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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2276471822-e1780409151635.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Experts say a painting Lucian Freud long denied ever making was, in fact, an early painting by the artist. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam denies obstructing provenance investigations of the Koenigs collection in its holdings. Feminist, self-taught French artist Raymonde Arcier has died at 86. The Headlines FREUDIAN…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-77820796.jpg?w=1024″] During its New York design week (June 5–11), auction house Sotheby’s will offer art and design from the estate of revered art dealer Barbara Gladstone, who died in 2024 at age 89. The 140 lots on offer include contemporary art, modern and contemporary design, prints, and photographs and are estimated to bring…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/liangzhu.jpg?w=1024″] Liu Bin, the Chinese archaeologist widely known for his work at the ancient city at Liangzhu, the so-called Venice of the Stone Age, pleaded guilty on May 20 to charges of taking bribes and embezzling research funds, Caixin Globalreports. In the trial, which took place at Suichang County People’s Court in Zhejiang…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/aia_book-collage.jpg?w=1024″] June’s most exciting art books enlist art—and history—as a portal to another time and place, which sounds pretty nice right about now. Transport yourself to the culture wars of the 1980s, the salons of modernist Paris, or the artistic heyday of the Weimar Republic. The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1024px-The_DuSable_Museum.jpg?w=1024″] The president of Chicago’s DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Perri Irmer, has responded to a whistleblower lawsuit that shook the institution months ago with allegations that she and other leadership misused funds.  In December, Kim Dulaney, the museum’s former vice president of education and programs, filed a whistleblower and retaliatory…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Hilde-Lynn-Helphenstein-Jerry-Gogosian-Dave-Benett_Getty.jpg?w=1024″] Artist and art world commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead on Sunday in São Paulo’s Rosewood Hotel, according to a report by Brazilian television network Globo. Helphenstein, better known by her pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found in her hotel room beside an empty vodka bottle, a broken glass, and unidentified pills.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Carothers-EVE-APPROVED-aerial-1-full.jpg?w=1024″] A house designed by the storied architect Richard Neutra in Los Angeles’s Nichols Canyon is up for sale for an asking price of $5.95 million. Designed in 1962, the so-called Hendershot House was built for Robert Hendershot and his wife Harumi Taniguchi, and was later expanded by the architect’s son Dion Neutra.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169896748.jpg?w=1024″] Archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in Cairo have found a cache of burial objects that could shed new light on funeral practices in one of Egypt‘s most important religious centers. According to Heritage Daily the discovery was made at the Banhsi Cemetery in Ain Shams, a district built over parts of ancient Heliopolis, according…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Henri-Matisse-Jazz-album-publicado-por-Editions-Teriade-Paris-1947.-Colecao-Biblioteca-Mario-de-Andrade.-Foto_-Ding-Musa.jpeg?w=1024″] Brazilian police say they have identified the man they believe organized last year’s theft of eight Henri Matisse works from one of São Paulo’s most important libraries, a case that shocked the country’s cultural sector and remains unresolved. According to Art Review,  authorities have named Laéssio Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva as the alleged architect of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cattelan-banana.png?w=1024″] On Saturday, French museum Centre Pompidou-Metz sent out a curious media blast headed by two grainy images. The first depicted a ripe banana duct-taped to a blank white wall—unmistakably, Maurizio Cattelan’s viral artwork Comedian—and the second featuring just the duct-tape on the wall. The news: Cattelan’s banana had been stolen from the…