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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/The-Box-presents-a-performance-by-Simone-Forti-during-the-Art-Los-Angeles-Contemporary-2011-show-at-the-Barkar-Hangar-on-January-30-2011-in-Santa-Monica-California.-Photo-by-John-Sciulli_WireImage.jpg?w=1024″] Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today. “She was a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/File.jpg?w=1024″] The Harvard Art Museums, a consortium of three institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested out a marketing campaign aimed at increasing visitor engagement and membership that makes use of generative AI in order to animate a 18th-century painting in its collection. John Connolly, the director of marketing for the Harvard Art Museums, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cave-painting-at-font-de-gaume.webp?w=1024″] For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Dordogne’s Vézère Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image.jpeg?w=1024″] After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Bord-des-falaises-a-Pourville-Claude-Monet-circa-1882.jpg?w=1024″] Claude Monet‘s Bord des falaises à Pourville (ca. 1882) is coming to the auction block at Christie’s Paris this October with an estimate of €11 million–€15 million ($12.5 million–$17.1 million). The brightly hued landscape is leading a sale of works from the family collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer considered most responsible helped establish…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2275330451.jpg?w=1024″] Will New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax drive major art collectors from the Big Apple into the tax-friendly arms of competing cultural hubs?  That is the question at the heart of an ongoing debate, prompted by a database published last week by the New York City Department of Finance (DOF). The list…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276408970.jpg?w=1024″] The White House has continued to escalate its assault on the Smithsonian Institution this week, ordering signage outside the National Museum of American History to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits. A prominent industry group, the American Alliance of Museums, is finally hitting back. Earlier this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/salvator-mundi-museum-featured-image.jpeg?w=1024″] When auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen brought down the hammer on Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) at Christie’s in 2017, it fetched $450.3 million, making history as the priciest work of art ever sold at a public auction. Sold as the last Leonardo in private hands, it went to Saudi Crown Prince…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Maliza-Kiasuwa-Rhizome-1-6-2026-Wool-threads-and-synthetic-on-canvas-Each-30-x-30-cm-unframed-50-x-50-cm-framed.-Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-FILAFRIQUES.jpeg?w=1024″] The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall. Scheduled for October 15–18 at Somerset House, alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/PerformingConditions_Install_DarioLasagni_10.jpg?w=1024″] You know it’s going to be a different kind of group show right away: A wall decal detailing the exhibition budget greets visitors to “Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Shaped like a receipt but organized like a spreadsheet, it lists artists’ honoraria—a…