Tag: artnews.com

  • Getty Museum Acquires Two Significant Dutch Still Lifes

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/De-Heem.jpg?w=1024″] The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note—including one that the institution said it “has been seeking over two decades,” according to a press release announcing the news. Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit (ca. 1673–74) is one of nine similar paintings…

  • What Were the Most Visited Museums in 2025?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-2062962061.jpg?w=1024″] Some 200 million visitors streamed through the 100 top-attended museums around the world in 2025, according to the latest attendance ranking by the Art Newspaper. That figure is still down a bit from the 230 million who punched their tickets in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic shut museums down for…

  • Pinakothek in Munich Returns Nazi-Looted Lesser Ury Painting

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1307392765.jpg?w=1024″] The Pinakotheken in Munich will return a painting by the German painter Lesser Ury that was auctioned under duress during the Nazi regime in Bavaria. First reported by Monopol, the news signals a renewed push for restitution within Bavaria’s museum sector, long scrutinized for its sluggish handling of Nazi-looted art. Ury, a German-Jewish…

  • Jeff Koons Design Two Bottles for Evain’s 200th Anniversary

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/small-evian-200-Years-Young-Jeff-Koons-LED-Duo.jpg?w=1024″] Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town Évian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia. The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with a cohort of athletes…

  • Jeff Koons Design Two Bottles for Evian’s 200th Anniversary

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/small-evian-200-Years-Young-Jeff-Koons-LED-Duo.jpg?w=1024″] Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town Évian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia. The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with a cohort of athletes…

  • François-Xavier Gbré Uses His Photography to Fill in History’s Gaps

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Francois-Xavier-Gbre-NB-2026.-Credit-Nuits-Balneaires.jpg?w=1024″] “What I try to do with my work is to fill the many gaps in history, and to tell history in different ways,” said artist François-Xavier Gbré, speaking via a video call. It was fitting that Gbré spoke these words, since so much information is still transmitted orally from older to younger…

  • California’s High Desert Is Rich With Beauty. An Art Fair Ups the Ante

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pioneertown-Motel_Courtesy-of-Pioneertown-Motel_9.jpg?w=1024″] If you got the uncanny feeling, while visiting the High Desert Art Fair (HDAF) last weekend, that you were on a movie set, that’s because, in a way, you were. The event took place in California’s High Desert, at the Pioneertown Motel, built in 1946 by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to…

  • President Trump Has Unveiled Plans for $1 B. Presidential Library Skyscraper in Miami

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2241289844.jpg?w=1024″] On Monday, President Donald Trump posted a short video to Truth Social unveiling a rendering of his planned Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in downtown Miami. The video shows a 47-story tower emblazoned with Trump across the top, a red-white-and-blue spire, and an American flag at its center. The promo also shows…

  • 1-54 New York Lines-Up More Than 20 Exhibitors for 2026 Fair

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Candice-Tavares-INSIDE-2026-Mixed-media-wood-on-panel-61-x-87-cm.-Courtesy-of-Tanya-Weddemire-Gallery.-.jpg?w=1024″] The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the more than 20 galleries that will participate in its upcoming edition, scheduled to run May 13–17 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea. The fair takes place in tandem with Frieze New York at the Shed, and another fair, NADA New York, will also…

  • Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Pope.L

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/04.jpg?w=1024″] Gladstone Gallery now represents the estate of Pope.L, the boundary-crossing artist whose performances and conceptual art left an indelible mark on contemporary art. The gallery will mount its first solo show for the artist in 2027 in New York. Gladstone will represent Pope.L with Modern Art in London and Vielmetter Los Angeles,…