280456460-e1785860672944.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The National Gallery has been criticized after spending £250,000 on its NG Citizens program. Royal Museums Greenwich staff have voted for industrial action over pay, conditions, and workplace reforms. London‘s mayor has defended free entry to the capital’s national museums,…