Tag: artnews.com

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/modig.jpg?w=1024″] An 11-year-long legal dispute over a prized Amedeo Modigliani painting looted during World War II has concluded in a loss for billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family, marking an unlikely restitution victory for the heirs of its original Jewish owner. A New York judge ruled this week that Seated Man…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Gisela-Colon-working-in-Los-Angeles-studio.-Photo_-Marten-Elder.jpg?w=1024″] Gisela Colón didn’t plan to become an artist. “I studied law because I thought it would protect me,” she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayamón where she grew up.  She left San…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P8045-004-A5-pr.jpg?w=1024″] In the hushed, reverent galleries of the National Gallery in London, saints usually suffer in silence. Not so in the hands of Ming Wong, who was given unparalleled access to the museum’s collection of European masterpieces during a residency last year. In his latest film Dance of the Sun on the Water…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/basquiat-untitled-1982.jpg?w=1024″] The Pérez Art Museum Miami announced this week that it will host an exhibition bringing together about 10 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that are owned by Kenneth C. Griffin, one of the world’s top collectors. Titled “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” the exhibition will feature nine paintings and one sculpture by the artist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/b8cba0fc-cf5e-49c6-1b8d-b9824f1f2aeb.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. Industry Moves Patron Gallery Adds Miao Wang to Its Roster: The Chicago-based painter will be featured in a two-artist presentation with Alice Tippit at Expo Chicago next week. Open Restitution Africa Launches AI-Powered Restitution Data Platform: The initiative…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Chrome_bust_of_Russian_Communist_leader_Vladimir_Lenin_in_West_Hollywood_California_LCCN2013631605-e1775246823888.jpg?w=1024″] The Human Rights Foundation has submitted a complaint to a United Nations body that reviews detention cases on behalf of Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, seeking a finding that his prolonged detention is arbitrary under international law. Gao, 69, was arrested in China in 2024 on “suspicion of slandering China’s heroes and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-174302216.jpg?w=1024″] South Seas, a resort located on Captiva Island, off the coast of Florida, is the buyer of Robert Rauschenberg’s famed 22-acre property on the island, which had been home to one of the country’s top artist residency programs following his death. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the steward of the namesake artist’s legacy,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/saffron.png?w=1024″] A painting by Raja Ravi Varma has set a new auction record for the work of an Indian artist, signaling continued strength at the top end of the market. Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, surpassing the previous benchmark for Indian painting at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2050811060.jpg?w=1024″] The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home to one of the world’s most well-known collections of Italian Renaissance art, is denying a report that a recent cyber attack gave hackers “access everywhere” in the museum. The article, published on Apr. 3 in the Italian daily newspaper Correre della Sera, said that the hackers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_8011-2-1.jpg?w=1024″] Max Levai is expanding into Chelsea at a moment when much of the market is pulling back. The former president of Marlborough Gallery will open a 7,000-square-foot flagship at 529 West 20th Street this fall, his first permanent New York space after several years of operating between pop-ups, international projects like his…