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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-472222496.jpg?w=1024″] Ursula von Rydingsvard, a sculptor who responded to the austerity of Minimalism with monumental cedar sculptures that had a distinctly human touch, died in New York on Tuesday following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 84, according to the New York Times. “Despite enormous obstacles, Ursula had an inimitable drive to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Portrait-by-Helene-Pambrun-2023-1.jpg?w=1024″] “I spend my time making maps,” Tatiana Trouvé told me as we ambled through her first exhibition with Brussels-based gallery Xavier Hufkens. Map-making is a rather curious obsession for Trouvé to have, given how keenly she wants to experience the feeling of being lost and “disoriented,” she explained. Contradictions like these are…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Aaron-Douglas-Harriet-Tubman-1000.jpg?w=1000″] A monumental painting by a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance, showing a legendary figure from the struggle for African American liberation, will come to auction at Sotheby’s New York next month. Aaron Douglas’s painting Harriet Tubman (1931) is expected to sell for between $2.5 million–$3.5 million, the highest estimate ever placed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/WARHO_1984.0087_CRP.jpg?w=1024″] Larry Gagosian has spent decades entertaining artists, collectors, and assorted celebrities at Mr. Chow. Now he’s returning the favor, helping his longtime friend Michael Chow sell a selection of artworks that have decorated the restaurateur’s famous dining rooms for years. The gallery will present “Friends and Legends: The Collection of Michael Chow,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ABQ26__MC__PR__General_Impressions__023_Large_HiRes-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Art Basel Qatar is returning for its sophomore edition from January 28 to 30 to three venues in Msheireb Downtown Doha: Barahat Msheireb, M7, and Doha Design District. The fair features 82 galleries from 37 countries, with 50 percent of the artists hailing from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CLAUDE-MONET-Champ-davoine-et-coquelicots-1.jpg?w=1024″] Billionaire collector William “Bill” Koch is ready to sell more of his art. After parting ways with $84 million worth of American art at Christie’s in January, he’s putting another group of paintings up for sale this November, including works by Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne that could fetch as much as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2217311616-e1786467976604.jpg?w=1024″] A planned strike across all four Victoria and Albert Museum sites has been suspended as unionized staff return to the negotiating table following a new offer from management. Members of Prospect and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union had voted to strike on October 29 and 30 amid a dispute over…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/FSRG3777_HD-photo-Gregory-Copitet.jpg?w=1024″] If you planned to visit Art Basel Paris but just learned that it’s closing for the weekend ahead of Saturday’s planned protests, there’s some good news: for now, at least, several satellite fairs plan to welcome visitors for part or all of the weekend—while keeping an eye on the surrounding social and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2241971037.jpg?w=1024″] An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports. The suspect, Rachid H., 40, has been detained since November 2025, and will remain in pre-trial detention, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Iris-in-situ-Damien-Perronnet-Blok-Design-Group-Art-Digital-Studio-Sothebys.jpg?w=1024″] A Claude Monet painting sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Thursday, setting a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France. The painting, Iris, sparked a 45-minute bidding battle between six collectors before selling to a private buyer in Asia, represented on the…